PAXTON, MA-As part of the governor's campaign to protect 200,000 acres of open space from development by the year 2010, the state has purchased 530 acres of watershed land here and in Holden for $5.2 million.

LONDON-Westminster City Council has given Land Securities planning permission for the 580,000-sf second phase of its Stag Place scheme close to Victoria Station.

SAN MARCOS-A Jacksonville, FL-REIT is nearly ready to break the seal on a 148,259-sf shopping center at the southwest corner of Discovery Street and Twin Oaks Valley Road.

AUSTIN-Construction cranes will move off CarrAmerica's CBD work site by the end of the month, marking one year of work. The 442,000-sf, class A high-rise is on track for its first tenant move-in by year's end.