SANTA CLARA, CA-Expanding and relocating from 24,000 sf in Sunnyvale, the mobile enterprise software provider inks a six-year lease for a 70,000-sf building here that is owned by PacTrust and most recently was the corporate headquarters for Covad Communications.

CLEVELAND-Jack Kuhn, most recently Forest City Enterprises' executive vice president responsible for operations, and asset and property management, leaves the company for another locally based public company, Paragon Real Estate Equity and Investment Trust, where he assumes the title of senior vice president and chief property management and development officer.

LAKE OSWEGO, OR-Bob Dickie, most recently manager of US Bank's Northwest commercial real estate division, is replacing a retiring Don Johnson as the manager of West Coat Bank's commercial real estate division.

PORTLAND-The public company's board of directors approve construction of a new large diameter pipe-making facility at or near its existing mill here. Completion of the project is expected in the fourth quarter of next year.

SAN ANTONIO, TX-The New York-based REIT was scheduled to close Friday on an 80-acre campus here with 560,000 sf of buildings on it--all net leased through 2016--and room for an additional one million sf of development.

SAN FRANCISCO-On the heels of $305 million worth of acquisitions in the second quarter--most of them in the US--the locally based industrial REIT ships an executive to Shanghai to source deals in China.

SYDNEY-Principal Real Estate Investors Australia says it is in talks with Macquarie Office Management Limited regarding the acquisition of Principal America Office Trust by Macquarie Office Trust.

PHUKET, THAILAND-Grand Asset Development Public Company Ltd. of Bangkok taps the White Plains, NY-based hotel operator to manage Four Points by Sheraton Patong, a 215-room Downtown resort. The assignment is Starwood's fourth new gig in Thailand assignment in the past 12 months.