ANN ARBOR AND ROCHESTER HILLS, MICH. — SweatHouz has signed retail leases to open new locations in Ann Arbor and Rochester Hills. SweatHouz is a chain of studios that offers infrared saunas, cold plunges and other wellness services. Jason and Amy Hanley are the area developers for SweatHouz in Michigan and have signed on to open 17 locations across the state. SweatHouz currently has 50 locations open and operating across the country and another 50 in permitting or construction phases. The Ann Arbor facility will total 2,628 square feet at 3143 Ann Arbor Saline Road, and the Rochester Hills location will span 2,130 square feet at 1495 N. Rochester Road. Both will serve as outparcels to Meijer stores. The tenant group also owns six Orange Theory locations in Michigan. Norman Abro of Keystone Commercial Real Estate brokered the leases.
By Harrison Kruse and Ned Turner, CBRE As we near the second half of 2025, the Des Moines industrial market is starting to see a shift in fundamentals, as new deliveries and the pipeline of new big-box speculative warehouse product have come to a complete halt. Like many cities in the upper Midwest post-COVID, the Des Moines MSA saw an influx of out-of-state developers backed by institutional capital go ground up with new big-box product when the economy was stimulated by the Federal Reserve reducing the federal funds rate below 1 percent. This resulted in historically compressed treasury yields and an abundant amount of liquidity injected into the capital markets. This effect on the national economy escalated consumer demand for e-commerce and locally, ag-related products, which are the state of Iowa’s most valuable export on an aggregate basis. The Des Moines MSA between 2021 and 2024 had more than 6.8 million square feet of new industrial space delivered to the market, which is about 10.2 percent of the total market size on a square-foot basis. During those years, net absorption increased on an annual basis between 800,000 and 1.5 million square feet. Pre-COVID, Des Moines’s average net absorption was between …
FRISCO, TEXAS — A partnership between Hunt Realty Investments and The Karahan Cos. has received a $425 million construction loan for Fields West, a 55-acre mixed-use project in Frisco, a northern suburb of Dallas. A consortium of Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and Prosperity Bank provided the financing. Additionally, as part of the development agreement, the City of Frisco recently sold $70 million in municipal bonds as its contribution to the financing of Fields West. Fields West, which was announced in 2022 as a $2 billion development, will be an urban village within the 2,500-acre Fields master-planned community. Plans currently call for 350,000 square feet of shopping, dining and entertainment space and 325,000 square feet of Class A office space. Gensler is the master plan architect of the development. Construction of the retail, restaurant and entertainment space is now underway. The opening of this element of the project will be staggered between the third quarter of 2027 and into 2028. That space is 70 percent preleased to a variety of national brands, boutique retailers and first-to-market operators, such as Bloomie’s (a Bloomingdale’s concept), Alo Yoga, Arhaus, Kendra Scott, Pottery Barn, Sephora and Williams Sonoma. On the restaurant front, concepts …
Content PartnerFeaturesLeasing ActivityLoansMidwestMultifamilyNortheastRegions Real Estate Capital MarketsSeniors HousingSoutheastTexasWestern
Multifamily, Seniors Housing Sectors Remain Positive Real Estate Performers
By Troy Marek, Regions Real Estate Capital Markets As we embark on the second half of 2025 amid some economic uncertainty, there are two bright spots within real estate. Both the multifamily and the seniors housing/healthcare sectors boast strong fundamentals and occupancies. RealPage data indicates 138,302 apartment units were absorbed in the first quarter, and NIC MAP data shows a seniors housing occupancy increase to 87.4 percent, or 621,000 occupied units over the same period. This suggests strong demand in both critical housing sectors, at the same time new supply is slowing. Interest Rates Drive Lending Activity Agencies Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and HUD remain the primary loan providers supporting these two asset classes today. Unsurprisingly, interest rates heavily impact lending activity. Since the Federal Reserve decided to hold rates steady in May, sector experts have been closely watching employment and inflation data, as well as tariff impacts, as all three have the power to influence the Fed to lower rates later this year. With the Federal Reserve deciding to hold rates as-is in June, industry players will continue to keep an eye on the data. Once rates are brought down some, perhaps later this year, multifamily and seniors housing/healthcare …
CORSICANA, TEXAS — Milwaukee-based Phoenix Investors has purchased a 1.5 million-square-foot industrial park in Corsicana, a southern suburb of Dallas. The 172-acre property was originally constructed as a build-to-suit distribution center for K-Mart and later utilized by The Home Depot as a regional logistics hub. The property was fully leased at the time of sale and includes 26- to 28-foot clear heights, 109 dock doors and 983 trailer parking spaces. In addition, the facility underwent major renovations in 2018, including a new roof installation. Pauli Kerr of JLL brokered the deal. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
DALLAS — Locally based investment firm M2G Ventures has begun the redevelopment of the former Inwood Design District, a 14-building, 740,000-square-foot industrial and retail property in Dallas that also includes showroom space. The redevelopment will create the Inwood Design District for light showroom and industrial uses and Ace on Inwood for retail and restaurant uses. Completion is targeted for late 2025. The company purchased the 38-acre site at 1110 Inwood Road earlier this year. At the time of sale, Inwood Design District was 93 percent leased to tenants such as Crate & Barrel, White Glove Storage & Delivery, Community Coffee, Neiman Marcus and Granimport USA.
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — A partnership between Orlando-based ZOM Living and CP Capital has completed Azola Avery Center, a 359-unit multifamily project in the northern Austin suburb of Round Rock. Located within the 1,200-acre Avery Centre master-planned development, the garden-style property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units that range in size from 573 to 1,564 square feet. Amenities include a pool, outdoor pavilion with grilling stations and TVs, a dog park, fitness center, private coworking offices and a grab-and-go convenience store. JHP designed Azola Avery Center, and Rampart served as the general contractor. Monthly asking rents start at $1,200 for a one-bedroom apartment.
HALTOM CITY, TEXAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of Belmond, a 312-unit apartment community located north of Fort Worth in Haltom City. Built on 17 acres in 2001, the property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units with an average size of 980 square feet. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, playground, dog park, coffee bar, clubhouse, outdoor grilling and dining stations and package lockers. Joey Tumminello, Taylor Hill, Drew Kile, Michael Ware and William Hubbard of IPA represented the seller, Dallas-based Knightvest Capital, in the transaction and procured the buyer, an entity doing business as TwinkleStar Asset LLC.
DALLAS — Adolfson & Peterson (AP) Construction has broken ground on a 39,000-square-foot civic project in East Dallas. The site spans 3.2 acres at 9731 Lake June Road. The two-story building will be known as the East Dallas Government Center and will house multiple departments of Dallas County, including several related to law enforcement. Completion is scheduled for next summer.
NEW YORK CITY — Local real estate giant Tishman Speyer has received a $385 million refinancing for 300 Park Avenue, a 25-story office building in Midtown Manhattan. Originally built in 1955, 300 Park Avenue totals 770,000 square feet and was fully leased at the time of the loan closing. A consortium of lenders led by J.P. Morgan Chase and including Deutsche Bank Securities and Morgan Stanley provided a $330 million CMBS loan with a fixed interest rate of 5.44 percent. Macquarie Capital Principal Finance provided $55 million in mezzanine financing to complete the capital stack.