Houston

HOUSTON-Developer/owner Mountain West Industrial Properties receives multiple offers for the seven-building industrial complex and selects DCT Industrial Trust as the buyer.

HOUSTON-Read King Commercial Real Estate of Houston and an unnamed developer have planned to construct a five-story apartment building with a retail space at the corner of W. Alabama and Shepherd.

HOUSTON-Meyerland Plaza, a 965,000-square-foot center in Houston, has reached sales block.

LA PORTE, TX-The logistics company, which occupied the space since 2006, signs a close to $2 million renewal deal, taking it into 2014.

HOUSTON-The Vietnamese-owned electronics store takes down 17,500 square feet at Lion Square Center to open its first Texas store.

HOUSTON-Ann Arbor, MI-based McKinley has been appointed the receiver for a 14-asset apartment portfolio formerly held on a CMBS loan by the defunct Babcock & Brown firm.

HOUSTON-Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, LP has closed the sale of two large properties in Texas.

HOUSTON-Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches LLP, an accounting firm based in Houston, will move its headquarters to Two Riverway from San Felipe Plaza.

HOUSTON-AF Westchase LLC pays close to $10 million for Westchase Corporate Park.

NASSAU BAY, TX-Dothan, Alabama-based LBA Hospitality has started construction this week on the new Courtyard by Marriot hotel at Nassau Bay Town Square in Nassau Bay.

DALLAS-Ashford Hospitality reports that Hurricane Irene had minimal impact on its northeast properties. In Houston, Weingarten Realty closed a $200 million unsecured term loan.

HOUSTON-Dallas-based Peloton Capital Partners has purchased a five-building office portfolio totaling 347,258 square feet in the Energy Corridor and Westchase submarkets of Houston in partnership with a real estate private equity firm based in Austin.

HOUSTON-Malvern, Pennsylvania-based Liberty Property Trust has started construction work on two speculative industrial buildings totaling 212,000 square feet in Liberty Northwest Business Center.

HOUSTON-Denver-based SM Energy Co. is expanding its Energy Corridor office space by 74%.

HOUSTON-The 4.2-million-square-foot property receives Gold status from the U.S. Green Building Council. Included: Additional Southwest news.

HOUSTON-The historic landmark office building receives certification following improvements from landlord Brookfield Real Estate Opportunity Fund. Also included: Other southwest news.

HOUSTON-Mutual of Omaha Bank, an affiliate of Mutual of Omaha, is planning to open its second branch in Houston.

HOUSTON-The independent energy company currently occupies approximately 30,000 square feet of space at One Elridge Place.

HOUSTON-The Denver buyer bought Greens Crossing IV, which is 100% leased to SecureGlobal Logistics, from Sun Life. DCT now owns the entire four-building, 268,000-square-foot Greens Crossing portfolio.

HOUSTON-Holliday Fenoglio Fowler has arranged financing for a Houston hotel and a Boston-area shopping center in two separate deals.