DALLAS-Lamps Plus, a lighting superstore, is making plans to open its second Dallas-Ft. Worth store, leasing 11,000 sf at Preston Sheppard Place in Plano.
FT. WORTH-PharmasMarket.com is up and running with 70,500 sf of distribution space in the 330,000-sf structure owned by UPS Logistics Group at Ft. Worth's Alliance industrial development. The deal marks the dot-com's inroad into Texas.
AUSTIN-This month, SiteStuff.com will begin rolling out Internet-based aggregate buying programs for Trammell Crow Co., Jones Lang LaSalle and CB Richard Ellis. It will take nine months to get the Octane Alliance on-line at all properties.
AUSTIN-USOL Holdings Inc. has snagged its second multifamily contract in a week in Dallas. The pact ensures high-speed Internet and related data services to 1,282 units owned by the Frankel Family Trust.
HOUSTON-Transwestern Commercial inks four new office leases, totaling more than 40,000 sf, for the recently renovated Sam Houston Plaza, a four-building campus in the Greenspoint area.
HOUSTON-Property Commerce's retail foothold gets stronger, unveiling plans for a 316,000-sf center in Clear Lake Shores community. The developer has more than 3.5-million sf of retail just completed or under construction in south Texas.
AUSTIN-Buy one, sell one is the strategy being applied by Texas Electric Cooperative Inc., which is planning to relocate its corporate headquarters after spending 40 years at the same location in northwest Austin.
DALLAS-Newport Mortgage Co., based here, is now the property of KeyCorp, a Cleveland-based commercial lender seeking to develop a nationwide mortgage finance company under the banner of Key Commercial Mortgage. A management shuffle is under way.
HOUSTON-The Boeing Co., based in Everett, WA, is signing for 14,600 sf at Armand Plaza in a move to expand its International Space System. The leased site is part of a four-building complex along Space Center Boulevard in Clear Lake.
DALLAS-Infomart has signed its first tenant for a telecommunications redevelopment project in the city's Central Business District, sealing an 81,513-sf lease for a Bermuda-based high-tech firm to open its first Dallas office. Similar high-tech hubs are under way in Los Angeles and Boston.