Article: Houston Chronicle Real Estate Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

May 21--MORE SUBURBAN OFFICE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION ON THE WAY: Granite Properties is ready to launch the next barrage of office building construction in the Houston suburbs.

New office buildings have been a rarity over the last year, following a surge of office tower construction in 1998.

Scott Martin, managing director of Granite Properties, said his company will start construction in three months on an eight-story, 200,000-square-foot project. The building, designed by Kirksey & Partners Architects, will be completed in the fall of 2001.

"We want to be the first one out of the ground in what we feel is the next wave," Martin said. "We believe ...

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