HOUSTON-Northwest Houston is ticketed for another mall. Chicago-based Kemco Developers has taken title to nearly 24 acres to construct about 250,000 sf of retail space in the corridor, which has blossomed as a market leader in recent years.

HOUSTON-Houston's PM Realty Group, property manager for an El Paso industrial park, has signed a deal with Emo Trans Texas. The pact puts the shipping operation into 39,104 sf at the Butterfield Trail Industrial Park, situated along Spur Drive.

HOUSTON-The Men's Wearhouse and Starbucks have found new retail sites in the Houston region. One heads to the town of Beaumont, northeast of Houston, and the other is setting up shop in the Tomball Parkway Shopping Center in the northwest submarket.

HOUSTON-The 79,000-sf Park Row sells after five years of its Dallas-based owner working toward a successful repositioning. And the buyer is a Houston investor, who has formed a limited liability company just for the takeover.

HOUSTON-McShane Corp. has taken control of an 84,909-sf multi-tenant office building at Park 10 Place. Seller Amber Jack reaps the financial reward from repositioning the 18-year-old property and investing in upgrades.

HOUSTON-A former exec at Transwestern Commercial Services is on board at Dallas-based Staubach Co.'s Houston office. The 20-year veteran, Don Foster, has been named vice president of the corporate services group.

HOUSTON-Weingarten Realty is delivering a Q2 dividend of 79 cents per common share to its stockholders, a 4-cent jump from Q2 2000's dividend. Recent acquisitions and 422 new leases, totaling 1.7 million, spark the return and a 9.5% jump in FFO.

HOUSTON-The Houston office of Henry S. Miller Commercial adds a senior vice president of the land division and a new broker. Jerry Collins, the new senior VP, says he has come on board to build up the division in the Houston office.