DETROIT-A 60,000-sf shopping center and high-rise multifamily rental complex at Lafayette and Orleans streets will be renovated by First Commercial Realty & Development Co. Inc.

DETROIT-The first four floors of a five-story, 115,000-sf office building in Downtown will be the local office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which is consolidating Bloomfield Hills and Detroit CBD locations.

BLOOMFIELD TWP, MI-Golling Chrysler Jeep Dodge is building an 80,000-sf "Project Alpha" Chrysler dealership, the first Chrysler Group "Project Alpha" store in the metro area, and one of the first in the US.

HIGHLAND PARK, MI-This Michigan city is hoping to build on a recent success of the $60-million Town Center retail project at Woodward and Manchester as it creates a new blueprint for its Downtown.

DETROIT-The auto industry is still king in Michigan, where the industry plans some $720 million in capital expenditures in 2005. One of the biggest projects could be plans by Toyota to build a research and development center near Ann Arbor.

TROY, MI-Kmart is selling 50 stores to Hoffman Estates, IL-based Sears Roebuck & Co. for $575.9 million a month after shedding 18 stores in a $271-million deal with the Home Depot Inc.

MUSKEGON, MI-Plans to redevelop the Muskegon Mall include new electric, gas, phone and cable service upgrades in addition to installing a new street system.

DETROIT-The Kales Building high-rise multifamily rental building willbe among the stops on an Oct. 5 tour and discussion of Downtown redevelopment projects.