ORLANDO-Pritzker Realty Group of Chicago, the managing partner of the $1 billion, 1,100-acre mixed-use development at the city's former Navy base, plans to break ground before Thanksgiving on the 10-year project.

TAMPA, FL-Ken Wilson, Trammell Crow Co.'s senior vice president, heads the Florida regional team that will handle one of the firm's largest contracts of its kind. Curt Grantham, a former Crow executive in Orlando, directs 23 million sf nationally for the Bank of America from his Charlotte office.

ORLANDO-Dallas-Ft. Worth, Orlando and Tampa are a few of the markets moving lower-priced apartment assets, while Chicago remains a hot sector for class A properties, brokers, investors and analysts tell GlobeSt.com.

ATLANTA-Developer Sid Ransom is trying to revise conceptual plans for the 170-acre mixed-use venture spread over Cobb and Paulding counties on the north side of James Parkway.

ORLANDO-The largest timeshare company in the United States is leasing 95,000 sf for an estimated 10 years at the 187,000-sf Building 500 at GranPark at SouthPark in south Orlando. The estimated aggregate value of the lease is $19 million.

ORLANDO-A total 3,670 multifamily units were delivered in the first half versus 12,590 for all of 2,000, but tenants are filling the quarters quickly with a 93.6% occupancy among the area's 129,000 apartments, CB Richard Ellis Inc. research shows.

TAMPA, FL-The Rahway, NJ-based developer/investor is growing its Florida portfolio with the acquistion of the class A, 203,000-sf Pinellas Business Center on Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevards, 80 miles west of Downtown Orlando.

ORLANDO-A New York lender consortium headed by Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown Inc., Salomon Smith Barney and CIBC World Markets is loaning Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment Co. up to $210 million to complete construction of a total 1,760 rooms in two hotels and a 178,000-sf meeting and exhibit hall one mile from Walt Disney World's main gate.