HOUSTON-Crate & Barrel is planning to relinquish its Galleria store in favor of a 40,000-sf location at Highland Village. A La Madeleine's is being razed for the building project.

ENTERPRISE, OR-The Zumwalt Prairie is North America's largest remaining expanse of native bunchgrass land. Remote and relatively little-known, it supports extraordinary wildlife populations, including the densest known concentration of breeding birds of prey in the nation.

SAN ANTONIO-Construction crews are readying a 200,000-sf former manufacturing site for a January 2001 occupancy by Southwestern Bell Communications, which recently has signed a long-term lease for the entire property in the city's northwest submarket.