MANSFIELD, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Mansfield Highlands, an 18,138-square-foot retail center located southeast of Fort Worth. Tenants at the center include Mama’s Pizza, Beer & Wine World, Vintage Barber Shop, Debbie Donuts, Unique Threading Salon and Grade Power Learning Center. Philip Levy and Chris Gainey of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. Both parties were private investors that requested anonymity.
OMAHA, NEB. — McCarthy Building Cos. has completed construction of the Omaha VA Ambulatory Care Center, an $86 million, 157,000-square-foot outpatient facility for veterans. The property includes seven primary-care units, an outpatient surgery suite and a specialty medicine unit allowing 400 additional patients to visit the clinic each day, as well as a dedicated women’s health clinic area. The new facility, which is connected to the existing 12-story VA Medical Campus, will open to patients this month. This is the first center in the country to take advantage of the C.H.I.P.I.N. for Vets Act passed through Congress in 2016, according to McCarthy. Under the law, the VA is permitted to accept private donations to complete construction projects. The VA entered a public-private partnership with nonprofit group Veterans Ambulatory Center Development Corp. (VACDC) to save taxpayers roughly $30 million. The law also requires the builder to use innovative delivery techniques that fall outside federally prescribed specifications and methods. Such initiatives include subsurface utility mapping, virtual design and construction, and using a design-assist subcontracting approach instead of a hard-bid approach. McCarthy claims it completed the project four months ahead of schedule. “Breaking from the traditional design-bid-build delivery format allowed for creative solutions, more …
By Brian Niven As we begin to reopen most parts of our society following the COVID-19 pandemic that devastated our country and economy earlier this year, many in the commercial real estate industry are beginning to take stock of the massive shifts it may have put into motion. While the pandemic has decimated many sectors — shuttering retail shops, leaving offices empty and setting off an exodus of urban apartment dwellers — prospects for industrial properties have remained strong. Demand for warehouses of all kinds has been soaring in recent years, largely on the back of the growing e-commerce industry, and the sidelining of brick-and-mortar stores has only strengthened those tailwinds. However, that does not mean that the sector will not face challenges in the years to come. While most of the country’s core markets have a healthy pipeline of dry warehouse development that will help meet demand from users, the same cannot be said for an increasingly essential part of our supply chain — cold storage facilities. Vacancy for cold storage was already at or near zero across the country, but the pandemic has set off a chain of events that is likely to place significant stress on our …
By Nazir Khalfe, Principal, Powers Brown Architecture Having designed multiple millions of square feet of speculative and build-to-suit industrial buildings in my career, I’ve witnessed some striking trends over the past two decades, especially with the advancements made in tilt-wall construction. The ability to go higher and store and ship more product with today’s technology is creating an ever-changing landscape for industrial product. We have witnessed the boom of e-commerce, advancements in logistics and automation, and all the while tried to keep up with the dynamic market forces that produce a successful industrial park. Since the Great Recession, demand for industrial space has been at a premium, not only in Texas but also in most markets throughout the United States. Out of necessity for how our lives are changing, the industrial market has become the darling of the real estate industry. In 2020, thanks to the exponential growth of e-commerce activity and manufacturing jobs, we are breaking new ground on how a standard industrial park looks, feels and operates. While COVID-19 has not changed the expansive, open-space feel of warehouses where social distancing is inherently built-in, the pandemic has started to impact the industrial world on the development side. Developers …
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — JLL has arranged construction financing for South Fort Worth Logistics, a 956,020-square-foot speculative industrial project that will be situated on 47.6 acres near Interstates 20 and 35. Halff Associates is designing the project, which will consist of two cross-dock buildings with 36- to 40-foot clear heights, ample trailer parking and storage, 231 loading doors and ESFR sprinkler systems. A JLL Capital Markets team of Dustin Volz, Stephen Bailey, Taylor Coy and Zach Riebe arranged a three-year, floating-rate construction loan through Veritex Bank on behalf of the borrower, a partnership between Invesco Real Estate and Bandera Ventures. The development team expects to complete the project in 2021.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A partnership between Chicago-based investment firm Pearlmark and Buffalo-based Sinatra & Co. Real Estate has acquired La Jolla Terrace, a 340-unit apartment community in Fort Worth. Built in 1984, the property was 97 percent occupied at the time of sale and features one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Amenities include a pool, fitness center and a playground. The new ownership will implement a value-add program that will upgrade unit interiors and exterior amenity spaces. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
CLEARWATER, FLA. — Kimball Key LLC has sold Woodland Key Apartments, a 416-unit complex in Clearwater, for $55.8 million. The property offers one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities include two pools with sundecks, a grilling area, car care center, 24-hour fitness center, two dog parks and a clubhouse. The asset is located at 2770 Roosevelt Blvd., 19 miles west of downtown Tampa. Nick Meoli and Mike Donaldson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. Ashcroft Capital Managers LLC acquired the property.
SAN ANTONIO — Dallas-based GenCap Partners Inc. has sold Park at Rialto, a 274-unit apartment community that is situated on 9.3 acres in northwest San Antonio. GenCap Partners completed the property in 2018. Units feature one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans with an average size of 882 square feet. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center and a resident clubhouse. Sean Sorrell of JLL represented GenCap Partners as the seller in transaction. C.W. Sheehan, Alastair Barnes and Scott Dickey of JLL originated an undisclosed amount of Freddie Mac fixed-rate acquisition financing for the buyer, Covenant Capital Group.
ORANGE, TEXAS — Skilled nursing owner-operator SLP Operations has acquired Pinehurst Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a 118-bed facility in Orange, about 110 miles east of Houston. The facility also offers post-acute care, long-term care, respite care and memory care services. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
SAN ANTONIO — Solar energy company Freedom Forever Texas has signed a 16,364-square-foot industrial lease at 4940 Eisenhauer Road in San Antonio. John Grady of CBRE’s Phoenix office represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Josh Aguilar of CBRE’s San Antonio office represented the landlord, Prologis.