AUSTIN-Triple Net Properties of Santa Ana picks up the ball after a deal fell out for a 75,000-sf office building in the southwest submarket. The buyer, though new to Austin, owns several properties in San Antonio.

AUSTIN-Two moves have closed off 17,000 sf at the 156,000-sf Las Cimas 3 and two more deals in the works could take the building to a 50% occupancy rate.

AUSTIN-The east Austin facility applied for a zoning change to serve liquor, but was stopped short after neighborhood residents protested alcohol sales there, claiming the property is too close to a local elementary school.

AUSTIN-A partnership of the Gottesman Co. puts its Arboretum Point, a 150,033-sf, class A office building up for sale. The market is right for a sale, says the broker, expressing the sentiment of the seller.

AUSTIN-The 800-room convention center hotel's marketing staff is finding strong demand by corporate interests to select Austin as a meeting destination.

AUSTIN-American Property Consultants gets the financing through Houston's L.J. Melody & Co., which sold the loan to Freddie Mac. The 288-unit apartment complex was built last year in Austin's far northwest submarket.

AUSTIN-Texas officials, in search of more business, are headed on a five-day whirlwind tour to Winnipeg and Saskatoon. It's the first trip north for the group, which has been making the rounds to lure companies to the Lone Star State.

AUSTIN-Data Projections will move into 3,946 sf along Metric Boulevard while Brown & Caldwell engineers goes into 3,815 sf along Mountain Ridge Drive. The engineering firm slides into TXU sublease space.