Office

DALLAS-The slug-it-out times of this year are going to continue well into 2003 for the Dallas-Fort Worth office market, say two of the region's seasoned executives. The New Year will be one of renewal...lease renewals, that is.

PHOENIX-MEGA Life and Health is taking over 75,011 sf in the 138,000-sf Concorde Corporate Center in a 10-year lease. A company, bought earlier in the year, will be consolidating its offices into the single location and gaining some room in the process.

CHICAGO-A joint venture between the Wells Real Estate Investment Trust and Wells Limited Partnership Fund XIII pays $124 per sf for a four-story building in the Crosspoint Business Park in northeast Indianapolis.

DALLAS-Shareholders get until midnight Friday or an extra five trading days in the $61-million tender offer for common stock of Transcontinental Realty and Income Opportunity Realty. The merger is settlement for a class-action lawsuit.

SAN DIEGO, CA-The Currie Partners is preparing to start work on Phase II of its $12.5-million Rio San Diego Plaza, with groundbreaking just a few months away. Design is currently underway, as KMA Architecture & Engineering has recently been retained to plan the second phase.

FAIRFAX, VA-The AMS Building--the 264,000-sf, class A office structure at 12601 Fair Lakes Circle--gets a new owner with Prentiss Properties Trust's $55-million purchase of the property from Gilbane Building Co. American Management Services has a lease on the entire building through 2011.