BOSTON-Boston Properties appoints David C. Provost vice president of marketing and leasing for this region. Provost was involved in a number of the company's recent large developments, including 111 Huntington Avenue at the Prudential Center here.

WALTHAM, MA-AstraZeneca, the international pharmaceutical company, seeks approval for a 500-car garage here, next to its research facility and in the process discloses its plans for additional buildings.

BURLINGTON, MA-Competitive Computing, an eight-year-old Vermont-based company, is entering the Boston area by opening an office here, just 40 minutes from the city. The company is a provider of business technology solutions.

BOSTON-Children's Hospital here is beginning construction on a $130 million, 295,000-sf research building. This is the hospital's first major renovation in over ten years. The space will open by the spring of 2003.

NORFOLK, MA-Pulte Home Corp. proposes developing a senior housing development here. The company attempted to develop a similar complex in Holliston, but was defeated by zoning laws there.

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Beacon Capital Partners sells Technology Square to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for $278.8 million. This is the university's fifth commercial investment in the area.

BOSTON-WNW Hospitality Management LLC opens a hotel here in Roxbury, indicating the rebirth of this neighborhood. Millions of dollars in new development are being poured into this area.

CAMBRIDGE, MA-A compromise version of a zoning petition, that aimed to decrease congestion and increase affordable housing, was passed here. Local commercial property owners were opposed to the petition.