HOUSTON-Sparkle Car Wash gets an expansion site and a local investor picks up a new holding in a one-acre sale along Milwee Street. Seller Kirk Papp plunks the proceeds into a slightly larger tract in Houston's northwest submarket.

STAMFORD, CT-In a decision fueled at least in part by its pending $5.3 billion deal to acquire Security Capital Group, GE Capital Real Estate reports it has reorganized its North American business into three operating platforms.

NORFOLK, VA-Dominion Tower, the largest office building in the city at 26 floors high and with 400,234 sf of space, has been sold for $54 million. Equity Office Properties has passed ownership to the New Life Corporation of America.

NEW YORK CITY-The bribes were allegedly made to alter values on more than 500 properties over the past three decades. Seventeen assessors were named in the suit, which reportedly lost the city upward of $40 million in tax revenues--and could reach $170 million.