Cigna will uproot teams from three leased locations in the North Texas cities of Carrollton, Dallas and Irving and move them to the four-story office building, the opening act for a 43-acre tract earmarked for build-to-suit projects by Dallas-based CMC Realty Group. Jesse Pruitt, CMC principal, tells GlobeSt.com that "activity's been good" on the 29.7-acre balance of the land, with the drawing board holding two 180,000-sf office buildings for 11 acres abutting the Cigna site at 1640 Dallas Pkwy.

"All we're concerned about right now is the Cigna building and the next 11 acres," Pruitt says. "Hopefully we can expand Cigna and we're talking to other corporate users."

Site work began in late summer. Cigna's building will start to go vertical in three, possibly four, months. CMC got a long-term triple-net lease last May from Philadelphia-based Cigna Corp. after spending more than one year competing for the project. Pruitt says the dealmaker was the location: a 13.3-acre tract at the northeast corner of the Dallas North Tollway and Plano Parkway and one block north of the President George Bush Turnpike.