SEATTLE-In another West Coast coup for Insignia/ESG, Kidder Mathews Segner, one of the Puget Sound's top commercial real estate services firms, drops its affiliation with Oncor International in favor of one with Insignia. A press conference is scheduled for later this morning at the Four Seasons Hotel.

TRENTON-The new governor, who invoked preservationists' wrath with layoffs last week, counters with a new development mechanism to control sprawl.

LONDON-London office workers have the most cramped--or efficient--offices among the world's major business centres, according to DTZ research. The average UK business allocates 120 sf per employee, against 240 sf per employee in Germany.

MIAMI-The two-year old Basking Ridge, NJ-based spin-off from Lucent Technologies is operating its 50,000 sf, $10 million center for customer care for the Caribbean and Latin America.