ARLINGTON, TX-Lakeland Paper of Sturgis, MI adds 38,251 sf at a neighboring address to 89,544 sf that it leased last September in Arlington's section. Sizewise Rentals moves into 5,002 sf across the city line. Both are midterm leases.

FARMERS BRANCH, TX-George B. Allan & Co. will move Feb. 1 after signing a 10-year pact that delivered in less than five days after another site fell out at the last minute. An existing Venture Tech tenant can downsize thanks to the 10,311-sf backfill.

COPPELL, TX-Champion Partners triggers a bidding war with at least five hopeful buyers for Tradepoint Business Park. Hillwood wins the deed, which includes 70 acres of undeveloped land in one of the region's hottest industrial submarkets.

WAXAHACHIE, TX-The Mason, MI-based corporation, a primary employer in Waxahachie, is the first tenant signed for a 128,000-sf distribution building once used by National Freight for Owens-Corning. The building's been vacant for six months.

DALLAS-Trizec Properties Inc. secures a seven-year loan that retires debt to Prudential for the 1.7-million-sf Renaissance Tower in the Dallas CBD and adds capital to the coffer as it builds liquidity for possible acquisitions in 2004.

CARROLLTON, TX-This time, it's Resident Awards, a program touted as a replacement for rent concessions in the multifamily industry. The idea is to accumulate redeemable points via new leases, renewals and referrals.

FORT WORTH-The 18,360-sf, multi-tenant building is sold to LMC Properties Inc of Fort Worth. The 73%-leased building at 3220 North Freeway attracted three offers, with the deed going to the highest bidder.

DALLAS-Dallas brokers showed up by the hundreds for the first meeting of the year to network and hear a high-profile quartet of deal makers talk about the positives and the negatives of the past, the present and the future.