DALLAS-Horri Investments has spent four years buying land, subdividing and selling to would-be builders. Now, says the owner, it's time to build its own product. Land is being prepped for a first-phase that could cost nearly $4.3 million.

LONDON-Fashion and homewares retailer Laura Ashley has forward-purchased a 170,000-sf distribution facility at Wilson Bowden Developments' Interlink Distribution Park in Barden, Leicestershire.

HOUSTON-TPC Performance Solutions makes tracks to a 4,996-sf office in the 100,192-sf Equalnet Plaza. The lease takes the building to 85% occupancy for owner, Houston-based BMS Management.

JACKSONVILLE, FL-The city with the largest land area in Florida (759 square miles) and home of the largest privately owned commercial real estate firm in the state (St. Joe Co.) has shaved its combined vacancy level to 14.3% from a 2001 high of 17%, but a new report predicts full recovery is at least six months away.