AUSTIN-About 22,000 sf are retail sites, ranging from 950 sf to 1,500 sf, dotting the map from one end of town to the other. The expansion also drives a 13,500-sf lease for a warehouse along Rutland Drive.
SAN ANTONIO-After months of pitting cities against each other, Toyota gives its blessing to San Antonio for a 2,200-acre project. Gov. Rick Perry and Toyota officials are making the announcement official today at a press conference along the River Walk.
SAN ANTONIO-The deep-pocketed Texas Toyota package includes perks such as $27 million for job training and recruitment and $15 million for a second rail line. From an investment perspective, the return is 18.3% over 10 years, says the governor.
BASTROP, TX-At completion, Chestnut Square will have a four-screen theater, 16 bowling lanes, 3,755-sf arcade, 5,000-sf room for staging events and a food court. The center is based on a concept of American Family Entertainment Centers.
AUSTIN-Sequence Design Inc., a software developer for designing computer chips, has leased 2,800 sf at Barton Oaks Plaza One, a Crescent Real Estate Equities' building at 901 S. MoPac Expressway in the southwest submarket.
BASTROP, TX-At completion, Chestnut Square will have a four-screen theater, 16 bowling lanes, 3,755-sf arcade, 5,000-sf room for staging events and a food court. The center is based on a concept of American Family Entertainment Centers.
AUSTIN-John Q. Hammons taps Austin's Wayport to deliver high-speed Internet access to 12,473 rooms by July. The Springfield, MO-based hotelier joins a Wayport roster that includes Loews, Wyndham, Hilton and Marriott.
AUSTIN-Paramount Computer heads into the Expo Business Park in the southeast submarket in an exit of buildings in the southwest and the eastern edge of the CBD. The five-year lease boosts occupancy to 97%.
ROUND ROCK, TX-The leases account for 12,654 sf in a 26,664-sf building in a four-building development in Round Rock. Streamline Technical Services signs for the largest block, 6,326 sf, to take its total to 18,756 sf in Chandler Creek Business Park.
SAN ANTONIO-San Antonio overcame the fallout from shuttered big boxes to post a positive absorption of about 439,000 sf in 2002. Overall vacancy rose 2% in six months to end the year at 87% in an inventory of 32.7 million sf.