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PLANO, TX-In a 30-day look and 30-day close, Dunhill PartnersInc. of Dallas has bundled a 300,000-sf footprint at a top suburbancorner, paying more than $25 million for the 169,834-sf PrestonTowne Crossing and rolling the cost into one loan in a refinance ofits abutting property. Now, the buyer's in pursuit of a second hardcorner at the crossroads.

Dallas-based Dunhill faced down at least 20 other would-bebuyers of all types for the 18.4-acre shopping center, abutting its130,000-sf Berkeley Square, at the northeast corner of Preston Roadand Park Boulevard in Plano, says Doug Hazelbaker, first vicepresident for CB Richard Ellis Inc.'s Dallas office. Not only wasDunhill sporting the top offer, but it pulled off the closing ontime even though the game plan was to seal the deal with arefinance. "One of the reasons Rreef picked Dunhill Partners," hetells GlobeSt.com, "is it has a good reputation for closing."