COLUMBIA, SC-The Philadelphia-based REIT has a deal with the Arkansas-based retailer to rent the 122,371 sf store to a mortgage brokerage and also to buy out Wal-Mart's lease at a later date. Columbia is 100 miles south of Downtown Charlotte.

ATLANTA-The Florida service provider is studying areas north and west of the city where it will line up local strategic alliances after opening its first office here at an undetermined date in the next 12 months.

SUMMIT, NJ-Novartis Consumer Health, currently based in Summit, is looking for a new headquarters within a 20-mile radius of where it is now. Matrix Development Group is helping with the search.

Linklaters has taken a pre-letting on Helical Bar's 95,000 sq ft office development at 3 Bunhill Row, London EC1, in the City of London's northern fringe.