ROYAL OAK, MI-The Detroit suburb would get the first automatic parking garage as part of new $30-million condominium complex. The garage costs about the same as a normal parking structure but can park twice as many cars.

SAN DIEGO-Layoffs that could have a potentially negative effect on office and industrial vacancy rates have hit high-tech companies including Gateway Computers, Lucent Technologies Inc. and Sony Electronics Inc.

ATLANTA-The locally based REIT credits the 2000 performance to increases in rental property revenue from projects that became partially or fully operational during the year and from the continued strong performance of existing properties.

HAYWARD, CA-The Sunnyvale-based digital fiber optics company has signed a five-year lease at the park. More affordable rents are expected to keep attracting firms to the East Bay, which is close by Silicon Valley.