DENVER-Miller Global will get 80% interest in a $412-million joint venture being formed with North Carolina-based Highwoods Properties. The initial transaction has Highwoods selling 21 office properties and four development sites to the joint venture.

ORLANDO-U.S. District Court Judge Patricia C. Fawsett gave Patrick T. Lee the maximum sentence because he engineered the 18-year scheme to defraud the federal Customs Service and for lying at the trial. Lee owns the 500,000-sf Mid-Florida Freezer Warehouses Ltd. In Port Canaveral, FL, 60 miles southeast of Downtown Orlando.

TALLAHASSEE, FL-Lakeland, FL millionaire C.C. Dockery is pushing Gov. Jeb Bush to create the Florida High Speed Rail Authority, an agency that anti-train legislators say may decimate or bankrupt the state's entire transportation infrastructure budget.

HOUSTON-UIRT unloads an 83,300-sf shopping center in El Campo, TX, in a realignment of assets. The center, says UIRT president and CEO, is a debt-laden, non-core asset with "poor long-term characteristics.