HOWELL TOWNSHIP, MI-Quatros Amigos LLC will use a tax-exempt industrial development revenue bond issue to buy land, rehab a 123,580-sf manufacturing facility and add another 10,000 sf, which it will lease to Ideal Steel.

DETROIT-Three former retail buildings see unexpected leasing success as loft apartments in the Downtown area, and The Farbman Group likes what it sees enough to pay a share of the project from Gilbert "Buzz" Silverman's group.

ROCHESTER HILLS, MI-Wilshore Development Group of Clarkston, MI plans to convert the 214-unit Village Park of Rochester Hills to the Whispering Woods Condominiums. One- and two-bedroom units range from 780 sf to 954 sf.

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI-The shopping center owner and developer will pay out a $0.46 per share quarterly dividend for second quarter. At the stock's current price, the yield is 9.7%.

DETROIT-Attorney General and would-be governor Jennifer M. Granholm proposes a technology corridor that would encourage new businesses and laboratories in automotive and homeland security, as well as loans for blighted communities.

DETROIT-Inn on Ferry Street may be the first and only bed and breakfast in the city's Downtown area, near new baseball and football stadiums as well as entertainment districts.

DETROIT-Temporary operating agreements end on June 15 for three casinos, but the city council says a $102-million settlement isn't good enough. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says he won't go back to the table.

TROY, MI-Kirco hires seven new top-level officers as part of a move to join the industrial, retail and residential development fray. The company also hopes to handle financing and acquisitions.