GILBERT, AZ-The Silicon Valley Cos. has acquired the 160-unit Township Apartments at 1295 N. Ash St. The purchase price of $9.2 million is considerably less than the average per unit price for complexes in the area.

MINNEAPOLIS-The deal helps the Minneapolis-based financial service company enter fast-growing markets in southern California. Bank officials expect it will close by the end of the third quarter of 2001.

RICHARDSON, TX-Millennium Sales and a startup business, Telco Gray, have signed leases for 10,442 in Richardson's Telecom Corridor. One heads to the 59,847-sf University Center and the other to the 54,765-sf Exchange Drive complex.

LONDON-Take-up of high bay warehouses across the UK reached record levels in 2000,