BOSTON-The real estate investment trust has sold 15 million shares of common stock at $39.0625 per share, resulting in net proceeds of approximately $556 million after commissions and expenses.

NEW YORK CITY-The first steel beams were erected less than a year ago and now the last beam of a total of 12,000 tons of structural steel has been signed and raised to the top floor of 745 Seventh Ave.

DUBLIN, CA-Oracle Corp. is beginning negotiations on a 12.1-acre parcel on the eastern edge of town. The Redwood Shores-based company has offered the Alameda County Surplus Authority $45.6 for the site, which once housed a county jail but is now being made into a business park.

NEW YORK CITY-Shaky stock-market ground aside, tech firms are still a vibrant tenant target. . . if you know how to treat them, say NACORE panelists.