NEW YORK CITY-The School of Visual Arts here will expand its Midtown Campus in January when construction is complete on a 22-story, mixed-use complex that will be used as student housing with a street-level retail component.

PORT WASHINGTON, NY-Acadia Realty Trust announces the closing on its sale of Wesmark Plaza, a 207,000-sf shopping center located in Sumter, SC.

NEW YORK CITY-As part of an ongoing effort to solidify its European presence, Insignia/ESG has signed an agreement to acquire Paris-based real estate services firm Groupe Bourdais

NEW YORK CITY-A senior analyst from Cushman & Wakefield, GlobeSt.com's newest market-data provider, sees the office and industrial markets leveling off but says the firm will continue to watch tech-heavy areas.

NEW HYDE PARK, NY-Kimco Realty Corp. and Toronto-based REIT RioCan have inked a joint-venture agreement to purchase and develop property in Canada.

NEW YORK CITY-An Upper East Side pharmacy will make room for a chic women's clothing store. Searle's, with four locations in the same area, will open its fifth store at 74th and Third.

NEW HYDE PARK, NY-Seven stores on Ames Department Stores' latest list of upcoming closures are located in Kimco-owned shopping centers. By October, the largest publicly traded shopping-center REIT in the US will be looking at roughly 1.2 million sf space vacated by one of the country's biggest discount retailers.

NEW YORK CITY-Chinatown-based bricks-and-clicks retailer Pearl River leases the ground floor of a Downtown Broadway property located within blocks of its two existing stores.