The New York City Economic Development Corp. has awarded a project to develop a retail development in the Bronx to Equity One, which won the NYCEDC’s approval with a $54 million, 133,000-square-foot proposal.

Smith Tower, an iconic 42-story office building in Seattle, and the adjacent Florence Building, a 6,000-square-foot retail-and-mixed-use building, have been acquired by CBRE Capital Partners following a foreclosure.

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.

Gambling that video lottery terminals at Ohio racetracks will soon be legal, Hard Rock International and Milstein Entertainment announced a joint venture to develop a $275 million gaming and entertainment center at Northfield Park, a northeast Ohio harness-racing track.

PCCP has provided approximately $73 million in senior loans, including $46 million to KHP Fund II L.P., a real estate private equity fund sponsored by Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, to finance the repositioning of two hotels and $27.4 to refinance Millbrae Paradise, a residential development in Millbrae, Calif.

Courtesy of a many-layered deal involving multiple joint-venture partners, Boston’s Longwood area will see the construction of a 413,536-square-foot life-sciences center — and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has inked a 154,000-square-foot lease in the property.

Five years after picking up Northmeadow Business Park in Atlanta for $93.5 million, an affiliate of BPG Properties Ltd. has put a for-sale sign on the 1.2 million-square-foot business park.

Invesco Real Estate and Penzance have made it official. The two companies just announced the establishment of their joint venture for the development of 3001-3003 Washington Blvd., a 280,000-square-foot mixed-use project in Arlington, Va., just outside of Washington, D.C.

A new mixed-use development is sprouting up in Plantation, Fla., at the hands of Stiles. In a two-part endeavor, the developer will erect a new luxury apartment complex and redevelop a neighboring commercial retail segment in the city’s Midtown District within the greater Ft. Lauderdale area.

In the largest transaction to close in the Northern San Francisco Bay Area thus far in 2012, Investcorp has added a 14-property portfolio to its holdings in a partnership with PB&J Acquisitions.