LOS ALTOS, CA-After 12 years, the City of Sratoga's planning director James Walgren is leaving to do the same for the the City of Los Altos. He will step in and do the same for this city beginning Jan. 8.

NEW YORK CITY-Chase further demonstrates its desire for additional space despite speculation that a merger with J. P. Morgan would spell closings of office and retail space as the company now signs a lease at 280 Broadway.

MINNEAPOLIS - Two of the three have studied overseas, including stints in Taiwan and Norway.

AURORA, CO-There's light at the end of the tunnel for municipal workers now officing as much as five miles apart. Construction begins in the summer on a $70-million, 262,000-sf center that will put all workers under one roof for the first time.