TARRYTOWN, NY-Recurring themes that came out of the first Lower Hudson Valley Regional Biotechnology Conference held here on Friday included the need for regional cooperation and significantly more financial assistance from New York State to attract and retain biotech firms.

SUGAR LAND, TX-A group of Houston-area investors buy a 4,860-sf tract in Imperial Sugar's homeport of Sugar Land. The asset shuffling brings the addition of 100 acres in Florida and a 65,000-sf warehouse in Indianapolis.

BOSTON-The Boston Redevelopment Authority comes up with some changes for the proposed Chinatown residential development proposed. The changes involve a reduction in the number of units, parking spaces and relocating the building.

ATLANTA-Turner Properties opens a six-story operations center and a five-story administration building in its six-building complex at Turner Broadcasting System's Techwood Campus in Midtown Atlanta, signaling that Atlanta remains the hub of AOL Time Warner's locally based-TBS.