ORLANDO-Seafood, pasta and barbecue are bringing in the green for locally-based Darden Restaurants Inc. The publicly-traded firm posted record per-diluted share earnings of 46 cents, up from 36 cents in the comparable 1999 period. Revenue was up 9.6%.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA-American Precast Masonry acquires a 30,750-sf manufacturing complex in Santa Ana.

DUARTE, CA-A company that makes products for retail displays acquires a 58,500-sf building in the San Gabriel Valley.

BEND, OR-Oregon State University, Eastern Oregon University and the Oregon Institute of Technology are combining their respective specialties to win the bid for Oregon's first branch campus, to be located in Bend.