ATLANTA-The local office of the national brokerage negotiated for New York-based Blackstone Real Estate Advisors and Norfolk, VA-based Stanton Properties in the $11.2 million sale of the 175,843-sf Colonial Square Shopping Center in Colonial Heights, VA near Richmond, 500 miles northeast of Downtown Atlanta.

ATLANTA-Fourth quarter funds from operations at America First Apartment Investors of Omaha, NE are up 13% increase from the comparable 1999 period. American First Apartment Investiors owns the 226-unit Retreat in Atlanta and the 260-unit Park Trace in Norcross, GA.

ATLANTA-Fourth quarter funds from operations at America First Apartment Investors of Omaha, NE are up 13% increase from the comparable 1999 period. American First Apartment Investiors owns the 226-unit Retreat in Atlanta and the 260-unit Park Trace in Norcross, GA.

ATLANTA-The state's commercial and industrial utility customers will have more than energy to keep the lights on this summer, unlike the under-supplied, deregulated utility markets in California.

ATLANTA-The locally based firm is opening six new call centers in the Southeast, just as it vacates a 30,000 sf facility in Atlanta and a 4,000 sf location in Macon, GA.

ATLANTA-The possibility of less than stellar first quarter revenues is prompting Boca Raton, FL-based firm to close a 25,000 sf facility in northeast Atlanta, along with a similar site in Atlanta.

ATLANTA-IDI of Atlanta expects to complete an 826,000-sf distribution center in Texas for national retailer Toys 'R' Us by July. Total hard construction cost for the facility in Midlothian, TX is $32 million.

ATLANTA-A study by M/PF Research of Carrollton, TX finds first-quarter monthly rents averaging $808 overall and $915 at properties built in the last 10 years. The rent increases of 2.8% compare with increases of 4% to 5% between 1998 and 2000.