POUGHKEEPSIE-Companies certified in the Poughkeepsie/Dutchess County Empire Zone report continued gains in job growth and investments. Last year, the 155 businesses invested a total of $507 million in facilities and equipment.

MILWAUKIE, OR-GE Capital Corp., which acquired the 32,904-sf, 20-year-old building in the Freeman Industrial Park as part of its purchase of the J.C. Penney Credit Card portfolio in late 1999, is consolidating call center services elsewhere.

LOS ANGELES-A developer plans 900,000-sf mall in Pomona and an Eagle Rock center is sold for $8.3 million. New report by Grubb & Ellis credits SoCal's strength to relatively high consumer spending and other factors.

WHITE PLAINS-Officials with Newmark & Co. Real Estate say that Westchester County's office market is weathering the current overall economic slowdown and continues to see asking rents rise in early 2001.