Following the trend of positive industrial fundamentals in the Chicagoland area, supply-chain firm M. Block & Sons has signed a 915,645-square-foot lease at 18801 Oak Park Ave. in Tinley Park, Ill. Newmark Knight Frank Epic represented the tenant in the lease transaction.

American Realty Advisors’ commercial real estate purchasing activity has just swelled by approximately 900,000 square feet — and then some — with the recent addition of five properties spanning the industrial, multi-family, office and retail sectors.

The industrial portfolio of Flagler Station, South Florida’s largest business park at approximately 4.2 million square feet, has been sold by its developer to AEW Capital Management for a reported $340 million.

CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust has made a significant addition to its Chicago portfolio with the purchase of a 1.4 million-square-foot bulk warehouse and distribution center. The property is fully leased through August 2021.

Prologis Inc. has broken its own record in Mexico with the renewal of a nearly 1.5 million-square-foot lease with IBM at the Guadalajara Technology Campus in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

According to a new report by BMO Harris Bank, the Midwest is set for a recovery in its CRE markets during the rest of the year.

Duke Realty has signed Carter’s, a provider of children’s apparel and products, to a long-term lease that takes the previously empty 1 million-square-foot Park 85 Brazelton mixed-use campus near Atlanta to 100 percent occupancy.

With the purchase of a 1.8 million-square-foot logistics portfolio, Hines Global REIT has made its entrée into Poland. The REIT, sponsored by real estate investment firm Hines, acquired the group of four properties from ProLogis European Holdings for approximately $130.8 million.

In a deal brokered by services firm Cushman & Wakefield, Dorel Juvenile Group has re-signed for 528,000 square feet of industrial warehouse and distribution space in Fontana, Calif., renewing an arrangement that goes back to 2006.

Utilizing a 2.1 million-square-foot commercial portfolio owned by a pension fund it advises as collateral, Clarion Partners L.L.C. now has its hands on a $100 million secured credit facility.