FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-Developer E.J. Smoker & Associates reportedly plans an early 2001 start for a $15-million mixed-use project on Las Olas Blvd. The venture, combining townhouses, offices and retail, will be named Himmarshee Landing for the Himmarshee Canal bordering the site.

WESTON, FL-Codina Realty Services, the Oncor affiliate in South Florida, has arranged 110,000 sf of Broward County expansion space for two high-tech tenants.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-The City Commission has told the developer of two planned 42-story Downtown apartment towers to lop off as many as 15 floors if he expects to get an OK when the project comes up for a final vote in two weeks. That action may signal the end of what has been a fee-and-easy local approvals process in the CBD.

DANIA BEACH, FL-County business development agencies in South Florida have taken over much of the effort to market the region as the InternetCoast. Originally the brainchild of tech industry volunteers, it's credited with successfully promoting the area's attractions for telecom operations.

NAPLES, FL-The Albertson's supermarket chain is now selling gasoline in grocery-and-gas satellites on parking-lot outparcels at more than 100 locations around the country. One such unit is being built in the Naples area.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-Broward County wants to take back five acres of land it leased three years ago to developer Michael Swerdlow for construction of a 100,000-sf warehouse because Swerdlow didn't start the project on time.

BOCA RATON, FL-General Cinema is closing an eight-screen theater complex here this weekend, as well as three other multiplexes in South Florida and 11 statewide. The facilities are in shopping centers whose owners face the growing national problem of filling large blocks of space that other film exhibitors don't seem to want.

MIAMI-ABR Infocom's proposed 1.2 million-sf, $150-million ($125 per sf) Downtown telecommunications center has received a green light from the city's Urban Development Review Board. But a number of competing plans for a similar facility are still in the running to get into the ground first.