CHARLOTTE-The Queen City's west side is beginning to shed its traditionally industrial image and appears to be on the brink of a major makeover.

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Despite earlier reports that talks were stalled, Beacon Capital Partners, sells One Kendall Square to a joint venture of the J.E. Robert companies and Lincoln Property Co. for $192 million.

KANSAS CITY, MO-Black & Veatch will lay off 49 employees after a power plant project in the Aisa-Pacific region is suspended. The engineering firm has 3,500 of its 9,000 employees in Kansas City.

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ-The sale of a South Jersey office portfolio and a rash of lease transactions by broker's Garden State offices ends "double-zero" pretty much as it began--with a high level of deal-making activity.