SAN FRANCISCO-A lack of interest in purchasing real estate property may be one of the reasons that Bank of America, California's largest bank, has pulled away from SBA's 504 loan program.

ORLANDO-In Central Florida's biggest office deal of the year, Inland Real Estate Acquisitions Inc. of Oak Brook, IL paid an estimated $88 million for 440,000 sf of class A space in three of the four existing office buildings at the 109-acre Celebration Place Office Park in Celebration, FL, 20 miles south of Downtown Orlando.

CARSON, CA-In the largest of the deals, Garment distribution specialist Global Apparel Express Inc. signed a seven-year, $4.5 million lease for a 107,525-sf building, where it is has expanded from a 35,000-sf facility in nearby Rancho Dominguez, Calif.

ELMA, WA-The Grays Harbor Public Development Authority has collected a $1 million payment from SafeHarbor Technology to pay for tenant improvements made two years ago that were deemed an illegal loan by auditors.