WAXAHACHIE, TX-A Dallas-based group closes on 1,420 acres southeast of Fort Worth, where the plan is to develop a complex for national and international events for motorcycles, cars, jet skis and boats. Ground breaks in March 2003.

FORNEY, TX-Forney, 20 miles east of the Dallas CBD, is home to the next building craze. One developer has just bought 280 acres for a mixed-use project. This week, another one will close on 102 acres. And, a Wal-Mart builder reportedly has dibs on 99 acres.

COPPELL, TX-PacTrust lands two of the three deals to fill a one-year-old building at 440 Wrangler. The 14,514-sf duo moves in Jan. 1 from Las Colinas. RREEF gets a 23,538-sf tenant for Coppell Business Center. The Freeport relocation takes place in February 2003.

DALLAS-Panattoni captures the contract for the 220,000-sf project, which breaks ground in early 2003. The locally American Leather, looking for a year, decides on 21 acres in the Mountain Creek Business Park.

ARLINGTON, TX-The East Coast buyer turns around proceeds from a multi-tenant office building in the New York City area. The idea is to build a net-leased portfolio to lessen the management load. Two Walgreens in Arlington start the ball rolling.

RICHARDSON, TX-Air Management relocates from the far corner of Plano into 12,050 sf of hard-to-find warehouse space in the Telecom Corridor. Across the metroplex, tenants ready for moves into Great Southwest Industrial Park properties.

DALLAS-LaSalle gets the keys back Dec. 20 for 494 rooms in New Orleans, thanks to an arbiter's ruling. Le Meridien promises an orderly transition. In Dallas, the battle isn't quite over for the 407-room Plaza of the Americas.

DALLAS-One is a "north of $5.8 million" purchase of a 220,000-sf, class A high-rise in Shreveport's CBD. The other deal begins as a 43,000-sf pad site sale and ends in a build-to-suit lease with the developer of a retail center in Monroe.