LOS ANGELES-Walt Disney Co. begins sending out about 1,000 pink slips, mostly to workers at its Southern California and Florida theme parks. Another 3,000 have accepted voluntary separation packages.

LOS ANGELES-The Denver billionaire's new project in South Bay city of Carson will include a 20,000-seat soccer stadium and 8,000-seat tennis facility. It's the second major deal involving Anschutz announced in the past month.

LOS ANGELES-Builder G.H. Palmer Associates, the company that helped start Downtown's apartment boom a few years back, goes to work on a second building in the CBD that will total 297 units.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA-The City of Orange was once in favor of converting the closed El Toro Marine Base into a commercial airstrip, but a majority of its city council is now planning to bolt from the ranks of other municipalities that support the plan.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA-Hotelier sets plan for 156-room Courtyard by Marriott, citing growing amount of office space and rising number of local businesses.

LOS ANGELES-Liberal Democrats win the Mayor's race and most of the City Council seats in the municipal elections here, ending eight years of relatively conservative rule at City Hall that included a realtively liberal stance on growth issues.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA-Private investors purchase the 126,725-sf Sierra Vista Plaza from a limited partnership. The center is anchored by a Stater Brothers supermarket, a Sav-On drugstore, a Chuck E. Cheese pizza parlor and a Jack in the Box fast-food outlet.

LOS ANGELES-Adler Realty Investments pays a private partnership $1.7 million for small San Fernando Valley parcel and plans to replace 20 aging cottages on the land with a 67-unit apartment complex.