MEXICO CITY—Acquisition and asset management skills key strengths for new structured group.

FORT WORTH—Plans call for 1.2 million SF to be built in Alliance Center North.

DENVER—Construction has been started on a multifamily apartment community in the Denver Tech Center that will offer residents luxury housing with easy access to employment, restaurants, retail, and is set within the Cherry Creek School District, The Picerne Group announced Tuesday. 

SAN RAFAEL, CA—Twenty-year vet joins firm as managing partner, coming from KBS Realty, San Francisco.

WARNER SPRINGS, CA—San Diego-based firm to Invest $50 million in upgrades, refurbishments to landmark property.

SEATTLE—Tech company has lease through 2022.

AUSTIN, TX—NorthMarq's Dallas office arranges bridge loan for West Side Village, a retail- office complex.

After slow 2012, quarterly forecast predicts improved commercial markets for the rest of 2013