Primo Installation Service, a local flooring company, set up shop in a 14,100-sf building at 1020 Fennell St. John Ferruzzo with NAI Partners Commercial in Houston tells GlobeSt.com that he was tasked by the locally based oil and gas firm, Weatherford USA, to find a buyer or a tenant. Primo Installation signed a medium-term lease, using Travis Land, also with NAI Partners Commercial, as its negotiator.

In Sugar Land, EMC International Inc. moved into 14,079 sf at 730 Sartartia Rd., also signing a medium-term lease for part of a 50,000-sf building. Ferruzzo represented the tenant and Chris Caudill, also in NAI Partners' Houston office, bargained for the building owner, S&G Enterprises.

The Sugar Land space is the first US location for the Mexican wire rope manufacturer. Ferruzzo says EMC checked out a half dozen locations before settling on the Sugar Land structure, primarily for the ability to expand quickly and even buy. S&G Enterprises is occupying the lion's share of the building, but is planning to relocate and has put the holding up for sale, according to Ferruzzo.