WOODLAND HILLS, CA-The Irvine, Calif.-based brokerage picks up four Told Partners brokers to open an office that will specialize in office property investment deals.

CHICAGO-Splitting operations of the joint venture between R.H. Donnelley and Ameritech an option during a 60-day consulting assignment for Julien J. Studley, Inc. that ends with the Yellow Pages marketer staying at 200 E. Randolph St.

PHILADELPHIA-A $1.44-million federal grant joins the state of Ohio's $6.25-million allotment to protect productive farmland from non-agricultural development this year. However, funding all 442 applications would require $127 million.

MORENO VALLEY, CA-The new owner of the Grand Meadows apartments plans extensive renovations to the complex, which was built in 1973. The seller had owned the property for about three and a half years.