PHOENIX-Fluoresco Sign & Lighting uses a 1031 Exchange, in part, to acquire a 56,000-sf manufacturing site built in the mid-1980s. First Winthrop of Boston is the seller of 3000 E. Chambers St.

SAN DIEGO-Mitsui awards a local brokerage the leasing contract for Gateway I and II, a 725,000-sf industrial and office park in Otay Mesa at the San Diego-Tijuana border crossing.

DALLAS-MSC Industrial Direct, a tools and machinery supplier, crafts a renewal for 12,665 sf at a Brookhollow building while United Computing Group stays put in 6,700 sf in a North Dallas structure.

ATLANTA-Continuing its shopping spree throughout the Southeast, the Oak Brook, IL-based retail REIT pays $11.6 million for 68,934 sf of the 431,947-sf shopping center, co-anchored by Wal-Mart and Home Depot which occupy a total 351,000 sf.