ORLANDO-The locally based seafood restaurant chain with 1,168 national outlets plans to open 10 new barbecue locations next year after strong startup operations this year in Aurora, IL; Springfield, MA; Pontiac, MI; and Fairview Heights, IL near St. Louis.

ORLANDO-Certain commercial projects are being red-lined these days by lenders taking a super-cautionary position in an unpredictable economic climate, Mark Findura, president of R.J. Twitty & Co. II Inc., tells GlobeSt.com.

ORLANDO-Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. has orders for $4 billion; a backlog of $8.8 billion; and is hiring 1,000 workers in Orlando and another 500 at plants in Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and Canada.

ORLANDO-The former vice president of Lincoln Property Co.'s local office is reunited with senior marketing manager Damien Madsen. Both formerly toiled for the Orlando office of Birmingham, AL-based Harbert Realty Services.

ATLANTA-Indiana-based Renewed Property Management Group is asking Clayton County officials for a conditional use permit to build a $20-million, 256-unit multifamily complex on 58 acres; four commercial buildings on 12 acres; and provide 33 acres of green space.

ATLANTA-The Minneapolis electronics retailer's 748,000-sf, center in Dublin, GA is providing 250 jobs, 243 of them locally hired. Dublin is 180 miles southeast of Downtown Atlanta and in the center of what is becoming Georgia's wholesale distribution crossroads, according to Gov. Roy Barnes.

ATLANTA-Ruth Hunt, a 20-year hospitality industry professional and the former sales/marketing director at the Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express in Athens, GA, has been lured away by Ridgewood Hotels Inc. to do the same work at the 119-room Foundry Park Inn & Spa scheduled to open in September in the same city, 60 miles northwest of Downtown Atlanta.

ORLANDO-Critics claim the $535 per sf Orange County is paying for 972,000 sf of new exhibit space is the most expensive in the country. But convention center officials say they need a world-class structure to be competitive.