AUSTIN-An Austin-based IT provider is launching a European headquarters as work finishes up on the Four Seasons Hotel Canary Wharf in London. Wayport also is gearing up to provide high-speed access and traveler information to the Four Seasons New York.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA-An Irvine developer wants to renovate the Huntington Center shopping mall built in the 1960s. A City Council vote on taking the property by eminent domain is being fought by Montgomery Wards, who along with Burlington Coat Factory, stands to lose its store.

PORTLAND-By defeating a statewide ballot measure that threatened the $100 million project's revenue-bond financing plan, voters have given the go-ahead for construction to begin early next year on the 105,000-sf addition.