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NEW ROCHELLE-Signature Bank and Webster Bank report they have expanded their operations into Westchester County and lower Fairfield County respectively.

LOS ANGELES-The publishing house giant Hachette Filipacchi Media has expanded its Los Angeles office across from the Wilshire Courtyard office complex. The company has signed a five-year, $1.6-million agreement for 12,500 sf.

HOLLYWOOD, CA-Under construction for more than three years, the 1.3-msf entertainment and retail space will serve as the new permanent home of the annual Academy Awards ceremony, set for March.

OLMPIA, WA-Port of Olympia Commissioners gave a thumbs up this week to constructing the Port Plaza near Percival Landing. The controversial idea has been bouncing around the community for nearly a decade.

FAIRFAX, VA-A new Hilton Garden Inn opens, offering 149 rooms and about 6,000 sf of meeting room space. The endeavor cost just over $15 million, and takes the list of Hilton Garden Inn brand hotels in the US over the 125 mark.

ESCONDIDO, CA-A San Diego-based construction management and consulting firm has completed a project for a golf improvement center here. The golf facilities market has been especially strong, with golf manufacturing and practice facilities proving to be particularly popular among developers.

TAMPA, FL-Steve Green of Green Realty Management, White Plains, NY, paid Howard Shiffman of Davna Investments, Largo, FL, $5.6 million in an all-cash deal for the 92%-occupied, 188-unit Ashley Square Apartments, 5505 N. Hines St., Tampa.

CHICAGO-Developers of a proposed 24-unit building at Madison Street and Homan Avenue line up $1.6 million in no-interest, 32-year mortgage financing in addition to historic rehab and low-interest housing tax credits.