CHICAGO-The city's 40th Ward on the North Side will see a 120,000-sf redevelopment of Lawrence Hall Youth Services facilities at 4833 N. Francisco Ave. as well as a 32,000-sf expansion to Swedish Covenant Hospital's Galter Life Center.

AUSTIN-Out with the old and in with the new is the theory behind a 67,000-sf, made-over Wal-Mart by Houston-based Academy Sports and Outdoors. The Research Boulevard location replaces a 35,000-sf store in the same submarket.

LONDON-The terrorist attacks on the USA on 11 September have not halted demand for prime retail properties in the UK. That's the conclusion of new research by Insignia Richard Ellis, revealed at MAPIC.

PORTLAND-AND 1, a seven-year-old basketball footwear and apparel company, signs a five-year lease for an industrial building at Southeast 7th Avenue and Ankeney Street that John Kellogg and Thad Fisco picked up 12 months ago for $275,000.