HOUSTON-Jeweler Friendze will open doors at Mason Creek in Katy while Great Clips heads into a northwest submarket spot in the North Oaks center. Saigon Seafood Wholesale renews at Beechcrest Green to take the largest spot in the stack.

KINGWOOD, TX-The Houston suburb attracts three office tenants to an 83%-occupied structure. The trio takes up more than 3,000 sf of the 19,340-sf building. In Houston, a Galleria submarket tenant renews a 14,334-sf office at 5100 Westheimer.

TEMPE, AZ-The leading defense contractor lines up 27,873 sf in the two-building Normal Junction industrial complex. General Dynamics is heading into space once occupied by Motorola.

PHOENIX-Bob Pearlstein, Max Bippus and Paul Honeycutt will partner as CBRE's lead retail team in Phoenix. They replace Dave Newquist and Ron Ault, who left recently to form a development company.

SUGAR LAND, TX-Haag Engineering takes 2.8 acres while New Concepts Properties buys a 0.6-acre tract in the Sugar Land Business Park, a development of Sugarland Properties. The smaller parcel will house a dry cleaners.

HOUSTON-Excalibar Minerals, now a tenant at the Port of Houston's bulk terminal, will move in late 2003 to nearby Jacintoport. Construction permits could be in hand in a week to 10 days for a four-mill industrial facility.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ-Given the soft office market, it was time to decide whether to hold or fold on 7.5 acres in the 260-acre Perimeter Center. Buyer Plaza Cos. intends to build an 86,000-sf, three-building medical center on its acquisition.

HOUSTON-Chris Caudill exits Grubb & Ellis for NAI Partners Commercial while Kirby Attwell steps down as COO for New Regional Properties to become an associate for Weitzman's Houston team. Caudill becomes a senior associate with the move.