DETROIT-A $30 million proposal is on the table to improve the historic Eastern Market area, possibly in time to be the site of a pre-game tailgate mega-party ahead of the Superbowl in 2006.

PORTLAND-On a Lloyd District site once occupied by Farrell's Original Portland Ice Cream Parlor, the 225,000-sf project will stack a Zupan's grocery store and 88 condominiums on top of three levels of underground parking.

CHICAGO-Retail properties leased to the Deerfield-based pharmacy giant are the targets of Equity Capital Management, which already has put $45 million of the money it has received from private and institutional investors to work.

DALLAS-The region gets a show of promise from an industrial market posting a quarterly gain for the first time in a year despite a year-to-date absorption that's still in the red. As for office, the best that can be said is it's "losing less blood today ... than before.