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CarrAmerica Realty Corp., a Washington, D.C.-based real estate investment trust, paid $123 million for Tysons International Plaza, a two-building, 434,000-square-foot Class A office facility in Tysons Corner. (PRN)

Asset Capital Partners LP paid $8.5 million for Pinewood Plaza. Acquired from Berman Kappler Properties LLC, the 71,000-square-foot office building is on a three-acre plot on Hampton’s Commerce Drive. (PR)

Forest Lodge LLC and developer Hunter E. Craig bought Biscuit Run, a wooded parcel of land south of Charlottesville, for $46.2 million. Sold by the estate of I.J. Breeden, the 1,353-acre site will be developed into a mixed-use, high-density development to be called Fox Ridge. (The Daily Progress)

Hirschler Fleischer, a Richmond law firm, signed a 10-year lease for 67,000 square feet of office space in the Edgeworth Building, a Class A historic renovation project in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom, moving from offices in the Federal Reserve Building. The firm has grown from a staff of 42 attorneys in 1996 to 71 today. (PR)

Summit Financial Group Inc. and Summit Mortgages, a division of Shenandoah National Bank, signed a long-term lease with Liberty Property Trust for 12,000 square feet of space in Chesapeake’s Battlefield Technology Center I building. (PR)

Vorando Realty Trust, a Paramus, N.J., real estate investment trust, paid $36 million for an option to buy Springfield Mall. When the option to buy is exercised for the 1.4 million-square-foot Fairfax facility, Vorando will pay $80 million more and assume a $181 million mortgage. Until then, Vorando will manage the mall and collect rents. (The Washington Post)