BOSTON-The city prepares to sell a 37,000-sf parking lot it owns here. The parcel, located in the Downtown area, is one of the city's last large development sites and has attracted the interest of various developers over the years.

PORTLAND-Construction is expected to begin next month on a 56-unit rental housing project on the wedge-like property tucked between the Broadway and Steel bridges. Construction is expected to take about a year.

HOUSTON-Nippon Oil Exploration has renewed its corporate headquarters lease. The firm occupies 18,333 sf at the class-A San Felipe Plaza. Equity Office Properties owns the prestigious 959,000-sf building in the city's West Loop.

CHICAGO-An online business-to-business e-commerce firm with the backing of Kraft, Quaker Oats, Sara Lee and the William Wrigley Co. locates its headquarters at 10 S. Riverside Plaza in the West Loop.