CHICAGO- E-port's $1.2 billion, mixed-use vision for the old Montgomery Wards properties is to revitalize the formerly moribund area surrounding one of the city's toughest public housing projects. An urban residential development boom is making the $62 million E-port paid for the Wards properties look very cheap.

ORLAND0-The six-story Millenia Lake 1 structure is going up at the 400-acre mixed-use Millenia venture in southwest Orlando at an estimated hard construction cost of $30 million. Completion is scheduled for August 2001.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA--Third-quarter activity report from Voit Commercial Brokerage shows equilibrium between supply and demand for industrial product in the county. Availability of product is at a 10-year low.

SEATTLE-The Seattle-based company, which provides rental prices, amenities, pictures, floor plans and tax records to commercial real estate professionals, hires Bill Strader, formerly a vice president of RealFacts, an Apartmentcomps competitor.