ALPHARETTA, GA-Fresh cash is appearing on the Southeast's retail investment scene with a good portion coming from private investment groups acquiring properties…

ORLANDO-The Chevy Chase, MD-based lender is providing an $11.8-million acquisition and construction loan to Atlanta developer David Eichenblatt to restructure the former 250-room Four Points Sheraton hotel as a 129-unit condominium complex.

ATLANTA-Eleven cities told the 34-country Free Trade Area of the Americas this week they are willing to offer free land, buildings, infrastructure, equipment and space for 200 headquarters employees. Possible local sites are Centennial Olympic Park, Atlantic Station, Carter Center and suburban College Park, GA.

ATLANTA-LJ Melody & Co., the real estate banking arm of CB Richard Ellis Inc., arranged the financing for four retail assets in Atlanta and an apartment community in suburban Marietta, GA.

ATLANTA-Plansouth Inc. of Hoschton, GA has filed plans to build Commerce Square, a proposed 300,000-sf project on a 33-acre site off Interstate 85 at GA 98 and Old Bold Spring School Road. The venture would be one of the largest in north Jackson County.

ORLANDO-For the sixth straight month, revenue from Orange County's 116,000 hotels, motels and short-term rental properties have surpassed fiscal 2002 collections, reports county comptroller Martha O. Haynie.

TAMPA, FL-The Miami-based brokers rang up their seventh over-$20-million retail deal in the past 12 months with the $20.3-million sale of the Shoppes of Carrollwood and Colonial Square, both in the affluent Carrollwood section of metro Tampa.

TAMPA, FL-The Freehold, NJ-based REIT shells out $17.7 million, or about $103.64 per sf, to Florida-based Regional Development Group Inc. for a 170,779-sf industrial building net-leased to FedEx Ground Package System Inc. for 15 years.