WHITE PLAINS-County Executive Spano also has proposed having the county take over the agency designed to promote Westchester's hotel and tourism trades and he noted the success of the county's Office of Economic Development.

SUNNYVALE, CA-Workers currently at the facility are beginning to install packaging-assembly lines. The office space will be ready in February. Other uses include advanced research labs, product-development areas, and wafer-processing facilities.

HOUSTON-Texas has an upper hand in the single-family housing market over other states, with Houston being one of the bright spots in a nationwide survey. Houston's single-family permits have jumped 5% this year.

STAMFORD, CT-Janitors who were on strike here are back to work after ratifying an agreement with most of the cleaning contractors. The union began its job action almost two months ago.