KEMAH, TEXAS — San Francisco-based investment firm Hamilton Zanze has purchased Park at Waterford Harbor, a 200-unit apartment complex in Kemah, located southeast of Houston. The property was built in 1996 and was 96.5 percent occupied at the time of sale. Units average 972 square feet across seven different floor plans and are furnished with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and individual washers and dryers. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, dog park and a putting green. Hamilton Zanze plans to make additional capital improvements to select units, as well as building exteriors and amenity spaces, and to transfer management of the property to Denver-based Mission Rock Residential.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Elevate Credit Services has signed a 73,984-square-foot office lease renewal at Overton Centre, a 417,465-square-foot development in southwest Fort Worth. The two-building complex features a renovated lobby, fitness center and an auditorium/conference center. Cribb Altman and Cannon Camp of JLL, along with Mike Wyatt of Cushman & Wakefield, represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Matt Carthey and Jake Neal of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, an entity doing business as FLDR/TLC Overton Centre LP.
WESLACO, TEXAS — San Antonio-based Garansuay Group has broken ground on Shops at N Bridge, a 40,000-square-foot retail project in Weslaco, located near McAllen in the Rio Grande Valley. The 10-acre site includes four pads and is situated at the corner of North Bridge Avenue & Expressway 83. Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, Juice Us and Paris Bakery have already signed leases at Shops at N Bridge. A tentative completion date was not released.
BOSTON — Arden Logistics Parks, the industrial investment arm of Philadelphia-based Arden Group, has purchased a portfolio of eight industrial properties totaling roughly 1.3 million square feet that are located throughout southeast Massachusetts. The sales price was $160 million. Specifically, the properties, which were built between 1968 and 2016, are located in Mansfield, Fall River, New Bedford, Seekonk, Attleboro and Norton. Scott Dragos, Chris Skeffington, Doug Jacoby, Anthony Hayes, Tim Mulhall, Roy Sandeman and Dan Hines of CBRE represented the seller, Westbrook Partners, in the transaction. At the time of sale, the portfolio was 97 percent leased to 23 tenants, including Nestle, T-Mobile, Displays2Go and Whirlpool.
BORDENTOWN, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $60 million sale of a 275,631-square-foot industrial asset located at 201 Elizabeth St. in Bordentown, located outside of Philadelphia in the southern part of the Garden State. Mindy Lissner, Bill Waxman, Christine Eberle, David Gheriani, Chris Griffith, Jeff Volpi and Morgan Nitti of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer, Penwood Real Estate Investment Management, in the transaction. Steven Schultz of Newmark represented the seller, The O’Donnell Group.
ELMSFORD, N.Y. — MC Real Estate Partners, an owner-operator of East Coast office and multifamily properties, and Tokyo Trust Capital have acquired The View on Nob Hill, a 416-unit apartment community located in the Westchester County city of Elmsford. The property sits on 24 acres and was 97 percent leased at the time of sale. Twenty percent of the units are reserved for households earning 60 percent or less of the area median income. Residences feature one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
WELLESLEY, MASS. — Newmark has negotiated the sale of Park 9, a 375,058-square-foot office campus in Wellesley, a western suburb of Boston. The four-building development is leased to tenants such as Sun Life, Morgan Stanley and Boston Children’s Hospital and includes a 120,000-square-foot structure with immediate life sciences conversion potential. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen and Samantha Hallowell of Newmark represented the seller, BentallGreenOak on behalf of Sun Life, in the transaction and procured the buyer, Beacon Capital Partners.
BLUE BELL, PA. — Pennsylvania-based investment firm Endurance Real Estate Group has sold a three-building, 130,942-square-foot office complex in Blue Bell, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. The property, which was built in 1988 and renovated in 2015, sold for $12.7 million. Mike Margolis, David Dolan, Ryan Guittare, Angelo Brutico and Jim Dugan of Newmark represented Endurance Real Estate in the transaction and procured the undisclosed buyer.
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — Tishman Speyer has sold a 719,037-square-foot office campus in the Moffett Park submarket of Sunnyvale, just west of San Jose, to CommonWealth Partners. While the price was not disclosed, Tishman Speyer acquired the asset in April 2021 for $356 million, and soon leased the entire campus to Meta, the parent company of social media networks Facebook and Instagram. Google occupies a multi-building campus immediately adjacent to the site. The property features four modern office buildings, two parking structures and outdoor recreational space. Campus amenities include a gym with a basketball court, lockers and showers; outdoor volleyball court; executive briefing center; full-service cafeteria; multiple kitchens; break centers; phone rooms; and other common areas. This acquisition more than doubles CommonWealth Partners’ holdings in the Moffett Park submarket to over 1.2 million square feet of LEED Gold- or Platinum-certified trophy office space. “The sale and the lease demonstrate that Silicon Valley remains a global center of innovation,” says Rob Speyer, CEO of Tishman Speyer. “Moreover, this deal demonstrates that the market for highly collaborative, well-designed office space with accessible green space and top-level amenities is still strong.” Kevin Shannon, Steven Golubchik, Phil Mahoney, Jonathan Schaefler and Darren Hollak of Newmark …
By Taylor Williams If ever there was a time to start a commercial real estate story with a line about how everything’s bigger in Texas, a 2022 update on Port Houston’s activity would surely be it. For that really is the case in and around Houston’s economic engine. The various pieces of infrastructural groundwork that the port began laying over the last decade-plus in anticipation of expanded activity are seeing heavier utilization. The channel itself, its shores lined with 900-ton cranes, are being deepened (from 45 to 46.5 feet) and widened (from 530 to 700 feet) at accelerated paces to accommodate the ever-growing volume of cargo passing through the port. And with the forward progress of all these projects and initiatives comes healthy demand for bigger industrial tracts to develop and spaces to lease. “We’re simply in a different place now than we were a decade ago,” says John Moseley, Port Houston’s chief commercial officer. “At that time, not everybody was convinced that Houston would become a massive import hub. But we saw demographic changes and felt that as a marine terminal operator, we controlled our own destiny. So we invested in our infrastructure and economic development to attract distribution …