HOUSTON-Picerne Development Corp. will build 260 units of affordable housing on a 15-acre tract about a mile north of Loop 610. CharterMac and Related Capital have provided the debt and equity for the project, which delivers in February 2005.

TOLLESON, AZ-EJM Development Co. will court small to mid-size users for the three-building project. The prediction is the office/warehouse complex will be filled within 18 months of its May completion.

RAMSEY, MN-The mixed-use project will include 2,400 housing units, 775,000 sf of commercial space and 35 acres of parkland in this town north of Minneapolis.

ST. PAUL-The Ice Palace, a five turret project under way in downtown St. Paul, needs colder weather for its main building material --500-pound chunks of ice from Lake Phalen.