HOUSTON-McShane Corp. has wrapped up work on the first phase of its Northwest Crossing, a 62,000-sf office-flex building. The northwest submarket, says a McShane VP, is noticeably void of that product type. Coming next: a 53,000-sf office-flex structure.

NEW YORK CITY--The national development company Rockefeller Group Development Corp. has signed an agreement with ePropertyTax, the developer of an e-commerce solution for property tax management, for 15 Rockefeller-owned properties.

ATLANTA-The locally based hotel franchiser loaned the online management and reservations firm $10.2 million and will write off the unpaid balance on a second-quarters earnings report to be made to shareholders Thursday.

DALLAS-Few office buildings have exchanged hands in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market. It's not so much the economy as it is an attitude "to hold what you've got." Many properties are in the hands of REITs and long-term investors, who aren't ready sellers, say execs.