Airport business park plan deferred (Lawrence Journal-World)
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday balked at a proposal for a new industrial park near the Lawrence Municipal Airport, saying the project has more questions than answers at this point. Commissioners unanimously deferred — likely for 60 to 90 days — a rezoning request for 144 acres near North Seventh Street and U.S. Highway 24-40 after expressing a variety of concerns about the project.

Penn State Industrial Engineering Celebrates 100 Years of World-Class Education (PR.com)
The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State, University Park, will celebrate its centennial in 2009. [PR.com - August 17, 2008]

Pacific Office Properties Acquires One Million Sq. Ft. in Southern California (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LOS ANGELES----Pacific Office Properties Trust, Inc. , the West Coast office building REIT, announced today the acquisition of seven complexes consisting of over one million leasable square feet in 15 office and flex buildings located in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.

RREEF sells 8 industrial buildings to ML Realty for $60M (Dallas Morning News)
California-based RREEF Real Estate on Monday sold eight buildings at two industrial parks in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to ML Realty Partners for about $60 million.

Lehman Aims to Sell Commercial Real Estate Holdings: Report (TheStreet.com)
The troubled investment bank is in talks about selling its commercial real estate assets and securities, the FT reports.

RREEF sells 8 industrial buildings to ML Realty for $60M (Dallas Morning News)
California-based RREEF Real Estate on Monday sold eight buildings at two industrial parks in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to ML Realty Partners for about $60 million.