BURBANK, CA-The owners of the 351,000-square-foot Empire Center office building secure a short-term floating-rate loan for the new property.

RENO, NV-The owner of the Rosewood Park Apartments secures a five-year, fixed-rate loan arranged by the Irvine, CA office of HFF, which will also service the loan.

BIG BEAR LAKE, CA-Urban Housing Communities LLC debuts its Crossings at Big Bear Lake, a $17 million, 42-unit affordable housing complex.

LOS GATOS, CA-The 142-acre Holy City property, once an incorporated city but later a ghost town, is now on the market and viewed as a development opportunity.

SEATTLE-CBRE Capital Partners acquires loans secured by the 42-story, 263,807-square-foot Smith Tower and the 7,829-square-foot Florence Building.

SAN DIEGO-The family names Lankford & Associates, Portman Holdings and Phelps Development as master developers of a five-block property dubbed the I.D.E.A. (Innovation, Design, Education and Art)District.

SANTA MONICA, CA-Commercial real estate finance veteran Shlomi Ronen forms Dekel Capital, a boutique real estate investment banking firm with offices in here and in Tel Aviv.

IRVINE, CA-The CEO of the Orange County chapter of the Building Industry Association tells GlobeSt.com how multifamily is one of the bright spots in development these days.