ORLANDO-The Columbus, OH-based lender has closed a $17 million bundled loan for the 238-room Hilton Tampa Westshore in Tampa, FL and a $1.3 million mezzanine loan for the 119-room Hilton Garden Inn in Jacksonville, FL.

MIAMI-Stiles Construction Co. of Fort Lauderdale, FL plans to break ground in October on the $3.1 million, 22,500-sf sales and service center on a two-acre site in the nine-building Center Port Industrial Park in Pompano Beach, FL. Completion is slated for August 2003.

ORLANDO-Siemens Westinghouse Power occupies the entire 72,000-sf, 14-year-old building developed by Denver-based Alliance Commercial Partners in the Quadrangle Business Park adjoining the University of Central Florida campus in east Orange County. Price: $7.18 million.

MIAMI-The 56-year-old, Seattle-based retailer names Geevy S. Thomas, a longtime company executive vice president, to head the new staff in suburban Coral Gables, FL where Nordstrom plans to open a 200,000-sf, $40 million store by Sept. 27.