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Online Assessment Tool Enables Hurricane Preparedness: JLL

The professional services firm continues aiding its Houston-area employees in recovering from Hurricane Harvey, while also using its Building Emergency Management Assessment system to evaluate the effects of Hurricane Irma.

Renovated NJ Office Asset Lands New Tenants

Fusion Telecommunications International and Acuative inked two leases totaling 22,000 square feet of office space at the Highpoint Corporate Center in Fairfield, N.J.

Colliers Secures 181 KSF NJ Industrial Lease

ASA Apple Inc. will occupy a significant amount of Prologis’ 385,140-square-foot building, located 3 miles from the New Jersey Turnpike.

Upcoming Queens Hotel Receives $44M Financing

The construction of the dual-branded Marriott Hotel broke ground in 2015, and will bring a total of 338 guestrooms to the borough’s Jamaica neighborhood.

LogistiCenter at Dallas

Dermody Completes Phase 1 of Dallas Distribution Center

Phase One of LogistiCenter at Dallas comprises a 626,439-square-foot distribution center that is expandable to 1.1 million square feet.

BGC Acquires Berkeley Point, Minority Stake in New CRE Biz

The company and its affiliate Cantor Fitzgerald paid $875 million to purchase the capital solutions provider, and invested an additional $100 million in finance and investment business CF Real Estate Finance Holdings LP.

Lavista Business Park

Ackerman & Co. Acquires Atlanta Business Park

CBRE represented Onward Investors in selling its four-building industrial campus for $12.7 million. The 12-acre Lavista Business Park is currently 87 percent leased.

625 Mass Ave. in Cambridge, Mass.

Cambridge Class A Building Changes Hands for $75M

Lincoln Property Co. and Chile-based Stars Investments acquired 625 Massachusetts Ave., a 122,104-square-foot office and retail property in the supply-constrained Central Square district.

Bank of America Grows in San Jose

Completed in 2001, Century Plaza II is a LEED Gold certified building ideally situated on 2.9 acres in Silicon Valley. The property is fully leased.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder & CEO

Amazon to Invest $5B in 2nd North America HQ

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant opened the request for proposals, giving metros with a million-plus population—and other qualifications—the opportunity to submit their bids for the mega project until Oct. 19, 2017.