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.

ATLANTA-The provider of a B2B electronic marketplace for commercial property owners picked up $25 million in its September first-round financing effort.

CORNELIUS, NC-Beacon Partners of Charlotte paid Chartwell, a limited partnership, $5.2 million or $56.83 per sf for the seven-building, 91,500-sf Cornelius Business Center here in north Mecklenburg County, about 20 miles north of Charlotte.