KENT, WA-Regency Centers, a national owner, operator and developer of grocery store-anchored shopping centers, has leased space to John L. Scott Real Estate at the Lake Meridian Marketplace shopping center. The company is slated to open its doors to the public in April 2002.

NEW YORK CITY-A $98-million office and retail complex slated to be built in the Bronx now has a developer attached to it. Starrett has been chosen to build on the 250,000-sf site.

DALLAS-The six-story, 80,000-sf office building in the struggling Stemmons submarket has been sold to a private investor. Terms of the deal are not released. The class-B building is 65% occupied.

AUSTIN-This high-tech area has seen unemployment and office vacancy rates rise recently, but so has interest lately from biotechnology companies, says John Breier of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.