PALO ALTO, CA-City planners here say Apple Computer Inc. is planning retail shops to hawk its myriad computer products; currently, its only company-run store is on the company's Cupertino campus.

SAN JOSE, CA-Legacy Partners says it will use the parcel for a 1.8-million-sf business park. Construction is slated to begin next summer, and the office park should be ready for occupancy by June 2002.

FREMONT, CA-With preliminary costs going up and the project still lacking an official developer, the seismic retrofit of the Alameda County Veterans Hall is dragging on longer than some would like.

SUNNYVALE, CA-Workers currently at the facility are beginning to install packaging-assembly lines. The office space will be ready in February. Other uses include advanced research labs, product-development areas, and wafer-processing facilities.

FREMONT, CA-The Quintus Corp., which saw its stock price plunge last week after placing its CEO on leave and starting an investigation into accounting procedures, says it's still headed to new corporate headquarters on Silicon Valley's eastern edge.

REDWOOD CITY, CA- Irvine Apartment Communities is building a 206-unit complex on just over four acres near the downtown area, which is undergoing redevelopment. The project should be finished by the end of next year.

LIVERMORE, CA-The fact that the owner of a retial building raised rates and took in an office tenant has some tenants worried they might be next victim of an extremely tight office market.

SUNOL, CA-Mission Valley Rock Co. sources say they are not worried by Measure D, since it affects only prohibits future quarry permits, but an advocacy group fighting its construction sees it differently.