LONGVIEW, TEXAS — Extended Stay America has opened a 104-room hotel in Longview, about 110 miles east of Dallas. Extended Stay America Select Suites – Longview features suites with fully equipped kitchens, including full-size refrigerators, stovetop microwaves and cookware, as well as dedicated work and dining areas. Amenities include a pool, outdoor grilling and dining stations and onsite laundry facilities. CenterPoint Hospitality owns the hotel.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — StreetLights Residential has begun leasing The Linden Townhomes, a 68-unit complex in Arlington. The property is located within the 2,000-acre Viridian master-planned development, and units come in two-bedroom formats and offer private yards and two-car garages. Amenities include a central pool and green space, as well as a library, coworking space and a clubhouse with a game room and event kitchen. Rents start at $3,475 per month.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — A partnership between Mega Development Group, Ametrine Group and social services provider Mental Health America of Dutchess County has broken ground on Wallace Campus, a $147 million affordable housing redevelopment project in Poughkeepsie, located north of New York City. An adaptive reuse of the site of the former Wallace Department Store, the property will offer 187 units in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans that will be reserved for households earning 80 percent or less of the area median income. In addition, the development will have 30 supportive housing units and 22,000 square feet of commercial space. Social services will include home health care management, community education and family support and advocacy. The amenity package will comprise a game room, fitness center, movie screening room, coworking space and a study hall. Financing for the project is supported by New York State Homes & Community Renewal’s federal tax credit program, which is expected to generate $46 million in equity, as well as a range of other public subsidies.
TUSCALOOSA, ALA. — Travel + Leisure Co., a vacation ownership and membership travel company, has broken ground on the $150 million Sports Illustrated Resort near the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Slated to open in 2028, the planned mixed-use resort will feature a six-story tower with 75 hotel-managed condominiums and a six-story tower with 86 vacation ownership units, which will be connected by a central lobby. Owners and guests will have access to a lounge with stadium-style seating for watch parties, as well as a fitness center and pool deck amenities. The development will include retail and public-facing gathering spaces, including indoor/outdoor bars, a game lounge and a coffee bar. Plans also include a broadcast booth and rooftop terrace event space. Upon completion, the development will become the first ground-up collegiate Sports Illustrated Resort in the country, and will join previously announced projects in Baton Rouge, Nashville and Chicago. Travel + Leisure Co. operates, develops and manages the Sports Illustrated Resorts brand and its vacation club under a license from Authentic Brands Group, the owner of the Sports Illustrated name.
EAST PEORIA, ILL. — Flaherty & Collins Properties has opened Phase I of Blutowne in East Peoria. The 219-unit, $66 million luxury apartment project includes studio, one- and two-bedroom residences along with 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Amenities include a heated saltwater pool, fitness center and rooftop sky lounge. Flaherty & Collins is preparing for Phase II, which will add 262 luxury apartment units and 12,000 square feet of retail space.
CEDARBURG, WIS. — Elm Grove, Wis.-based Luther Group has broken ground on an 86,800-square-foot spec industrial building in southeast Wisconsin’s Cedarburg. The project will be situated on 8 acres within Highway 60 Business Park, and flexible leasing options will be offered ranging from 15,000 to 86,800 square feet. Completion is slated for December 2026. Colliers is handling leasing.
CHICAGO — Clayco, CRG, The Prime Group Inc. and TP Management Co. (TPM) have unveiled plans to complete a $25 million renovation of the historic Jewelers Building at 35 E. Wacker Drive in Chicago. The project will introduce a fine dining restaurant, lobby and rooftop bars, expanded fitness and wellness amenities and a reimagined conference, event and coworking space to the office property. Planned renovations will honor the building’s Beaux-Arts character. Roanoke Hospitality Group, an affiliate of The Prime Group, will operate and manage the new food-and-beverage offerings, which will be open to the public. Construction will begin in fall 2026, with the new restaurant and bar concepts slated to open in 2027. TPM is an investor in the project and will continue to participate in the ongoing management and long-term enhancement of the asset while cording capital support for future improvement and repositioning initiatives. Designed by Joachim Giaver and Frederick Dinkelberg, the Jewelers Building is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Michigan-Wacker Historic District. Upon completion in 1927, the 40-story building was the world’s tallest outside of New York City. It was designated a Chicago landmark in 1994.
DECORAH, IOWA — Opus has completed the Gerdin Fieldhouse for Athletics and Wellness at Luther College in Decorah, a city in northeast Iowa. Built in 1963, Luther’s 200,000-square-foot Regents Center had long housed the Luther Norse athletic teams. The facility required both a renovation and a 15,787-square-foot expansion. An historic $10 million gift from Michael and Nicole Gerdin and the Gerdin Charitable Foundation helped make the project possible. Work on the Gerdin Fieldhouse began in August 2024 and included the construction of a new 5,787-square-foot public lobby on the property’s north end that includes a new concession stand, restrooms and a Hall of Fame space. Opus also built a new 10,200-square-foot wrestling training complex and completed extensive renovations to the existing basketball and volleyball arena. Athlete training and rehab facilities, locker rooms and meeting and study spaces for all 21 Norse athletic teams were also updated. Opus served as design-builder and worked in partnership with RDG Planning & Design.
CORRIGAN, TEXAS — RoyOMartin, a provider of plywoods, timbers and boards, is underway on $115 million manufacturing expansion project in Corrigan, about 100 miles northeast of Houston. The project involves the construction of a 370,400-square-foot facility that will complement RoyOMartin’s existing, 407,125-square-foot plant. The new facility is expected to account for the creation of about 120 new jobs and to increase RoyOMartin’s total production capacity across its 150-acre campus by 70 percent.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — A partnership between SGI Ventures and the Austin Housing Finance Corp. has opened The Roz, a $24.3 million affordable housing complex on the city’s south side. The four-story building houses 100 units that are reserved for households earning between 30 and 60 percent of the area median income, with select units earmarked for formerly homeless individuals. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas provided a $2 million grant as part of the financing package for The Roz.
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