Office

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MD-Hampton Overlook office/flex space complex and Hampton South Business Centre warehouse sell for a combined $12.4 million to AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust.

LONG BEACH, CA-American Residential Investment Trust has entered into an arbitration agreement with Long Beach Mortgage Company (LBMC). On Jan. 4, 2001, the company had filed a lawsuit, seeking to recover damages arising from its purchase of a pool of residential mortgages from Lehman Capital, a Division of Lehman Brothers Holdings.

NEW YORK CITY-The 81-year-old law firm will join 125 other legal practices at the 55-story tower near Grand Central Terminal.

MINNEAPOLIS-The firm says its new offices in Dallas and Newport Beach, CA will serve a national client base and help attract new business in the housing, retail, commercial development, environments for aging, education and justice markets.

SAN DIEGO-The San Diego chapter of BOMA has elected its new board of directors. Cybele Thompson, RPA of PM Realty Group and general manager of the La Jolla Executive Tower, will serve her second term as president.

LOS ANGELES-National commercial real estate services firm Studley has completed an office relocation deal for Salomon Smith Barney and represented Charter Communications in a build-to-suit purchase of an office center.

MINNEAPOLIS-One sign Pillsbury may be moving to the General Mills campus in Golden Valley is the company's recent decision to give up 130,000 sf in the 500,000-sf Pillsbury Center at 200 S. 6th St.

SEATTLE, WA-Asking rents in the new South Lake Union building aren't what the developers originally envisioned, but Bryan Syrdal says they're workable and the building is attracting tenants. The first to sign is the Seattle bio-tech company, Zymogenetics.