FT. WORTH-It's just a small office, but a significant one for The Staubach Co. The Dallas-based firm has opened a Ft. Worth office, primarily to be close to one of its largest clients. Burlington Northern Santa Fe contracts with the firm to handle its more than 10,000 leases.

HALTOM CITY, TX-A California company has signed for 44,000 SF in a plan to relocate its headquarters to Haltom City's Mercantile Park. Only a dozen PharmChem employees are headed east and plans to hire more than 100 locally. A 15,000-sf lab will stay in Menlo Park, 35,000 sf being vacated.

DALLAS-Matthews Southwest is accelerating plans to redo a four-story, 80,000-sf building in south Dallas as a result of two signings for half of the space. The North Texas Opportunity Fund is relocating two businesses' headquarters as soon the work is done.

FRANKFURT-There's some 300,000 sm of new office space expected to come online before year's end. That's good news for local real estate executives who are being forced to find space in out-of-town markets for corporate clients.

DALLAS-It's all about information for customers, says George Roddy Sr., who is taking on his first teammate in 30 years. Roddy has struck a short-term deal with Web Real Estate. Give it a few months and then he says he'll decide the next move.

IRVING, TX-Felcor Lodging Trust has taken on a joint venture partner in a first-time teaming with a Pittsburgh-based firm. And, says Felcor's president and CEO, more deals are likely to evolve with Interstate, now 50% owner in eight hotels in the REIT's portfolio.

DALLAS-The 16-year-old Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr says it's going to expand. In anticipation of that move, it has taken an extra 15,254 sf at the landmark Fountain Place. The firm now occupies 70,776 sf in Crescent's 1.2-million sf downtown office building.

DALLAS-Duke-Weeks Realty Corp. has its 600,000 sf of industrial holdings filled to the brim in the northeastern submarket. Now, says the firm, it's time to look for more land in what has proven to be a market leader for them.