AUSTIN, TX-In order to keep a long-term tenant, Equity Office Properties tears up a 91,969-sf lease with Brown McCarroll LLP that was scheduled to expire next fall in favor of a new 10-year lease for 106,345 sf at a lower lease rate.

MINNEAPOLIS-Glueckstein comes from Ellerbe Becket and will have broad range of responsibilities, including a focus on building design.

LONDON-Land Securities Trillium, the outsourcing subsidiary of Land Securities, has reached agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions to expand its existing property outsourcing agreement to include the 9 million-sf former Employment Service Estate.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO-The publicly traded office investor acquires the building after Cell Genesys Inc., the building's long-term tenant, passes on its purchase option.