ORANGE COUNTY, CA-Stauffer Biscuit Co., originator of the animal cracker cookie, signs $21.5-million lease for new commercial bakery.

LOS ANGELES-Partnership gets 50,265-sf retail development in northern LA suburb.

LOS ANGELES-Partnership gets 50,265-sf retail development in northern LA suburb.

LOS ANGELES-Local merchants and business-property owners vote for nearly $1.2 million a year in special assessments to improve area near Downtown.

LOS ANGELES-Consultant says bond agreements at massive municipal utility pose difficult problem.

LOS ANGELES-Shopping center owners and developers across the Southland worry that the theater chain's filing could hurt their own projects.

VALENCIA, CA-The retail project, known as 'Town Center,' has 800,000 sf and is anchored by three department stores.

LOS ANGELES-The two builders start community education center at project for abused kids with donated labor and materials.