DALLAS-Vacancy overall is 24.8% or 25.8%, depending on who's doing the counting. Giveaways are up. Rent dipped, just not by as much. And, the Dallas CBD is no longer the engine for rising negative absorption, now up to 1.6 million sf.

CORSICANA, TX-An investment group has plans for Corsicana as well as its latest acquisition. A renovation is under way at the property bought at a recent auction. The selling price, though, was $450,000 less than the lowest offer from its listing period.

DALLAS-LaSalle Hotel Properties has the good word of a Dallas judge that he will hear the case Tuesday if today's eviction hearing is continued or a decision is not forthcoming in short order. With that said, the judge nixed a writ but marked the calendar.

PLANO, TX-Granite Properties gets its first tenants for the Shops at Granite Park, a 35,000-sf retail component for a 500,000-sf mixed-use park. A famed restaurateur takes 4,000 sf for his newest offering and Renaissance Homes, 4,400 sf.

DALLAS-LaSalle Hotel Properties hopes to secure a writ today to force a decision Monday, in line with district court's OK for a contract termination to oust Le Meridien from Dallas' Plaza of the Americas. An arbiter gets to decide in New Orleans.

DALLAS-The Dallas threat comes to a submarket that WorldCom helped to build. Insiders say the local stake is 1.5 million sf, most of it sitting in 12 buildings in the Telecom Corridor, where vacancy is at least 25.1%.

DALLAS-The dissolved Hartex Cos. sells its last multifamily holding, one of 42 quarried from the RTC and savings and loan days. A Montreal family, with a contract on the neighbor, puts up the cash for the 355-unit Brock Bank Apartments in Dallas.

DALLAS-The suburban deals passed muster for investors, near and far. A Nebraska investor takes out a loan of $2.5-million plus for a Walgreens in Trophy Club. In Garland, local investors get the Scott Gardens complex.