HOUSTON-The CBD, for the year, is now 650,694 sf in the red. Vacancy overall has edged up to 13.54%. Rent is flat. More job cuts are coming. The upshot is troubled times are ahead for the Houston office market, according to Trione & Gordon.

HOUSTON-Knowledge Reservoir adds 3,149 sf of direct space to its 7,458-sf office at Crescent's 1800 W. Loop South. The firm moved into the 10th-floor office in February 2001 in a deal with CHI Energy.

MIAMI-The Fort Myers, FL-based home furnishings store plans to take over 80,000 sf formerly occupied by Jacobson's. This lease, for Robb & Stucky's 14th store, is expected to be signed within a month.

MARSHFIELD, MA-The town's planning board wants a 100-acre parcel near Route 139to be designated a mixed-use overlay district. The rezoning would allow the town to have more control over how the property, currently unused, gets developed.