STAFFORD, TX-Midway Cos. gets clearance from State Farm on a 10-year financing package, with a 25-year amortization, backed by a single-tenant, net lease with a 10-year term. The collateral is a 137,497-sf office/warehouse.

HOUSTON-Marking 20 years in the building, McDonald's renews for another seven years on a 17,934-sf office in the far northwest submarket. A West Side tenant also delivers an office deal, taking 5,777 sf in Norfolk Tower.

HOUSTON-The location at 15915 Katy Freeway also doubles as a disaster recovery center. The bank, one Mexico's largest, occupied the office space with a medium-term lease worked out by Colliers International and Transwestern brokers.

HOUSTON-Marking 20 years in the building, McDonald's renews for another seven years on a 17,934-sf office in the far northwest submarket. A West Side tenant also delivers an office deal, taking 5,777 sf in Norfolk Tower.

HOUSTON-Two tenants sign short-term renewals in the northwest submarket while they make long-term plans for their space needs. Both are subsidiaries of Stellar Event & Presentation Resources and both have had the addresses for at least five years.

HOUSTON-The plan calls for a community with 900 acres for multifamily and commercial development and the bulk to be built out with 17,000 single-family lots and infrastructure. Land sales could begin as early as 2005.

HOUSTON-Smith Seckman Reid adds another 6,815 sf to a long-term lease in the 11-story West 8 Tower in the Westchase submarket. The tenant commits for the long-term for the extra class A space, just as it did in 2001 for the original lease.

HOUSTON-Tait Electronics takes the lease to 10,000 sf at the Park Ten Business Center on the west side of town. The extra space makes up for a closed distribution center in Atlanta and some downsizing in its homeport of Toronto.