ATLANTA-A commercial real estate professional for 20 years, the former senior vice president of G&E will be executive director in Advantis's local office, focusing on strengthening the firm's Investment Services Group.

ATLANTA-The Atlanta Regional Commission is reviewing plans from T.T.A. LLC to develop a mixed-use venture that would include 200 townhouses on a 43-acre tract three miles southeast of Buford and about 25 miles northeast of Downtown Atlanta.

ORLANDO-CNL Retirement Properties Inc. has acquired 17 properties for $178.8 million from McLean, VA-based Sunrise Senior Living Inc. and has contracted to buy 28 additional properties from affiliates of EdenCare Senior Living Services LP of Alpharetta, GA for $198 million.

ATLANTA-The Freeport, IL-based firm, which is relocating its corporate headquarters to this city, plans to lease part of the 10-story, 250,000-sf North Tower at 10 Glenlake for 60 executives who will be moving here at year end 2004, area brokers tell GlobeSt.com.

ATLANTA-The locally based law firm of King & Spalding is leaving Downtown and has leased 440,000 sf at Hines Co.'s 41-story Midtown tower which expects to be ready for occupancy in first quarter 2006. Another law firm, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy also plans to vacate about 200,000 sf at two Downtown locations for new quarters at One Atlantic Center in Midtown.

ORLANDO-Jim Lewis, a senior vice president of government relations and public affairs and a seven-year Disney professional, takes over from George Aguel who started the company's vacation resort business in 1991. Aguel continues to head Disney's group and convention business.

ATLANTA-National Retail Real Estate Services and Liberty Development Group jointly plan to break ground in June 2004 on Villages of Ellenwood, a 400-acre, mixed-use project proposed for 326 apartments, 272 townhomes and 433 detached homes about 10 miles south of Downtown Atlanta.

ORLANDO-Jane Smalley, a public relations and marketing professional with Trammell Crow Co. in Dallas and Orlando for the past 12 years, fills the newly created position of director of communications at the mixed-use Baldwin Park community under construction in east Orlando.