Cassidy Turley has been tapped by DEB Shops to serve as the affordable-fashion specialty retailer’s project-management services provider. The services firm will oversee DEB’s projects for more than 300 new and remodeled stores across the country.

The brokerage and property-management divisions of the Inland Cos., based in Milwaukee, are the latest addition to Colliers International’s roster of affiliates.

Jamestown has purchased the brand-new office building at 733 10th St., NW, handing over $140 million to Skanska USA for the 171,171-square-foot property.

Rockwood Capital L.L.C. recently shelled out $90 million to acquire a vacant 500,000-square-foot Silicon Valley office campus that will be redeveloped into a Class A property.

Lowe Enterprises Investors, on behalf of one of its investment clients, has acquired the 28-story, 213-room Affinia Chicago Hotel from Denihan Hospitality Group. The property, which will be renamed MileNorth, a Chicago Hotel, will see Destination Hotels & Resorts become the new management firm.

Completion of a $931 million seniors-housing acquisition in Canada was significant for both Chartwell Seniors Housing Real Estate REIT and Heath Care REIT, as the 8,187-suite transaction makes Chartwell the largest provider of seniors housing in the country and gives Health Care its first foothold in the growing Canadian market.

The 2,930-square-foot single-tenant building at 930 N. Rush in Chicago, occupied by Lululemon Athletica, sold to Acadia Realty Trust for $20.5 million, or $7,000 per square foot — in a transaction that marks the highest price per square foot for a retail trade in Windy City history.

KBS REIT III has just purchased the 175,262-square-foot The McEwen Building in Franklin, Tenn., 15 miles south of Nashville, from Denver-based Amstar for $40 million.

One year after sbe, a hospitality and real estate development company, and Stockbridge Capital Group L.L.C. shut the doors of the Sahara Hotel & Casino to assess new options for the iconic gaming destination, the partners have obtained $300 million in financing for a redevelopment project that will transform the Sahara into SLS Las Vegas.

After a full day of thinking, networking and discussing the future of real estate, attendees to the CoreNet Global Summit 2012 in San Diego returned to a second day of planning for the future of the industry — and technology and data offerings will play a critical role.