ATLANTA-The first phase of Columbus Park Crossing, 80 miles south of Downtown, is scheduled to open in summer 2002 with name tenants occupying 450,000 sf on an 85-acre portion of the planned 380-acre Columbus Park in Columbus, GA.

NEW YORK CITY-Murray Hill Properties/TCN Worldwide has closed on the acquisition of Madison Square Park at 15 East 26th St. between Madison and Fifth Avenues, near the Met Life building.

BOULDER, CO-A University of Colorado at Boulder study predicts 48 million new people in the 11 Western states by 2050, with 26 million acres to be developed as a result of that population growth.

ATLANTA-A. Ray Weeks Jr., whose family built an industrial real estate dynasty in metro Atlanta over 40 years and then merged the firm with Indianapolis, IN-based Duke Realty Investments Inc. in 1999, is leaving the REIT as vice chairman to get into another undisclosed business.