AUSTIN-The Texas Association of Counties has started work on a 95,000-sf office building near the capitol. The plan is to occupy 65,000 sf and market the balance for retail and offices. Finding tenants shouldn't be a problem due to its location, says the director.

AUSTIN-A Reserve tenant boosts its office space by 5,272 sf. Jones Energy, headquartered in Austin, occupies building five in the eight-building, 84,442-sf office park in the city's southwest submarket.

SAN ANTONIO-The San Antonio Convention Center Bureau gets an extra $2 million pumped into a $5.6-million budget to attract new trade. Local hotels are kicking in another $400,000 in barter and in-kind contributions for the effort.

AUSTIN-Out with the old and in with the new is the theory behind a 67,000-sf, made-over Wal-Mart by Houston-based Academy Sports and Outdoors. The Research Boulevard location replaces a 35,000-sf store in the same submarket.

AUSTIN-Seattle's Best Coffee lines up a franchise partner to develop 13 cafes in Austin and three in Waco. The first of the RTG Business Enterprises-owned cafes could open by January. Competitor Starbuck's has 27 locations in the markets.

SAN ANTONIO-The San Antonio Convention Center Bureau gets an extra $2 million pumped into a $5.6-million budget to attract new trade. Local hotels are kicking in another $400,000 in barter and in-kind contributions for the effort.

AUSTIN-Seattle's Best Coffee lines up a franchise partner to develop 13 cafes in Austin and three in Waco. The first of the RTG Business Enterprises-owned cafes could open by January. Competitor Starbuck's has 27 locations in the markets.

ROUND ROCK, TX-A shutdown decision cuts more than 400 jobs and adds another 127,000 sf of manufacturing space to a market already supporting 600,000 sf of available industrial space. Tellabs is still undecided whether to sell or lease the site.