ORLANDO-Project developer Hines International of Houston expects to pick the winning firm in November when fund-raising will officially begin for a project initially planned 15 years ago. Tourist taxes and private contributions are expected to fund the center at a so-far undecided Downtown site.

TAMPA, FL-StanCorp Mortgage Investors of Hillsboro, OR provides a 15-year, $1.58-million loan for a 3,500-sf Hess service station and a $900,000 loan for an Arby's restaurant. Both loans carry a 5.87% permanent, fixed interest rate.

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL-FECI, one of Florida's largest corporate landowners, pays Key Automotive of Florida Inc. $5.1 million or $43,590 per gross acre for the industrial-zoned land on County Line Road, just south of Interstate 4 in Polk County, about 60 miles south of Downtown Orlando.

TAMPA, FL-The Sacramento, CA-based industrial developer buys the 11 acres in the 103-acre Pinebrooke Business Park from Pinebrooke Land Development JV for $218,182 per acre. In August, the California firm beat out Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for the purchase of the 30-acre, 500,000-sf Tampa International Center for $11.2 million.