Office

MIDDLEBOROUGH, MA-The tiny suburban Boston office submarket of 2.8 million sf has struggled for most of 2007, however it finally gets some positive news.

LORTON, VA-Regency Centers LP sold the almost four-acre parcel to a JV that plans to build a three-story, 47,459-sf medical office condo.

MIAMI-The Congress Group acquires 999 Brickell Ave., which has future development potential for office, residential or hotel space.

OLDMANS TWP., NJ-Garden State Freezers' new facility will start with an 110,000-sf office/warehouse complex as its first phase.

HOUSTON-A Principal Financial affiliate sells the 127,568-sf telecom warehouse to Harris County after officials start talking about knocking off a corner to make way for overhead interstate lanes. The plan's taken a new twist now that $4.3-million trade's done.

ATLANTA-The 67-year-old,locally based full-service commercial real estate and mortgage firm also selects Bob Mathews as president and Caldwell Zimmerman as executive vice president in a general corporate restructuring.

WHITE PLAINS, NY-Argent Mortgage Co., which already leases more than 200,000 sf at 333 Westchester Ave. here, has signed a lease across town for 223,366-sf of space at 44 South Broadway.

HOUSTON-Pathfinder Insurance Group re-ups two years early to get expansion space in a 118,000-sf suburban office building along Dairy Ashford Road. The extra office space, though not contiguous, takes the bottom line to 9,633 sf.