ANDOVER, MA-Applied Micro Circuits Corp. relocates its Digital Products Group here to an office over three times the size of the company's original site. The company says it is already looking for an even larger location as it anticipates additional growth.

BOSTON-Local developer Richard Friedman of Carpenter & Co. is planning on developing a 300-room hotel at the Charles Street jail site in the heart of the city.

BOSTON-While state lawmakers attempt to change or do away with the affordable housing law here, Mayor Thomas M. Menino and other local housing advocates are unwavering in their support of Chapter 40B.

BOSTON-Massachusetts General Hospital speeds up its building plan due to rising construction costs and an increase in its volume of cancer patients. The hospital plans on building two buildings by 2004.

BOSTON-The case brought by the South Boston Betterment Trust against the Boston Redevelopment Authority over its nullification of a linkage deal will not be dismissed as the BRA had hoped.

BOSTON-City mayor Thomas M. Menino develops a program aimed at keeping local industrial manufacturers in the city. The program will provide these businesses with help in modernizing and expanding their facilities.

BOSTON-James Rooney is appointed director of development and capital projects for the proposed convention center here in South Boston. He replaces Walter Upton who was recently criticized for mismanaging the project.

SEEKONK, MA-Price Rite Supermarket, a discount supermarket chain, leases 33,000 sf in Towne Centre here. The company continues its penetration of the region by planning to open its third Massachusetts store in June.