LONDON-Retail investor Hammerson has made a late bid to enter the out-of-town retail market with a Pounds 192 million ($300 million) offer for Grantchester. The company's management has already offered Pounds 167 million ($262 million) to take the company private.

SHENANDOAH, TX-A $4.6-million loan gets final signatures as the developer pushes ahead on the third leg to the 400,000-sf lifestyle center. Today Realty Advisors of Dallas leads the limited partnership in charge of the newest phase.

ORLANDO-The locally based, celebrity-themed restaurant chain with 111 properties in 41 countries, has seven ventures totaling at least 500,000 sf, either ready to open or leaving the drawing boards shortly.

THE WOODLANDS, TX-The center will rise on 15 1/2 acres in the Village of Sterling Ridge. Ground breaks in the fall; delivery is winter 2003. The plan is to merge two branch locations and Cochran's Crossing center.