ORLANDO-The gift from the Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development will allow Osceola County to update its 16-year-old baseball complex and keep the Houston team happy until 2016 at least when the new 15-year lease expires. The facility on East U.S. 192 is 20 miles south of Downtown Orlando.

PHOENIX-Opus West has found one of the last few remaining vacant parcels along the Black Canyon Corridor and has started building a 95,000-sf office building there.

PORTLAND, OR-The locally based outdoor apparel company currently owns and operates some 649,000 sf of contiguous space here in the Rivergate industrial district. The expansion will make the publicly traded company's facilities the largest distribution center in the district.

ST. PAUL, MN-A $58-million project will require just 18 homes to be razed on 24 acres on the struggling East Side rather than the more than 100 originally proposed. Some new housing would be built along with light industrial development.