HOUSTON–The hotels, a Courtyard by Marriott and a Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton, will be built in the Ten Oaks development.

PHOENIX—Catalyst Commercial Group, a retail commercial real estate advisory firm exclusively serving the national, regional and local space needs of retail and restaurant tenants has entered into an agreement to merge with Keyser to create the largest, multi-platform tenant representation firm in the state of Arizona.

HOUSTON–Located within The Woodlands, this 75-acre site will include residential, office and retail space.

AUSTIN–The properties are part of a recent IndCor Properties Inc. purchase of a 9.6-million-square-foot portfolio.

TUCSON—Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. annnounces that it has completed the sale of Aloft Tucson University to Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc., a public, non-traded REIT sponsored by The Lightstone Group, a privately held real estate company, for $19 million.

MALVERN, PA–Saint-Gobain will begin work this month at a 65-acre Malvern site it chose for a new headquarters for itself and subsidiary CertainTeed after an extensive search conducted by Binswanger.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA—Encouraging entrepreneurialism, getting people together and creating an open physical environment are all ways to increase productivity, says Voit's Barb Rea in this EXCLUSIVE column.

CLIFTON, NJ-NAI James E. Hanson completed three deals in Clifton, including one in which a warehouse company will relocate into a former manufacturing facility. Also, Atlantic Holdings took 110,000 square feet at a Jersey City facility in a deal negotiated by Bussel Realty.