LISLE, IL-With a 28% vacancy rate in the soft East-West Corridor, the Lisle Executive Center has been a challenge for Great Lakes REIT until Boulder, CO-based Intrado, Inc. takes 28,749 sf at 3030 Warrenville Rd.

DETROIT-Dennis Archer will tout Detroit as the center of the area's future with Southeast Michigan Council of Governments delegates Thursday. The assembly will be updated on developing a regional mass transit plan.

NOVI,MI-Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson says his Automation Alley competes well against Silicon Valley, and will may surpass California's jewel with the acquisition of billion-dollar Covisint.

WASHINGTON, DC-CarrAmerican Urban Development will serve as project manager for the relocation oftThe Freedom Forum/Newseum from Arlington, VA to a building just west of the Capitol.