RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC-Warehouse and industrial construction in the Triangle is starting to shift eastward toward Garner and East Raleigh from its current stronghold around Research Triangle Park.

CHARLOTTE-Bill Swayne forms partnership for venture on 8.6 acres. But first he needs a zoning change from amusement park to business park status.

STATESVILLE, NC-T&T Development, an industrial and residential development firm headed by Harry Tsumas Sr. and his son, Harry Tsumas Jr, plans to build an 801-home subdivision on 267 acres in eastern Iredell County, about 50 miles north of Charlotte. The estimated build-out value of the project is $80 million.

CHARLOTTE-Local developers Terry Birch and David Young plan to develop the property on a half acre at 2623 Cranbrook Lane in the city's Elizabeth district.

CHARLOTTE-A German chemical company is combing the Charlotte area to find a site for a $20 million plant that would employ about 100 people.

CHARLOTTE-Announced two years ago, Charlotte's second-largest office building, the Hearst Tower at 214 N. Tryon St., will cover most of an uptown city block and is on schedule to be completed in early 2002.

SHELBY, NC-Pharmaceuticals distributor Bindley Western plans to build a $7.5 million, 141,000 sf office and distribution center at Cleveland County Industrial Park in Shelby, NC, about 40 miles west of Charlotte.

SNELLING, SC-After more than a quarter of a century, a former nuclear site here that never officially operated, is being transformed into a new 1,648-acre industrial park that is attracting companies and bringing jobs to a rural section of southwestern South Carolina.