HOUSTON-One tenant signs for 8,541 sf at 12603 Southwest Freeway and another stays in place in 5,979 sf at 2424 Wilcrest Dr. The larger space taker shopped around, then re-upped after being presented with terms too attractive to pass up.

PEARLAND, TX-A Houston seller lets go of the 101-unit Park Place Apartments as the first leg of a 1031 Exchange to swap the property for a newer and larger multifamily holding. The buyer is a Houston syndicate.

HOUSTON-The five-year tenant re-ups 22,605 sf in three CBD locations while crews push ahead on a 280,000-sf facility being built on the outskirts of downtown Houston. Delivery is set for summer 2005.

HOUSTON-Broemer & Associates will change addresses, but stay in the Greenway Plaza submarket. The firm signed a medium-term lease for 3336 Richmond Ave. The office is being prepped for a May occupancy.

HOUSTON-The Allen Group of Carlsbad, CA, makes its Texas entry with a raw materials distribution hub with a land and sea direct connect. CBRE and IMS Worldwide make up the rest of the team for the Houston investor's project.

HOUSTON-James W. Sinclair, in the Houston firm's Corpus Christi office, is named to the newly created post of director of property management. He and a team of 22 oversee three million sf in five cities.

HOUSTON-The seller is a Los Angeles-based investment group and the buyer hails from Houston. And both are working 1031 Exchanges with the transaction, the 200,000-sf Wayside Business Center in the southeast submarket.

HOUSTON-Gulf Interstate Engineering corners the naming rights for the 119,000-sf office building, now being called Gulf Plaza, as part of the seven-year deal for three floors of office space on its way to a class A ranking.