WASHINGTON, DC-David B. Cardwell will join the National Multi Housing Council as its vice president of finance and technology. Most recently he had been Freddie Mac's senior manager of product development.

MINNEAPOLIS-Big surge in subleased space is part of the reason for a rise in the office vacancy rate to more than 10%, the first time it's been there in five years, according to a Grubb & Ellis report.

ALANTA-The locally based company is expanding into the industrial area of Las Vegas valley with a new 1,100 megawatt natural gas-fired power plant in the 90-acre Apex Industrial Park. Cost of the project wasn't disclosed.

SANFORD, FL-The Inspector General's office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the FBI raided the board's quarters and broke into the locked office of resigning executive director Timothy M. Hudson to seize 106 cartons of files and eight computers. Sanford is 30 miles north of Downtown Orlando.