With a "for sale" sign quietly hanging, the 400,000-sf 1800 West Loop South landed a trio of leases that took occupancy to 70%, Bill Schneidau, the Fort-Worth-based Crescent's leasing manager in Houston, tells GlobeSt.com. Taking space with medium-term leases were locally based Pickering Energy Partners Inc., 6,272 sf; Nynas Inc., a local oil company, 3,556 sf; and Empire Mortgage, 2,757 sf. Don King and David Bale, both in the Houston office of Dallas-based Staubach Co. represented Pickering and Nynas, respectively. Empire Mortgage worked directly with Schneidau. Because the property's on the market, the quoted rate is being closely guarded, but comparable class A space in the area is averaging $20.37 per sf.

At Crescent's Three Post Oak Central, Dobbs Temporary Services Inc. took over 4,815 sf in a medium-term lease for the 86,000-sf retail component of the 1.2-million-sf building. The lease was negotiated by Schneidau and Matt Trozzo in Cushman & Wakefield of Texas Inc.'s Houston office. According to Schneidau, the deal pushed occupancy to 91% in a high-rise with a quoted rate of $17.50 per sf to $19.50 per sf for retail space.