CHARLOTTE-Dennis Richter plans to break ground shortly on Latta Pavilion, a challenging, $45-million mixed-use project in Dilworth, one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. The three-acre venture took three years of planning and will comprise 150 apartments, 100 condominiums, 28,000 sf of office and 20,000 sf of retail.

STAMFORD, CT-A chief official with a major commercial office building owner in metro New York has vehemently denied charges that it engaged in an illegal firing and intimidation of some of its janitorial staff while a janitorial strike moves into its third week in Fairfield County.

SAN JOSE, CA-The hotly debated proposal by the city's largest employer goes before city council members tonight. The 20,000-worker campus is widely expected to be given the thumbs-up, but several have said they will appeal the decision.

ORLANDO-Greg Hughes' Chesapeake Logistics Inc. of Tampa, FL is paying $31 million for the assets of 500,000-sf Mid-Florida Freezer Warehouses Ltd. in Port Canaveral, 60 miles east of Downtown. Mid-Florida Freezer officials concealed from Federal inspectors and later sold contaminated drums of fruit juice over a 30-year period, the government charged.