LEESBURG, FL-LCA Development of Orlando wanted to reduce parking spaces to 348 from 458 on a $15 million, 200-unit affordable housing apartment project. The compromised 400 space number cut the developer's costs. Leesburg (Pop. 15,596) is 45 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

ATLANTA-The global, Blue Bell, PA-based software manufacturer will remain at its Summit Building in Technology Park until the lease expires Dec. 31, 2002. The company prefers the northeast quadrant of the city or north Fulton County.

ATLANTA-The estimated value of the three-year lease is $3 million. GES Exposition Services is a Las Vegas-based, wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded Viad Corp. in Phoenix.

ORLANDO-The New Orleans-based restaurant chain began operating its 180-seat, 8,000-sf establishment July 9 on Sand Lake Road in booming southwest Orange County. The estimated hard construction cost is $1.6 million.

ATLANTA-The locally based builder of single-family and townhome product booked 2,873 new orders in June, up 24% over 2,190 orders recorded in the comparable month last year.

ORLANDO-The General Services Administration, the largest property owner in the United States, blinked and lost its battle with five federal judges here over the exterior look of the planned $60-million, four-story, 308,000-sf courthouse.

ORLANDO-F. Phillip Handy, a former vice president at New York stock brokerage Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Co. and longtime commercial real estate investor, is chairing the state's first Board of Education.

ATLANTA-Xceligent Inc. of Independence, Mo. is selling the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors software to open the Commercial Information Exchange by year end. The value of the contract wasn't disclosed.