SAN ANTONIO-The city's blessing jumpstarts what could be a catalyst for retail "inside the loop." The project has a 214,000-sf Wal-Mart Supercenter as an anchor, 110,000 sf of other retail and three pads of about 35,000 sf each.

SEATTLE-The 47-unit condominium development will rise on the east side of 19th Avenue at Denny Way. Val Thomas Inc. paid $1.25 million for the land and is in the midst of spending another $8.2 million to develop it.

PHILADELPHIA-A $26-million, eight-story addition to science labs at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon, designed by locally based Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann, opens this fall. Meanwhile, financing is secured for the architect's design for an 18-acre mixed-use, urban development along the Philadelphia riverfront.

BOSTON-HNTB Architecture & Engineering leases 23,254 sf in a sublease deal from Sovereign Bank. The company, a subsidiary of The HNTB Cos., likes the 31-story tower's location at 75 State St. in the heart of the city's financial district.