SEATTLE-The locally-based timber company has created a new executive vice president post -- for real estate and strategic business development -- to oversee the activities in the company's 7.8-million acre land portfolio.

DENVER-In one of the largest land deals in years, Gates Corp. deals off two-thirds of its Denver campus to Cherokee Investments Partners II, L.P. The acreage includes 2.2 million sf spread over 12 buildings.

HOUSTON-Medical space is on the move as one broker, Jason Whittington of the Houston office NAI Partners Commercial, inks more than 13,000 sf in leases in Houston and Pearland.

CHICAGO-Hearts United Phase III Limited Partnership will build 53 multifamily units, most of them for those earning less than 60% of the median income, on 200 acres near 43rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue.