MIAMI-Only a handful of publicly traded companies in the tri-county area posted gains Monday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 684.71 points on the first day of trading since the terrorist attacks on America.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL-The Charleston, SC-based real estate investment trust sold the local 18-hole golf course to Emerald Dunes Golf Group, an affiliate of an existing lessee.

HOMESTEAD, FL-The Coral Gables, FL-based development company has secured contracts on 393 acres in this community 27 miles south of Miami and is proposing a mixed-use residential development with about 2,274 residential units.

MIAMI-Administrative staff urges Miami-Dade County Commission to quickly ratify a Performing Arts Center construction contract with a consortium that includes Odebrecht Construction, Haskell Co. and Ellis Don Construction.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FL-Alony-Hetz Properties & Investments Ltd. exercises warrants to purchase 650,000 shares in the locally based real estate investment trust at a price of about $10.88 a share.

BOCA RATON, FL-LenDan Inc. of Palm Beach, FL pays Centrecorp Inc. $21 million for the 122,910-sf, 15-year-old Harbour Financial Center on PGA Boulevard here, about 70 miles north of Downtown Miami.

MIAMI-Cushman & Wakefield of Florida Inc. recruits Jerry Baird, who has handled more than $2 billion in multifamily property sales over the past 10 years, to manage the newly expanded South Florida operations.

FORT LAUDERDALE-The company's construction division will build more than 300,000 sf of new space for automotive sales and service companies at three sites in Broward County and in Central Florida.