HOUSTON-Blinds, Wallpaper & Draperies takes 5,064 sf in the northwest submarket and Dream Bouquet lines up 1,888 sf in the far southeast sector. The wallpaper shop signs a long-term lease in a lateral submarket move.

DETROIT-Related Capital helps the revitalization of the Detroit riverfront, and eases decades of housing shortages in Troy with their equity financing for the rehabilitation of two senior affordable housing complexes. Current affordable housing complexes have waiting lists of over a year.

HAWTHORNE, NY-AGR Realty of Westport, CT. has acquired 50 Broadway, a 90,000-sf office building here, according to GVA Williams of Connecticut, which brokered the transaction.

INLAND EMPIRE, CA-In a sure mark of growth for the Inland Empire's manufacturing sector, the local Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 51.1% in April from 49.8% in March, which can only mean a boost for the area's industrial market.