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The developer of a proposed $125 million film studio in Moorpark has taken over the project without authorization.

Campus Apartments is developing over 30,000 square feet of retail space in Louisiana.

Education Realty Trust Inc. announced that the Mansfield Auxiliary Corporation has selected Allen & O’Hara Development Co.to design and develop on-campus student housing.

Developers are considering a new retirement community to overlook 122 acres of a former golf course on its way to becoming a county nature preserve. “We operate campuses like this in Jenison, Holland, Spring Lake and Kentwood, so we have a good feel for the area,” Oak Crest Manor President Charles Schipper told the Holland Planning Commission Tuesday.

Portland, Oregon, is consistently ranked as one of the country’s most livable cities (and it was a Fast City in 2007). And it continues to show solid growth despite having the second lowest per capita transit spending of the 28 largest U.S. metropolitan areas.

A new high-rise is in the works for Bellevue’s emerging medical district. Healthcare Realty is developing a seven-story, 190,000 square-foot medical office building at the Overlake Hospital Medical Center campus on 116th Ave. NE.

The ramshackle houses sitting at the northern gateway to this upscale town are slated for demolition and in their place will rise a Spanish-style medical office building. Construction could begin as soon as this summer, depending on whether Colliers International brokers Alice Teng and Elgin Brian Mason can sign doctors and dentists to at least half the proposed 22,000-square-foot building.

Woman’s Hospital has filed plans for its five-story medical office building at the new campus at Airline Highway and Pecue Lane. At just under 250,000 square feet, the building’s cost is pegged at $23 million, but it will ultimately be about $39 million with the tenant spaces built out, spokeswoman Jodi Conachen said.

Building more than 350,000 square feet of office space on Torrance’s largest remaining tract of developable land will cause “significant” traffic impacts to 22 nearby intersections, according to a just-released environmental analysis of the project.

Health care continues to be an oasis in the desert that is Minnesota’s commercial real estate development sector. The latest example: MSP Commercial announced Tuesday that it is about to break ground on a 34,000-square-foot medical office building in Blaine; the building is already 87 percent leased by two health care enterprises.