DALTON, GA-This city of an estimated 23,000 residents is also agreeing to comply with the federal Clean Water Act to stop discharging pollutants and sewer sludge into surface water and lakes. Dalton is 93 miles northwest of Downtown Atlanta.

ATLANTA-The 359-unit apartment project is going up in Brookwood, off 26th Street, at an estimated construction cost of $115,599 per unit. The rent range is $900 to $1,600 per month with penthouse space at $2,000-plus.

ATLANTA-Former Home Depot executives have blasted into the Atlanta market with four stores within six weeks. The new retailer, dekor, is going carpet to carpet and tub to tub with Home Depot's Expo Design Centers for upscale home furnishings and remodeling.

ATLANTA-The locally based developer also added R. Dary Stone, president of Dallas-based Cousins Stone, to its board, and promoted two finance executives.

ATLANTA-Simon Cooper, president of Marriott Lodging Canada, is replacing Horst Schulze as president and chief operating officer. Shulze will stay on as vice chairman of Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., owned by Marriott International.

SAVANNAH, GA-The underperforming 149-year-old, 68-room hotel is being sold by Paine Weber and Coastal Hotel Group for $160,000 per room. They bought the property in 1998 for $555,424 or $8,168 per room. The owners' five other hotels in California are also up for sale. Savannah is 200 miles southeast of Downtown Atlanta.

ATLANTA-The two-building, 310,500-sf Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory will have a Hot Lab, one of only five in North America that will study viral and rickettsial diseases, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, bacterial and mycotic diseases and hospital infections.

ATLANTA-In a move to protect streams, DeKalb County officials approved a law that triples the distance of undisturbed land between new construction and a stream.