ATLANTA-PublixDirect, the six-month-old online shopping/delivery service subsidiary of Lakeland, FL-based Publix Super Markets Inc., is taking 25,000 sf in Alpharetta, GA, 25 miles north of Downtown Atlanta.<p>

COLUMBUS, GA-Ben Carter Properties of Atlanta plans to break ground by Nov. 1 on Columbus Park Crossing, a 750,000-sf, 50-store shopping center expected to open by Thanksgiving 2001 in this city of 200,000 residents, about 80 miles south of Downtown Atlanta.

ATLANTA-The locally-based firm is going to the Net to expand its estimated $750 million property portfolio. The one-year-old California company has current for-sale listings of about $40 billion.

ATLANTA-Leading in the number of available units are San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, DC/Baltimore, Chicago and New York. Atlanta is eighth in unit count and 20th in rents at $2,048 per month. Average occupancy nationwide is 91%.

NEWNAN, GA-The first component of a mixed-use project here is a six-acre office park geared to small high-tech business. The first buildings will be four one-story office structures designed and wired for high-tech use.

Richmond, VA-The Atlanta-based REIT paid $114.77 per sf for the four-story, class A property at 5309 Commonwealth Dr. here. The power generating group is taking the entire building for seven years. The structure sits on 7.5 acres in the Waterford Business Park.

NEWNAN, GA-The first component of a mixed-use project here is a six-acre office park geared to small high-tech business. The first buildings will be four one-story office structures designed and wired for high-tech use.

ATLANTA-Global NAP buys 30,000 sf industrial building in West End for $812,000 or $27.06 per sf. The seller was Swartzberg Investments.