AUSTIN-It's going to be another tough year in Austin across the product types, except for retail although its rents will be flat. Don't look for significant change until 2003 in multifamily, office and industrial, says a leading economist in his annual forecast.

ORLANDO-The largest producer of oil and gas in the United States, based on major assets in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas and Alaska, plans to add 24 new BP Connect retail outlets in metro Orlando over the next 24 months in a drive to pull ahead of 7-Eleven Inc. and 7-Eleven's fuel partner, Citgo.

EL SEGUNDO, CA-Opus West Corp., a full-service real estate company based in Phoenix with Southern California offices in Irvine and Los Angeles, has sold Grand Avenue Corporate Center to Infonet for $25 million. The development, a class A, four-story, 126,000-sf mid-rise office building, is located at Grand Avenue and Nash here.