DETROIT-City planners and property owners need to do a better job of setting the table for prospective restaurateurs, says Jerry McVety, president of McVety and Associates Inc. of Farmington Hills. Clusters of housing and offices, as well as incentives, are needed.

ROCKVILLE, MD-Construction of Rockville Town Center, a 221-unit apartment development of Archstone-Smith Communities, gets going with the recent groundbreaking by contractor Clark Realty Builders.

MARQUETTE, MI-The surgical instrument maker is expanding and renovating an existing structure with a $6-million industrial development revenue bond issue from the Michigan Economic Development Corp.

WHITE PLAINS-Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide issued a statement Monday that defended its chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht from charges leveled against him by a Congressional Committee that he was given preferential access to IPOs managed by Goldman Sachs.