ATLANTA-The publicly traded, locally based builder of single-family residences and townhomes plans to use its common stock to pay for up to 20% of the purchase price. The deal with Sanford Homes of Colorado, third largest builder in Denver, closes in August.

CLERMONT, FL-The projects are three years away from surfacing but local government planners are scouting rural south Lake County for a 300-acre site that residents won't fight. Clermont is 25 miles west of Downtown Orlando.

ATLANTA-However, the utility will withdraw its five-year proposal to the Georgia Public Service Commission if the PSC allows the company to earn between an 11% and 13.5% annual return on equity.

LEESBURG, FL-A surgeon who owns the land wants this Central Florida city of 15,624 permanent residents, to annex his dirt in one fell swoop so that he can then sell the tract to developers for a multimillion-dollar mixed-use venture, 45 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

ORLANDO-Chicago-based APCOA/Standard Parking, one of the country's largest parking garage managers, doesn't want to handle the job at Orlando International Airport after September when its current contract expires. The contract's value was not disclosed.

ATLANTA-The first phase of Columbus Park Crossing, 80 miles south of Downtown, is scheduled to open in summer 2002 with name tenants occupying 450,000 sf on an 85-acre portion of the planned 380-acre Columbus Park in Columbus, GA.

ATLANTA-A. Ray Weeks Jr., whose family built an industrial real estate dynasty in metro Atlanta over 40 years and then merged the firm with Indianapolis, IN-based Duke Realty Investments Inc. in 1999, is leaving the REIT as vice chairman to get into another undisclosed business.

ATLANTA-A. Ray Weeks Jr., whose family built an industrial real estate dynasty in metro Atlanta over 40 years and then merged the firm with Indianapolis, IN-based Duke Realty Investments Inc. in 1999, is leaving the REIT as vice chairman to get into another undisclosed business.