BOCA RATON, FL-The Norfolk, VA-based owner-operator of the Synergy-brand office parks acquires the five-building, 185,000-sf Sanctuary Centre Office Park from Crocker Realty Trust for $123.32 per sf. Boca Raton is 42 miles north of Miami.

CLERMONT, FL-Lake County rejected Tarmac Center Sand Co.'s 1998 request to expand its 1,300-acre operations by 240 acres because the new pad would back up to a residential neighborhood. Clermont is 25 miles west of Downtown Orlando.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI-Three apartment complexes in Ypsilanti, MI; Woodhaven, MI and Detroit change hands for a total of $6.8 million, an average of $22,150 per unit, in separate transactions.

SOUTHFIELD, MI-Local construction firm HarleyEllis expands operations for Lumigen Inc.'s steel processing facility. The new 41,500-sf building can now handle a staff of up to 70 employees.