CHICAGO-A landmarks commission committee green-lights Prime Group Realty Trust's 1.1-million-sf, 19-story mixed-use project above historic Union Station. A 350-room hotel, 120 condominiums and 65,000 sf of retail space would be built along with nearly 500,000 sf of office space.

SAN DIEGO-Convention and visitors officials and three Indian casinos are teaming up for a $600,000 advertising blitz to promote the region as an alternative to Las Vegas.

CLEAR LAKE, TX-The NASA-driven submarket of Clear Lake gets a hit from long-time tenant, Raytheon. The firm is relinquishing 22,500 sf of its 94,472 sf at the Raytheon Building, a 117,987-sf structure at 2224 Bay Area Blvd.

SAN DIEGO-A lower court ruling that the City Council held illegal closed meetings in 1998 and 1999 to discuss the downtown ballpark project has been upheld by an appellate court.