FRONT ROYAL, VA-Winchester Cold Storage further expands its warehousing and distribution offerings with the acquisition of the 284,000-sf former MeadWestvaco/WesTab building in the Kelley Industrial Park.

BALTIMORE-Johns Hopkins University selects Transwestern Commercial Services to oversee management responsibilities at its recently acquired Mount Washington Corporate Campus.

WASHINGTON, DC-Interstate Hotels & Resorts and Northridge Capital Inc. get together in a joint venture to pursue hotel property acquisitions through a $400 million hospitality fund.

PIKESVILLE, MD-A new Barnes & Noble bookstore is nearly ready to open the doors of its 22,000-sf space at the Festival at Woodholme Shopping Center. The newest retailer in the 81,000-sf shopping center is slated to open on June 11.

COLUMBIA, MD-Office REIT Corporate Office Properties Trust parts with 5.3 million common shares of beneficial interest in exchange for a $79.5 million profit. Some of the proceeds will be used to buy a 400,000-sf office property.

BALTIMORE-Affordable housing for the elderly, in the form of the new $8.6 million Harlem Gardens Senior Apartments, comes to the impoverished community of Harlem Park. The 94-unit residential building is the first of what will be a series of mostly residential developments in the neighborhood.

WASHINGTON, DC-Real estate industry members celebrate the increasing number in supporters of the Community Choice In Real Estate Act after campaigning on the Hill during the National Association of Realtors Midyear Legislative Meetings.

WASHINGTON, DC-CarrAmerica Realty Corp. taps 13-year company employee Harold Nelson to head up operations for its Washington, DC office properties as VP/director of operations.