BREA, CA-Allmet Building Products of Texas plans to stay in the facility it is currently using as its western regional headquarters for another decade with new lease.<p>

KANSAS CITY, MO. - Former Bank of America building to become downtown

WASHINGTON, DC-A real estate investment doubled in value in 18 months. The Bernstein Companies and Finmarc Management Inc. sold a 230,000-sf warehouse to Sears Great Outdoors for $21 mil. They paid $10.5 mil for the property.

HICKORY, NC-Corning Cable Systems, a subsidiary of New York-based Corning Inc., is investing a total $100 million over the next five years in the two facilities. Area-wide, Corning plans to spend $450 million to make its fiber optics operations the largest in the world. Hickory is 50 miles northwest of Downtown Charlotte.