REAL ESTATE

EQE Inc., a structural and earthquake engineering firm based in San Francisco, opened a Costa Mesa office at South Coast Executive Centre. . . . Also opening: at MacArthur Court, a Newport Beach office of PHH Walker, a national interior design firm. . . . Kitchell Contractors, which says it is one of the five largest general contractors in Orange County, was selected as construction manager for the first building in Stanford University’s New West Campus Redevelopment Project: a $23-million, 110,000-square-foot advanced materials research building. . . . Anaton Associates has begun work on Fullerton Metro Center, one of the last large commercial areas to be developed in the city. . . . Concorde Development of Irvine said it will build 61 homes starting at about $230,000 each in a new gated community in Dana Point.