NOVI, MI-Landon Development Corp.'s planned $75-million Promenade will offer 375,000 sf of retail in a city already nearing its saturation point with shops. City officials would have preferred light industrial development.

MINNEAPOLIS-The architectural firm with offices here and in Duluth uses recycled materials in its construction and strives to provide "designs that are as satisfying to the soul as they are kind to the environment.

WASHINGTON, DC-The decline is seasonally adjusted. On an unadjusted basis, the application index increased 10% and was up 60.3% compared with the same week a year earlier.

GOSHEN, NY-Economic development officials from the Mid-Hudson Valley are chronicling available office space for possible use by companies impacted by the World Trade Center disaster, but do not expect many takers in the short term. Long term may be a different story, however.