SALES Grubb & Ellis/Harrison & Bates reports the sale of a 8,840-square-foot industrial building at 3007 Lincoln Ave. in Henrico County for $456,500 to Alphagraphics from Wilson Properties. Zac Frederick and Lewis Little Jr. handled the transaction. LEASES Grubb & Ellis/Harrison & Bates reports the following leases:

SALES Thalhimer/Cushman & Wakefield reports the sale of 10,944 square feet at 12 E. Main St. in Richmond for $1 million to Trustworth Properties.

Porter Realty Co. Inc. reports the following leases:

LEASES CB Richard Ellis reports the following leases:

SALES Grubb & Ellis/Harrison & Bates reports the sale of 15,981 square feet at 8101-8121 W. Broad St. in Henrico County for $2.41 million to Pine Dell Shopping Center LLC. Brian Glass and Yasmine Hamad represented the buyer. LEASES Porter Realty Company Inc. reports the following leases:

SALES Mike Lowry Co. reports the sale of The Shoppes at Bell Creek, a 65,781-square-foot shopping center at 8319 Bell Creek Road in Mechanicsville, for $9.5 million to Envoy Realty Partners LLC of New York. The seller was The Shoppes at Bell Creek LLC. Commonwealth Commercial Partners Inc. reports the following sales:

SALES Thalhimer/Cushman & Wakefield reports the sale of 36 acres at Old Forest and Forest Brook roads in Lynchburg for $8.45 million to Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust. Lee Warfield and Pete Waldbauer handled the sale negotiations. LEASES CB Richard Ellis reports the following leases:

CONTRACTS Clachan Properties LLC has retained Thalhimer/Cushman & Wakefield to manage the following rental units in or near Virginia Commonwealth University’s academic campus and in downtown Richmond:

SALES Porter Realty Co. Inc. reports the following sales:

LEASES Sigma National Inc. reports the following leases:

SALES Have Site Will Travel reports the sale of 6.24 acres at 6021 Mechanicsville Turnpike in Hanover County for $2.3 million to Mechanicsville Storage. The Patrick Group sold the land, which had been planned for a car dealership. John Jay Schwartz represented the seller. Mike Carroll represented the buyer. LEASES

The traditional start of the holiday selling season starts this week. But with the economy in the doldrums, retailers are concerned about what awaits them, and consumers will be deciding whether they spend more or less this season than last. Retailers are worried about the ho-hum holiday spending predictions. TNS Retail Forward, a Columbus, Ohio-based retail think tank, predicts retail sales to grow by 1.5 percent this holiday season, compared with a 2.7 percent growth rate last year.