JACKSONVILLE, FL-Florida's largest grocer increased its total leased space by 6.1% to 51.1 million sf among 1,153 stores, an average 44,319 sf per store. Two new stores are under construction. Jacksonville is 250 miles north of Downtown Orlando.

MEMPHIS, TN-The Pennsylvania confections maker is adding 100 jobs to the 300-worker facility where Bubble Yum gum and Breath Savers mint products, acquired from Kraft Foods Inc. in December 2000, will be produced.

ORLANDO-Five days after a 40,000-sf store mysteriously burned to the ground in south Orlando, fire department investigators continue to probe and analyze the debris for clues that may show the pre-dawn blaze was purposely set.

CLERMONT, FL-City council in this Orlando bedroom community of 16,208 permanent residents is giving the green light to Dick Candler and his Candler Development Co. for the construction of up to seven restaurants and at least a 100-room hotel at one of the hottest commercially-hot intersections in Lake County.

SUFFOLK, VA-The Chicago-based food products firm has started site work on a 152,000-sf building that will house 80,000 sf of production; 12,000 sf of office; and 60,000 sf of utility and storage area. The capital investment is the largest of its kind for the company.

ORLANDO-When the team's existing contract is up in 2004, the NBA franchise will rent the TD Waterhouse Centre on a year-by-year term instead of signing for five-year extensions. The Magic pay the city $15,000 per game or $600,000 for 40 home games.

ORLANDO-Five days after a 40,000-sf store mysteriously burned to the ground in south Orlando, fire department investigators continue to probe and analyze the debris for clues that may show the pre-dawn blaze was purposely set.

ATLANTA-The 20-story, 560,000-sf tower in the affluent Buckhead district of Downtown is the first of four office structures totaling 1.5 million sf being developed by Toronto-based TrizecHahn Corp. in a $100 million urban setting that will also comprise a residential component.