SAN DIEGO, CA-Report says region "has resisted a downturn" and has moved up from third to second-highest ranked in the country. Vacancies rose about half a percentage point this year.

MIAMI-Inland Southeast Dania LLC paid Greensboro, NC-based Tanger Properties Ltd. $18.2 million for the 165,000-sf, three-year-old property in Sportsman Park, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Bass remains a tenant under a long-term, triple-net lease believed to be for at least 20 years.

PHILADELPHIA-The state awards $905,900 to the Allegheny Health Department for a bio-hazardous substance testing lab to be built next to the Clack Health Center in Lawrenceville, PA. It will back up the existing Lionville, PA-lab that screened for anthrax in 2001.

DENVER-Red Sea Group, based in Israel, has a contract to buy the two-building, 420,000-sf Merrill Lynch campus, which had been listed for sale by Noon & Co. for $52.5 million.