Deals

In an unusual bit of mass-recruiting, CBRE has hired away a 48-person team of commercial real estate pros from Transwestern to boost its already robust New England operation.

An online giant could be setting up shop in Beantown.

Toys “R” Us’ U.K. division is “winding down” operations.

Northeast Capital Group has acquired Crossroads Centre in the eastern St. Louis suburb of Fairview Heights, Illinois, for $14.6 million.

Brookshire Grocery Co. has expanded its footprint in Louisiana.

Atlanta-based Branch Properties has acquired two Kroger-anchored shopping centers in Lexington, Kentucky, for $59.7 million.

Eddie Lampert, the chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of the beleaguered Sears Holdings, has another problem to deal with.

The Rite Aid-Walgreens transition is on track to be completed by spring.

In 1921, the New York Curb Market Agency decided to move its longtime practice of stock trading off the streets and indoors to a building on Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan.

The Bon-Ton Stores, burdened with debt and falling sales, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the largest retailer to do so this year so far.