DORAL, FLA. — Bridge Industrial has recently received approval to redevelop a 16-acre office park located at 7775 N.W. 48th St. in Doral into Bridge Point Doral 826, a 268,702-square-foot, two-building industrial complex. The conversion project will transform the 1970s-era suburban office park in metro Miami’s Airport West submarket into a LEED-certified logistics hub. Bridge Industrial has begun preliminary site preparations at the property and will plan to deliver the project in first-quarter 2027. Bridge Point Doral 826 represents the second office-to-industrial conversion project in South Florida as the company recently redeveloped the former Ryder Systems headquarters into Bridge Point Flagler Station.
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Greystar-Led Joint Venture Breaks Ground on 605-Bed Student Housing Project Near San Diego State University
by Amy Works
SAN DIEGO — A joint venture between Greystar, Kanden Realty & Development America and Tokyo Tatemono has broken ground on Accolade Campanile, a 605-bed student housing development serving students attending San Diego State University. The development will rise six stories and offer 310 units at the southwest corner of Montezuma Road and Campanile Drive. Shared amenities are set to include a pool and spa; multiple outdoor kitchens and gathering spaces; fire pits; a fully equipped indoor/outdoor fitness center; multiple clubhouses; recreation and game lounges, including a speakeasy; indoor bicycle storage; a dog spa; and dedicated study spaces on each floor. The property will also feature ground-floor retail space. The community was designed by JWDA Architects. Construction financing was provided by Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen. The project is scheduled for completion in June 2028 with leasing set to begin in August 2027.
QUEEN CREEK, ARIZ. — Vestar has completed Queen Creek Crossing, a 400,000-square-foot retail development located in Queen Creek, approximately 40 miles southeast of Phoenix. Costco anchors the property, which is fully leased. Other tenants include Ashley Furniture, Hobby Lobby, BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, Ono Hawaiian BBQ, Smoothie King, Sleep Number, Fleet Feet, Well Groomed Pets, Desert Financial Credit Union, Natural Pediatrix, Gallery Nails and Snip-Its. Additionally, The Habit Burger and Grill is scheduled to debut in December, while U.S. Bank is expected to open in late 2026. Vestar originally broke ground on the 31-acre development in 2022.
MESA, ARIZ. — Diversified Partners has announced plans to develop East Gate Plaza, a $60 million retail destination at the northeast corner of Elliot and Ellsworth roads in Mesa. Spanning approximately 7 acres, East Gate Plaza is located within the master-planned community of Eastmark and the emerging Superstition Vistas region, a planned 275-square-mile area of developable residential and commercial opportunities. East Gate Plaza will feature distinctive building designs, pedestrian-friendly layouts and a professional curated tenant mix. Current confirmed tenants include Starbucks Coffee, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Discount Tires, FitFX, WingSnob, Señor Taco, Farmer Boys, Zeitouna, Fresh Monkee, Port of Subs, Ono Hawaiian BBQ, Euphoria Nail Salon, Playa Bowls, Hand & Stone Spa, Kolache Café and Andi’s Hair Salon (AVEDA). Additional tenants will include a dental office, a veterinary practice, a med spa, family medicine practice and a restaurant with a bar. The project will also feature the Cambria Hotel. Construction is underway, with delivery slated for first-quarter 2026. Walt Brown Jr. and Robert Mayhew of Diversified Partners are leading the development team. Matt Pergola, Brandon Vasquez and Austin Payne of Diversified Partners CRE are handling brokerage services for the project.
OSAGE BEACH, MO. — X Caliber Capital Holdings LLC has structured a $285 million Rural PACE-X financing for the ground-up construction and redevelopment of the Oasis at Lakeport in Osage Beach. The resort and entertainment project has a total cost of $495 million. Plans call for a Marriott hotel with 402 rooms, a conference center, indoor waterpark, amusement park and various amenities. The $285 million financing consists of $220 million of conventional senior-secured debt through an affiliate of X-Caliber Rural Capital, XRL-ALC LLC, and $65 million of Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing through CastleGreen Finance. The financing marks X-Caliber’s largest Rural PACE-X transaction closed to date since the product launched in late 2024. Rural PACE-X is a proprietary financing solution that provides high-leverage financing for ground-up construction projects in micro-rural areas. The C-PACE financing is the largest to date for the state of Missouri and for CastleGreen Finance, according to X-Caliber. Gregg Delany, Ken Lorman and Gabe Mashaal of X-Caliber Advisors originated and structured the financing on behalf of Tegethoff Development Co. The project’s energy-efficiency design is estimated to save around $11 million in costs over the lifetime of the improvements. The Oasis at Lakeport is expected to …
EDINA, MINN. — Kraus-Anderson Construction has completed a $24.1 million fire station in the Twin Cities suburb of Edina. The two-story project at 4401 W. 76th St. replaces the former facility on York Avenue. Designed by BKV Group, the 35,464-square-foot development also includes space for the Public Health Division. The fire station features an atrium and lobby, administration areas, training rooms, offices, conference rooms and a large apparatus bay for ambulances, fire and rescue vehicles as well as personal protective equipment storage. The building also features a physical conditioning room that is available to all city employees. The second floor houses dormitories, and the training tower rises five stories. Construction began in fall 2023.
BALA CYNWYD, PA. — Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) and CBG Building Co. have begun leasing Blayr, a 217-unit multifamily redevelopment project in Bala Cynwyd, a northwestern suburb of Philadelphia. The project, which represents the second phase of a larger redevelopment known as Bala Cynwyd on City Avenue, is a conversion of the former 120,000-square-foot Lord & Taylor department store into an apartment complex with 16,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Units come in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Amenities include an outdoor pool, a golf and multisport simulator and a courtyard with grills and gathering spaces. Federal Realty received zoning approval for the project in February 2024, broke ground a few months later and topped off the project this spring. The first move-ins are scheduled for March.
DURHAM AND MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Pharmaceutical developer and manufacturer Novartis (NYSE: NVS) has announced a $771 million expansion of its footprint in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. According to the company, the expansion will create 700 new jobs in Durham and Wake counties and more than 3,000 indirect jobs by the end of 2030. The North Carolina expansion is part of the Swiss company’s pledge to invest $23 billion in U.S. infrastructure over the next five years. Doubling the company’s operational presence to more than 700,000 square feet, the expansion will significantly increase manufacturing capacity. The expansion will comprise new construction as well as the renovation of existing facilities across three sites in Durham and Morrisville. The new hub will include a new site in Durham housing two new facilities for manufacturing biologics and sterile packaging and a new site in Morrisville for the production of solid dosage tablets and capsules, as well as an expansion of an existing Durham facility to support sterile filling of biologics into syringes and vials. One of the new facilities will be located at Pathway Triangle, occupying 202,000 square feet at the 1 million-square-foot campus in Morrisville. CBRE represented both Novartis and the landlord, King …
DENTON, TEXAS — Hillwood, a Perot company and the owner of the 27,000-acre AllianceTexas master-planned community in North Fort Worth, has provided updates on Landmark, the company’s $10 billion mixed-use development in the North Texas city of Denton. Announced last summer, Landmark is a 3,200-acre development at the corner of I-35 and Robson Ranch Road — land that the Perot family has owned since 1987. At full build-out, Landmark will feature 6,000 single-family homes and 3,000 apartments. The development will also include 900 acres of commercial space that will be anchored by Denton’s first H-E-B grocery store. The first 120 acres are actively being leased for retail, dining and entertainment uses. The first phase of development will feature 747 single-family lots that will house a variety of home styles and will be constructed by an array of builders. The grocery store and 600 apartments will also be built as part of the initial phase, and the grocery-anchored retail component of the development is expected to open in 2027. In addition, roughly 1,100 acres of the development will be preserved as parkland, making it one of the largest natural preserves in Texas, according to Hillwood.
DALLAS — Creation, a developer with offices in Dallas and Phoenix, and PGIM Real Estate have begun construction on 635 Exchange, a three-building, 600,000-square-foot industrial project in North Dallas. The 36-acre site at the intersection of interstates 35E and 635 formerly housed a City of Dallas landfill, and the new buildings will feature 32- to 36-foot clear heights. LGE Design Build is handling the architectural and general contracting aspects of the project. Stream Realty Partners has been tapped as the leasing agent. Completion is slated for late 2026.
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