STERLING, VA-A former Wal-Mart Store has been sold to Brighton Columbia Place for $10 million and will soon become home to a Wegmans Food Markets. The 120,000-sf, nine-year-old structure will be upgraded to accommodate 130,000 sf of space before the new market's opening next year.

AUSTIN-Texas officials, in search of more business, are headed on a five-day whirlwind tour to Winnipeg and Saskatoon. It's the first trip north for the group, which has been making the rounds to lure companies to the Lone Star State.

NEW YORK CITY-The jointly commissioned reports will examine the Fulton Street corridor's needs as a retail/entertainment destination and Lower Manhattan's housing stock south of Houston Street, in the aftermath of the World Trade Center bombings.

LONDON-BL Gazeley, the joint venture between British Land and Wal-Mart's property arm Gazeley Properties, has agreed five major deals in the last two months. In Thatcham, Berkshire, it has sold a 355,000-sf distribution unit for Pounds 38.5 million ($60 million)