LAKE FOREST, CA-Completed in July 1999, the project consists of six two-story office facilities that encompass a total of 167,585 sf. Tenants here include Orange County Register, V-systems (Esker Inc.), Valor Computerized Systems and Computer Education Institute. The complex was 78% leased at the time of sale.

CHICAGO-Reluctance of owners to give up cash cows or insist on repositioning their tired retail properties are among the hurdles city officials and planners have when it comes to creating mixed-use developments in old regional and even community shopping centers.

LONDON-Pharmaceuticals company Wellcome Trust has submitted an outline planning application to South Cambridgeshire District Council to build a 290,000-sf extension at its Wellcome Trust Genome Campus--where the human genome was first mapped--at Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.

ALISO VIEJO, CA-Framing has begun on the second phase of this $70-million multifamily project, which is scheduled for completion in early 2003. At build-out, Phase II will consist 367 units in four buildings plus a five-level parking structure.