NOVI, MI-UK-based INCAT International has announced plans to expand its headquarters in this Detroit suburb, creating 500 jobs. A High-Tech Single Business Tax Credit worth about $5.7 million is a deciding factor.

HIGHLAND PARK, MI- An abandoned Holiday Inn will be the first of some 120 vacant buildings that will be razed in this city as part of a new clean-up effort.

SOUTHFIELD, MI-Signature Capital, a division of Signature Associates, partners with Bloomfield Financial to finance Signature's income property deals ranging up to $100 million.

COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, MI-A development boom in southwestern Oakland County necessitates building the first hotel in Commerce, an 82-room Hampton Inn that is expected to be open in time for the January 2006 Super Bowl.

FLINT, MI-Bishop International Airport is expanding its ticket counter to meet demand that is running about five times greater than the national average. Parking also is being expanded.

ROCHESTER, MI-The Royal Park hotel opens Sept. 1 with 17 suites and more than 100 individual rooms, as well as a Grand Ballroom that can hold 720. The Ryder Cup tournament has helped fill the hotel for one week.

NOVI, MI-Triangle Development Co. of Southfield will head a retail, entertainment and residential development in Novi's faltering Main Street project, picking up where a foreclosed developer left off.

FOWLERVILLE, MI-Two buildings totaling 14,070 sf change hands in this western Livingston County community while 53.4 acres of land gives the new owner plenty of elbow room.