NEW YORK CITY-KickStart, a venture started last September to provide cost-effective office space alternatives for technology-based firms, takes a second location and plans further expansion throughout 2001.

SAN FRANCISCO-Stephen Hagan, John Seely Brown, Kenneth Rosen and Mahmoud Falaki top the list of the locally based company's new advisory brain trust.

DENVER-The American Association of Architects expects as many as 17,000 professionals to attend the May national convention being hosted by Denver. Suburban sprawl, transportation, affordable housing are just part of the 145 planned seminars for the design world.

WASHINGTON, DC-Zethus' online leasing and property management tools, scheduled to launch by June and backed by the Goldman Sachs Group, are aimed at tenants, owners and managers of commercial real estate.