Office

PLANO — Dallas-based Winzer Corp. has awarded Alliance Architects the bid to design a new 139,000-square-foot office/distribution facility, which will be located at the corner of Plano Parkway and North Star Road in Plano. The build-to-suit facility will feature painted tilt wall panels, ribbon windows with a metal canopy, a freestanding entrance wall, two-story glass curtainwall and a two-story open-air lobby. Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers is providing civil engineering design services, Hunt & Joiner Consulting Structural Engineers is providing structural design services, Belle Firma is providing landscape design services, Weeks Robinson Properties is the developer, Transwestern assisted Winzer in the site selection, Panattoni Construction is providing general contracting services and Pritchard Associates is serving as the construction manager.

HOUSTON — Newport Beach, Calif.-based KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT has purchased the 400,101-square-foot 1800 West Loop South, a 21-story office tower located in Houston's West Loop/Galleria submarket. The property is 88 percent leased. KBS plans to upgrade the lobby and elevators of the property, which features a deli, laundry and dry-cleaning services and an 11-story parking garage. KBS-affiliated companies own four other Houston-area properties totaling 1.3 million square feet, including Ten West Corporate Center, Two Westlake Park, Clay Crossing and 8300 FM 1960. Charles Schreiber, Jr., Peter Bren, Keith Hall and Peter McMillan III of KBS Realty Advisors sponsored the buyer in the transaction, and KBS Capital Advisors LLC advised the REIT.