DALLAS-Nick Rossini, a 20-year professional, takes a principal's seat in the 16-year-old firm after talking to brokerage houses, large and small, in the month that he's been gone from the Jones Lang LaSalle ranks.

FORT WORTH-Direct Development and Rreef close a "north of $14 million" deal for the fully leased Ridge Rock Plaza, a 10-acre pocket in a multi-million-sf retail hotspot. The deal is run on the QT, avoiding a heated face-off like Rreef encountered six weeks ago.

DALLAS-With one location open, Knockouts' broker says the next site will be in hand in two months as he negotiates for a branding with a boxing theme and statuesque stylists as the hook. The two-year plan is 10 shops in Texas and California.

PLANO, TX-Greystar Real Estate Advisors, usually a partnership buyer in Texas, acquires Tuscany Villas just 15 months after it moves in as property manager for Madison Residential, which was looking for a quick exit from the three-year-old development.

DALLAS-Meridian Business Centers and Transwestern Commercial Services negotiate a four-year extension for a new total of 15,465 sf or practically the entire second floor at One Energy Square. The keys turn Feb. 1.

GARLAND, TX-A retiring investor sells 2916 National Dr. to an electrical contractor who wanted the three-acre property for the ample yard storage and interstate proximity. At decision time, there were two equally competitive offers.

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TX-San Gabriel Residential combines European equity and a five-year, interest-only loan to buy Diamond Ridge as the lead-off play to a strategy to spend $50 million annually on mostly class B multifamily product in Texas.

FORT WORTH-A 16,636-sf crane equipment supplier shifts the operation to a freestanding building on the city's north side. To the northeast, the first tenant in a spec project gets 70,100 sf up and running as its corporate finalizes a competitor's takeover.