NEW YORK CITY-With its first building here nearly complete, the developer works with a local development organization on the final design for the second phase of Avalon Riverview. At question is whether the completed complex should comprise two or three structures.

The shakeup we're seeing in retail right now is simply the price of change.

MIAMI-Locally based Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell has moved in quickly to log 10 purchase contracts on the remaining unsold 144 units at the 630-unit Blue and Green Diamond Condominiums at Collins Avenue and 47th Street, a prime Miami Beach high-rise residential location.

OCEANSIDE, CA-City plans for a large commercial project at Mission Avenue and Canyon Drive are on the back burner. The City Council has instead opted for about 190 units of senior housing on five of the eight acres, with three acres along Mission Avenue remaining for a strip shopping center.