Wakefield-based Franklin Street Properties Corp., an investment firm specializing in real estate, has acquired an office building in Eden Prairie, Minn. for approximately $22. 6 million.

The Piantedosi Butcher Shop in Plymouth will be expanding and adding three positions with the help of a micro-loan in the amount of $50,000, recently received from the South Eastern Economic Development (SEED) Corp.

The remaining building rights for Northwood at Sudbury, a senior living complex in Sudbury, are for sale.

Office space in Greater Boston is still being vacated, with 757,078 square feet opening up in the second quarter, but is occuring at a slower pace than experienced in the first quarter.

Financing for a $350 million loan has been completed for the Center for Life Science Boston, an approximately 700,000-square-foot, Gold LEED-certified research facility in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area.

Ellen Cook has joined the Boston office of real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle as senior vice president on the corporate solutions team, and will be responsible for managing the 65 million-square-foot portfolio of Iron Mountain Inc.

National women’s clothing retailer Eileen Fisher has leased 5,113 square feet of retail space at Wayside Commons in Burlington.

Margulies Perruzzi Architects’ work on the corporate headquarters for Nuvera Fuel Cells has been honored with an interior design award in the office category (50,000-80,000 square feet) from the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) of New England.

In April, The Chiofaro Co. filed documents to begin the permitting process for the redevelopment of the Harbor Garage site along the waterfront. In place of the existing seven-story parking and retail structure, two new buildings containing 860,000 sq. ft. of offices, 350,000 sq. ft. of hotel use, 220,000 sq. ft. of residences, and 70,000 sq. ft. retail spaces are proposed. A 40-story office tower approximately 560 feet in height, and a 59-story residential and hotel tower of approximately 690 feet, would be connected by a 770-foot tall “sky frame.”

Commercial appraisers, who did record business during the sales binge of 2007, are once again seeing a spike in business. This time around, the traffic is coming from lenders holding debt on shaky commercial properties.

Noise is in the ear of the beholder, by which I mean that noise may be, in theory, too loud, but most of the time, noise is a matter of socio-economic, class-based, age-related taste, which has very little to do with volume and much to do with some young punk driving down your street at 3 a.m. in a stick-shift car with a lousy muffler.

They laughed when we sat down to plan an urban village.

Nearly 20 years ago, Fenway Community Development Corp. (CDC) led a community planning process that produced a heretical vision for the three blocks of Boylston Street near Fenway Park, a depressing string of gas stations, fast-food establishments and parking lots. The Fenway Urban Village Plan envisioned a pedestrian- and transit-oriented Main Street lined with handsome buildings that combined 3,000 units of mixed-income housing with ground-floor stores, a new elementary school, and a community center. In 1999, after slight revision, the vision became our best argument against a Red Sox plan to build a new stadium on that same stretch of Boylston.

The economy’s rapid and sustained deterioration has thrown commercial brokers for a loop. Sales transactions are on ice, and most employers who aren’t shedding office space have put their real estate decisions on hold or signed short-term renewals. For Michael Edward, it’s the perfect time to make a play. Edward, head of brokerage services in Lincoln Property Co.’s Boston office, is moving into the recession’s teeth and expanding his brokerage staff.