CHARLOTTE-The number of hotel rooms in the Queen City is at a record 26,500 or 10% above the 1999 count, and growing larger. More than 4,500 new rooms are in the construction and permitting phase and another 1,200 rooms are on the drawing boards.

AUSTIN-A flurry of leasing activity in the state capital has resulted in 12 leases being inked for office space in several submarkets. The largest leases put Arc of Texas into 7,000 sf and Cox Texas Publications into 6,000 sf.

HOUSTON-A 52,615-sf office building in the southwest submarket gets a new owner as Dallas-based Prentiss Properties continues disposing of its non-core assets. The latest sale nets $10 million from the $56.4-million transaction.

MINNEAPOLIS-The parent Target Corp. is dropping the names of Dayton's and Hudson's on its department stores, including 21 Hudson's stores in Michigan, in favor of the Marshall Field's name.