RALEIGH, NC-Raleigh-based Bob Hughes Associates and Weingarten Realty Investors of Houston have formed a strategic alliance to develop supermarket-anchored community shopping centers from 100,000 sf to 400,000 sf.

ORLANDO-Fighting to return to profitability, the locally-based, celebrity-themed chain also plans to close its 57th Street Planet Hollywood unit in New York by year end. The 45th Street Official All Star Cafe closed last week.

AUSTIN-A subsidiary of Austin-based USOL Holdings Inc., a technology solutions provider for multifamily real estate, has secured a contract to service Highland Crest, a 280-unit apartment community in Dallas. The deal is a key for long-term growth, says USOL's CEO

WESTLAKE, TX-A premier golf club community developer, undertaking its first Texas project, has secured 30 "reservations," today's baby-boomer buzzword for options, in just two weeks of word-of-mouth marketing for its 425-acre Vaquero.