Calvin Hull, now a senior vice president in corporate serviceswith Dallas-based Staubach Co., filled the building for theBillingsley Co. as part of his close-out leasing rally for itsindustrial and office portfolios. The building at 2915-19 MerrellRd. is being retooled for Amigo International and Quality Trim& Door Co., backfills for a tenant who filed a Chapter 11bankruptcy in recent months, according to Hull, who along withCarter Crow hit the double run for Billingsley.

Mark Miller, principal with the Dallas-based Robert Lynn Co.,says Amigo International will move by December into 27,347 sf. Hetells GlobeSt.com that the importer of glassware and food productsspent six months looking for a location so it could double in sizeand relocate from 645 Regal Row in the Bookhollow Industrial Park."There were so many good opportunities," he says of the comboheadquarters and distribution search, "that it was just trying tofind the best deal. It was a very fair deal." He says therelocation will coincide with a lease expiration.

The Carrollton-based Billingsley doesn't advertise its rates,but the building is situated in a submarket where the going rate is$3.56 per sf to $6.46 per sf and vacancy is just 7.4% in a21.7-million-sf inventory, according to third quarter numbers byCushman & Wakefield of Texas Inc.