ALEXANDRIA, VA-This builder is constructing 315 apartment units scheduled to begin leasing in June 2002. The top level of the 555-vehicle garage will have basketball and tennis courts.

SEATTLE-Nordstrom Inc. has begun construction this week on stores in Las Vegas and Coral Gables, FL. Both facilities are expected to open in fall 2002.

SAN DIEGO-Seven years in the making, the $216-million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center -- a project arguably more important to the future of Downtown than the proposed ballpark project -- is nearly finished.

LAKE FOREST, CA-The campus-style project will encompass nearly five million sf and will cost an estimated $450 million. It is being developed by Shea Properties and the Baker family interests.