SUGAR LAND, TX-Boise Cascade is making plans to pull out of Stafford and head to Sugar Land. The building materials supplier has just inked a 97,000-sf lease for a new distribution site.

THE WOODLANDS, TX-A 570-member workforce in Texas and Oklahoma will be consolidated in August 2002 when Chevron Phillips expects to take the keys to a 200,000-sf headquarters. The company has bought eight acres in The Woodlands for the campus

HOUSTON-For better than 20 years, Giorgio Borlenghi has worked and invested in the city's Uptown submarket. Now, his 27-story luxury high-rise is being one upped by his latest undertaking, a 30-story condominium project.

HOUSTON-Weingarten Realty is pushing full throttle in a buying spree being boosted from a 4.5-million common share sale. The money will go to pay down debt, rehab existing properties and fund more buys. Nineteen California shopping centers are under a $145.5-million contract.

HOUSTON-A $79-million hospital and medical office project gets unveiled Saturday by Methodist Health Care System. The owner has five more sites in the region that are ticketed for health-care facilities.

HOUSTON-US Development Group hopes to close June 30 on a 105-acre tract in Contra Costa County, CA. The property, being bought from a western Pennsylvania waste disposal operator, will be converted into a rail yard.

HOUSTON-Champps is poised to expand in Houston, getting ready for a groundbreaking on its second eatery. The 10,000-sf project will be built on 1.5 acres in the Willowbrook Shopping Center in the city's northwest sector.

HOUSTON-The city's CBD is riding high on a development wave. The energy industry, empty nesters and companies seeking in-town advantages are behind the boom. In the past five years, rents have jumped as much as $12 per sf.