TAMPA, FL-The Apollo Beach facility, 80 miles west of Downtown Orlando, will use reverse osmosis technology to produce 25 million gallons per day of drinking water by December 2002.

LA BELLE, FL-One of the state's largest agriculture and land-holding companies is reporting Aug. 31 fiscal year net income of $16.1 million or $2.29 per share versus $14.1 million or $2.01 per share for the comparable 2000 period. La Belle is 150 miles north of Downtown Miami.

MIAMI-The owner/operator of NAP of the Americas, a telecommunications network, lost $13.3 million or seven cents per weighted average common share in the second quarter ended Sept. 30 compared to a loss of $11.7 million or six cents per share for the same 2000 period.

ORLANDO-San Francisco-based EDAW Inc. is outlining a landscape that would comprise a 140,000-sf Expo Center, a 300-room hotel, a 2,147-space parking garage addition and a public recreation center, all near the existing TD Waterhouse Centre.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FL-Recent acquisitions of Centrefund Realty (U.S.) Corp. and United Investors Realty Trust drive up total third-quarter revenue, funds from operations and FFO per share.

ORLANDO--In one of the most successful recruiting blitzes in Central Florida's hospitality industry, the Nashville, TN-based hotel company drew 12,000 applicants in a four-day job fair.

ORLANDO-In one of the shrillest development spats in years, Glenda Hood criticizes the Orlando Sentinel for calling the land acquistion deal at the former Orlando Naval Training Center a sweetheart buy for Chicago-based Pritzker Realty Group, owned by one of the richest families in the United States.

ORLANDO-Equity One, a Miami REIT, is borrowing the funds at an undisclosed interest rate on the 328,500-sf strip shopping center anchored by Albertsons supermarket and K-mart.