CHEHALIS, WA-A Houston-based company has begun building a $360-million natural gas-fired power plant midway between Seattle and Portland in Lewis County. The 505-megawatt facility is slated to begin operation in late 2003.

NEW HYDE PARK, NY-Seven stores on Ames Department Stores' latest list of upcoming closures are located in Kimco-owned shopping centers. By October, the largest publicly traded shopping-center REIT in the US will be looking at roughly 1.2 million sf space vacated by one of the country's biggest discount retailers.

DALLAS-Colliers International's Dallas president says it's easy to lose perspective as to what's happening in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market. Pricey giveaways are here as a counterattack to the slowdown. Still, it's not really as bad as it feels, he says.

DALLAS-The deal just made sense, says the broker who has signed American Airlines to another 31,087 sf for a second call center in an Invesco-owned, two-building CentrePort complex. The deal puts American Airlines into 98,087 sf of the 134,000-sf project.