LOS ANGELES-City officials, Jones Lang LaSalle exec and telecom players call big press conference to explain details of plan to make CBD come alive. But few others show up: 'Downtown sucks, and it will never get better,' one office manager proclaims.

AUSTIN-Wayport's aggressive expansion plan gets a boost in a fourth round funding, raking in $70 million in fiscal support. San Jose International Airport is the next stop for the IT company as it makes plans to more than double its hotel portfolio.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL-The real estate director for the Atlanta-based restaurant company helped develop CoreNet Global, a new brand name for the international association based here, 90 miles north of Downtown Miami.

FAIRVIEW, OR-Developer Holt & Haugh has won several awards for Fairview Village, a 95-acre mix of houses, rowhouses, and apartments built among parks, retail space and office space about seven miles east of Portland.