SURPRISE, AZ-Mountainside Fitness Center's owner and two development pros begin work on an $8-million prototype center for a plan to build up five facilities per year. The fitness center will fill 40,000 sf and 15,000 sf of inline will go to complementary retail.

ORLANDO-Daryl M. Carter, president, Maury L. Carter & Associates Inc., wraps up a whirlwind buying and selling week by closing on five transactions in four Central Florida counties totaling 1,297 acres and valued at $14.32 million.

TEMPE, AZ-Continental Promotions Group is relocating cross-town to a bank's former processing center with the inking of a five-year, 52,000-sf deal. The quoted lease rate of the 1995-constructed property is 90 cents per sf triple net.

TORONTO-Toronto is North America's leading economy and Calgary is fifth, according to LaSalle Investment Management's 2005 North American Regional Economic Growth Index (NA-REGI).