SAN DIEGO-La Vida Real by Senior Resource Group LLC will offer 208 independent-living apartments and 84 assisted-living apartments. The community will also include a secure Alzheimer's/dementia care component.

ESCONDIDO-A real estate fund has purchased a four-building, 84,512-sf office complex here for $5.3 million.

SAN DIEGO-An investment group set up by real estate companies in Orange County and New York has bought Trade Street Plaza. The transaction marks the fifth office the company has acquired here in two years.

SAN DIEGO-Westcore Industrial Properties signs two more tenants, both at Miramar West Business Park. A communications company signs on for 10,000 sf and a web design firm takes another 3,000 sf.

SAN DIEGO-An office building in the Village of La Jolla has been sold for a second time in the past 13 months. Prospect Center, built in 1968, previously sold for $11.7 million in June of 2000.

SAN DIEGO-Opponents heckled SeaWorld officials about their proposed expansion during a City Council hearing on the matter Tuesday. The theme park and Anheuser-Busch, its parent company, have worked for three years to add new rides and other attractions to the theme park.

CARLSBAD, CA-The state's largest employee retirement fund has finished its first major investment in the senior housing industry--a portfolio of properties valued at about $115.5 million.

POWAY, CA-Bycor General Contractors Inc. has begun construction on the new 3,823-sf Poway Branch of Mission Federal Credit Union, according to Scott Kaats, Bycor's chief executive officer.