DALLAS-Trinity Parkway Properties, a Jim Lake partnership, uses a 45,346-sf building at 141 Manufacturing St. as collateral for a 20-year loan. Cincinnati-based Union Central Life Insurance Co. provides the financing.

DALLAS-Williamsburg Properties, an entity of Vancouver, BC-based JEL Investments, gets a $16.5-million loan or 93% of the cost to acquire and transform a 16-year-old North Dallas complex into for-sale condos, the property's original intent.

DALLAS-Tom Metcalfe and Charles W. Kelly are in negotiations to buy the business from Steve Stringer. The deal will close by fall. The firm's name will stay the same, but its nine-broker size is sure to change.

DALLAS-While other parts of the nation grimace, Dallas-Fort Worth looks pretty healthy. What is being watched is that 15% of the available product in the 345.6-million-sf industrial inventory is sublease space, says a Cushman & Wakefield senior director.

GRAPEVINE, TX-Dallas' Roger Gault and Terry Casey believe the time has come to redo an industrial building into office flex. It's a mile from the $200-million Opryland Texas project, which got its own economic boost this week.

DALLAS-As promised, a Dallas judge heard the arguments and made the decision to issue a writ in the LaSalle-Le Meridien feud. The legal paper requires an eviction hearing on or before July 15 plus a decision "in a reasonable time frame.

DALLAS-DeHay & Elliston thought about moving from the Bank of America Plaza, but the building owner did what was needed to keep the seven-year tenant in place. The parties sit down at the closing table after six months of talks.

DALLAS-LaSalle Hotel Properties turns to Judge Bob Jenevien for a writ to force Le Meridien's checkout sooner rather than later from the Plaza of the Americas. LaSalle says it's back to court today because it still didn't get all that it needs.