THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — JLL’s Project & Development Services division has topped out Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center, a 365,000-square-foot medical office project located about 30 miles north of Houston. Construction of the nine-story building began in early 2020 and is expected to be complete in spring 2022. Austin Commercial is serving as the general contractor of the project. PhiloWilke served as the architect, and SSA was the engineer. JLL’s Project & Development Services division is leading development of the project along with Memorial Hermann Hospital System’s executive team.
HOUSTON — A partnership between locally based developer Boomerang Interests and CenterSquare, a global investment manager based in metro Philadelphia, will develop Houston ColdPort, a 315,101-square-foot speculative cold storage facility. Building features will include 50-foot clear heights, 38 fully automated dock positions, a 200-foot truck court, 57 trailer parking spaces and the ability to accommodate up to 40,000 pallet positions. Dallas-based design-build firm ARCO/Murray is designing and constructing the property, which will be able to support one or two tenants. Completion is scheduled for the second quarter of 2022.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Careington International Corp., a provider of medical and dental insurance, has opened a 75,000-square-foot office at 6435 Flyers Way in Frisco. The office space includes a call center, conference rooms, training rooms, quality assurance department space, an IT room, server room break room, open office space and executive offices. Dallas-based Merriman Anderson Architects designed the project, and Buckman Partnership Ltd. developed it. Careington has operated out of Frisco since 2001, and its employee based has grown from 60 to 425 during that stretch.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Midwest Hose & Specialty Inc., an Oklahoma City-based firm that services the energy, agriculture, mining and construction industries, has signed a 52,800-square-foot industrial lease renewal at 1132 Valwood Parkway in the northern Dallas suburb of Carrollton. Transwestern’s Brett Owens and Clayton Johnson represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Mitch Pruitt handled negotiations internally on behalf of the landlord, Prologis.
BOSTON — A partnership between Los Angeles-based investment firm CIM Group and Massachusetts-based Nordblom has sold 1000 Washington St. and 321 Harrison Ave., two office towers in Boston’s South End neighborhood totaling 475,000 square feet. The partnership originally purchased the properties, in 2017 and repositioned them: 1000 Washington Street, an 11-story, 242,000-square-foot building was renovated to provide Class A office space; and 321 Harrison Avenue, a three-story parking garage, was expanded by eight floors to create an 11-story, 233,000-square-foot office building. Funds managed by Blackstone acquired the buildings, and life sciences company BioMed Realty will operate the properties.
HACKENSACK, N.J. — JLL has negotiated the $114.4 million sale of Prospect Place Apartments, a 360-unit multifamily community located outside Manhattan in Hackensack. The property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and individual washers and dryers. Amenities include two fitness centers, a pool, game room, resident lounge and a business center. Jose Cruz, Steve Simonelli, Kevin O’Hearn, Michael Oliver, J.B. Bruno and Michael Kavanagh of JLL represented the seller, Kushner Cos., in the transaction. The buyer was a partnership between Khosla Capital LLC and DKJ Equity LLC.
PHILADELPHIA — GMH Capital Partners LP, in partnership with Wexford Science & Technology LLC, is nearing completion of ANOVA at uCity Square, a 461-unit multifamily project in Philadelphia’s University City area. The property will include 14,000 square feet of retail space and a 157-space parking garage. Units will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops and individual washers and dryers. Amenities will include a pool, indoor and outdoor lounges, fitness center with yoga and spin studios, coworking spaces, a complimentary coffee bar and beer taps, golf simulator and a dog washing station. Construction began in March 2020 and is scheduled for completion in August.
BRAINTREE, MASS. — New York-based Clarion Partners has purchased a 58,935-square-foot biomanufacturing facility at 55 Messina Drive in Braintree, a southern suburb of Boston. The property features six wet labs, temperature-controlled rooms, a new water filtration system and 18.5-foot ceiling heights. The facility was fully leased to Zimmer Biomet, a global leader in musculoskeletal healthcare, at the time of sale. Scott Dragos of CBRE brokered the deal. The seller was not disclosed.
HEALDSBURG, CALIF. — Ohana Real Estate Investors has sold the Montage Healdsburg, a 130-room luxury hotel located within California’s Sonoma County wine country. Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc. (NYSE: SHO) bought the resort for $265 million, more than $2 million per key. Montage Healdsburg is a newly built, 258-acre resort situated within walking distance of downtown Healdsburg. The property offers bungalow-style guest rooms and suites alongside shared amenities including a full-service spa; multiple swimming pools; an archery range; pickleball courts; bocce ball; dining options including a multi-level main restaurant and an outdoor bar and grill overlooking the resort’s vineyards; and meeting and event space. The property also offers a number of 4,500-square-foot, move-in-ready residences titled Harvest Homes, which feature four bedrooms with bed-to-bath parity. Ohana will retain ownership of the residential parcels within the property, and has begun constructing homes and selling custom homesites affiliated with the resort. “This sale reflects the strong interest from investors in best-in-class, leisure-oriented resorts as the hotel industry begins to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic,” says James Cole, head of asset management at Ohana. Dentons was legal advisor to Ohana on the transaction. This disposition marks Ohana’s second sale of a hotel …
When the world shut down over a year ago, architects, designers and developers took a collective pause to assess what needed to change in the built environment. A particularly scrutinous eye was paid to off-campus student housing, a sector whose successful model was based on bringing students together, not keeping them a safe distance apart. Some sweeping changes were recommended at the onset — many operational in nature, based on the latest guidance from health officials. As courses moved online and on-campus residence halls closed, off-campus communities emerged as a safe haven for students who did not want to — or were unable to — return home. The resilience of the sector, as evidenced last fall by pre-leasing rates and rents that were only slightly below 2019 levels, suggested the temporary tweaks made out of necessity in 2020 worked. The real question was whether those modifications would carry through to newly developed and renovated communities post-pandemic, and if so, what form they might take. Our firm took the time to reflect on how design must evolve to meet the changing needs and expectations of students, parents, operators and developers — all of which have different priorities. At the top of …