WASHINGTON, DC-City officials have just revealed the $49 million joint acquisition and renovation of Capital Heights Village complex. The 406-unit apartment compound is part of the DC Housing Finance Agency's multi-million dollar effort to preserve Section 8 housing in the Columbia Heights Area.

ASHBURN, VA-Saul Centers takes on 24 acres at the Broadlands planned community and makes plans to build a shopping center as large as 200,000-sf on the property.

SILVER SPRING, MD-The Washington Metro region's first "green," or environmentally responsible, apartment building is on its way with the start of construction on the 80,000-sf Blair Towns project.

GAITHERSBURG, MD-MedImmune signs off on the closing documents for its new headquarters, which will be located on a 25-acre plot and provide an initial 218,000-sf of administrative and research and development space.

WASHINGTON, DC-After nine years of calling 1744 R St. home, Trans Africa Forum sells its 15,000-sf headquarters to the German Marshall Fund for $5.3 million.

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA-City Council officials clear the way for development of the $50 million, 31st Street Project with a zoning change allowing area buildings to be 200 feet high, as opposed to the previous limitation of 100 feet.

ROCKVILLE, MD-UnitedHealthcare Services has signed a long-term lease on nearly 75,000 sf of office space in a 218,000-sf building at Irvington Centre. Rents in the business park are generally in the low $30-per-sf range.

SILVER SPRING, MD-The 71,500-sf TecHill Two office building in Westech Business Park gets its first and only tenant as healthcare software developer SoftMed Systems moves into its new build-to-suit headquarters.