HOUSTON-A Houston investment group finesses a double purchase, getting the 98%-occupied Woodbridge Shopping Center and an abutting 9.6 acres on Houston's West Side. The location, says the broker, is as good as it gets along Texas 6.

HOUSTON-Vince Gyorgy and John Ferruzzo are made principals at NAI Partners Commercial while Trammell Crow adds the word "senior" to the title of its Houston leader, John Holland.

HOUSTON-The new owners of a 143,410-sf office building, which is fully leased to ExxonMobil, hires Caldwell Watson Management Services to oversee the property. The assignment puts ML Realty Partners' entire Houston portfolio into Caldwell's management hands.

HOUSTON-JSWR Properties buys a third tract for a spec industrial building in the Interbelt North Business Center, where it's also under way with a build-to-suit. A warehouse project of 20,000 sf to 30,000 sf will begin in three or four months.

HOUSTON-Matrix Structural Engineers is unpacking in a 6,442-sf office at Loop Central One in the Southwest Freeway submarket in a relocation from 24 Greenway Plaza. Berry/Meredith & Co. and Lincoln negotiated the lease.

CLEVELAND, TX-Louisiana-Pacific is holding letters of intent from two buyers for 55,000-acre tracts near Cleveland, 45 miles northeast of Houston, and Honey Island, 86 miles northeast of the city. The timberland sales will close by the end of June.

HOUSTON-Described as a "destination retailer," Dylan's Candy Bar has tapped Houston's Galleria for its first location outside Manhattan. Co-owners Dylan Lauren and Jeff Rubin reserve 4,500 sf.

HOUSTON-Brite Lite Signs buys the under-construction project from Clay Development & Construction. The project is rising on two acres in Clay's Freeport Tanner Business Park in West Houston.