"These are properties that are moving because they did so well," Adam Schiller, Staubach senior vice president, tells GlobeSt.com. "They are above-average stores." And that "above-average" market share has brought real estate sales despite the flood of big box space across Texas. Internet auctions to traditional marketing techniques are being used to hawk the boxes.

The performers are pulling close to or beating their asking prices, in most cases. The latest closings are a 116,376-sf box on nearly eight acres at 2325 S. Stemmons Freeway in Lewisville and a 101,730-sf building, sitting on 8.7 acres at 4817 W. Park Blvd. in Plano. The Lewisville property, sold to Arlington, TX-based Clearview Properties, was priced at $5.3 million. The Plano prize, where property prices are hot, brought in more than the asking tag of $5.5 million, Schiller confides. Plano Kite Capital, an affiliate of Indianapolis-based Kite Cos., took that deed.

Brian Murphy, also a Staubach senior VP, says 60,000 sf of the Lewisville site has been leased to an anchor for a multi-tenant conversion. In Plano, Kite has secured a furniture company for the entire building.

The big box inventory isn't creating a problem, Murphy and Schiller say. "In well-located areas, the second-generation space can be offered for less than what you can build for today," Schiller explains of the hyped-up interest in the Target addresses.

With the two North Texas deals tucked away, the Staubach duo is looking for buyers for a 100,000-sf Target store on 8 1/2 acres in Garland, which is tagged at $2.5 million while contracts are in hand for stores in Waco and San Antonio, each in the 100,000-sf category. In May, the team will put a $3.3-million price tag on a 99,403-sf building on 7.8 acres in the Bandera section of San Antonio, and bring it to market. A 101,909-sf box on nine acres near Lakeline Mall in North Austin rolls onto the "to go" list" in November with a $5-million ticket attached.

The Dallas team and Staubach's Matt Friday in Minneapolis are disposing of 35 US locations--owned property and leases--for the Minneapolis-based retailer. Terry Syler, senior vice president of Dallas-based Weitzman Group, represented Clearview Properties in the Lewisville purchase; Kite Cos. relied on an in-house broker to negotiate the Plano deal.