TAMPA, FL-Pasco County commissioners have voted to rezone two agriculture parcels totaling 72.5 acres to allow West Palm Beach-based Goodman Co. to develop up to 227,500 sf on one site and 172,500 sf on another nearby location, both located in the 5,000-acre Wiregrass Ranch in Wesley Chapel, 20 miles north of Downtown Tampa.

SAN DIEGO-The banking group's chief economist says the MBA believes the recovery is under way and the US is headed for economic growth. Rising rates for home mortgages will have implications for apartment investors.

TAMPA, FL-The Jackson, MS-based REIT paid $4.9 million, or about $67.36 per sf, for the two-year-old, 72,000-sf, 100%-leased Crown Park Commerce Center in the Tampa International Airport submarket.

ATLANTA-Far from being categorized as a robust market, the city's 80,000-room hotel inventory, nevertheless, is showing signs of improvement but won't be on solid ground until 2004 and 2005, a new Marcus & Millichap study shows.