LOS ANGELES-The Southern California office of Cushman & Wakefield has been engaged by Portland, OR-based real estate merchant banking firm ScanlanKemperBard Companies to manage four local properties totaling nearly 500,000 sf.

PHOENIX-Tomorrow, American Express Mailing Services gets the keys to 11,951 sf in the Valley North Business Park in Phoenix's northwest submarket. Mariash Corp. and Schroeder Group II LLC of Scottsdale are the park owners.

ORLANDO-James M. Seneff, founder/chairman of parent CNL Financial Group Inc., moves $12.4 million into CNL American Properties Fund to cover the 2001 deficit blamed on Chapter 11 filers Phoenix Restaurant Group Inc., Roadhouse Grill Inc. and Houlihan's Restaurant Group.

GRANBURY, TX-An intent to buy and hold falls by the wayside for J.M. Decker Ranch of Fort Worth after Lowe's surfaces as a prospective buyer. A hotelier and convenience store operator also are interested in the prime land.