GARLAND, TX-With three deals closed and two pending, the four-year-old Miller Road Business Center is edging toward 45% occupancy. Two tenants just move in and another gets its keys in two weeks to the class A, first-generation, flex industrial space.

ARLINGTON, TX-The private investor seals a move to Dallas from California with the acquisition of the class B-minus Timber Ridge Apartments. The deed is handed off for $1 million less than the asking price and a $2.2-million loan assumption.

DALLAS-The Real Estate Council Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation and Citigroup Foundation this morning present a check that paves the way for foreclosures of derelict sites and eventual build-out with revitalization and affordable housing projects.

McKINNEY, TX-The McAlister's Deli franchisee locks in a second location in North Texas, taking the largest spot in an under-construction 14,000-sf shopping center while continuing to search for three more sites in the chain's coast-to-coast expansion.

DALLAS-Republic Underwriters Insurance Co.'s new long-term, net lease triggers a quiet race for 5525 LBJ Freeway, bought in October by TCC and flipped weeks later to DBSI Group. Sources credit the top price to the lease terms and in-progress class A retooling.

DALLAS-By year's end, the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport board will open eight business centers featuring Starbucks.

DALLAS-The service for Jerry Fults will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Highland Park Presbyterian Church. The 67-year-old Fults died unexpectedly over the weekend in Colorado.

FORT WORTH-As planned, the REIT releases controlling interest to Fountain Place and Trammell Crow Center, valued at $320.5 million, in a second closing for a $1.2-billion sale of office trophies. There's one more pact to ink before the deal-making is put to bed.