HOUSTON-A three-year employee, Tyndall Yaap, of Grubb & Ellis Co. snags a promotion to vice president of the industrial group at the Houston office. The real estate firm employs 63 in the city.

AUSTIN-Guerrero-McDonald & Associates Inc., an Austin-based design and construction firm, is plunging ahead on a plan to build 60,000 sf of condo, office and retail space on land positioned midway between the Capitol and the University of Texas.

DALLAS-A broadband provider, with more than 11 million sf under contract in Dallas, yesterday added several more Ft. Worth buildings to its portfolio.

AUSTIN-It took nine months of searching, but a Mountain View, CA-based microprocessor developer has located a site for its research and development center. The center officially opens today.

HOUSTON-The popular Landry's Seafood Restaurants selects a site along the city's West Loop for its new headquarters, a 115,000-sf, eight-story building. The structure's design features a test kitchen.

AUSTIN-Three office/service centers, totaling 159,600 sf, are now under the ownership of Houston-based Weingarten Realty Investors. To date this year, the investment operation has acquired 10 properties totaling 877,000 sf.

AUSTIN-A leading provider of online services to the residential real estate sector is closing on $7 million in equity financing. The funding round is being coupled with the addition of two leading professionals to the firm's board of directors.

HOUSTON-The city's Midtown district will be seeing a change, with the buyers of a four-story office building making plans to convert it into a technology center. The structure at 3100 Travis is now the property of 3100 Travis LP.