DETROIT-A new SmartZone in Oakland County should bring in new businesses, help current companies, provide training area for students and jobs for residents, officials say.

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI-Three properties leased to a national retailer in Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, OK and Omaha, NE are now 100% owned by Agree Realty Corp., which buys out an unidentified joint venture partner.

AUBURN HILLS, MI-Ramco-Gershenson's 650,000-sf center flanked by Taubman's mega-mall adds Staples and Arby's to round out the strip development along the east side of I-75, near two full interchanges at Baldwin and Joslyn Roads.

PONTIAC, MI-A $60-million project started as a development of senior homes, but it has been opened to everyone. The Joliat Group of Cos. of Birmingham is building Fieldstone Village on one of the largest vacant parcels on the edge of this urban area.

DETROIT-The Michigan Economic Development Corp. agrees to arrange tax-increment financing for brownfields in three Michigan cities, where more than $350 million in private investment is expected to follow.

DETROIT-The Michigan Economic Development Corp. agrees to arrange tax-increment financing for brownfields in three Michigan cities, where more than $350 million in private investment is expected to follow.

SOUTHFIELD, MI-Local developer and investor Larson Realty Group joins with DRA Advisors Inc. of New York to buy the 270,488-sf office building from Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.

TROY, MI-The next round of closings for the department store chain, engaged in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, is expected to be less than 500, says the retailer's restructuring officer.