BOSTON-Equity Office Properties Trust files its plans with the Boston Redevelopment Authority for a hotel, residential and office project at Russia Wharf. The 95,000-sf site on the South Boston waterfront is right near the land that will be exposed once the Big Dig drops the highway underground.

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ-Retail is the surprise performer, offices have been hit hardest and the market in general is seeing some key paradoxes, according to panelists at NAIOP chapter meeting.

AUSTIN-The 86,276-sf, fully leased Govalle Shopping Center is bought from San Antonio-based grocer, H-E-B. Endeavor makes the purchase with a 10-year, fixed-rate loan from Bank of America.

MIAMI-The 11-building, $17.5 million Emerald Lake project is being constructed at a development cost of $61,620 per unit in Lake Worth, FL, one mile south of the Palm Beach Community College, 90 miles north of Downtown Miami.