Office

CHICAGO-The gum company needed a little more space, which was not available at its namesake Wrigley Building at 401 N. Michigan Ave. It found 22,540 sf at 455 Cityfront Plaza.

HOUSTON-The leases, totaling 7,490 sf, all are medium-term pacts that range from 3,266 sf to 822 sf. Fulcrum Power LP occupies the largest block of space while "Les Avenues" magazine is moving into the smallest.

AURORA, CO- After launching an exhaustive search of multiple sites in the metro area, Merrick & Co., described as the largest engineering/architectural firm headquartered in Colorado, decided to maintain its corporate headquarters at Aurora Corporate Plaza here.

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI-GECOM, an automotive supplier, is expanding into 12,012 sf of space leased by Grubb & Ellis. The company said it uses the Farmington Hills office as an "antenna for detecting various industry trends and interfaces with users.

BRISBANE CA-The Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate investment firm is buying the class A office building in Brisbane from Hitachi, which occupies 40% of the building. Earlier this month, Younan acquired the 59,000-sf Mowry office building in Newark, CA, for $7 million.<P>

ORLANDO-The three-year-old New York-based airline plans to break ground in the next 12 months on an 80,000-sf flight-training center and a 70,000-sf hangar near the recently completed Heintzelman Boulevard on the east side of Orlando International Airport.

WALTHAM, MA-Cornerstone Mortgage leases 7,200 sf at 196 Bear Hill Rd. The company, which signed a ten-year lease, needed additional space for growth and was looking for a stand-alone building.

NEW DEHLI, INDIA-Heeding its clients' interest in tapping India's English-speaking, highly educated workforce, the international corporate real estate advisor forms an exclusive partnership with a New Dehli-based real estate services company.