FORT WORTH-Eight office tenants capitalize on today's building rates, inking deals across Dallas-Fort Worth. KPMG is the largest renewal to close, with City Center in Fort Worth holding onto a five-year tenant for another five years.

FORT WORTH-AmeriSouth puts up $2.5 million, with plans to kick in $3,500 per unit in upgrades, for the Taj Mahal, once considered the most luxurious complex in Fort Worth. The buyer-seller history edges the deal across the finish line.

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX-Performance Home Medical Equipment is ramping up to move into 7,938 sf in Grand Prairie's section of the Great Southwest Industrial Park. In Dallas and Garland, tenants have moved into 12,496 sf and 13,496 sf, respectively.

SAN ANTONIO-Savvy spenders fleeing the stock market are checking out San Antonio and the state's third and fourth tier towns for buys in the $800,000 to $1.2-million range. There are far more spenders than product, says an investment sales exec.

PLANO, TX-The Paris-based Alcatel pushes ahead on its downsizing plans in Dallas-Fort Worth, exiting a block of office/distribution space at the Jupiter Distribution Center in Plano. CDS Datacomm is making plans for a February move-in.

DALLAS-Insignia/ESG beats two other brokerage houses for the contract on the 198,000-sf North Central Plaza I. The challenge is to find and sign tenants for a building in the heart of a major highway project.

FORT WORTH-Berkeley Investments and Starwood Capital Group acquire their second Motorola campus in 13 months. Motorola signs a long-term lease for the largest of three buildings while the buyer eyes the upside in a vacant structure and abutting parcel.

IRVING, TX-A California investor buys a second Texas multifamily holding from foreclosure. The plan now is to finish a renovation started by the bank on the Bel Aire Apartments, once under a demo order, near Irving Mall.