DALLAS-The Center for Housing jumps at the chance to buy the Park Place Apartments in Oak Cliff before it can come to market. The going-in plan for the 50%-leased complex calls for a full makeover, re-tenanting and rent hike.

FORT WORTH-The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders not only will bring together a wide spectrum of services in a state-of-the-art facility, but delivers the first anchor to a large-scale, mixed-use development on the city's Southside.

DALLAS-Three weeks after the Jefferson at Timberglen sells, the price filters out into the marketplace as analysts peg the $86,000 per door, plus or minus, as being right on target for the times and the submarket.

PLANO, TX-But, says the broker, it's a daycare for dogs not children that has baited the land buy at a developing retail corner in the far north Dallas suburb. Construction on a Doggie Zen Den begins in the coming months.

BURLESON, TX-It's the first acreage to pass outside the Bransom family line since the June 13, 1859 deeding by a governor who beat Sam Houston in the 1857 election. The changing times puts the land in a development path 15 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

DALLAS-Hotel swap meets in the $10-million-and-over category turned 55,189 keys last year at an average of $121,000 apiece. This year, 63,000 rooms are projected to trade with the average rising to $127,000 per key. Who's buying, who's selling...anybody who can.

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.

DALLAS-Sports Authority's next decision is which of its four flags will fly on the premier retail space, the only opening in the 200,000-sf Best Buy Center. The store will open in 60 days under a long-term lease that took nine months before it was signed.