AUSTIN-CIP/Property Management Services is tasked with finishing up leasing for the first phase of an office condo project in Bee Cave. Austin's Scheffe Group has unlocked the doors with three tenants and more on the way.

CHICAGO-"Look for rents to flatten out or decrease in 2002 and for concessions to continue increasing," says Jeff Samaras, executive director in Cushman & Wakefield's Downtown office, on the overall Central Business District market.

DENVER-Houston-based Hines Interests is frustrated by the powerful Lower Downtown design demolition review board, which has qualms with elements of the redevelopment project of the US Postal Service Terminal Annex Building.

LONDON-Business parks specialist MEPC has let its 45,000-sf Rivermead office scheme in Uxbridge, north-west London, to catering group Compass as its new UK and Irish headquarters.