CHICAGO-With AES New Energy now calling the office tower its Midwest headquarters, occupancy stays above 95% at the 372,000-sf building TrizecHahn Corp. bought last year for $76 million. Direct vacancy opens the year at 11.8% in the West Loop submarket.

ORLANDO-Lakemont Heights property owners are lobbying Orange County commissioners to bar the cable company from growing its 300-foot high equipment and 5,000-sf building on an 11-acre tract in one of the oldest residential neighborhoods in Orlando.

PHOENIX-Roughly 1.5 million sf of office product was absorbed in 2001 to keep the metro market moving, but just at a considerably slower pace. The reasons are the same as elsewhere in the nation as brokers scramble for business until the economy turns around.