Industrial

SPARTANBURG, SC-The locally based engineering and construction firm has a contract to build a power plant in Brevard County, FL for Constellation Power Source at an undisclosed cost, according to a published report. Commercial operation of the plant is expected to begin in June 2002.

ST. PAUL, MN-The $10-million tunnel will connect a convention complex to the rest of Downtown. An agreement reached by the state and county this week clears up a title issue.

CHICAGO-The international real estate services firm says the market's diversity in employers make it better prepared than others to get through the current economic slump. Some "new frontiers" may even see more growth, it says.

WALTHAM, MA-Public Storage Inc. purchases the Fotobeam/IKON site here. A series of developers who were never able to get approval because of the property's constraints have eyed the site.

HOUSTON-A First Industrial property has eased the immediacy for an ecological paper container company that needed space and move-in capability ASAP. The contract's signed and the 10,869 sf is now ready for Ecotainer.

TURLOCK, CA-Dave Davis, chief financial officer for the publicly traded document management company, describes the sale of the 100,000-sf facility and an adjacent, vacant parcel as simply "the conversion of an underutilized asset to cash.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA-The Skylab Corporate Center in Huntington Beach gets pair of tenants through leases valued at a combined $7.3

ORLANDO-The Osceola County-based real estate firm is relocating to the SouthPark section of Orlando Central Park where it has purchased a 1.08-acre pad for $260,000 or about $240,740 per acre ($5.40 per sf).