SALEM, NH-Babies R' Us gets a $2.8 million first mortgage for its 38,791-sf store at 477 South Broadway. The property is located on the city's main retail artery and serves the southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts markets.

ATLANTA-The locally based restaurant development chain saw 1Q, same-store sales increases at LongHorn Steakhouse, Bugaboo Creek Steak House; and The Capital Grille. But company chairman and CEO Philip J. Hickey Jr. cautions that the 2Q performance could be flat.

ORLANDO-The 32-year-old Tampa International Airport is selling $260 million in revenue bonds, while eighty miles away the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, the largest road-building agency in Central Florida, has made a $285 million bond offering.

CHICAGO-SMB Development has acquired a 21,900-sf Near North Side building at 865 N. Larrabee on more than 25,000 sf of land for $2.95 million. Also, the Chicago Police Sergeants Association has paid $245,000 for 1616 W. Pershing Ave.