Development

ORLANDO-Osceola Circuit Judge Jeffords D. Miller has ruled the 50-member Orlando/Kissimmee Hotel Motel Association can't interfere with contract negotiations the county is having with Orlando-based Xentury City Development Co. to erect a $100 million, 500,000-sf convention center on Osceola Parkway and International Drive South, minutes from Walt Disney World.

BOSTON-The state legislature passes the omnibus housing bill, which includes a financing alternative for municipalities to fund capital improvements. After six years, NAIOP is thrilled that the local developmental tool finally made it through.

MIAMI-Locally based Alliance Construction LLC is constructing the 10-garden style, 204-unit community at 11900 NE 16th Ave., North Miami, FL. The hard construction cost is $10.3 million or $50,490 per unit.

NEWARK-The developer, which is under contract to buy a choice 5.7-acre tract on the Passaic River, is apparently looking to put up a project dominated by market-priced residential units, and possibly a hotel.

ORLANDO-Called The Loop, the 33-acre project will mirror the developer's 500,000-sf, $85 million venture in suburban Boston that was developed at about $170 per sf. The project inflates Central Florida's retail inventory to over 47 million sf.

BOSTON-Liberty Place, a 419-unit apartment building proposed for 660 Washington St., receives an endorsement from the Chinatown Neighborhood Council. The group recommends that the city approve the project.

WASHINGTON, DC-Residents of the inner-city area east of the Anacostia River get their first new apartment development in 35 years with the grand opening of the 176-unit Woodmont Crossing apartment complex. The $17.6 million complex occupies an eight-acre plot of land.

LA JOLLA, CA-The Los Angeles-based developer expects to open a 210-room resort adjacent the University of California at San Diego. Completion of the Blackhorse Hotel is slated for 2004.