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DDR’s Puerto Rico Retail Properties Get $90M Upgrade

Leading shopping center owner and manager DDR Corp. has announced it will continue the successful redevelopment and expansion activity at four selected properties across Puerto Rico due to strong tenant demand and lucrative previous projects.

Velocity Hires Industry Veteran for Loan Acquisitions

Velocity Commercial Capital, a specialty finance firm focusing on originating, acquiring and securitizing small balance commercial loans, announced the addition of Craig Kolasinski to its Capital Markets team.

Richard Katzenstein Joins Freddie Mac Multifamily as Managing Regional Director, Northeast Region

Richard Katzenstein has joined Freddie Mac Multifamily, and will lead the Northeast Region as its managing regional director.

MSHDA to Build New Senior Development in Michigan Suburb

Michigan State Housing Development Authority will open The Lake Pointe Apartments, a planned $4.2 million affordable housing development for seniors in downtown Hart, Mich.

MARKET SNAPSHOT: Cleveland Sees Best Annual Employment Growth Since 2000, Tightening Vacancies

While vacancy in the Forest City has been falling steadily since 2009, mostly due to lack of new supply, a similar trend in unemployment has taken a bit longer to materialize.

Economy Watch: Beige Book Reports ‘Strong’ Residential Growth

The Federal Reserve released the latest Beige Book, which reported “all 12 Districts characterizing the pace of growth as either modest or moderate.”

Marcus & Millichap Lists 128-Unit Indiana Community

Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services are marketing the sale of Embassy Place Apartments, a Class A community in Highland, Ind. The seller is a Northwest Indiana-based builder and the original developer of the property.

Equity to Sell $1.5B Portfolio

Equity Residential has unveiled a major deal to sell $1.5 billion worth of multifamily properties to a joint venture of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Greystar Real Estate Partners. The transaction will involve 27 properties in various parts of the country.

TODAY’S DEALS: Bernards, Aimco Break Ground on $140M Calif. Redevelopment

Bernards breaks ground on Aimco’s massive Venice redevelopment; Passco Companies completes its second Class A buy in two weeks; and Lucent Capital arranges $9.9 million for the acquisition and re-entitlement of a Platinum Triangle development site.

Corvias Campus Living Appoints New Vice President

Corvias Group, a privately-owned, vertically-integrated real estate solutions group, announced today that Geoff Eisenacher has been named a vice president of business development for Corvias Campus Living, the company’s student housing division.