Kevin Granger, vice president of Trammell Crow Co.'s office division, brokered the lease along with Diann Cowling of Quick & Co. in Austin, who has been representing Net Quotient in its year-long search for a suitable site.

Granger told GlobeSt.com that the most amount of space to open up this year in Prominent Point has been about 4,000 sf until 2-1/2 weeks ago. "It's rare to have that big of a block," he says. The space has been vacated by a company that has been declared in default, says Granger. The lease, which takes effect Jan. 1, returns the building to full occupancy and gives Net Quotient expansion rights for future space at the structure owned by Cigna Insurance Co.

The Web-based consulting firm, founded five years ago, employs 40 people, but is planning to beef up its staff to at least 55 in 2001, according to Net Quotient's office manager, Theresa Fritschle. She says the company will begin to move into the space in mid-December.