DALLAS-Two down, two more in 30 days, says Metropolitan Properties of America, a Boston-based investment group that has just spent $100 million for posh properties in Las Colinas and Houston. The buys come with plans for a regional office in Dallas.

ORLANDO-Certain commercial projects are being red-lined these days by lenders taking a super-cautionary position in an unpredictable economic climate, Mark Findura, president of R.J. Twitty & Co. II Inc., tells GlobeSt.com.

HOUSTON-Boulder Management is planning to come out of the ground next year on a 35,000-sf to 50,000-sf office development in Westway Park. The project gets a jumpstart as brokers close a 2.4-acre land buy.

ORLANDO-Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. has orders for $4 billion; a backlog of $8.8 billion; and is hiring 1,000 workers in Orlando and another 500 at plants in Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and Canada.