Madding spent 22 years with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

The Investment Property Databank’s U.S. Quarterly Property Index shows that commercial real estate markets have emerged from a two and a half year slump.

Firoozabadi most recently served as associate vice president investments. He received the designation in 2008.

Another big move at Marcus & Millichap as Alan Pontius takes on Bernard Haddigan’s retail role.

The San Francisco-based REIT assumed a $32.5 million mortgage in buying the 226-unit property.

Spirongo Lordstown L.L.C., an entity controlled by brothers George and Spiros Bakeris of Howland, Ohio, has acquired the 1.4 million-square-foot Ohio Commerce Center in Warren, Ohio, from Roseville, Minn.-based Meritex.

Cassidy Turley’s latest expansion move did more than give the company a full-service presence in Denver. The fast-growing company, formed on March 1 with the partnership of a number of former Colliers firms and an assortment of others, found in Denver heavyweight Fuller Real Estate a “perfect fit.”

Emeritus Corp.’s portfolio has just gotten a lot bigger. In a joint venture with Blackstone Real Estate Advisors VI L.P. and Columbia Pacific Advisors, it closed the $1.2 billion acquisition of a 144-property seniors housing portfolio from Stayton SW Living L.L.C., which parted with the assets as part of its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization.

Three years ago, the entire industry would have scoffed at the idea of acquiring the leasehold interest in a premier 1 million-square-foot Philadelphia office building for a measly $129 million, but Brandywine Realty Trust has succeeded in doing just that.

Rosemont, Ill.-based ACG Equities has made a 100 percent equity purchase of Atlanta’s Vinings Main mixed-use commercial and residential condominium development, which fell into foreclosure last December.