SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TX-Houston's Williams Brothers Construction is hard at work on repairs to the collapsed Queen Isabella Causeway. The contractor gets official signatures on the $4-million contract.

HOUSTON-Reddy Partnership, a local retail property owner, secures the title to a 34,455-sf neighborhood center near Houston's CBD. The sale is just another in a series for Kagan-Edelman Capital Fund, says the seller's broker.

HOUSTON-Occidental Oil and Gas Corp., the largest tenant at 5 Greenway Plaza, gets a ground-floor presence in a 40,000-sf expansion of its 197,000-sf lease in the class A office building. The new deal calls for reception and conference areas.

HOUSTON-Houston-based One Stop Wash 2 acquires a 57,543-sf industrial building and seven acres in the city's near southeast submarket. The property carried a $795,000 asking price. The buyer eyes two abutting tracts to push a mixed-use project for the site.

LEAGUE CITY, TX-More than 70 properties were screened before CA-based Drever pushed forward on a buy strategy that targets distressed properties or ones in overbuilt locations. The 201-unit Moorings in League City best suited the buyer's MO.

GALVESTON, TX-Galveston City Council signs off on a port merger plan with Houston, signaling a call at last for a special election Dec. 18. If the teaming is OK'd, Galveston gets the regional port and Houston, the overseer's job.

HOUSTON-It's a departure from the norm for multifamily developer, Simmons Vedder & Co. of Austin. But, the location warrants a high-end high-rise instead of its usual garden-design fare. The 252-unit project is rising on the site of the Gulf Publishing Building.

HOUSTON-Division III Contractors races for a leased spot after being displaced from the southwest submarket when its 8,000-sf industrial building sells. Metal product is hard to find, but the broker closes the sale and relocates the tenant in one fell swoop.