The lease is part of the expansion of Microsoft’s New England Research & Development Center in Kendall Square. Cambridge Center’s owner and developer is Boston Properties, Inc.

Developer Granite Properties has announced several leases totaling more than 70,000 square feet at its office tower at Park Seventeen in Uptown Dallas, including 26,874 square feet leased by Colliers International on the ninth floor.

General Dynamics’ fast-growing Electric Boat divison snapped up a 700,000-square-foot compound in New London, Conn., that Pfizer Inc. is departing.

Real estate investment services firm Marcus & Millichap said Thursday that it has named two employees to higher positions.

Jones Lang LaSalle has reported net income of $0.2 million for the first quarter – a marked improvement from a net loss of $61 million a year earlier.

Commercial real estate services firm Cassidy Turley said Friday that Louisville, Ky.-based Harry K. Moore will join the company on May 13. Harry K. Moore was formerly affiliated with Colliers International.

Colliers International has launched its new global brand, a major step in the integration of its global operating platform and service lines. Earlier this year, Colliers and FirstService Real Estate Advisors announced that they would join forces under the Colliers International brand.

Real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson is increasing its efforts to acquire distressed assets in the Denver and Western Slope markets through the hiring of Rob Verratti as acquisitions manager.

Sustainability is on the minds of most real estate clients. That’s according to the fourth quarter Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Global Property Survey, which found that the vast majority of real estate agents believe that their clients place “some to considerable” importance on the topic.

In a strategic move to expand its brokerage and property management services to both the Seattle and Bellevue markets, Commerce Real Estate Solutions has expanded its alliance with Cushman & Wakefield.