ORLANDO-The Seattle-based retailer is holding an open house Tuesday for area vendors and suppliers interested in bidding on the company's planned ground-breaking this summer of an estimated 100,000-sf, $15 million store at the 1.1 million-sf Florida Mall near Orlando International Airport.

ORLANDO-In a tough industry year, locally based CNL American Properties Fund Inc. managed to eke out a $2.93 million profit in fiscal 2000 on record revenue of $123.5 million versus a loss of $49.8 million in 1999.

HEATHROW, FL-The suburban Orlando developer tops the industry average of 25% repeat clients. Of the brokerage's $170 million in 2000 sales, $80 million came from referrals. Heathrow is 30 miles north of Downtown Orlando.

SANFORD, FL-Angelia Gordon, president of locally based Angelia Gordon Property Management Inc., tells GlobeSt.com one of the priorities of the five-member Sanford Housing Authority will be to win back the respectability and credibility it lost during the recent civil and criminal investigations by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

JACKSONVILLE, FL-Florida's largest grocer has retrofitted 426 stores in its 1,155-store chain with a return on capital of 50%, the 70-year-old company reports.

ORLANDO- Cushman & Wakefield of Florida Inc. is giving double duties to Karl Johnston, naming him to head the new North Florida division. Johnston directs C&W's financial services group. C&W owns The Apartment Group.

TAVARES, FL-Orlando's next-door county may hold single-family and multifamily developers to two homes per acre instead of four homes when the projects aren't hooked up to city sewer lines. The move would cut into the project's profit picture, sources tell GlobeSt.com.

ORLANDO-The 10-year-old business brokerage will operate the six-year-old hotel acquisition firm as a separate division. Interlink's founder/president James Ince will remain as managing director. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.