WHITE PLAINS-Dallas-based luxury housing developer JPI broke ground on yesterday on a $75.6-million project that will feature 281 luxury rental apartment units and some retail space.

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, NY-Newmark Capital Group reports it has arranged the $8.45 million sale of the Briarcliff Corporate Campus development here to RPW Group of White Plains.

YONKERS-The city of Yonkers is offering 130,000 sf of space at its Ridge Hill office complex rent-free for six months to small businesses displaced by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

STAMFORD, CT-Xerox Corp., reports that it plans to establish a new TeleWeb Center in 40,000 sf of leased space in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The high-tech call center is expected to hire approximately 150 workers initially and up to 600 in the future.

NEW HAVEN, CT-Insignia/ESG reports it has established a regional office in New Haven and has named veteran local commercial broker Richard S. Guralnick, CCIM, as managing director of the location.

STAMFORD, CT-Abbey National Treasury Services PLC., a UK-based financial services firm, plans to open its first US branch office on Oct. 1 here in 17,580 sf of space at the former Champion Building at 400 Atlantic St.

WHITE PLAINS-GHP Office Realty, along with a group of private investors, reports that it has closed on the acquisition of 185,000 sf of commercial space in Westchester, Fairfield and Long Island.

HARRISON, NY-Broadway Partners, a New York City-based real estate partnership, has acquired the 236,000 sf Saxon Woods Corporate Center here for $22.5 million, GlobeSt.com has learned.