Bank of America's team secured a stair-stepped lease with anallowance to spruce up the lead tenant offices on floors sixthrough 10 in the 16-story, canal-fronting building in the LasColinas Urban Center, Tom Cruikshank, vice president and leasingdirector in Dallas for Jones Lang LaSalle, tells GlobeSt.com. Thedeal spent six months at the bargaining table, but it wasn't underthe same kind of pressure as one inked five days ago in the DallasCBD. For previous story, click here.

"I think it was our deal to win or lose," Cruikshank says. Bankof America replaced a pact with less than a year left on its term,taking the same amount of space in the 486,754-sf complex, owned byNew York City-based Colonnade Properties LLC.

Cruikshank says the long dry spell in Las Colinas appears tohave ended. His leasing pipeline has another 140,000 sf undernegotiation, some renewals and some new deals--all on track to besigned by year's end. The 352,162-sf Las Colinas Tower II at 225 E.John Carpenter Freeway is 82% leased and its 134,592-sf sister, LasColinas Tower I at 201 E. John Carpenter Freeway is resting at 40%occupancy.