ATLANTA-The seven-member county commission deadlocks in a 3 to 3 vote on committing more than $500 million of taxpayer funds to the estimated $2.5-billion redevelopment. The seventh commissioner was absent. The commission meets again Dec. 21.

ATLANTA-The seven-member county commission deadlocks in a 3 to 3 vote on committing more than $500 million of taxpayer funds to the estimated $2.5-billion redevelopment. The seventh commissioner was absent. The commission meets again Dec. 21.

TAMPA, FL-Elaine Kennedy, director of administration for the Tampa, Fl office of Advantis Real Estate Services Co., has been elected president of the Tampa chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women. Paula Buffa, an office broker in the same Advantis office, will be inducted Jan. 19 as president of the Florida Gulfcoast Commercial Association of Realtors Inc. She will be only the second woman president in FGCAR's 12-year history.

PANAMA CITY, FL-Grady Elder of Sterling Realty says his firm has sold 60 homes and received reservations for 133 of the 203 available units at Marina Tower. The asset is a major component of the planned $240-million, 393-unit, Snug Harbour Marina & Condominiums enterprise.

MARIETTA, GA-Hedgewood Development LLC is building 265 homes that will include residential condos, attached single-family townhomes and single-family detached homes in a neighborhood bounded by Lakewood Drive, Manget, Frasier, Haley and Waterman streets, and South Avenue.

MARIETTA, GA-Hedgewood Development LLC is building 265 homes that will include residential condos, attached single-family townhomes and single-family detached homes in a neighborhood bounded by Lakewood Drive, Manget, Frasier, Haley and Waterman streets, and South Avenue.

PANAMA CITY, FL-Creekstone Florida Holdings LLC, a fund controlled by Houston-based Creekstone Cos., obtains a two-year, $4.25-million mezzanine loan from Equus Inc. of Houston at an interest rate of 19% to build Island Reserve.

McDONOUGH, GA-Locally based Cousins Properties Inc., Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc. and Cincinnati-based North American Properties Inc. plan to break ground in first quarter 2006 on the 70-acre venture at Interstate 75 and GA 20.