Suit targets FEMA, business park in St. Peters (Suburban Journals)
An environmental group with a long-standing opposition to building on flood plains has launched another legal battle involving the development of a business park near the Mississippi River in St. Peters.

Office Demand Is Down, and So Are the Deals (New York Times)
The credit crisis and recession crushed deal making in office buildings in 2008.

Local inventors could score cash, office space (Rapid City Journal)
A new program will award some lucky inventors some cash and office space to work on their

West Valley park becomes shrine to 2 slain boys (The Arizona Republic)
Jesse Ramirez, 7, and Edwin Pellecier, 10, died in the hospital after being beaten to death at a park inside a housing development at 91st Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road.

APPLAUSE (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)
Debi Good has joined Realtec Fort Collins as an administrative assistant. She was involved in commercial property management before joining Realtec.

Office Demand Is Down, and So Are the Deals (New York Times)
By most accounts, the commercial property market reached its pinnacle in early 2007 with the Blackstone Group ’s acquisition of Equity Office Properties Trust and its prized cache of more than 500 office buildings.