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		<title>Dees Stribling&#8217;s Economy Watch Weekly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some discouraging numbers this week, but in the end, the unexpectedly strong jobs report put a positive spin on things. <em>CPE</em>'s economic analyst, Dees Stribling, gives his podcast for the week ending Feb. 3, 2012.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/multimedia/cperadio/dees-striblings-economy-watch-weekly-31/</link>
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		<title>Wells Core REIT Acquires 201 KSF Maryland Office Building</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wells Core Income REIT has acquired the Franklin Center, a 200,600-square-foot office building in the Baltimore submarket of Columbia, Md., from Principal Real Estate Investors.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/northeast/wells-core-reit-acquires-201-ksf-maryland-office-building/</link>
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		<title>Cassidy Turley Awarded 2.5 MSF Management Contract for Texas Office Properties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Building on its “longstanding relationship with J.P. Morgan,” services firm Cassidy Turley has just landed a contract to lease and manage 2.5 million square feet of office space at Dallas' Fountain Place and Houston's Post Oak Central.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/southwest/cassidy-turley-awarded-2-5-msf-management-contract-for-texas-office-properties/</link>
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		<title>Starwood CEO Sternlicht, Partners to Invest $100M in South Beach Hotel, Condos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A consortium including affiliates of Starwood Capital Group, the LeFrak Organization and Invesco Ltd. have purchased a beachfront, mixed-use property in Miami’s South Beach, including a hotel formerly known as the Gansevoort.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/southeast/starwood-ceo-sternlicht-partners-to-invest-100m-in-south-beach-hotel-condos/</link>
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		<title>Economy Watch: Economy Continues to Create Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 243,000 jobs were added to the economy in January. The CBO expects sluggish economic growth for the next two years. And Fed Chairman Bernanke sparred with some members of Congress over monetary policy. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/featuredcontent/economy-watch-economy-continues-to-create-jobs/</link>
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		<title>SL Green Completes Pieces of $416M Transaction Announced in October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In two separate transactions, SL Green finalized previously announced deals in its prime hunting ground, Midtown New York City.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/northeast/sl-green-completes-pieces-of-416m-transaction-announced-in-october/</link>
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		<title>Clarion Partners Buys Pair of Back Bay Office Buildings for $87.1M</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On behalf of a separate-account client, real estate investment manager Clarion Partners has acquired two adjoining office buildings in Boston’s Back Bay for $87.1 million. The 13-story buildings total 184,000 square feet.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/northeast/clarion-partners-buys-pair-of-back-bay-office-buildings-for-87-1-million/</link>
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		<title>Griffin-American Snaps Up $167M in Skilled-Nursing Facilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II picked up $166.5 million worth of commercial real estate from the partnership of Westport Capital Partners and Reichmann International Development in the form of 10 skilled-nursing facilities across the Southwest.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/southwest/westport-ridc-sell-ten-medical-buildings-to-griffin-american-for-167m/</link>
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		<title>Kentucky’s Springhurst Towne Center Sells for $78M</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/midwest/kentucky%e2%80%99s-springhurst-towne-center-sells-for-78m/</link>
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		<title>Economy Watch: ADP Posits Smaller Jobs Expansion in January</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ADP reported on Wednesday that the U.S. private sector created a net 170,000 jobs in January. The Institute for Supply Management said U.S. manufacturing activity continued to expand. And President Obama outlined his mortgage-refinance proposal. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cpexecutive.com/featuredcontent/economy-watch-adp-posits-smaller-jobs-expansion-in-january/</link>
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