JACKSONVILLE, FL-The locally based office and industrial developer paid Union Labor Life Insurance Co. of Washington, DC $8.25 million or $31.13 per sf for the 15-year-old, 265,000-sf Commonwealth Commerce Center and 18.5 adjoining acres.

SAN DIEGO-The 83,411-sf facility is located at 7615 Siempre Viva Rd. in Otay Mesa's six-building Britannia Corporate Center campus. Buyer Tara Materials Inc. plans to relocate its Hy-Jo picture frame division into the facility.

COLLEGE PARK, MD-The Clark Construction Group Inc. gives the University of Maryland a helping hand with its new engineering facility by serving as the general contractor on the 155,000-sf project. The $39 million building is expected to be up and running in December 2004.

BINGHAM FARMS, MI-Company is now in process of liquidation plan. Assets that were reevaluated dropped by $6.3 million, but company earned money in fourth quarter.