PHARR, TEXAS — Dallas-based Topgolf will open a 55,000-square-foot venue in the Rio Grande Valley city of Pharr on Friday, Nov. 16. Topgolf has already hired 350 full- and part-time associates in advance of the opening of the Pharr location, which will be the company’s 50th overall. Topgolf venues feature chef-driven menus, big-screen TVs and private event spaces. The company offers social leagues and tournaments as well.
AURORA, ILL. — Panattoni Development has purchased a 53.4-acre site in Aurora to develop Orchard Gateway, a 764,895-square-foot speculative warehouse. The Class A facility will be divisible up to 300,000 square feet. Completion is slated for the third quarter of 2019. Building features will include a clear height of 36 feet, 166 exterior docks, 185 trailer parking positions and 304 car parking spaces. Alston Construction and Harris Architects make up the project team.
LITHIA SPRINGS, GA. — Lincoln Property Co. Southeast and Crow Holdings Capital Real Estate have broken ground on a 251,466-square-foot speculative warehouse/distribution center called Factory Shoals Distribution Center in Lithia Springs. The site is located on Interstate 20, 15 miles west of downtown Atlanta. The center will feature a 185-foot deep truck court, 40 spaces for excess truck storage, 32-foot clear heights and motion-sensor lighting. The project is slated to be finished in summer 2019.
RICHMOND, VA. — Community Preservation and Development Corp. (CPDC) has broken ground on two adjacent apartment buildings in Jackson Ward district of Richmond. One of the apartment buildings will include 82 units, 46 of which will be at market price. The other will be a 72-unit affordable community for seniors moving in from Richmond’s Fay Towers. The Richmond Times-Dispatchreported in July that the project would cost $33 million. Amenities are set to include a fitness center, dog-grooming room, media room, and outdoor patio and grill area. S.L. Nusbaum realty will manage the property, which is expected to begin leasing in October 2019.
EXTON, PA. — The Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has sold a four-acre development site in Exton for $10.3 million. The site is located adjacent to the Exton Square Mall, which is approximately 33 miles northeast of Philadelphia. The property was acquired by Hanover Co., which plans to build a 300-unit apartment building on the site. PREIT recently revamped the Exton Square Mall with the addition of a Whole Foods location earlier this year.
ANKENY, IOWA — Stahl has been awarded the construction management contract for a new 101,403-square-foot elementary school in Ankeny. Construction of the $20 million project is expected to begin in March 2019. The new school will serve 750 students in grades K-5. FRK Architects + Engineers is the project partner. Completion is slated for June 2020. Funding for the school came from an $18 million bond referendum approved by the community in February 2018.
BRENHAM, TEXAS — Developer Servitas has completed Mill Creek Residence Hall, a $22.7 million student housing project serving Blinn College in Brenham, roughly midway between Houston and Austin. The 169,700-square-foot property features 464 suites in four- and two-bed configurations, as well as community study rooms, common areas and onsite laundry facilities. Moss Construction and Hunt Cos. provided general contracting and construction management services for the project, which Kirksey Architecture designed. The property welcomed its first student residents this semester.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Tech consulting firm Infosys (NYSE: INFY) will open a technology and innovation hub in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Richardson. The company claims the project will create 500 new jobs by 2020. Operations at the center will focus on serving the telecommunications, retail and banking industries. According to the Fort Worth Business Press, the company’s total capital investment in the area will be $12.3 million.
TAMPA, FLA. — Strategic Property Partners, LLC (SPP) has broken ground on Water Street Tampa’s first residential building, 815 Water Street, in Tampa. In addition to 420 rental residences, the dual-tower project will feature new dining, grocery and shopping options. The two towers will rise 21 and 26 stories and each tower’s roof will include an outdoor pool, fitness center, community kitchen, bar and club lounge. 815 Water Street Tampa is expected to open in late 2020. The two-tower project is part of SPP’s $3 billion mixed-use redevelopment, which will include more than 2 million square feet of office space; 1 million square feet of retail, cultural, educational and entertainment space; two new hotels totaling more than 650 rooms, including the city’s first five-star hotel; and the University of South Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute. SPP is a partnership between Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and Cascade Investment LLC. The design team for 815 Water Street includes New York City-based architect Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), Toronto-based interior designer Cecconi Simone and Miami-based landscape architect Raymond Jungles Inc. This is KPF’s fifth project in Florida, but first in Tampa.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — PGIM Real Estate Finance has provided a $34.2 million 221 (d)(4) construction-to-permanent loan for Link Apartments Linden, a new apartment development underway in Chapel Hill. The borrower, Grubb Properties, is developing the 215-unit, market-rate apartment community, which will share a parking deck with a to-be-developed, 106,000-square-foot, Class A office park. Link Apartments Linden is Phase I of the Glen Lennox redevelopment, a public-private partnership between the Town of Chapel Hill and Grubb Properties that will include 3 million square feet of office, residential, retail and hotel space across 70 acres over the next 20 years. The site is about one mile from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Grubb Properties has Link-branded apartment communities in Richmond, Va.; Winston-Salem and Raleigh, N.C.; Greenville and Charleston, S.C., and more under development in Atlanta, Winston-Salem and Charlotte.
