TAMPA, FL-The Indianapolis-based company buys 29 acres in West Tampa for $2.6 million to develop the 250,000-sf Eagle Creek Business Center near Tampa International Airport and also plans an $8-million, 150,600-sf facility for Victory Packaging at its 200-acre Crossroads Business Park in south Orlando.

TAMPA, FL-The bulk of the properties--13--goes to Hospitality Properties Trust while the remaining two flip to Strategic Hotel Capital. The disposition brings the total number of assets sold to 121 since the firm began its disposition strategy. The locally based Plasencia Group advised the group on the sale.

ORLANDO-The 218-room I-Drive Inn on International Drive in south Orlando, the 391-room Ramada Inn Maingate West and the 295-room Holiday Inn Maingate West, both on US 192 in Kissimmee, comprise 904 rooms in a Central Florida hotel and motel market that totals 116,500 rooms. The lenders foreclosed on all three properties.

ATLANTA-Arthur Blank, a co-founder of Home Depot Inc. and owner of the Atlanta Falcons, tells the state-owned Georgia World Congress Center he is ready to invest up to $150 million to help the Dome with its current financial crisis--but wants to know how he can reap a return on his money.