BOSTON-Nordblom will purge its commercial brokerage division by the end of this year in order to focus on its investment services business. Seven brokers will be leaving the firm as a result.

NORWELL, MA-A $4 million offer on a 43,026 industrial building in Norwell's Accord Park has bought American Plumbing and Heating prime frontage on Route 3 and 30,000 sf of expansion space.

CANTON, MA-But Tweeter Home Entertainment Group is hit by a drop in projection-television sales and a decline in prices on flat panel units.

SOUTH HADLEY, MA-The sale of the 56,850-sf supermarket-anchored retail center also gives the buyer two out-parcels and an option on 10 other acres.

WALTHAM, MA-The talent management solution company will continue to occupy the entire building, which it has been a tenant in since 2002.

READING, MA-A $10-million, 69,000-sf Stop & Shop grocery store will open next year across from Reading's Crossing at Walker Brook now that development has started on the project.

CINCINNATI-Despite tough competition from rival chains, third quarter earnings jumped 16% at Kroger.

LAWRENCE, MA-A local developer has undertaken a $200-million renovation project designed to turn a 1.3-million-sf former mill building into New England's largest environmentally friendly residential development.