DETROIT-Three new horse racetrack plans are before state Racing Commission, but

DETROIT-Marketing specialist says business, conference traffic and hospitality would gladly move toward center of downtown area.

PONTIAC, MI-The Salvation Army Advisory Council has split down the middle on spending $4.5 million to build a $16-million drug rehab facility on a former Kmart property.

SOUTHFIELD-Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust of Southfield, MI, has acquired a 90% interest in a 450,000-sf shopping center in Rossford, OH, across from a joint venture partner.

TROY-EDS has decided to re-up at its headquarters building in Troy, MI. Bank mergers in Detroit area open up available space in a 17-story downtown office facility.

DETROIT-As the governor's office decides what to cut to balance the budget, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy says public ownership of fairgrounds in upper and lower peninsulas are a waste of resources; the state could do well by selling them.

DETROIT-Simon still arguing that preferred stockholders are not eligible for voting

ROYAL OAK, MI-Beaumont Hospital in suburban Detroit, one of the busiest in the nation, is well on its way to getting nine more floors for patient care, with another wing on the books for 2006.