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WASHINGTON, DC-This five-year-long construction budget was originally supposed to cost $756 million, but it has run $48 million more than projected.

PRINCETON, NJ-$7 billion all-stock deal is all about demographics and market potential.

SEATTLE-The new center, to serve as a subpolice station among other things, will be opened around the clock, helping to reduce crime and make the area more attractive to shoppers and businesses.

OCEANSIDE, CA-The planning commission approves site plans for a $1 billion project by a company that will become the city's largest private employer. The long-range plan calls for 14 office and industrial structures on a 60-acre site.

NEW YORK CITY-Alliance termed "a critical step" in GlobeSt.com's campaign to be the primary destination for original and timely commercial real estate-related content on the Internet.

DENVER-Denver Academy is paying slightly more than $6 million for the 21-acre campus of the former Bethesda Hospital at 4400 E. Iliff Ave. in southeast Denver. The property has been vacant for two years.

NEW YORK CITY-Several New York based companies have backed the creation of new Web-based ventures.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA-After shedding thousands of Southland positions since the 1998 merger, the banking giant will bring some back through consolidation of a key business segment.