Industrial

CHICAGO-Investors must "accept the fact we have to move from Easy Street to the Eisenhower Expressway at 5:30," Gary Kachadurian of RREEF Funds tells the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties conference.

ATLANTA-CNB Holdings Inc. of suburban Alpharetta, GA, is at $100 million in assets from $55.5 million in the year-ended period of Sept. 30, 2000, an 80% increase. The two-branch bank's broad range of products include commercial real estate lending and residential mortgage services.

ORLANDO-Lowe's Cos. Inc. of Wilkesboro, NC and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville, AR are scouting the local market for a 150-acre-plus site to build a one million-sf to two million-sf distribution center, land brokers intimate with the search tell GlobeSt.com

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Amgen Inc. moves into an eight-story, 285,000-sf laboratory and research facility here in the heart of the city's biotech center. This is the company's first foray into the area.

SALEM, OR-The names of the companies and the extent of their plans are being held close to the vest at this time, but one would manufacture sports equipment in the Portland area and the other wants to produce printer components in Salem. Both would be built next year.

MINNEAPOLIS-The $2.7-billion expansion was to include a new north-south runway by 2010. The carrier that accounts for the majority of flights at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is cutting 20% of its routes, however.