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Aho of O'Brien Commercial Properties sells 28,000 s/f industrial building in Marlborough with Colliers Meredith & Grew Jones Lang LaSalle leases 47,426 s/f with CB Richard Ellis at Nordblom's Northwest Park, Burlington, to e-Dialog Wason Assoc. sells 70 room Best Western Inn, Hampton, NH to Jenica Hospitality for $5.32 million Cook of NAI/J.L. Davis Realty sells 20,000 s/f whse./office building, South Burlington, VT, to Neatec for $1.61 million Hannah R.E. Investors, Stillwater Inv. Mgmt. and Summers Ptrs. sell Grand Penthouse, Stamford, CT for $1.675 million; Raveis R.E. agent Fischer R.E. negotiates 22 acre lease for Foyer family in Orange, CT to United Illuminating for 140,000 s/f new headquarters Normandy R.E. Ptrs. and Five Mile Capital Ptrs. acquire Hancock Tower, Boston, from Broadway Ptrs. for $660.6 million in auction Ashworth Mortgage places $3.117 million acquisition/construction financing for East Providence, RI warehouse/distribution facility Hegenbart of NorthMarq Capital arranges $2 million mortgage for EB Realty's 117,000 s/f industrial site in Sudbury, MA Kelly of Arbor Commercial Funding closes $7.225 million Fannie Mae loan for 55 unit Tennis Rd., Mattapan, MA apartments Reardon and Corkery of CB Richard Ellis/N.E. facilitate $2.2 million sale of 600,000 s/f West Warren, MA industrial complex Johnston and Homes of R.W. Holmes Realty lease 21,216 s/f for Perini Corp. to Framingham Heart Study Newmark Knight Frank leases 34,000 s/f with CBRE/NE in Taunton to Safelite Auto-Glass for AEW Capital Management J.M. Feeney & Assoc. arranges $5.3 million financing for Extra Space Storage's 120,000 s/f facility in Danvers, MA Joymark Realty Trust acquires 276-78 Newbury St., Boston, from Mt. Vernon Co.; 10,379 s/f, for $9.65 million Campanelli Cos. signs lease for 80,000 s/f build-to-suit for IDEX Health & Science at Middleborough Business Park Harris of Redstone represents Geiger of Austria in 27,600 s/f lease to Italian firm for its Durasol Awnings operations. Breda and Eakin of Goedecke & Co. arrange $10.56 million loan for 122,718 s/f Stop & Shop Plaza, Enfield, CT to Katz Properties Spagnolo Gisness and J. Calnan complete PUMA's 129,000 s/f headquarters in Westford, MA; $12.6 million development HMFH Architects and Suffolk Education building 82,000 s/f Rashi School at Hebrew Senior Life's Newbridge on the Charles Elaine Const. implements innovation to deliver Third District Court of Middlesex County, Medford, MA; Visnick & Caulfield architect Condyne signs Curtis Straus to 60,000 s/f lease at Littleton Distribution Center; CBRE and Stubblebine cobrokers Daume, Jamieson, Smith and Heald of Jones Lang LaSalle close $10 million sale of Ames Pond Corporate Ctr. to Leggat McCall-Dead River Halprin of New England Retail Props. leases 28,000 s/f to PetSmart at Putnam Bridge Plaza, East Hartford, CT Sheehan and Sidel of EagleBridge Capital arrange $825,000 construction/mortgage loan for Williamstown Plaza in Mass. Linear Retail redevelops Fresh Pond Rotary/Alewife Brook Pkwy. site into 47,000 s/f shopping venue WS Development signs Sugar Heaven, H&M and Brooks Brothers Country Club at 675,000 s/f Legacy Place in Dedham, MA Cushman & Wakefield brokers sale of 252,096 s/f Enfield Commons; Centro Property Group sells to Paramount Realty Services
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