NEW YORK CITY-St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens has undertaken a number of cost cutting measures to streamline operations and is hinting at possible layoffs and even a merger with other health care systems.

MIAMI-Record foreign investment in the Florida housing market is helping bolster local economies that had been battered by the recession and massive numbers of home foreclosures over the last 18 months.

CHARLOTTE, NC-The city of Charlotte and the developers behind a planned film studio at the shuttered Eastland Mall here require another six months of work to iron out details of the project.

MATTESON, IL-Cook County Judge Thomas Condon has ruled that the troubled Lincoln Mall will remain open. The judge on Thursday appointed a new receiver who will schedule and supervise repairs to the mall.

PARSIPPANY, NJ-Reverse Mortgage Co. of America has signed a lease for half of the entire first floor at the recently renovated Boulevard Commons office complex here.

PHILADELPHIA-A civil complaint filed on Thursday alleges that the Salvation Army and the demolition site owner next door were warned of dangerous conditions at the site that eventually led to the building collapse here that killed six and injured 14 on June 5.

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ-A group led by US Congressman Eliot Engel, along with State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein and New York State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, say they plan to lobby heavily against the planned LG headquarters project here.

WHITE PLAINS, NY-During the most recent recession, the private development pipeline, which had been valued in the billons of dollars in cities like Yonkers and White Plains in Westchester County, all but dried up. In recent times, however, new projects, particularly in the health care and biotech arenas, have emerged and some have even broke ground.