DALLAS-Negotiations seal off three full floors in the 21-story Turtle Creek Centre. In one deal, a longtime tenant re-ups a year early while the other grabs a second floor before the move-in starts to its first pledge for space.

DALLAS-The locally based Potomac Realty Ltd., a single-purpose owner, sells all that it has in Texas to American Financial Realty Trust for $9.5 million. A second single-purpose entity will sell another four branches in two weeks.

DALLAS-The Tahoe, CA investor parts with a three-tenant, office/warehouse building along Miller Road. The new owner pays cash and backfills a long-empty, 10,400-sf space with an eye on the balance for future expansion.

FORT WORTH-The REIT has amassed $260 million with more on the way from this year's sales to leverage a transition to an investment manager focused on the office sector. JV partnerships and selective mezzanine lending will lead the way.

CEDAR HILL, TX-The 25,800-sf Cedar Hill Town Center's developer replaces construction financing with permanent in a loan from Lehman Brothers. The 10-year package carries a sub-6% fixed interest.

DALLAS-A mechanical engineer takes a 16,000-sf building while a cable locator grabs 6,871 sf in and a digital repair service signs for 6,510 sf. The move-ins for Dallas, Arlington and Irving start in about two weeks and run through April 1.

RICHARDSON, TX-Macfarlan Real Estate Investment Management quickly eliminates the competition for AMX Corp.'s 129,000-sf, class A headquarters, marking its third buy in six weeks for a combined $30.9 million in a 2004 plan to spend at least $150 million.

LEWISVILLE, TX-Holbrook Partners will break ground in April on an 81-condo project along the north shore of Lake Lewisville, culminating three years of negotiations with the mobile home park's owners for the 10-acre waterfront site.