DALLAS-Staples has latched onto nine more sites in its bid to capture market share from big-box competitors Office Max and Office Depot. When all is said and done, the Dallas-Ft. Worth rollout will put 25 locations into the Staples portfolio.

LAKE FOREST, CA-The company has signed a lease for a 21,315-sf industrial building in Lake Forest. It is the latest in a string of Orange County transactions involving mid-sized and smaller industrial properties. Earlier this week, three Orange County industrial properties changed hands for a combined $2.3 million, as reported by Globest.com.

ATLANTA-One of the biggest names in commercial real estate is buying an equity interest in the 26-year-old, 29-story, 610,000-sf Tower Place 100 office building in a deal valued at an estimated $130 million.

BROOKLYN PARK, MN-The pill manufacturer shifts from tenant to building owner with the purchase of the facility where it had rented space. The complex will allow the Cima Labs Inc. to add manufacturing and product development facility.