ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ-The cable news network's new 500,000-sf facility broke ground with much fanfare and was recently topped out, but no staffers will move in until at least late 2003, according to a CNBC internal memo.

HOUSTON-Beers Construction, based in Atlanta, is moving into a new spot along the Southwest Freeway. It's one of two office leases that have just closed. The other signing puts an accounting firm into a west Houston building.

WALNUT CREEK, CA-Overall office vacancy rates for the North I-680 corridor stand at 5.8%, up from 4.1% at the end of 2000. It could have been worse--if there had been more reliance on the tech-sector.

GOLDEN, CO-New World Coffee-Manhattan Bagel Inc. of Eatontown, NJ, recently offered $151 million. Companies bidding for assets of the nation's largest bagel company will make their best offers in bankruptcy court in Phoenix.