NEW CANEY, TEXAS — Hope Media Group, a provider of religious content, will open its global headquarters office within Valley Ranch, a 1,400-acre master-planned development in the northeastern Houston suburb of New Caney. The facility will house video and podcast production space, studios with noise isolation features and modern collaborative spaces. Gensler is the project architect, and Houston-based Tellepsen is the general contractor. Construction is expected to begin before the end of the year. Signorelli Co. owns Valley Ranch.
CREVE COEUR, MO. — Brinkmann Constructors has topped out the new 87,000-square-foot headquarters for First Bank in Creve Coeur, a suburb of St. Louis. The four-story building will feature multiple outdoor workspaces and a multipurpose “innovation hub” for team collaboration and social events. The project also includes a two-story, 82,000-square-foot parking garage for both employees and visitors. The new headquarters is situated near the site of the bank’s original headquarters on Olive Boulevard. Completion is slated for the second quarter of 2024. First Bank, which maintains locations in Missouri, Illinois and California as well as mortgage offices in Kansas, is temporarily operating out of an office branch adjacent to the new headquarters.
HOUSTON — JLL has negotiated the sale of Memorial Pointe, a 226,586-square-foot office building in Houston’s Energy Corridor area. The 11-story building sits on 2.5 acres and has received multiple capital improvements since 2017, including a renovated lobby, and was 25 percent leased at the time of sale. Rick Goings, Tom Hall and Chad Coluccio of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was Interra Capital, a Houston-based private equity and financial advisory firm.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Locally based brokerage firm Cravey Real Estate Services has arranged the sale of a 9,500-square-foot office building located at 1434 S. Port Ave. in Corpus Christi. Lynann Pinkham of Cravey Real Estate represented the seller and occupant, Plains Capital Bank, in the transaction. Jesus Barba Jr. represented the buyer, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Inc. Plains Capital Bank will continue to lease back the space for the next 18 months while going through the site selection process for a future hub.
NEW YORK CITY — Onyx Renewable Partners, a provider of clean energy solutions, has signed a 10,760-square-foot office lease renewal at 505 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The 28-story building was built in 2006 and is adjacent to Bryant Park. Onyx plans to relocate from 230 Park Avenue to the entire 14th floor early next year. Paul Glickman, Diana Biasotti, Kristen Morgan and Kyle Young of JLL represented the landlord, Stawski Partners, in the lease negotiations. Clark Finney and T.J. Hochanadel of JLL, along with Brian Goldman, Scott Gutnick and Josh Berg of Newmark, represented the tenant.
HOUSTON — Parkway, which is a partnership between Orlando-based Parkway Property Investments and Houston-based Midway, has acquired CityWestPlace, a four-building, 1.4 million-square-foot office campus in Houston’s Westchase District. Designed by Keating Mann Jerrigan Rottet and Daniel Mann Johnson & Mendenhall, CityWestPlace was constructed between 1993 and 2001 and renovated in 2020. Amenities include a conference space, multiple food-and-beverage options, two fitness centers, trails and sports fields. Eastdil Secured represented the undisclosed seller, which previously owned an interest in the property, in the transaction. Parkway will continue to operate the property, and Parkway’s development partner, Midway, will oversee the continued development of CityWestPlace.
DALLAS — Public media organization KERA will open a new headquarters facility in Uptown Dallas. The site is adjacent to the Katy Trail, and the square footage has yet to be determined. KERA has also formed a partnership with Kaizen Development to construct the new facility, with construction scheduled to begin late next year. Kaizen also purchased 2.4 acres at the southern end of the site from KERA with plans to build a 400,000-square-foot office building and a residential tower of an undetermined size. Delivery of those projects, which will include 20,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, is slated for 2027.
ATLANTA — Portman has opened Junction Krog District, a mixed-use building in Atlanta’s Inman Park neighborhood that features 135,000 square feet of Class A offices, private terraces and ground-level retail space. The development is situated across from the Krog Street Market food hall at the corner of Auburn Avenue and Irwin Street. The Atlanta-based developer has also signed Yuji, a Japanese dining concept by Kinjo Enterprise LLC, to join Junction Krog District’s retail mix on the ground level. Yuji, along with Italian dining concept YEPPA&co, will open in summer 2024. The Japanese restaurant will feature a walk-up window for to-go orders, two outdoor bars and a 1,670-square-foot patio connected to Junction Krog District’s 7,000-square-foot public porch, which is now open. The porch fronts the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail. Adjacent to Junction Krog District, Portman recently purchased 1.3 acres where the firm will plan a second phase for the project.
NEW ORLEANS — Gas giant Shell has signed a lease at a 142,000-square-foot office building to be constructed in the 39-acre River District mixed-use neighborhood of New Orleans. Shell’s Gulf of Mexico operations headquarters will occupy the multi-floor property. Cypress Equities and Lauricella Land Co. have formed a joint venture to develop the building, which Gensler is designing. Located on Convention Center Boulevard, the project is scheduled to begin construction in 2024. Tim Relyea and Joe Peddie of Cushman & Wakefield represented Shell in the lease negotiations.
HOUSTON — Parkway, which is a partnership between Orlando-based Parkway Property Investments and Houston-based Midway, has acquired Post Oak Central, a 1.2 million-square-foot office campus in Uptown Houston. Designed by Philip Johnson and constructed between 1975 and 1981, the campus consists of three buildings on a 17-acre site. Post Oak Central also features 90,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, including both fine dining and fast-casual concepts, as well as onsite medical and banking services. Eastdil Secured represented the undisclosed seller, which previously owned an interest in the property, in the transaction. Parkway will continue to operate Post Oak Central, and Parkway’s development partner, Midway, will oversee the redevelopment of the property.