SAN JOSE-After a spin at failed business-to-business site RealCentric, Dave Schmidt is back at his former bricks-and-mortar employer Colliers International. But that doesn't mean he's not still a believer in the online ideal.

ATLANTA-The North Carolina-based bank company is housing 1,200 employees in the five-story, 177,500-sf building built near an existing operations building in Hapeville, GA, eight miles south of Downtown.

ARLINGTON, VA-Consolidated Engineering Services, headquartered here, is expanding its northeast presence by joining Commonwealth Air Conditioning & Heating Inc. of Boston, MA. The two firm's merger is now in effect.

NORTH BERGEN, NJ-Retail will dominate the project, with site acquisition expected to begin within the next year and completion slated for mid-2003. Tax benefit to this township could reach the $800,000 mark.