AUSTIN-Dallas-based Huitt-Zallors will have its design work done by November for a project to improve traffic flow at Austin's Yager Lane, Tech Ridge Boulevard and Interstate 35 junction. A contractor should be selected by spring 2003.

ATLANTA-The picture isn't a pretty one for this city's office sector. Overall vacancies have risen to 16.9%, Grubb & Ellis executives report. And a glut of sublease space has made matters worse.

LOS ANGELES-MB&S Silverman sells a 12,500-sf retail building at 5110 Sunset Blvd. and Vanowen Noking sells a 16,000-sf retail center at 20935 Vanowen St. in Canoga Park.

LONDON-The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has responded to the House of Commons Transport, Local Government and the Regions Select Committee report on empty homes, which calls for strong government intervention to reverse the problem of empty housing prevalent in many northern towns.