ATLANTA-The Sembler Co. of St. Petersburg, FL is lining up national big-box tenants for McDonough Towne Center, a 650,000-sf project with an estimated $52 million construction cost. Home Depot has already bought one of nine outparcels and broken ground on a home improvement store.

ROME, GA-Suzuki's new ATV plant is expected to bring hundreds of jobs back and trigger new multifamily and retail development in the city and Floyd County after a major textile employer laid off more than 600 workers in November.

ATLANTA-Steve Rothschild leaves as regional director of Insignia/ESG to become senior vice president of marketing for Griffin Co.

ATLANTA-Metro South Partners plans a two-building, $5.6 million project in Peachtree City, 35 miles south of Downtown and 20 miles from Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport.

ATLANTA-The communications company is taking about 71% of the five-story, 127,500-sf Brookside/100 office building at Brookside Concourse in Alpharetta, GA, 25 miles north of Downtown.

ATLANTA-Cardinal Distribution has broken ground on a 120,000-sf structure in McDonough, GA, 30 miles south of Downtown. The regional facility will be the 26th center for the $30-billion pharmaceutical supply firm based in Dublin, OH.

ATLANTA-The Indianapolis, IN-based developer expects to have the 89,618-sf Northmeadow Service Center II, being built at an estimated hard construction cost of $11 million, completed by next summer.

ATLANTA-The city's transit authority is doubling its investment to $82 million in one of its transit-oriented developments, the newly-named Lindbergh City Center.