PORTLAND-In the biggest industrial deal Portland has seen this year, Ford Motor Co. is leasing the former 800.com space in the A&M Warehouse on North Ramsey in the Rivergate Industrial District. Ford says it chose Portland because the city is located a day's drive or less from dealerships in Washington, Montana, Idaho and Northern California.

MIAMI-Blue Bell-Meridian Partners Ltd., a Florida-based investment group, paid United Dominion Real Estate Trust of Richmond, VA $69,355 per unit for the 15-year-old, 248-unit apartment property on 42 acres at 145 Santa Clara Drive in Naples, FL, 140 miles northwest of Downtown Miami.

ORLANDO-The Bentonville, AR-based retailer's stand-alone, 55,000-sf, $4 million, 24-hour Neighborhood Markets are planned for Red Bug Lake and Dodd Roads near suburban Winter Springs, FL and Alafaya Trail and McCullough Road near the University of Central Florida's 35,000 student campus in east Orange County.