ATLANTA-The 15-year-old Irvine, CA-based firm has hired seasoned South Carolina industry professionals in William Bosley, Thomas DeMint Jr. and Richard Chalk Jr. as senior advisors to the firm's new office.

ATLANTA-The 52-year-old, $8 billion Dallas-based homebuilding and financial services firm is paying about $3.2 million for the East Fox Court dirt in suburban Alpharetta, GA, across from Roberts Realty Investors Inc.'s Addison Place apartment community.

ORLANDO-CREW Orlando, a 15-year-old, 72-member commercial real estate women's organization, is being recognized internationally by its parent group, CREW Network, for outstanding local community service.

ATLANTA-With a net loss of 107,000 subscribers on its third-quarter balance sheet, the locally based wireless company, second largest in the United States, is sending president/CEO Stephen Carter back to Baby Bell SBC, which owns 60% of Cingular Wireless.

ORLANDO-St. Augustine, FL-based Florida East Coast Industries Inc. has put its Orlando-based Epic Communications Inc. subsidiary on the selling block as it writes off Epic's entire book value of $238.1 million.

ATLANTA-The locally based hotel owner/operator expects the effective date of the plan will be near Dec. 5, or within 30 days after the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York confirmed the plan on Nov. 5.

ORLANDO-The first $10 million, 90,000-sf commercial phase at the three-year-old, 1,860-acre community in east Orlando is part of a planned 2.5-million-sf undertaking that will comprise rental apartments, office, retail and a supermarket.

ATLANTA-The 45-year-old, Marblehead, MA-based retailer is taking the space in Spalding Triangle Office Park in suburban Norcross, GA for nine years at an estimated aggregate rent of $9.5 million.