"Piers have been poured, the lower retention pond has been concreted in and they should be pouring the bottom parking lot slab this weekend," says Al Lehtonen Jr., a College Station lawyer, who's developing the project with his father. "That's the general progression and it should be completed sometime by March 1, 2003."

Lehtonen tells GlobeSt.com that no leases have been signed for the 45,000-sf building on Shepherd Mountain. "We haven't tried," he says. "We're going to start that in the next few weeks, going out and actively searching for tenants."

He plans to pitch the building to professional firms seeking 2,500 sf to 5,000 sf. "Multiple tenants diversify your portfolio up there," Lehtonen says, adding that he doesn't plan to hire a broker to market the space.