O’FALLON, ILL. — IMPACT Strategies has completed construction of the 50 West Office Building in O’Fallon, about 18 miles east of St. Louis. The three-story building, located near the HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital campus, will house the practice of Dr. Joshua Wilson of Advanced Vision Care as well as SSM Physical Therapy. TR,i Architects designed the 36,000-square-foot property. Construction took less than 12 months.
PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLA. — St. Joe Co. has broken ground on Watersound West Bay Center, a 350,000-square-foot shopping center development located on an approximately 110-acre site in Panama City Beach. The project will include a mix of retail, restaurant, office and medical space. Site work on Watersound West Bay Center is underway, with vertical construction slated to begin in the fall. St. Joe Co. plans to build the project to feature golf cart and pedestrian connectivity. Other plans include mixed-use buildings with first floor shopping and dining options and second floor office space, as well as a grocery store and pharmacy. Located near the intersection of State Road 79 and West Bay Parkway, Watersound West Bay Center is situated adjacent to the Latitude Margaritaville Watersound community, an active adult community that at full buildout will comprise 3,500 homes.
BEAUFORT, S.C. — The Morgan Cos. has plans to develop Beaufort Station, a 200,000-square-foot shopping center in Beaufort. The firm acquired 31 acres for the project. The sales price and seller for the land were not disclosed. Construction is expected to start this quarter, with the project slated for completion by the fall of 2023. Beaufort Station will be located at the southwest corner of Robert Smalls Parkway and Parris Island Gateway. The shopping center development already had four anchor tenants sign leases: Hobby Lobby, Ross Dress for Less, Ulta Beauty and Old Navy. Zach Means of Divaris Real Estate Inc. represented The Morgan Cos. in the land transaction, and Mark Hall of Judge Realty represented the sellers.
DALLAS — A partnership between locally based development and investment firm Eider Creek Capital and a fund backed by Crow Holdings has broken ground on Mountain Creek East Logistics Center, a 467,541-square-foot speculative industrial project in southwest Dallas. Ricardo Quinones of Davidson Bogel Real Estate represented the development team in its acquisition of the four-parcel, 25-acre site on which the project will be developed. Completion is slated for August. CBRE has been tapped to lease the development.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Alliance Residential Co. has acquired 15.7 acres in Raleigh for the development of Prose New Hope, a 344-unit apartment community that marks the firm’s first Prose-branded property in the city. Prose is a new housing concept focused on building attainable homes near high-growth employment areas such as Raleigh. The seller and sales price of the land was not disclosed. Construction of Prose New Hope is slated for completion by early 2023. The property will offer one- and two-bedroom floorplans with an average unit size of 1,012 square feet. Unit features will include granite countertops, shaker style cabinets, stainless steel appliances and vinyl plank flooring. Community amenities will include a resort-style pool, clubhouse, fitness center, business center and a dog park. Located at 4100 Buffaloe Road, Prose New Hope will be situated across the street from a new Lidl grocery store, as well as Triangle Town Center. The property will also be close to Highway 401, Interstates 440 and 540, downtown Raleigh, NC State and Wake Technical Community College’s northern campus.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Locally based developer OHT Partners will soon break ground on Lenox Grand, a 315-unit apartment community that will be located on a 16.4-acre site at 13505 Burnet Road in North Austin. Designed by Davies Collaborative, Lenox Grand will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such as two pools, a shared work studio, dog park, walking trails and a pickleball court. The property will also offer proximity to The Domain mixed-use development and the offices of major employers such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook and 3M. Completion is slated for 2023.
SOMERSET, N.J. — CBRE has brokered the $30.7 million sale of a 15-acre site in Somerset, located in the northern-central part of the Garden State, that currently houses a 209,000-square-foot office building. The undisclosed buyer plans to redevelop the property, which was built in 1986, into a warehouse and distribution center. Mark Silverman, Elli Klapper, Charles Berger, Jeremy Wernick and Kevin Dudley of CBRE represented the buyer in the transaction. The seller was also not disclosed.
ASHBURN AND ARCOLA, VA. — A joint venture between American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street has announced plans to develop six powered shell data centers in Virginia’s Data Center Alley for $1 billion. The campuses will span 2.1 million square feet across two sites in Ashburn and Arcola. The first project will include a portion of the former AOL headquarters on Pacific Boulevard in Ashburn. The development will feature four built-to-suit data centers delivering 300 megawatts (MW) of electrical power capacity. The second development will be located on Arcola Boulevard, directly across the street from a new development by Google and near Dulles International Airport in Arcola. The campus will include two built-to-suit data centers offering approximately 100 to 125 MW of electrical power capacity. The new buildings will range from 265,000 to 440,000 square feet in size. A timeline for the developments was not announced. The joint venture has also broken ground on ABX-1 at Beaumeade, a 265,000-square-foot, two-story, powered shell data center located on Loudoun County Parkway along the Ashburn Fiber Ring in Ashburn. The partnership acquired the site in January 2021 and has not announced a timeline for the project. A number of large-scale data …
TEMPE, ARIZ. — Opus Development Co. has purchased an 18-acre development site at 1320 and 1330 W. Warner Road in Tempe. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $9.3 million. Opus plans to develop a two-building, 197,000-square-foot speculative industrial project. Construction is slated to begin in first-quarter 2022. Brian Ackerman and Connor Clark of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal. Additionally, Opus has engaged JLL to handle leasing of the new property.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Nebraska-based investment and development firm Goldenrod Cos. will build a new mixed-use project in Fort Worth’s West Seventh District that will consist of 147 multifamily units, 99,400 square feet of office space and 11,600 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Known as The Van Zandt, the development will include the first speculative office project built in Fort Worth since 2017. Residential amenities will include a pool and a fitness center, as well as indoor and outdoor lounges and meeting areas. Construction is slated to begin during the first quarter. Stream Realty Partners has been tapped to lease the office space.
