ORLANDO-Billionaire team owner Richard DeVos is asking taxpayers to pay 80% or $200 million of a proposed $250 million Downtown basketball court. DeVos would pay $4.2% or $10.5 million. Government officials immediately rejected the offer.

FLAGSTAFF-A $500-million mixed-use development proposed for the southern rim of the Grand Canyon remains alive, despite a court ruling last week that derailed a land trade that's critical to the plans.

ORLANDO-After two years of negotiations, Osceola County commissioners have struck a deal with entrepreneur Rob Miller: They'll underwrite the estimated $100 million cost of the venture's infrastructure if he comes up with a lead investor by Oct. 1. If he doesn't, the deal is off--and dead.

ORLANDO-Annual acreage transactions finished 2000 at $44 million, down from a record $67 million in 1999. An Orange County moratorium slowed developers but allows the market to catch up, a new report by Grubb & Ellis finds.