MOUNT CRAWFORD, VA-National discount retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. decides it will help service its various chains in the Mid-Atlantic area by locating a new 1.2-million-sf regional distribution center in Rockingham County. The $55-million development is expected to become operational in the spring of 2005.

CHICAGO-Jenny Builders Inc. will construct 2,000-sf condominiums in three buildings at 3968-76 S. Ellis Ave. on a 39,000-sf site it is buying from the city for $264,000, 44% less than its appraised value.

FORT WORTH-AmeriSouth Realty, in back-to-back purchases this week, gets the deed to the 100-unit North Hills Manor. A $700,000 rehab follows the closing for the 100%-occupied asset, the first to go in a class C offering by an Arlington investor.

MIAMI-The $20 million, 107-unit, 11-story loft condominium project is being built in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Units start at $185,000, and penthouses at $800,000. A three-story parking garage also is being built.