Miami

ORLANDO-Prudential Real Estate Investors and Heller Financial get $47 million for the 15-story, 393-room property, one of the first non-Disney-owned hotels to be built at the Lake Buena Vista, FL attraction in 1972.

ORLANDO-The Osceola County-based real estate firm is relocating to the SouthPark section of Orlando Central Park where it has purchased a 1.08-acre pad for $260,000 or about $240,740 per acre ($5.40 per sf).

ORLANDO-Michael Heidrich, director of industrial and land sales/leasing at locally based Realvest Partners Inc., tells GlobeSt.com potential tenants continue to go after bulk distribution and office/ware/house/flex space in Orlando's 90 million-sf industrial market.

MIAMI-The locally based developer of Internet infrastructure and provider of managed services signs a binding contract with the company's senior management to divest an operating unit for an undisclosed price.

CLERMONT, FL-The old 45-foot high limit is still in the code books but this Orlando bedroom community may find a technical exception now that the fire department's new ladders can reach 60-foot high structures.

ORLANDO-Greg Hughes' Chesapeake Logistics Inc. of Tampa, FL is paying $31 million for the assets of 500,000-sf Mid-Florida Freezer Warehouses Ltd. in Port Canaveral, 60 miles east of Downtown. Mid-Florida Freezer officials concealed from Federal inspectors and later sold contaminated drums of fruit juice over a 30-year period, the government charged.

ORLANDO-The California computer maker's federal court lawsuit alleges locally-based Dacanay Consulting and two Clearwater, FL companies resold counterfeit software.

ORLANDO-In an exclusive interview with GlobeSt.com, Orlando developer George D. Livingston, president of the Paris-based International Real Estate Federation, representing 1.5 million professionals in 50 countries, says so-called smart-growth policies "lead to economic advantages and political gains for the few.