HOUSTON-O'Connor Capital Partners and Simmons Vedder Partners have sold Westchase Park, a six-story Class A office building in the Westchase District of Houston.

BOSTON-Berklee College of Music will celebrate the topping off ceremony for its $70-million student dorm in Boston today.

MINNEAPOLIS-Opus Development Corp. has secured financing for The Nic on Fifth, a high-rise apartment tower in downtown Minneapolis.

SAN DIEGO-Sunroad Enterprises has started construction on Ariva, a 253-unit apartment community in San Diego Spectrum Center in Kearny Mesa.

BELLEVUE, WA-Greg Johnson, president of Seattle-based Wright Runstad, said that the company is planning to start construction on Bellevue's Spring District next summer.

CHICAGO-A real estate investor from Canada has agreed purchase Alta at K Station, an 848-unit apartment community in the West Loop, for approximately $300 million.

BALTIMORE-A Virginia firm is preparing to transform 10 Light Street, the second-tallest building in Baltimore, into apartments.

MANCHESTER, UK-The North West Evergreen Fund has provided a GBP 6-million loan to The Carlyle Group and its partners Abstract Securities and Nikal Developments for the Soapworks redevelopment in Salford.