Shala Smith, public affairs officer for GSA Homeland Security,tells GlobeSt.com that the plan calls for a 49,926-sf officebuilding with ample parking for the agency's 300 customers per dayand staff. She says the plan includes vacating a leased site at8101 N. StemmonsFrwy. when the Las Colinas campus-style project near theLonghorn Drive-Texas 114 intersection is complete. The owner of theexisting office building, though, tells GlobeSt.com that he's notbeen made aware that the tenant intends to vacate.

Word on the street was JDL Castle Corp. planned to develop a100,000-sf office building. It appears the street talk was tied tothe size of the tract that's been bought from locally based ArchonGroup LP's land inventory. Smith says the developer, led by BriceShearburn, is free to develop more space if he wants, but the tractsize was needed to meet GSA's setback test and large parkingrequirement. The developer and the GSA confirmed the project'ssize, but not its delivery date.

The GSA project is JDL Castle's inroad to Texas. JDL was awardedthe contract Jan. 3 in a face-off with four other developers,several of which undoubtedly were local since there's been asteady landgrab going on for months in the neighborhood. Opus WestCorp. is building on the north side of the freeway; JDL's site ison the south side and just a stone's throw from the NEC AmericaCorporate Center along Longhorn Drive and not far from aproposed mixed-usedevelopment beside GTE Realty's Verizon Communications Inc.campus.