WALNUT CREEK, CA-Earlier this year, the real estate investment trust inked agreements with Novato-based Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. and Louisville, Colo.-based Storage Technology Corp. that brought the twin 10-story, 375,000-sf towers to 94% occupied.

KANSAS CITY, MO-The New Economy Council will go after high-tech businesses.

PHOENIX-Officials in the suburb of Chandler plan to spend as much as $500,000 on a study to see how their community might build a light-rail transit system that will connect into one being built in Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa.

SAN DIEGO-San Diego ranks among top 10 U.S. cities for commercial real estate development and investment.