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Asset manager Blackstone has inked a $10 billion deal for a real estate investment trust.
The company is buying Apartment Income REIT, aka AIR Communities.
Blackstone intends to invest an additional $400 million improving the company's 76 rental housing communities.
Read more from Reuters.
A safe room and classroom addition at Willard Central Elementary School will be used by the music, arts and athletic programs for a district that had 4,536 students last year, according to Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education figures, but school officials say enrollment is projected to grow.