BOSTON, MA-Rich Murphy, managing director of Calkain Boston, tells GlobeSt.com that the properties involved were identified at light speed, and in the end provided diversification for the client.

NEW YORK CITY-The UJA-Federation of New York’s Real Estate & Allied Trades Division honored Gotham Construction Co.’s Joel and David Picket yesterday at its annual lunch, during which industry insiders raised over $16 million for UJA causes.

NEW YORK CITY-Kushner worked with Apollo Property Management and Square Mile Capital to snag the properties at a deep discount. Principal Jared Kushner tells GlobeSt.com’s Carl Gaines that the units are underperforming, but in promising markets.

NEW YORK CITY-Forest City Ratner has racked up a number of leases in Downtown Brooklyn, totaling over 570,000 square feet, and the takers are all the usual suspects.

NEW YORK CITY-Baseball, in part, helps to bring affordable housing and a new charter school to the area.

NEW YORK CITY-The NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate and Silverstein Properties conference mulled the re-emergence of Lower Manhattan post 9/11.

NEW YORK CITY-The new Capital Markets Group at Faris Lee will deal primarily with providing recapitalization and debt structuring, managing partner Richard Berlinghof tells GlobeSt.com.

NEW YORK CITY-Monday COO Brian Robin tells GlobeSt.com's Carl Gaines he hopes the $760-million deal will be the start of a long-term collaboration.