ORLANDO-Property owners tactfully try to accommodate tenants with outside smoking areas as cities write stringent regulations and post hefty fines for the violators.

DALLAS-Building owners walk a fine line when it comes to appeasing the community, abiding municipal codes and still finding ways so tenants can enjoy a smoke break. The fines are hefty, the restrictions plentiful and the violators many, say executives.

WASHINGTON, DC-Columbia General Corp., in partnership with the IBUS Co., recently paid $10.45 million for a 95% interest in Channel Square, a 203-unit apartment building located at 325 P. St., SW.

PLEASANTVILLE, NY-A host of celebrities from the silver screen were on hand here to launch the opening of the area's first cultural center devoted entirely to film--the Jacob Burns Film Center.