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Within the next week, Wiggin Properties hopes to start signing leases on its 67-unit Mayo 420 Building, finishing its $30 million renovation of the downtown Tulsa office building by early April.

The nation’s courthouses are old and cold. It hit 42 degrees inside the Okfuskee County district attorney’s office last week when Oklahoma and the eastern two-thirds of the nation were gripped by a cold spell that sunk temperatures below freezing, and in the north, well below zero. But with money tight, Okfuskee County officials had few options how to warm the courthouse built in the small town of Okemah in 1926.

The end-of-year numbers weren’t pretty, which might mean the best thing about the Oklahoma City retail market is that 2009 is gone.

The Petrous Group has been selected as the new management company for Founders Tower, 5900 Mosteller Dr. in Oklahoma City.

The Hitachi Computer Products plant in Norman will be more than doubled in size with the addition of a new distribution center.

Members of the Oklahoma City Foundation for Architecture have always wanted you to appreciate local buildings and human-made objects of distinction. Now they want you to capture them in photography.

Renzi Stone, president and CEO of Saxum Public Relations, signed the papers Monday completing the purchase of the old Community Foundation Building in Midtown and ending his two-year quest.

After two years of construction-fueled growth, Tulsa’s retail space vacancy rate ended 2009 falling to a two-year low of 14.1 percent, according to a report by CB Richard Ellis of Oklahoma.

Growing demand for properties built in the 1980s helped offset some historically low sales numbers in an older sector of the Oklahoma City-area multifamily real estate market in 2009.

Henry Ford’s great-grandson arrived at the shuttered auto plant to brag about a plan to revive the vast empty space: Investors would transform it into a modern factory to make solar panels and high-tech energy systems instead of Town Cars and Thunderbirds.