LONG BEACH, CA-Borrower Westar Associates gets a low 5% interest rate on permanent financing for a 76,883-sf center it's owned for nearly a year. A Canadian Life Insurance Co. is the lender.

NEW YORK CITY-The Shelbourne REITs sell their only Manhattan asset, a 12-story landmark built in 1897. The buyer is a three-family partnership that signed a contract on the property in October after a highly competitive bidding process.

PORTLAND-Lindsay Gordon, most recently Director of Leasing for PacTrust's 380-acre Columbia Tech Center development in Vancouver, Wash., will have overall profit and loss responsibility for TCC's Portland office.

BATH, ME-The supermarket chain will make some big changes in its Maine operations. Plans are under way to expand its store here by 20,000 sf, replace an existing Brunswick location with a 69,000-sf facility and enter the Wiscasset area with a 43,000-sf store.