TOMBALL, TEXAS — Houston-based development and investment firm NewQuest Properties has announced that The Grand at 249, a $90 million retail project the northwestern Houston suburb of Tomball, is now 96 percent leased. The site spans 65 acres and fronts both Tomball Tollway/Texas Highway 249 and Grand Parkway/Texas Highway 99, and the center itself will feature 404,256 square feet of shopping, dining and entertainment space. Tenants that have already committed include AT&T, Boomer Jack’s, Gringo’s, Jersey Mike’s, Milano Nails and Two Pho Nine Asian Fusion.
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — Minneapolis-based LS Black Development has broken ground on Preserve at Mustang Creek, an $88 million affordable housing project in the northern Austin suburb of Round Rock. Designed by Merriman Anderson Architects, Preserve at Mustang Creek will total 252 units that will be reserved for households earning 30 to 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). Units will come in one-, two-, three- and four- bedroom floor plans, and amenities will include a pool, playground, clubroom and outdoor grilling and dining stations. Construction is scheduled for a fall 2025 completion.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — DC Blox, a data center provider based in Atlanta, has opened its Cable Landing Station in Myrtle Beach. The 125,000-square-foot facility is equipped with 19 megawatts (mW) of power and can host up to five subsea cables and colocation space for network and cable operators, communications providers, local enterprises and partners. DC Blox is also building a dark fiber route from the new facility to its communications hub in Atlanta. Google has announced two subsea cables that will land at the Myrtle Beach station, including the Firmina cable connecting Myrtle Beach to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and the Nuvem cable to connect to Portugal and Bermuda. Edge Holdings (a subsidiary of Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram) has announced that it plans to land its Anjana cable connecting to Spain.
WAKE FOREST, N.C. — St. John Properties has purchased a 30-acre site in Wake Forest, about 13 miles north of Raleigh. The Baltimore-based developer plans to build Wake Forest Exchange, a 165,000-square-foot mixed-use business community comprising flex, research-and-development (R&D), office and retail space. Phase I will include two flex/R&D buildings spanning approximately 95,000 square feet, a 25,000-square-foot office building and a 10,000-square-foot retail building. The remaining flex/R&D and retail buildings will be phased based on leasing pace, with the goal of executing St. John Properties’ entire development plan by 2027. Wake Forest Exchange is expected to support nearly 500 jobs at final build-out and leasing. Jay Taylor of SVN Tar Heel Commercial Realty Inc. represented the unnamed seller in the land sale, and St. John Properties was self-represented.
DELRAY BEACH, FLA. — Pebb Capital has signed 136,852 square feet of retail, restaurant and commercial office leases at Sundy Village, a mixed-use development underway in Delray Beach. The new tenants include communications infrastructure provider Vertical Bridge, Barcelona Wine Bar and a Schulson Collective project by chef and restauranteur Michael Schulson. Additionally, Pebb Capital will relocate its Boca Raton headquarters to Sundy Village in one of the property’s standalone office buildings, taking approximately 5,600 square feet of office space. The firm has also signed a 79,141-square-foot lease on the neighboring block, located at 100 S.E. 1st Ave., for a build-to-suit corporate headquarters relocation of an undisclosed, publicly traded company. Sundy Village will span across six buildings on approximately seven acres at 22 W. Atlantic Ave. Joe Freitas and John Criddle of CBRE oversee the Sundy Village’s office leasing, and Sara Wolfe of Vertical Real Estate handles retail leasing. Pebb Capital broke ground on the project in February, with delivery estimated for summer 2024. The project team includes Gensler and RLC Architects.
SAN DIEGO — Owner 6916 Fulton St. LLC is nearing completion of the development of Citrino, an apartment complex in the Linda Vista neighborhood of San Diego. Located at 6919 Fulton St., the pet-friendly community features 47 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments ranging from 470 square feet to 941 square feet. Units offer open floorplans with oversized windows, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops and full-size stackable washers/dryers. The solar-powered property features two electric vehicle charging stations, a community clubhouse, kitchen and courtyard. San Diego-based Sunrise Management is serving as property manager for the asset. Pre-leasing for the community is underway.
HOUSTON — Dallas-based Civitas Capital Group has topped out UNITi Montrose, a 238-unit multifamily and coliving project in Houston. The site spans a full acre, and the building rises six stories atop a three-story parking garage. Floor plans consist of 190 studio, one- and two-bedroom units as well as 48 private suites that house a total of 161 private rooms. Amenities will include a pool, coworking space and a courtyard, as well as 4,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Meeks + Partners designed the project, and Arch-Con Corp. is serving as the general contractor. Completion is slated for next summer.
FARGO, N.D. — Kraus-Anderson has completed the third and final phase of the $45.2 million Nodak Insurance Football Performance Complex for North Dakota State University in Fargo. The new facility is located along University Drive adjacent to the Shelly Ellig Indoor Track and Field Facility and the Sanford Health Athletic Complex. The final phase of the project added football locker rooms, sports medicine with hydrotherapy pools, team meeting rooms and equipment and laundry rooms. Designed by Foss Architecture & Interiors and Crawford Architects, the 144,400-square-foot complex features a 90,000-square-foot multi-sport indoor practice facility, regulation sized outdoor field with a 4,600-square-foot equipment warehouse and a nearly 50,000-square-foot operations and training building. The indoor practice facility, large enough to hold a full football field, provides a state-of-the-art training facility for the football program as well as for women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf, baseball, softball and men’s and women’s track and field. The indoor field has multiple netting systems to accommodate various sports.
NEW YORK CITY — LMXD, an affiliate of New York City-based L&M Development Partners, has topped out the National Black Theatre & Ray Harlem, a 21-story residential and civic project. Designed by Frida Escobedo Architects and Handel Architects, the development will house 222 mixed-income apartments, commercial space along 125th Street and a multi-purpose living room that will be open to the community. In addition, the site will feature a 27,000-square-foot home for National Black Theatre. This space will house offices, classrooms, a 250-seat performance space, a 99-seat flexible studio theater and a set-building shop to support workforce development in theatrical trades. The building is scheduled to open in late 2024, with the theater coming on line in early 2026.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Simone Development Cos. has purchased a retail building in the Morris Park area of The Bronx with plans to convert the property into a 186,298-square-foot industrial facility. The site at 1720 Eastchester Road, which previously housed a 63,000-square-foot Stop & Shop grocery store, liquor store and a Subway restaurant, is adjacent to Hutchinson Metro Center, Simone’s 1.4 million-square-foot mixed-use development. Jonathan Squires and Josh King of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Madison International Realty, in the transaction. Megan Guy, Brian Reardon, Josh Gopan, Dina Gupta and Sean Heneghan represented Simone Development on an internal basis.