DALLAS-Cushman & Wakefield has promoted Elizabeth Trocchio to senior managing director in Dallas, a post that's been vacant for three months. Change is coming, she says. Retail, maybe an Austin office and uniting the Texas team are on the agenda.

AUSTIN-Sun Microsystems isn't pulling out of Austin, but is reviewing its office needs. The decision could put 107,000 sf of under-construction space at Parmer Business Park onto the city's sublease roster. Sun has tested the waters for sublease takers, its broker confirms.

AUSTIN-Office developers and hoteliers are sizing up Austin's CBD, where stalled projects and available land are prying open doors for would-be investors. If they wouldn't be looking, there'd be a real problem, says a city leader.

DALLAS-Turner Construction Co. is taking its place in history as the contractor for the $70-million plus, 300,000-sf museum about the US Constitution. The Philadelphia project is part of the revitalization of the historic Independence Hall complex.

DALLAS-Car Toys is forging ahead on an expansion strategy that calls for about 20 retail sites by the end of 2002. The latest signings are for a lease site in Arlington and a land buy in Plano. The auto electronics retailer has seven DFW locations in place.

GEORGETOWN, TX-New Jersey-based MDU Communications gets a provider pact for the upscale Waters Edge in Georgetown. For Austin-based US OnLine, three more multifamily properties have been added to its portfolo.

AUSTIN-McShane Corp. has just closed a 25-acre buy from Kennedy-Wilson. The land will jumpstart a $15-million, 250,000-sf expansion of Tuscany Center. By August, crews will be working on the first phase, a 160,000-sf warehouse-service center.

DALLAS-Baker Commercial Realty and Binswanger/CBB are hitting the streets in marketing efforts for two new assignments. Baker Commercial gets Southlake's Aventerra and Binswanger, a high-end Rio Grande industrial building.