HOUSTON-With industrial sales and growth so brisk, an apartment developer closes a 12-acre buy with a plan in mind for the northwest submarket. In the same corridor, a father-and-son team buy nearly two acres.

PHOENIX-A regional package delivery service bundles up its Phoenix operation and heads into a 10,450-sf facility at 3618 E. Southern Ave. The firm is relocating from 3401 RE Harbour Dr. and doubling its Phoenix capacity in the move.

ORLANDO-Osceola County is changing the June 1 deadline and asking developers to submit letters of intent a little earlier than previously scheduled on the planned $100 million, 486,300-sf project.

MIAMI-Douglas E. Driver joins the locally based real estate investment and merchant banking firm as vice president and reports to managing director Timothy E. Martorella.