CHICAGO-The retail landscape in 2001 is fraught with falling consumer confidence, rising utility costs, flat store sales and layoffs. So why is General Growth Properties Inc. CEO John Bucksbaum excited about the future of retail?

ORLANDO-Zello Urban Cafe's 10-year, 5,000-sf lease raises the occupancy at the 52,124-sf Two South Orange Building to 84% and fills the property's last block of retail space.

BOSTON-Boston Properties is rumored to be in serious consideration to redevelop the old Boston Garden here. The locally-headquartered development company is reportedly interested in erecting a large-scale office development on the 2.5-acre parcel.

ORLANDO-Dry weather loosens limestone and sand beneath the 12-year-old, four-story, 148,000-sf Southpoint Building in Maitland, FL, causing an exterior wall at the 91%-leased structure to sag and a sidewalk to buckle. Maitland is the second largest office submarket in Central Florida, eight miles north of Downtown.