VANCOUVER, WA-Redwood Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of locally-based Consolidated Freightways, opens a contract distribution and inventory management center just north of Mexico City on the so-called "NAFTA Highway." Electronics giant Sony Corp. already has signed on for half the space.

SAN DIEGO-Although it's not certain a courthouse will be built there, county leaders today are expected to acquire Downtown property that would accommodate a proposed 70-courtroom, 600,000-sf facility.

WILLINGBORO, NJ-ReNEWal Realty's mixed-use conversion of the defunct Willingboro Plaza has a new player in Ripco, which has 225,000 sf to work with.

DALLAS-For the first time since Q1 1998, the retail market in Dallas, Denton and Collin counties sees negative absorption. Blame it on big box closings and the highest amount of completions in nine years. Rent too is down six cents, the first dip since 1996.