BAYTOWN, TX-Home Depot braces for 200-store per year expansion over the next three years. The rollout strategy comes with the opening of a 750,000-sf distribution center in the Houston suburb of Baytown. Doors open Tuesday.

SUGAR LAND, TX-A residential lighting distributor that started out seven years ago in just 5,000 sf has signed a lease for 22,535 sf. The firm has expanded several times. This time, buying was discussed and then ruled out due to the unpredictable growth.

HOUSTON-Ross Dress for Less and Sears Great Indoors are each opening stores in the market. The stores -- Ross Dress for Less is leasing, Sears is buying -- are scheduled for first-half 2002 openings.

HOUSTON-A 23-acre tract has been sold in North Houston and the word on the street is that multifamily developers Hettig/Kahn plan to turn the land into a new multifamily project.

HOUSTON-While the numbers for the Houston industrial market's third-quarter performance are less than stellar, CB Richard Ellis calls it credible with vacancies down only slightly, steady lease rates and wind-down to building frenzy.

HOUSTON-The Massachusetts-based high-tech firm commits to flex/warehouse space in a building in the northwest Houston "Big Box" area that is 52% occupied.

HOUSTON-CNC Investments, which has been actively acquiring property here and in other markets lately, makes its latest investment with the purchase of Pinecreek Apartments, a 300-unit multifamily rental complex in Houston.

HOUSTON-The local office picks up another leasing assignment for a medical office building on Hermann Park Drive. The Park Plaza Professional Building is a 177,395 sf medical annex with an occupancy rate of 84%.