The metro Denver industrial market continued to strengthen in the fourth quarter of 2005, with the overall vacancy rate dropping to 8.5 percent from 8.9 percent, according to a year-end report by CB Richard Ellis.

Two top executives at UQM Technologies Inc. have adopted stock-trading plans to sell some of their shares.

M&T Bank awarded $100,000 to the Niagara Hospice to help support a residence and in-patient unit in Niagara County.

Portman Holdings will unveil on Feb. 6 a project in South Korea that will include the largest building in Northeast Asia.

Aker Kvaerner Subsea, a subsidiary of the Norwegian engineering and construction company, has agreed to lease a 94,800-square-foot building that will be constructed by GSL Industrial in northwest Houston.