BONITA SPRINGS, FL-The locally based developer of luxury single-family and multifamily homes also logs a 39% rise in average contract price on new first-quarter orders. Bonita Springs is 105 miles north of Miami.

LOMBARD, IL-The community shopping center in this west suburb of Chicago, about a quarter-mile from an I-355 interchange, is sold to Arbor Northgate by Prime Retail, Inc. The REIT owns Prime Outlets at Huntley.

BOSTON-Artists in the Fort Point Channel district here ban together to protest the redevelopment of this area. The group objects to the lack of parks planned and rising rents.

GLENDALE, AZ-Some 3,200 early ballots have yet to be counted, but defeat seems likely for the warehouse retailer's proposed 220,000-sf supercenter. The landowner forced the vote after the city passed zoning laws to severely the stores size and hours of operation.