ORLANDO-The Maitland-based electronic funds transfer system operator is being bought out by Memphis-based Concord EFS Inc. in an $845 million stock swap, but the buzz in local commercial real estate circles is what's going to happen to Star's newly-leased 108,000-sf premises.

SAN DIEGO-The huge construction materials company sells two Mission Valley office buildings to the Shidler Group, which has now spent more than $150 million in the area since the beginning of 2000.

MIRAMAR, FL-Preparing for more store openings in Florida, Texas-based Neiman Marcus has taken a 10-year lease on 54,000 sf of warehouse/distribution space at the 400-acre Miramar Park of Commerce. The estimated aggregate value of the lease is $3.43 million.

KANSAS CITY-Brookside residents protest closing of tenured service station.