Globest Sectors

PHOENIX-A California dialysis products supplier spends $2.4 million for a two-building, 107,000-sf office/warehouse complex in the southwest submarket to set up a regional headquarters and production facility in a rail-served building.

CHICAGO-Neighborhood retail development specialists Matanky Realty Group will get $2.2 million in tax increment financing along with a $400,000 road repair to boost its $8.3 million, 75,699-sf redevelopment in the 1400 block of West 47th Street.

LONDON-Land Securities Trillium, the outsourcing subsidiary of Land Securities, has reached agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions to expand its existing property outsourcing agreement to include the 9 million-sf former Employment Service Estate.

LONDON-Specialist industrial asset manager Ashtenne Holdings has bought a 550,000-sq ft logistics warehouse in Amersfoort, near Utrecht, Netherlands, for pounds 8 million ($13 million) from logistics group Hays.

MIAMI-The highest overall vacancy rate in the third quarter in the county, 11.9%, was experienced in the Medley submarket, followed by the Miami Airport submarket, with an 11.4% overall vacancy rate, according to a new Miami-Dade County industrial report by Codina Realty Services Inc. Oncor International.

MINNETONKA, MN-Most of the closed stores will be from the Sam Goody chain as the music retailer's new owner tries to return it to profitability.

ATLANTA-In the largest multifamily deal this year, Goldman Sachs' Whitehall Fund and Korman Communities sold the 412-unit Mt. Vernon Place Apartments and the 396-unit Dunwoody Place Apartments for $110,149 per unit. Both projects are 90% leased.

HOUSTON-Transwestern Commercial Services wins the contracts for Westbridge One, a 103,835-sf, class A office building sold about three months ago. Three other brokerage houses were vying for the pacts to an 81%-leased structure on the west side of town.