BLOOMINGTON, MN-Tim Ducharme will develop new business with landlords and tenants from United's downtown Minneapolis office. He was a senior associate directing Northco Real Estate Services' office brokerage group.

ST. PAUL, MN-The Great Northern Lofts are being built in the historic former offices of railroad tycoon James J. Hill. The project is the third Lowertown condominium development to get under way this year.

MINNEAPOLIS-The office will have a training facility and house 75 employees of the Chicago-based e-business integrator at the Basset Creek Business Center at 901 N. Third St. when it opens in May.

MINNEAPOLIS-The 33-year industry veteran has been head of United Properties' retail brokerage group since 1992. Mike Scott is senior vice president of retail brokerage services for United Properties.

MINNETONKA, MN-The gaming company still has five other deals in the works in Michigan, California and Nevada after agreeing to drop out of a deal to develop a casino in northern California.

ST. PAUL, MN- Benitez Rosario Matias will receive $500 from the Mid-Continent Chapter of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors and the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors Educational Foundation.

INDIANAPOLIS-Duke-Weeks Realty Corp. Chairman and CEO Thomas L. Hefner is chairing his REIT's overhead reduction committee "where nothing is left on the Duke-Weeks machinery except muscle and bone.

MONTEVIDEO, MN-The program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government is design to train senior