DALLAS-The hotelier will roll out a series of initiatives over the next year hyping its retreat and botanical-based products.

PEARLAND, TX-Windrose Medical Properties Trust picks up a fully leased twin to a May 2003 acquisition along with a shared parking garage. The closing requires a near $2-million loan assumption and capital from a recently completed second offering.

DALLAS-The Gilroy, CA buyer, turning around gain from the sale of 18 townhouses in Sacramento, buys the 94-unit French Colony Apartments for close to $2.2 million and plans to sit down again today at the closing table for another 113 units in Dallas.

DALLAS-A Denver buyer convinces a Dallas partnership to accept an unsolicited offer for the 244-unit Aztec Spring Apartments and 319-unit Granite Oaks Apartments, class B assets now positioned for a $2-million renovation.

HOUSTON-An 82%-leased shopping center along Bissonnet Street sells to a Midland, TX investor who was ready a year ago to scoop up the deed until a tenant loss put the plan on hold. With the space filled, the asset trades for close to the $6.5-million ask.

AUSTIN, TX-Golfsmith will end this year with an extra eight stores, bringing its total to 46 superstores and more on the way in 2005.

HOUSTON-An 82%-leased shopping center along Bissonnet Street sells to a Midland, TX investor who was ready a year ago to scoop up the deed until a tenant loss put the plan on hold. With the space filled, the asset trades for close to the $6.5-million ask.

IRVING, TX-With Fidelity's last group now gone, interest is running high in the 238,320-sf Canal Plaza and a 220,471-sf sister, Waterway Tower. At least two corporations have the single-user Canal Plaza on a short list and one's eyeing space in its neighbor as well.