Real estate investment firm Crocker Partners has been chosen to lease the 164,000 square-foot Mizner Park Office Tower and the 103,000 square-foot Mizner Park Office Plaza, both located at Mizner Park in downtown Boca Raton, Fla.

At the intersection of recession and recovery is where we lie right now. That was the theme of a webcast presented by Jones Lang LaSalle.

When Jones Lang LaSalle released its Beige Book business survey this month, parts of the report were rosy with optimism.

With rent prices down and landlords doling out concessions, now is a wise time to literally make a move, and Peerless Industries Inc. is doing just that.

Those big 100-plus-square-foot office leases that all but disappeared a year ago are slowly but surely beginning to pop up again.

Jones Lang LaSalle’s New York office has tapped Gregory Green as president of its National Agency Leasing Group. Green, who will work out of the New York office, will report to CEO of brokerage Greg O’Brien and also serve as chairman of JLL’s agency leasing committee as well as a member of its brokerage executive and leadership committees.

The office vacancy rate is nearing its peak for this cycle, but the market will remain soft in 2010, according to Josh Scoville, director of strategic research for PPR, a CoStar Group company.

The Trump Organization seems to have made the cut with regard to its Trump Building on Wall Street. The company has sewn up leases for 268,329 square feet in less than a year – the most, they say, of any single downtown building.

MB Real Estate said earlier this month that it represented workplace solutions company Regus in a 29,517 square-foot lease at 22 West Washington in Chicago.

Talk about the deal of all deals. Toronto, Ont.-headquartered Brookfield Real Estate Opportunity Fund has just closed the purchase of a 2.9 million-square-foot U.S. office portfolio from New York City-based JPMorgan Chase in a quasi sale-leaseback transaction for –according to the Wall Street Journal — $200 million.