AUSTIN-A special state board's sign off opens the door for Cencor Urban Properties and Post Properties to start the development process with Austin. The Triangle could break ground in 2002 if all goes well.

AUSTIN-Two high-tech firms say it's time to relocate. Akibia is headed to Crystal Park Plaza in Round Rock while Computer Solutions is heading to the Koger Center, a multi-building development along Austin's MoPac Boulevard.

AUSTIN-The 200-unit Vintage on Town Lake might have its OK from the planning commission, but Austin City Council wants more input. Additional hearings could surface in the next few weeks, says the developer's representative.

AUSTIN-Janus' closed call center has a new tenant for 23,650 sf at Riata's Building 7 in the northwest submarket, which is responsible for 65% of the 2.85 million sf on the sublease market. Evoke will be expanding and relocating its Austin development team.

ROUND ROCK, TX-Brook Mays has picked Round Rock for its second Austin-area location. The Dallas-based music store is taking 15,000 sf at the 200,000-sf Sky Ridge Plaza along Interstate 35.

SAN ANTONIO-Diabetex has signed an 11,136-sf renewal for Cypress Tower, a class-A, 155,728-sf structure in the CBD. This marks the second signing in two weeks for the office tower by leasing agent Transwestern Commercial Services.

AUSTIN-Littlefield Corp. is expanding its Austin homeport, buying the 9,000-sf Lumbermen's Association of Texas Building at 2501 N. Lamar. With the deal comes a plan for Lumbermen's to move into Littlefield's leased site at 816 Congress.

AUSTIN-Hilton Hotels Corp. has finalized a 15-year pact to manage Austin's 800-room convention center hotel. The city's largest hotel, which has broken ground in the past week, will be up and running in January 2004.