RadioShack begins to roll out San Antonio store closures

If you’re shopping for electronics at the Village at Stone Oaks shopping center this weekend, don’t count on buying anything from RadioShack.

The Fort Worth-based electronics retailer, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month, is in the process of shuttering 16 of its more than 20 San Antonio locations. The closures are expected to flood the city’s retail market with about 40,000 square feet of space.

DDR (NYSE: DDR), which owns and manages the Village at Stone Oaks center, said…

Pension plan buys Dallas office building along LBJ corridor

Buchanan Street Partners, on behalf of an unnamed pension plan, has bought a Dallas office building alongside LBJ Freeway for an undisclosed sum and plans to take advantage of the thoroughfare’s significant upgrades.

The 10-story, 240,000-square-foot office building, named Granite Tower, at 4055 Valley View Lane in Dallas was bought from CREA Investments and Macfarlan Capital Partners.

The office building is an ideal fit for the unnamed pension plan’s core-plus investment strategy, which will bring…

Kemba Financial rethinking branch design amid Central Ohio expansion

Kemba Financial Credit Union, fresh off the debut of a new Pickerington branch and preparing to open another in Gahanna, is using the expansion to rethink the design of its nine Central Ohio offices.

The Pickerington location on Hill Road features design elements new to the Gahanna-based credit union – from glass-walled offices around the lobby’s perimeter to a large, curved green wall behind a reception desk.

Twelve miles away on North Hamilton Road in Gahanna, Kemba will implement much the same…

Placer County university backers say they're in it for the long haul

The president of the University of Warwick said Monday he is confident in plans to build a branch campus in Placer County over the next 25 years. But Sir Nigel Thrift, visiting the region Monday, said there are challenges to meet.

Among them: establishing the British university’s reputation here. Officials plan a long ramp-up period to develop name recognition in Sacramento and beyond.

“We’re going to start small … but we have big ambitions,” Thrift said at a ceremony on the Capitol steps.

The…

Mexico's energy reforms boost translation business in Texas

Mexico’s energy reforms have created higher demand for highly-technical translation services here in the Lone Star State.

President Enrique Peña-Nieto signed the historic legislation into law in August 2014, opening Mexico’s energy markets to foreign investment for the first time in more than 70 years.

Energy and logistics companies in Texas are among those seeking lucrative contracts south of the border.

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