DALLAS-The financially troubled FirstPlus Financial Group Inc. may be forced to liquidate if a bailout acquisition bid with Nineteenth Investment Corp. fails.

AUSTIN-The city's high-tech buyouts continue, with Hire.com assuming control of California-based Advanced Recruiting Technologies Inc. The acquired firm's team, including its founder, will join the Austin-based company in the digital world of e-recruiting.

ARLINGTON, TX-Global Electronics, a four-year-old wire-cable design and assembly firm, is buying a 25,000-sf building in the Great Southwest Industrial District.

HOUSTON-Memorial City Mall, leased and managed by General Growth Properties, is undergoing a $300-million upgrade. Improvements to the 1.3-million sf mall include a new 300,000-sf Foley's, the largest in the 59-store chain.

ARLINGTON, TX-An anchor tenant is the "missing piece of a puzzle" being put together to develop a 70,000-80,000 retail center near one of Arlington's busiest intersections and within blocks of the Ballpark at Arlington, home to the Texas Rangers baseball team.

HOUSTON-More jobs, more residents and more homes have created a 34% increase in the city's housing market over the 1999 reporting period for August, says the CDS Market Research firm.

HOUSTON-A city-based developer and contractor specializing in industrial/retail build-to-suits is buying an industrial/flex building situated on 1.5 acres along the Katy Freeway. The seller is Horizon High Reach.

FT. WORTH-The Ft. Worth Credit Union likes the quiet life, making plans to build a 49,000-sf headquarters in the suburbs and abandon its downtown location. The project is expected to break ground this month and deliver in 2002.