ORLANDO-The Carrollton, GA-based company, the largest building wire producer in North America, is setting up its first Central Florida service center at Crown Point 11 at Crownpointe Commerce Park in south Orlando.

ORLANDO-Robert I. Earl, the Orlando-based restaurant company's chairman, CEO and president, tells U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur B. Briskman he is worth all of his $600,000-a-year salary because he wears three large corporate hats. But the judge gives him only $300,000.

ORLANDO-As major insurance carriers warn policyholders their coverage will be cancelled, curtailed or charged a hefty premium by Dec. 31, Congress remains stalled in creating a backup real estate insurance financing plan. About $26 billion in fourth-quarter real estate financing around the country is at stake.

ORLANDO-The founder/chairman of Realvest Partners Inc., Maitland, FL doesn't think carriers will stop writing policies but the premiums could be stiff.

TAMPA, FL-The Atlanta REIT values the 312-unit, 13-year-old Post Bay Apartments at $18.25 million or $58,494 per unit and the 240-unit, 10-year-old Post Court Apartments at $16 million or $70,175 per unit. CB Richard Ellis Inc. has the listing.

MIAMI-Gulfside Development Inc. plans to break ground by summer 2002 on the first phase of Downtown Dadeland, a venture that will comprise 150,000 sf of retail, 330 condominiums and an undetermined amount of condominium office units among seven clustered buildings in the four-story to seven-story range.

ORLANDO-Sun Trust Banks Inc. of Atlanta, which is buying the Columbus, OH-based company in February, has no interest in taking over the space at 34 Florida supermarkets.

BUSHNELL, FL-Sumter County officials are approving an estimated $25 million, 14,000-sf, 40-cabin retreat on 800 acres in Wahoo, FL, a hamlet so small it is even on the map yet. The location is about 50 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.