NEW YORK CITY-The PA puts out a call for design guidelines for Lower Manhattan while officially taking the reins of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the organization originally formed to oversee the Downtown redevelopment process.

ATLANTA-The buyer paid Atlanta-based Barry Real Estate Cos. Inc. $67.5 million or $179.52 per sf, the highest per-sf office building price this year. Barry developed the two-building, two-year-old, six-story, 376,000-sf complex at Windward and Westside Parkways for an estimated $56.4 million or $150 per sf, according to GlobeSt.com research.

WESTPORT, CT-A portfolio of four office buildings totaling about 120,000 sf here have been sold by MetLife to a group of local investors for $26.5 million, according to CB Richard Ellis' Tri-State Investment Team which helped broker the deal.

MONTCLAIR, CA-Honda has purchases the 18,000-sf building to expand its presence here. The building is on 4.6 acres located at 5150 Palo Verde. The seller of the property is the Montclair First Baptist.