CRANBURY, NJ-Pearson Education will use the space at the Rockefeller Group's new FTZ-based business park for warehousing and distribution. The deal highlights Exit 8A's emergence as a W/D hotbed.

TARRYTOWN, NY-In the largest real estate sale in Westchester County so far this year, Equity Residential Properties Trust has acquired the Talleyrand Crescent rental townhouse community here from an affiliate of Cappelli Enterprises of Valhalla for $61 million.

BUCKHEAD, GA-Cost Plus World Market opens its fourth Atlanta-area outlet in an 18,000-sf space on Piedmont Road. The store is slightly larger than average World Market outlets, which usually offer about 16,000 sf of shopping space.

CHICAGO-Not only does the Downtown condominium market force Heartland Properties to make Phase II of Kinzie Station a rental property, it also decimates the REIT's third-quarter net profit as sales of units stall.