ORLANDO-In a chessboard-like strategy move, the global financial services arm of Zurich-based UBS AG is waiting for buyers to quote a price before disclosing what it will take for the prime dirt across from the Downtown Disney development, UBS representative Jones Lang LaSalle tells GlobeSt.com.

TAMPA, FL-The Tampa office of Advantis Real Estate Services Co. signs the 222,783-sf Lakeside Technology Center office park and the 70,000-sf Benjamin Center VII and IX, bringing its area portfolio to six million sf. Tampa is 80 miles west of Downown Orlando.

ORLANDO-The joint venture is nearing completion on the construction of Park Avenue at MetroWest, a 743-unit, class A apartment complex on 41 acres along Turkey Lake and the 18-hole Robert Trent Jones golf course in southwest Orlando.

ORLANDO-A new niche of commercial development is on hold as Florida Central Railroad officials go back to the drawing board to hammer out new cost and operating figures on a train that would run on existing tracks from Downtown through seven northwest Orange and Lake County cities.

ATLANTA-The city is hosting the Atlanta Plant Engineering, Maintenance and Material Handling Shows for the third consecutive year Sept. 12-13 at the Georgia International Convention Center in suburban College Park.

TAVARES, FL-After a seven-hour special public hearing, Heathrow Land Co. of Heathrow, FL won approval from Lake County commissioners to build the 323-home Heathrow Country Estates and 18-hole golf course in the Wekiva River Protection Area, 15 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

ORLANDO-The Santa Fe Springs, CA-based recreational equipment retailer is shooting for a Dec. 15 opening on its 60,000-sf, estimated $5 million indoor and outdoor complex in the under-construction, 1.1 million-sf Festival Bay shopping center on International Drive in south Orlando.

ORLANDO-In the biggest leasing/management contract deal of the year to date, the five-year-old locally based firm adds an estimated $140 million worth of properties to its existing two million-sf portfolio and vaults to fifth place from 15th place among the top Orlando brokerages.