SEATTLE, WA-City Investors LLC, a branch of Allen's Vulcan Northwest, has acquired better than 40 acres in this city's 116-acre South Lake Union district since the early 1990s, and unconfirmed reports have him closing on another five acres in May.

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC-Area developers are salivating over what may become one of the largest redevelopment ventures of its kind at the old Navy base here, 200 miles south of Downtown Charlotte. On the blueprints: 10 million sf of retail, industrial and commercial.

DETROIT-It may take $300 million to add 300,000 sf to convention center, says Detroit Civic Center director Lou Pavledes, who realizes that city council and gubernatorial elections are coming up this year and next.

SAN DIEGO-The city's Downtown redevelopment arm, the Centre City Development Corp., has two new members to replace members who resigned.