ORLANDO-City wins first-round ranking for Florida A&M University's planned $30 million, 120,000-sf law school on prime Downtown area dirt which could spin off multimillion-dollar commercial projects.

ORLANDO-Ginsberg Property Group is getting a mini perm loan on its $28 million, 370-unit, class A multifamily venture in northwest Hillsborough County. The Orlando office of R.J. Twitty & Co. brokered the transaction.

DALLAS-Its expertise in agency financing is leading to a buyout of Dallas-based Newport Mortgage Co. , the second in eight months of a Southwestern lender by Cleveland's KeyCorp. The deals promise to be the first of several in KeyCorp's bid for Sunbelt lending dominance.

PORTLAND-Emporium, Montgomery Ward and Rite Aid will be replaced by Home Depot, 24/Hour Fitness and Mars Music, a Florida-based company just beginning to place its 25,000-square-foot superstores on the West Coast.