WAUKEGAN, IL-Although he may never get a chance to develop a casino there, Mesirow Stein Real Estate, Inc. senior managing director Richard A. Stein compares this city's lakefront area to Chicago's Navy Pier about 20 years ago.

CHICAGO-Community Investment Corp., which runs a consortium of 50 lenders who provide a pool of loan money for acquisition and rehab of multifamily rental properties, hits the milestone with an $823,000 loan package on a West Side building.

DETROIT-New York-based F.W. Dodge reports commercial building in the state is down 22% from the previous year. The value of contracts in February was down just 1% t0 $296.3 million.

ORLANDO-The Roseland, NJ developer paid $177.44 per sf for the two-year-old, 430,000-sf, 120-tenant mall in Orlando's main tourist corridor off Interstate 4 between Walt Disney World and Sea World.