LA BELLE, FL-One of the state's largest agriculture and land-holding companies is reporting Aug. 31 fiscal year net income of $16.1 million or $2.29 per share versus $14.1 million or $2.01 per share for the comparable 2000 period. La Belle is 150 miles north of Downtown Miami.

MIAMI-The owner/operator of NAP of the Americas, a telecommunications network, lost $13.3 million or seven cents per weighted average common share in the second quarter ended Sept. 30 compared to a loss of $11.7 million or six cents per share for the same 2000 period.

HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, FL-Known internationally for 30 years as a class A golf resort and corporate meeting site, the Lake County, FL property will be developing about 800 single-family and condominium units over the next nine years, 40 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

ORLANDO-San Francisco-based EDAW Inc. is outlining a landscape that would comprise a 140,000-sf Expo Center, a 300-room hotel, a 2,147-space parking garage addition and a public recreation center, all near the existing TD Waterhouse Centre.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FL-Recent acquisitions of Centrefund Realty (U.S.) Corp. and United Investors Realty Trust drive up total third-quarter revenue, funds from operations and FFO per share.

ORLANDO--In one of the most successful recruiting blitzes in Central Florida's hospitality industry, the Nashville, TN-based hotel company drew 12,000 applicants in a four-day job fair.

ORLANDO-In one of the shrillest development spats in years, Glenda Hood criticizes the Orlando Sentinel for calling the land acquistion deal at the former Orlando Naval Training Center a sweetheart buy for Chicago-based Pritzker Realty Group, owned by one of the richest families in the United States.

ORLANDO-Equity One, a Miami REIT, is borrowing the funds at an undisclosed interest rate on the 328,500-sf strip shopping center anchored by Albertsons supermarket and K-mart.