PHOENIX-Some 35 to 50 advisers and three new offices in California headline 2002 expansion plans for the 23-market Hendricks & Partners. That's just the first wave. It's the biggest push since the firm launched seven years ago.

NEW YORK CITY-Ending months of takeover talks, Rodamco will split its US mall business three ways--among Westfield Holdings of Australia, and US-based Rouse and Simon Property Group.

GERMANTOWN, MD-A subsidiary of Netherlands-based Qiagen, N.V., QIAGEN Sciences, Inc. opens the doors of its $50 million US headquarters. The complex, which was two years in the making, offers 200,000 sf of space in various buildings for the biotechnology firm's research and manufacturing activities.

HOUSTON-Aluma Systems, based in Houston, finalizes a deal for the Bayport North Industrial Park. Work is beginning on a 14,000-sf build-to-suit project going up on eight acres now leased to the construction industry supplier.