ORLANDO-Greg Hughes' Chesapeake Logistics Inc. of Tampa, FL is paying $31 million for the assets of 500,000-sf Mid-Florida Freezer Warehouses Ltd. in Port Canaveral, 60 miles east of Downtown. Mid-Florida Freezer officials concealed from Federal inspectors and later sold contaminated drums of fruit juice over a 30-year period, the government charged.

SPRING VALLEY, NY-Developers and commercial real estate brokers in Rockland County say that the county is no longer ignored by corporate relocation prospects and that its lower asking rents and land prices are proving quite attractive to both New Jersey and New York Metro area firms.

ORLANDO-Broker Bert Locke steps down after heading the Florida chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association for two years, but not before recalling how he and his colleagues defeated telecommunications lobbyists on a thorny industry issue.<p>

ORLANDO-If voters approve the $5-billion, four-city, high-speed rail network, Florida would be compelled to build the largest public-works project in its 181-year-old history. An estimated 50 acres or two million sf of right-of-way land alone would be needed for the system.