ORLANDO-While only 10% of metro Orlando's 28 million-sf office market are wired for dot-com tenants, owners are still asking for large security deposits, advance rent and often declining to pay for improvements, CB Richard Ellis Inc. office-industrial specialist David Murphy tells GlobeSt.com.

MIAMI-Laurel Lucas will focus on leasing and marketing activities for Trammell Crow Co. in the Miami-Dade County market, following five years work at Langhorne Co.

DALLAS-Texas mettle is proving itself once again as metropolitan areas hold a steady course amid a sagging high-tech market. Executives say those that are alive are doing well, exercising caution and still leasing space.

WARREN TWP., NJ-Independence Technology will join another Johnson & Johnson company, Cordis, as tenants at Mt. Bethel Corporate Center. Owner Atlantic Real Estate has another 194,000 sf on the market.