WEST WINDSOR, NJ-A research firm proposes to redevelop and expand its own headquarters facility and add more than two million sf of office and technology-related space around it.

HOUSTON-An aggressive fund-raising campaign is financing $347 million in construction projects for Rice University. The costliest project is a $100-million replacement for Fondren Library.

FT. WORTH-Williams TravelCenters is pumping $250 million into an aggressive rollout along the nation's interstates to become one of, and possibly the, premier operator in the nation. Sixty-nine TravelCenters will be on line by the first week of April.

NEW YORK CITY-Brokers here say the shuttering of some Office Depot and Sears locales could only be the beginning of a larger trend among retail types that offer no differentiation.