Globest Sectors

BOSTON-Liberty Place, a 419-unit apartment building proposed for 660 Washington St., receives an endorsement from the Chinatown Neighborhood Council. The group recommends that the city approve the project.

WASHINGTON, DC-Residents of the inner-city area east of the Anacostia River get their first new apartment development in 35 years with the grand opening of the 176-unit Woodmont Crossing apartment complex. The $17.6 million complex occupies an eight-acre plot of land.

MIAMI-Chicago-based Huron Ft. Myers LLC received an average $59,753 per unit for the 90%-plus-occupied properties in Ft. Myers and Naples, FL. Holliday Fenoglio Fowler brokered the transaction.

AUSTIN-The Scheffe Group is actively looking at two sites in Bee Cave and one in Austin's northwest submarket. The next project will have a bigger footprint than the 25,000-sf Juniper Ridge.

ORLANDO-For the week ended June 15, Smith Travel Research shows the Orlando market down 2.8% from the same period in 2001, but ahead of nine other destination areas except New York and Chicago.

PHOENIX-Brookwood Financial Partners closes on its first Phoenix deal this year, a 181,629-sf office building. The owner of three other Arizona properties plans to spend up to $100 million in the next 18 months in the state.

ORLANDO-In Central Florida's biggest office deal of the year, Inland Real Estate Acquisitions Inc. of Oak Brook, IL paid an estimated $88 million for 440,000 sf of class A space in three of the four existing office buildings at the 109-acre Celebration Place Office Park in Celebration, FL, 20 miles south of Downtown Orlando.

LA JOLLA, CA-The Los Angeles-based developer expects to open a 210-room resort adjacent the University of California at San Diego. Completion of the Blackhorse Hotel is slated for 2004.