GARLAND, TX-The first 750,000 sf of a one-million-sf development jumps off the drawing board after nearly eight years. The 94-acre Firewheel Town Center launches with retail pre-leasing above 75% and an office team ready to hit the streets next week.

DALLAS-Well-known developer Bill Cawley has launched Cawley Golf Inc., hiring a golf pro as a principal to help turn distressed golf courses with developable abutting land into mixed-use communities. The first project is under way on 430 acres in East Texas.

WYLIE, TX-With timing and location on their side, Harvest Real Estate Cos. and Wilcox Development Services eye a summer ground-breaking on a 20,000-sf first phase to Harvest Village. For their first undertaking, they get to stand in Wal-Mart's shadow.

WYLIE, TX-Wessington Properties buys 6.7 acres at the junction of FM 544 and McCreary Road in a plan to split the land and develop a self-storage complex and retail pad sites. Ground breaks in the spring; delivery comes in the fall.

FRISCO, TX-Windmill Development will add a 108,000-sf lifestyle center with nine buildings of retail and office space to Legacy Commons, using 28 acres in front of the Westin Stonebriar for the next construction wave. Ground will break by month's end.

THE WOODLANDS, TX-The chemical manufacturing giant and New York City equity investor buy a 70,000-sf office building on 7.5 acres and an abutting 6.6 acres to develop a headquarters, lab and research campus as part of a sweeping cost-saving initiative.

HOUSTON-The Dallas-based investment group picks up the class A asset from JV owners, AEW and McCord Development. Assessed at $24.9 million, the 21-story tower is 84% leased, with the CenterPoint Energy as its lead.

HOUSTON-Gillett Properties, besting six others, wins the class B office building with a top offer of about $2.5 million. The freeway-fronting building comes with six tenants, a going-forward foundation for the new owner's multi-tenant repositioning plan.