FORT WORTH-It won't be a dynamic year, predict the experts, but it will still be a year of growth in Tarrant County. It's just slower than before. The slowdown means doing business like the good old days, says a leading industrial specialist.

PHOENIX-The first positive sign this year for the Phoenix office market is just a sweet reprieve, says Cushman & Wakefield's senior director in Arizona. The honeymoon of a 117,000-sf net absorption ends in Q4 when an extra 2.5 million sf comes to market.

BOSTON-The changing fortunes of the commercial real estate market here can be demonstrated by the current fate of the tower at 131 Dartmouth St., here in the Back Bay. The 11-story building has yet to sign a single tenant.

BOSTON-Westbrook Partners continues to penetrate the area as it acquires 50% of One Beacon St. Nearly a quarter of the 1.1 million sf of the office tower will soon be available, which is a substantial amount of space in a market that is still fairly tight.