MIAMI SHORES, FL-America's Senior Financial Services expects the merger to increase its total annual loan production to almost $500 million.

ORLANDO-Despite impassioned pleas from environmentalists, Gov. Jeb Bush and his six-member Cabinet voted 5-2 Tuesday to give Orlando landowners Willoughby T. Cox and Karick and Stephen Price another five years to develop the 1,433-acre planned unit development in an environmentally sensitive site in rural Lake County.

RALEIGH, NC-The Westminster, MA-based fire protection service company is leasing a total 86,000 sf of business park space in Raleigh, NC; Tampa, FL; and Cleveland, OH for five years at $1.8 million or about $4.19 per sf.

MINNEAPOLIS-The firm says its backlog and new orders are up over a year ago. Net income is $3.07 million, or $0.52 per share for the quarter ending Sept. 30,even with the same period last year.