CHICAGO-"Affordable housing as well as education is at the very top of the mayor's agenda," Chicago housing commissioner John G. Markowski tells this week's National Housing Conference's symposium.

HOUSTON-Resource Recycling Warehouse has decided to stay put in 22,500 sf of warehouse space near the Houston ship channel. The Pittsburgh-based firm has been a tenant in the First Industrial Realty Trust building for three years.

RIDGEFIELD, CT-GHP Office Realty has acquired 38-C Grove St., a 25,000-sf building here, and is also under contract to acquire two other office buildings in the Westchester-Fairfield area, globest.com has learned.

SEATTLE-The stack, constructed in 1908 in downtown Seattle's Pioneer Square, is approximately one foot off its centerline as a result of the Feb. 28 earthquake. Officials fear what could happen if another quake hit.