EVANSTON, IL-The school receives a new 63,000-sf engineering design center in the university's science and engineering corridor, complementing an earlier gift of the company's center for global citizenship.

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI-A three-story 180,000-sf speculation office building planned is for the Farmington Hills Corporate Center on an 11-acre site once slated for a Bank One administrative facility.

DETROIT-A Business Success Celebration is held to honor the state's ability to retain and recruit facilities. Ford, General Motors and Target are among the corporate award recipients.

ROYAL OAK, MI-Three mixed-use office/hotel projects are submitted for the entrance to popular suburban Detroit downtown nightspot. City commissioners will continue discussing those plans tonight.

TROY, MI-The Kojaian Cos. says a lease has been signed with InterOne Marketing Group for 90,000-sf of the Troy Tower, the new name for the former Bank One building, which also will undergo a major renovation.

JACKSON, MI-The Midwest retailer plans to open new stores in upscale Ohio markets with its 80,000-sf, two-level format introduced at Meridian Mall here last year and has arranged for better financing.

AUBURN HILLS, MI-The Auburn Hills campus is the site of the seventh of 18 Michigan Technical Education Centers to open across Michigan to train workers in high-skill, high-wage, high-demand occupations.

SOUTHFIELD, MI-The absorption skills of the Motor City office markets, both Downtown and the suburbs, will be tested in 2001, according to a first-quarter report by Marcus and Millichap.