ESCONDIDO, CA-Tycoon Development, headed by Solomon Levy, asked the City Council to give a developer more time to pay nearly $150,000 in deferred building fees related to his La Terraza shopping center near Interstate 15. The council agreed.

HOUSTON-Crescent once again is accorded EPA Energy Stars. This time, the honor goes to three of the four buildings in the 3.7-million-sf Houston Center. The fourth structure is still under construction.

ORLANDO-Regent International Hotels, a unit of the Minneapolis-based hospitality management company, will operate the planned $70 milllion, 150-room hotel and 23-unit condominium Regent Winter Park Hotel Spa and Residences when it opens in early 2004.

SAN DIEGO-A mortgage company has launched a countywide expansion in the North County in hopes of taking advantage of low lease rates as the area's office market rises from the bottom.