PHOENIX—Colliers International recently released its second quarter retail findings. GlobeSt.com caught up with Colliers' research manager Pete O'Neil to get his take on the numbers.

PHOENIX—Glimcher Realty Trust has broken ground on Block M at Scottsdale Quarter, a six-story, approximately 170,000-square-foot class A, mixed-use building in North Scottsdale.

PHOENIX—In this week's Deal-Tracker, Cassidy Turley announces the sale of a 40,427-square-foot class B flex project at 2932 W. Deer Valley Rd. in Phoenix's Deer Valley Submarket. California-based Hyperion Fund L.P.

PHOENIX—A subsidiary of Cohen Asset Management purchased Ryan West Business Park, a 242,863 square foot warehouse distribution building at 8313 Latham in Tolleson for $14.6 from EG Properties, LLC.

PHOENIX—Xceligent's second quarter market reports are out and Phoenix fundamentals are looking healthy, with a few exceptions. As expected, on the office side, the Phoenix market tapped lightly on the brakes as it turned toward summer.

PHOENIX—Craig Schrader has joined Cushman & Wakefield of Arizona, Inc. as a project manager in Corporate Occupier & Investor Services.

PHOENIX—Wentworth Property Company/Clarion Partners and the Phoenix office of JLL have secured a benchmark 63,000-square-foot tenant lease commitment this week at Airport I-10 Business Park—one of the largest Sky Harbor Airport-area speculative industrial developments in Phoenix history.

PHOENIX—David Birdsall, president, Total Retail Solutions, a Division of Phillips Edison & Company, calls the back-to-school retail season one of the seminal retail events of the year—second only to Christmas.