In a sale arranged by real estate investment banking firm Savills, one of the firm’s institutional-investor clients picked up the Springhurst Towne Center, an 830,000-square-foot retail complex in Louisville, for $78 million.

CoSentry, an Omaha-based provider of data center, cloud computing, co-location and managed-Internet services, has purchased a 57,500-square-foot former light industrial building in Lenexa, Kan., for use as a data center.

Carlson Hotels and The Rezidor Hotel Group have come together to form the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, a separate hotel entity created to be a global force in the hotel industry.

In what Jones Lang LaSalle is calling “one of the Chicago market’s largest year-end transactions,” The Hearn Co. purchased 55 W. Monroe from LaSalle Investment Management for $136 million.

Amid a flurry of multi-family trades in Chicago, MetLife has bought EnV, a luxury high-rise tower, from LYND Development Partners for an estimated $125 million.

Hines Global REIT has picked up a premier 254,900-square-foot office property in Minneapolis with a $69.5 million sale-leaseback transaction with Cargill Inc.

Continental Realty Advisors is keen on Kentucky, as evidenced by its recent purchase of a 1,200-residence apartment portfolio in Louisville. The multi-family housing owner and institutional fund manager acquired the group of four assets from Camden Property Trust for $97 million.

Taking a big step in enhancing its civil business unit, Skanska USA has acquired the Evansville, Ind.-headquartered builder Industrial Contractors Inc. for $135 million.

Hines has just achieved LEED Gold for Existing Buildings certification for its 896,500-square-foot office building at 321 North Clark at Riverfront Plaza in Chicago.

Developers are finding ready financing for their projects, including $66 million for a D.C. multi-family, $50 million for Las Vegas retail and $70 million for a Michigan apartment complex.