Office

CHICAGO-A joint venture between the Wells Real Estate Investment Trust and Wells Limited Partnership Fund XIII pays $124 per sf for a four-story building in the Crosspoint Business Park in northeast Indianapolis.

DALLAS-Shareholders get until midnight Friday or an extra five trading days in the $61-million tender offer for common stock of Transcontinental Realty and Income Opportunity Realty. The merger is settlement for a class-action lawsuit.

SAN DIEGO, CA-The Currie Partners is preparing to start work on Phase II of its $12.5-million Rio San Diego Plaza, with groundbreaking just a few months away. Design is currently underway, as KMA Architecture & Engineering has recently been retained to plan the second phase.

FAIRFAX, VA-The AMS Building--the 264,000-sf, class A office structure at 12601 Fair Lakes Circle--gets a new owner with Prentiss Properties Trust's $55-million purchase of the property from Gilbane Building Co. American Management Services has a lease on the entire building through 2011.

NEW YORK CITY-During an event held here late last week, three real estate appraisal experts explained the harsh realities facing valuations of Lower Manhattan real estate. Unfortunately, said the experts, a turnaround in property assessments is not in the foreseeable future.

HOLLYWOOD, CA-The Motion Picture Hall of Fame will lease 50,000 sf at the 6300 Hollywood Blvd. building, which occupies one of the film community's storied intersections. The building is owned by Meringoff Equities.

DALLAS-A well-heeled German family gets a 40,250-sf office building, a 12-year tenant and an option to buy more in a high-growth area. Centex, in turn, gets an immediate exit strategy for future product on its land mass along Texas 121.

WEST ORANGE, NJ-The telecom giant's directory services operation will occupy just over one-third of one of the four buildings making up the Reckson Executive Hill Office Park.