South Central

November 15, 2004 Houston Business JournalProperty Commerce closed on a dozen land purchases to piece together a 24-acre retail center site just outside of downtown Houston. The property, Sawyer Heights Village, will occupy mostly former industrial land on the south...

November 15, 2004 Austin Business JournalTwo Southwest Austin office buildings that sold for $63 million in 2002 recently sold again for $71 million. Santa Ana, Calif.-based Triple Net Properties LLC purchased the properties, Las Cimas II and III, which have...

November 15, 2004 Dallas Business JournalShea Commercial, an Arizona developer of office condominiums and a broker of office space, has converted an eight-story building in Dallas' Uptown area into office condos aimed at medical and other professional service providers. The...

November 15, 2004 Dallas Business JournalThe city of Frisco is getting a lift from the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Corp. The company, a subsidiary of the German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG, is opening an administrative office in Hall Office Park, with plans to...

November 12, 2004 Dallas Morning NewsEven after three years of slumping occupancy and rents, Dallas-Forth Worth leads the country in apartment construction. Almost 12,000 units are under construction and more are planned. Analysts say the rental market won't recover until...

November 12, 2004Dallas Morning NewsCitigroup broke ground for the Citigroup Las Colinas building, one of four structures it's building in a $100 million development on two sites in Irving, Texas. It will have 238,000 square feet in three stories connected...

November 12, 2004Dallas Morning NewsAfter 15 months, Dallas' centerpiece mall The Galleria unveiled a $25 million-plus renovation, its first complete makeover in 22 years. The redo added 50,000 square feet of space, a revamped ice rink, 10 new escalators and...

November 12, 2004 Houston ChronicleBCN Development, a Denver real estate firm, is buying 3333 Allen Parkway, a new high-rise apartment building along Buffalo Bayou that it is likely to be converted into condominiums. The purchase price hasn't been disclosed, but...

November 12, 2004 The Times PicayuneThe Krauss Department Store building, empty since 1997 when the New Orleans retail icon closed after 94 years on Canal Street, is likely to be sold to Elie Khoury, a local developer who plans to...

November 12, 2004 Dallas Morning News (second item)CRT Properties Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla., said this week that it's agreed to buy the Signature Place buildings on Preston Road south of Belt Line. Built in the 1980s, the two buildings...