DALLAS-Hillwood Investment Properties has the first tenant for its first spec project at the 60-acre Pinnacle Park. The 592,000-sf lease reportedly spells a distribution center consolidation for Garden Ridge, a leading home decor retailer.

AUSTIN-A closely guarded plan is unfolding for a possible class-A office project in the master-planned, 980-acre holding of CCNG Development Co. Bee Cave Council's meeting transcript tells all, but developers stay mum, saying it's all just so preliminary.

AUSTIN-The city has inked a three-year lease with Luci Baines Johnson's LBJ Holding Co. The Law Department pact for 23,118 sf carries slightly more than $2.7-million cap and includes two one-year extensions.

AUSTIN-The lease is small now, but it is destined for expansion, says a Henry S. Miller Commercial broker whose client is opening its Americas headquarters today. The Preserve at Bee Cave signing is an inroad for more space.

LAS COLINAS, TX-The long wait's over for NEC America's corporate and support staffs in Las Colinas. Five offices have been folded into one with today's opening of a $100-million, 550,000-sf corporate campus, a project in the making since August 1999.

DALLAS-The week has brought a flurry of lease signings as six new tenants seal deals for 38,286 sf in retail and office locations across the metroplex. World Olympic Gymnastics Academy takes the largest amount for a new operation at Dallas' Hillcrest Village.

DALLAS-A historic Sears & Roebuck catalog merchandise center sees its first commercial tenant move into made-over space. The second arrives April 1 as the Matthews Southwest South Side revitalization dream picks up steam.

FT. WORTH-S.C. Johnson has signed the largest lease expansion in the history of Alliance. The household products supplier will be moving into a 408,000-sf build-to-suit that will more than double its distribution space, GlobeSt.com has learned.