ARLINGTON, TX-A first-time Texas buyer acquires the 104-unit Pioneer Point along West Pioneer Parkway, paying $1.3 million in cash as he ramps up a $500,000 renovation to reposition the 50%-occupied complex.

DALLAS-A 15-year tenant exits the Crescent in Uptown for the Plaza of the Americas in the downtown. The 10-year win carries a two-year lease buyout with a hefty price tag, a practice becoming more frequent in Dallas face-offs.

DALLAS-Cato, a North Carolina retailer, boosts its Dallas-Fort Worth stock to 17 stores. One location is part of an addition being built at a Kroger-anchored center in Garland and the other goes to a Wal-Mart neighbor now rising in Grand Prairie.

FORT WORTH-AMLI gets another 189 units in a development hotspot and the seller, a partnership of GE Capital and Westdale Asset Management, turns around a February acquisition for a nice profit. AMLI pays cash for the decided edge.

DALLAS-The Colorado Springs, CO investor turns around proceeds from a land sale in the northeast by buying the 197-unit Ivanhoe Apartments in Dallas and 102-unit Sandy Oaks in Fort Worth. Bay Equity is the seller.

FORT WORTH-Motorola's lips are sealed until the lease is signed, but UPS Logistics has confirmed to GlobeSt.com that the 800-job cell phone distribution center is headed to AllianceTexas. A final signing could come any day.

FORT WORTH-An 88,904-sf office building in Fort Worth's Medical District sells in 30 days to local investors with a penchant for the product type. In an unrelated sale, Fort Worth's Crescent gets $4.4 million for two of its nine Charter Behavioral facilities.

DALLAS-The breakdown is 37,995 sf in direct leases and 90,497 sf in renewals. The largest renewal, 44,712 sf, goes to an Arlington building in the Great Southwest Industrial Park and the largest direct deal, 14,377 sf, is signed for Quad Center in Las Colinas.