FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-Commissioners will use $11 million in public funds to back the proposed 200-room to 300-room project, but R. Donahue Peebles must repay the entire amount if he decides to sell his estimated 60% controlling interest any time within five years of the day the hotel opens for business.

BEND, OR-Developer Bob Dietz has approvals in hand to develop a 14-building retail and office development on 18.4 acres the intersection of Century Drive and Simpson Avenue.

POULSBO, WA-The publicly traded limited partnership acquires approximately 44,500 acres of timberland in southwest Washington from Plum Creek Timber Company Inc., a real estate investment trust.

CHAPEL HILL, NC-Forty one acres a day of open space are lost to development in Charlotte, says the Environmental Finance Center. Increasing the real estate transfer tax could raise more money for preservation.