BRADENTON, FL-The St. Louis-based grocer takes 20,000 sf and brings the 180,420-sf Fountain Court Shopping Center to 86% occupancy. Owner-developer Sitt Asset Management of New York creates additional tenant room by cutting up Scotty's Inc.'s vacated 54,000-sf block of space.

BRADENTON, FL-The St. Louis-based grocer takes 20,000 sf and brings the 180,420-sf Fountain Court Shopping Center to 86% occupancy. Owner-developer Sitt Asset Management of New York creates additional tenant room by cutting up Scotty's Inc.'s vacated 54,000-sf block of space.

ATLANTA-Colonial Properties Trust buys the 49,907-sf quarters previously owned as an office condominium by Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP. In return, it leases the space back to the law firm for 10 years.

PALM HARBOR, FL-John M. Crossman, senior vice president of retail and a principal in Trammell Crow Co.'s Orlando office, tells members attending the International Council of Shopping Centers' annual West Coast Idea Exchange investors see the west coast of Florida as an under-retailed growth area.

PALM HARBOR, FL-Investors see the west coast of Florida as an under-retailed growth area. That's what Trammell Crow's John M. Crossman told members attending the International Council of Shopping Centers' annual West Florida Idea Exchange.

ATLANTA-The Metro on 16th, a 172-unit apartment community, is being built at a development cost of about $139,535 per unit. The development has a full slate of amenities, including an exclusive dog park at the 138-acre Midtown redevelopment.

ORLANDO-November revenue from the 5% tax on the area's 116,000 hotel and motel rooms totaled $10.45 million, up 12.9% from the same month a year ago, reports county comptroller Martha Haynie. The county collected $10 million in October, the first month in its fiscal 2006 period.

ATLANTA-The joint venture between Cousins Real Estate Corp. and Temple-Inland Realty Inc. plans to develop its third mixed-use development about 25 miles west of Downtown. The partners' surplus land will be sold to other developers.