MINNEAPOLIS - The pro football team and the university team both want out of the Metrodome, and both cite the need for increased revenues, so they're joining forces to look into building something new.

SAN FRANCISCO-Gap Inc. agrees to lease a new 283,000-sf building here, validating Catellus Development Corp.'s plan to transform the 303-acre former rail yard into a $4 billion cluster of offices, apartment buildings and retail shops.

CHARLOTTE-Sixteen shelter projects are under construction. A dozen new restaurants and night spots have opened since last summer. Although city officials hope for a retail resurgence Downtown, the central business district's 500,000 sf won't catch the suburbs were the SouthPark project alone boasts two million sf of retail.