FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-This city's increasingly unfriendly attitude toward lofty Downtown construction has led the Related Group of Florida to drop its plans for a 38-story apartment tower on East Las Olas Boulevard.

STAMFORD, CT-Union workers at some commercial office buildings in Fairfield County, CT, and residential apartment buildings in Westchester County, NY, are on strike in what could be a protracted work stoppage.

DURHAM, NC-The Boston investment group's purchase of the four-building, 394,000-sf Triangle Business Center here marks the beginning of a hunt for one million sf of office and flex product in the Triangle, Charlotte and Greesnboro, NC markets.