PHOENIX—Camelback East Shops, a 25,150-square-foot neighborhood retail center at 3225 E. Camelback Rd., has sold for $12.2 million. The buyer was Arizona-based Hannay Realty Advisors and Calgary, Alberta-based MDC Property Services. The seller was the Fuchs Family of Phoenix.

PHOENIX---DMB Associates announces the four builders that will construct homes at Victory, Arizona's first multi-builder community for people 55 years and better which will be located in the multi-generational community of Verrado. The combined purchase by the homebuilders totals $40.68 million. Verrado is located approximately 25 miles west of downtown Phoenix.

PHOENIX—CBRE will market the 800,000-square-foot office portion of Liberty Center at Rio Salado, the one million-square-foot, mixed-used project being developed by Liberty Property Trust.

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This new ULI program will marry the passion of entrepreneurship with the analytical processes of development. Seasoned real estate professionals and practitioners will help you to develop a more systematic and effective approach to the inherently creative process of adding value to real estate.

PHOENIX—Cushman & Wakefield of Arizona, Inc. has been awarded the retail leasing assignment of 180,000 square feet at USA Place, a 10.7-acre mixed-use development that will serve as the new home of USA Basketball.

PHOENIX—Transwestern announces it brokered a long-term lease with Rural/Metro Corp. for 90,500 square feet of Class A space in the Pima Office Pavilion. The Scottsdale-based provider of private ambulance and fire protection services in 21 states and nearly 700 communities will establish its new national headquarters at the Pavilion.

Retail Live! is similar to many regional networking events; there is an exhibit part of the program as well as a reception. The key difference is that ONLY retailers are allowed to have an exhibit at the Retail Live! trade show. This allows the brokers, landlords, developers, and other related industry professionals who attend the program to present their projects or services to only these retailers. The reason this is important is that it drives the attendance; when people know they are getting in front of over 100+ retailers, they attend. In less than a day, participants get a chance to network directly with retailers actively expanding in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In many ways, this is the opposite of a typical industry event; it is laid back, attire is casual, meetings are impromptu, and the ambiance is festive.