MIAMI-Publix affiliates have acquired Colonial Shopping Center and Plantation Towne Square.

LONDON-Heron International, AXA Real Estate and the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) have sold The Peak, an office development situated opposite the Victoria Station in London.

HOUSTON-Black Forest Ventures, a private equity management firm based in The Woodlands, has sold an office building in the Energy Corridor District to New York-based DRA Advisors LLC.

BURLINGTON, MA-Behringer Harvard has hired Cushman & Wakefield's capital markets team to market an office complex spanning 270,000 square feet along Wayside Drive in Burlington.

SAN FRANCISCO-MacFarlane Partners, based in San Francisco, has grabbed the last remaining development site in Mid-Market with plans to construct a 12-story residential building there.

COLUMBUS, OH-Canada's IMC Real Estate Management has recently bought the Crosswoods Center office building near Worthington.

LONDON-Legal & General Property has paid more than GBP 40 million for the West Tower, a 100,000-square-foot office building at 6 Greenwich View Place in the Docklands.

SAN FRANCISCO-Turkish investment company Polidev has bought 747 Front St. in San Francisco's Jackson Square neighborhood for $25 million.