St Landry Economic and Industrial Development District Executive Director Gerard Perron told his board this week that plans for a business incubator in Opelousas were unlikely to come to fruition.

The plan had originally been to purchase 150,000 square feet of office space and rent it out to new businesses at below-market rents.

Unfortunately, Perron believes that the organisation cannot afford the $800,000 purchase of the building.

Law firm Plews Shadley Rache & Braun has added new office space to its unconventional collection.

The environmental law firm now owns three historic buildings and an office block built in the 1950s.

The fact that the company owns, rather than rents its commercial properties, and that for a small firm it uses multiple buildings, is unusual.

New details have emerged about the family who fasley claimed their son was in a flying hot air balloon.

Unconfirmed reports say that the Heene family lived in the office space of father Richard Heene in Santa Monica

There are also claims that the family left the office space without paying the last installment of rent.

Phoenix Managed Properties and Development Inc. is working on its third set of office buildings in Tyler, East Texas.

Construction on the new complex started in late September.

Once finished, the building will provide 8,650 square feet of office space.

In Huntsville, Alabama, Mayor Tommy Battle has introduced a committee of local leaders who are charged with regenerating the area.

The Downtown Advisory Committee will create a long-term plan to attract businesses to the area.

The town currently has 500,000 square feet of vacant office space.

The Menlo Park Council has given the go-ahead to developers to build office space in the area.

San Hill Property Company has been given to regenerate a disused Cadiallac dealership.

The new build will provide 59,000 square feet of office space and 51,000 square feet of retail space.

Following a vote by the House of Representatives and the Senate to withdraw all federal funds, the Association of Community Organisation for Reform Now has closed its Columbian office space.

ACORN members had been accused of voter fraud, leading to the withdrawal federal money.

The organisation’s office space in Columbia is now up for rent.

SEL Medical has opened a third office in downtown Brooklyn in early 2010.

The multispeciality practice has signed a 10 year lease for 7,500 square feet of office space in Smith Street.

The new addition will double SEL Medical’s existing space in the area.

After much legal wrangling, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have given a third piece of land at the World Trade Centre site to developer Larry Silverstein.

Silverstein has also been awarded $300,000 from the authority for delays.

The site of the 9/11 bombings will become home to three new skyscrapers with thousands of square feet of premium office space.

Clear Channel Communications has leased 107,000 square feet of office space in Chicago.

The media company has extended its lease of 72,000 square feet on floors 27 and 28 of 233 N. Michigan Avenue.

The company has also planned to relocate its subsidiary Katz Media Group to the third floor of the building, which is currently at the NBC Tower on Cityfront Plaza Drive.