RICHARDSON, TX-SBC Communications Inc. has dotted the "i's" and crossed the "t's" on an $18-million loan for its 174,825-sf office building in Richardson's Telecom Corridor. GE Capital Business Asset Funding provides the capital at 7.8% in a GMAC-structured deal.

DALLAS-The lead tenant at Dallas' Centura Tower is bucking a sit-and-wait trend and following one market watcher's advice that now is the time to expand. Publicis Worldwide Communications Group has boosted its lease to 112,712 sf.

PLANTATION, FL-Instead of doing its own inhouse leasing, the Tampa, FL-based office developer is going with C&W to fill the newly constructed Royal Palm at Southpointe office park in this Broward County community 24 miles north of Miami.

NEW YORK CITY-Unicef has subleased 9,565 sf of expansion space to augment the 40,000 sf it currently occupies at 333 E. 38th St. here.