FORT WORTH-Greg Holliday, former assistant police chief in Dallas, joins the Crescent team after an 18-month hiatus from law enforcement. Holliday, who started earlier this month, will oversee 39 properties in five states.

DALLAS-Nine franchisees will open another 30 stores in the region while the corporate team will add two more to its roster. Each store, taking up 1,250 sf, costs an average of about $250,000 to set up.

FORT WORTH-Internacional Realty replaces a construction loan assumed last year for the 216-unit Summer Brook Apartments with a five-year loan at 3.68% interest. Hoping to buy 1,500 units in the region, the class A buyer is filling its pipeline with similar deals.

PLANO, TX-SVTronics spends $300,000 for 2.2 acres along Technology Drive as it fine-tunes plans for a 25,000 sf-to 30,000-sf office and production site for its electronics contract manufacturing business.

DALLAS-TekFokus, a high-tech training company, has occupied a new headquarters suite with a 62-month lease for 7,762 sf on the second floor of the Infomart, a 1.6-million-sf prestigious nesting ground for high-tech companies.

FORT WORTH-The developer partners with Chief Oil & Gas to drill 32 wells at a cost of $700,000 apiece in a first-time plan to tap its claim to the state's top producing field. Royalties are just part of what AllianceTexas stands to gain.

DALLAS-The local development group gets more than $15 million for two of three buildings in an industrial portfolio disposition. Argus Realty Investors teams 18 exchange buyers to beat 14 other full-price offers.

McKINNEY, TX-Chase Bank will develop the first pad for a 4.1-acre tract with a gateway positioning to an under-construction Home Depot on 14 acres. The Cencor-led partnership gets a hard corner at an intersection tagged as the town's next hotspot.