WHITE PLAINS-MetLife Inc. officials say that the company is close to finalizing deals that will involve relocating most of its New York City corporate headquarters workforce from One Madison Ave. to White Plains and Long Island City in Queens.

PURCHASE-Fano Securities, an investment banking firm, is nearly doubling the size of its operation in the region and will move across the border from Greenwich, CT into New York State.

WESTPORT, CT-62-64 Main Street in Downtown New Canaan has been sold by Schettino Properties for $3.1 million. The property houses four restaurants and four office tenants.

WHITE PLAINS-Hotel operator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and local building owner Ivy Equities will be the honorees at the Tenth Annual Hall of Honor Awards Dinner to be held by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Westchester County on May 10.

NORTH HAVEN, CT-A group of West Coast investors have acquired the 176-unit Briarwood Hills rental housing complex here for $10.5 million. The 10-building complex has units ranging in size from 588 sf to 875 sf.

ALBANY-New York State has awarded more than $700,000 in grants for waterfront-related projects in Hastings-on-Hudson and Orangetown.

NEW ROCHELLE-Howard Rattner, the commissioner of finance here, reports that final sales tax figures for fiscal year 2000 came in slightly less than projected due to a contracting economy.

NORWALK, CT-Cornerstone Bank has signed a lease for 2,800 sf of space and has become the first tenant at Fyber Properties' new 128 East Ave. office building here.