SUGAR LAND, TX-The plan is to start taking convention bookings as soon as the ceremony ends. The 300-room hotel will open in fall 2003 as a key component to the $200-million, under-construction town square project.

HOUSTON-Rent revenue is up 8.3% gross and completed deals up 35% in a 2002-to-2001 comparison for the first nine months. Despite the success, the REIT continues to watch its strategy for buying, selling and developing.

HOUSTON-The duet's second Houston project, 3000 Sage, will break ground in Q4. The 4 1/2-acre site and its 30-story, under-construction neighbor carve a high-end residential niche just a block from the Galleria's all-star shops.

HOUSTON-Yancey-Hausman slides a chicken eatery into the street-level component of the 150,000-sf, mixed-use building. The broker attributes the structure's central location in the Texas Medical Center District as key to the lease-up.

HOUSTON-Rent revenue is up 8.3% gross and completed deals up 35% in a 2002-to-2001 comparison for the first nine months. Despite the success, the REIT continues to watch its strategy for buying, selling and developing.

HOUSTON-The 16-year tenant renews 4,107 sf and adds more office space to its accommodations at 1535 W. Loop South in the Galleria submarket. The building is 86% occupied with the new contract.

HOUSTON-Powers & Frost now occupies 47,040 sf in Crescent's 1 Houston Center. In cutting the deal, the law firm backfills 16,138 sf of 139,000 sf vacated by Ernst & Young in its relocation to 5 Houston Center.

HOUSTON-ACT Service will relocate from within the southwest submarket in a seven-year lease for an office/warehouse at 12610 W. Airport Blvd. Yancey-Hausman and Transwestern work out the details.