Southwest

DALLAS — With only one bid for the Phoenix Coyotes on the table, the Glendale, Ariz., City Council has 60 days to negotiate a lease with an investor group promising to keep the National Hockey League team in the city’s Jobing.com arena.

DALLAS — Houston and Harris County will be pumping about $1 billion of short- and long-term debt into the market this month as they seek to position themselves for leaner economic times.

DALLAS — Arizona expects to raise $300 million for its general fund today by mortgaging state office buildings, prisons, and other property in its second issue of certificates of participation this year.

DALLAS — Under the latest plan to keep the Chicago Cubs in Arizona, the city of Mesa would raise $84 million to finance a spring training facility without a state bond issue.

DALLAS — Corpus Christi International Airport is in danger of losing its investment-grade rating amid declining enplanements, Standard & Poor’s warned yesterday.

The Internal Revenue Service closed an audit of $61.3 million of revenue bonds issued in 2005 by the Coastal Bend Health Facilities Development Corp. of Corpus Christi, Tex., and has determined the debt can remain tax-exempt.

DALLAS — Boasting a top credit rating, Denver anticipates a strong response to next week’s $350 million deal that will include the city’s first Build America Bonds.

DALLAS — Oklahoma investment banking veteran Chris Cochran has been named senior vice president and managing director for public finance at BOSC Inc., the broker-dealer subsidiary of BOK Financial Corp.

DALLAS — Arkansas will refund three series of highway bonds with this week’s negotiated sale of $256.97 million of five-year general obligation bonds that will lower debt-service costs in fiscal 2011 by an anticipated $11 million.

DALLAS — The University of Colorado Hospital will use bond financing for a $400 million expansion at the new Anschutz Medical Campus at the site of the former Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, officials said yesterday.