VENICE-The Statuto Group, an Italian real estate holding company, is acquiring the 233-room landmark from Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which will retain the long-term management assignment.

MELBOURNE-The London-based container terminal operator and stevedore inks a 10-year lease for the inter-modal rail terminal at the Austrak Business Park/Somerton here, which is jointly owned by Sydney based General Property Trust and Austrak, a Queensland-based privately owned property development and investment company.

PORTLAND-Pamplin Communications Corp. is acquiring a 43,000-sf building in Clackamas County that that will serve as company headquarters for its newspapers and radio stations.

CENTRALIA, WA-One week after a competing outlet center opens 30 minutes north of Seattle, the owner of the 202,000-sf Centralia Factory Outlets 80 miles south of Seattle says it will renovate and expand.

SAN FRANCISCO-A team of office brokers from the local Staubach franchise picks up and moves to the local office of Studley, where two of them are now executive vice presidents and co-branch managers.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA-In the latest news regarding the $25-billion, 1,500-acre development here that was announced in 2002 and broke ground late last year--master developer Gale International says it will break ground in January for four speculative commercial office towers that will cost $975 million.

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA-In the latest news regarding the $25-billion, 1,500-acre development here that was announced in 2002 and broke ground late last year--master developer Gale International says it will break ground in January for four speculative commercial office towers that will cost $975 million.

BEIJING-The Denver-based developer of distribution space secures 1.05 million sf of development rights for 26.7 acres at Beijing Capital International Airport, and the right of first refusal for any distribution development on additional land within the Beijing Airport Logistics Park.