FAIRFAX, VA-A new Hilton Garden Inn opens, offering 149 rooms and about 6,000 sf of meeting room space. The endeavor cost just over $15 million, and takes the list of Hilton Garden Inn brand hotels in the US over the 125 mark.

AUSTIN-Motorists will find it easier going to access the 115,000-sf Tech Ridge Phase I. The artery's opening enables access from the Interstate 35 frontage road. A $1.5-million bridge to further help access will be done in May.

LONDON-The Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor has taken a 25% stake in Shearer Property Group (SPG) and Universities' Superannuation Scheme's 425,000-sf Grand Arcade shopping mall project in Cambridge.

CHICAGO-Developers of a proposed 24-unit building at Madison Street and Homan Avenue line up $1.6 million in no-interest, 32-year mortgage financing in addition to historic rehab and low-interest housing tax credits.