WHITE PLAINS-Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano says officials with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have assured him that the agency will closely monitor the safety of the troubled Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant.

WHITE PLAINS-Thanks to what was a vibrant regional and local economy, the Westchester County office market saw leasing activity hit an all-time high, according to brokerage firm Insignia/ESG.

STAMFORD, CT-Insginia/ESG reported that despite a slowdown in the fourth quarter of 2000, the Fairfield County office market posted record results in leasing activity and absorption of vacant office space.

MERIDEN, CT-Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. has signed lease deals of approximately 62,000 sf at its Townline Square Shopping Center here valued at $5.8 million. These deals will help end a two-year long vacancy.

WILTON, CT-Respond Inc., a computer software firm, has relocated its corporate headquarters operations from Westport to almost 9,000 sf of space in Wilton, according to the Stamford-based office of brokerage firm Grubb & Ellis.

WHITE PLAINS-Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide reported that it assumed management of the former DoubleTree Hotel at Liberty Center in Pittsburgh and has renamed it The Westin Convention Center, Pittsburgh.

MOUNT PLEASANT, NY-An executive with Gale & Wentworth LLC says that his firm is cautiously optimistic that some lease deals will close at the company's Mount Pleasant Executive Center, the former headquarters of IBM's Latin American operations, by this April.

WEST HAVERSTRAW, NY -The Shaw Jobson building, which housed the hardware and accessories store that carried the building's name, has been sold to an investment group called BBM LLC.