Quite possibly a big deal: Crescent Brookdale Associates LLC has assigned its ground leases in Tampa's Corporate Center at International Plaza Westshore to a European investment trust.Couldn't stay away: t took only a matter of months for FNB Corp. to decide that the slow-growth Northeast maybe isn't where its entire future lies.Good deed: The state attorney's office in Hillsborough County is helping some colleagues in need.Open, again: The New Orleans-based law firm of Phelps Dunbar LLP reopened its Gulfport, Miss., office on Sept. 26 following a temporary closure by Hurricane Katrina.Clerk to address women lawyers' group: Hillsborough County Clerk of Court Pat Frank will discuss issues and concerns facing her office at an Oct. 18 luncheon at the Tampa Club, 101 E. Kennedy Blvd.Economist talks down real estate: Real estate probably has had its run and will slow nationally, says David Jones, chairman of Investors' Security Trust Co. in Fort Myers.New Fed chief to the rescue: Must President George W. Bush choose a more accommodative Fed chairman for his own political survival? That's what Pinellas Park bank analyst Richard X. Bove thinks.
