CHICAGO — Ware Malcomb has completed interior architecture and design services for the corporate headquarters of Purohit Navigation at Willis Tower in Chicago. The healthcare communications and advertising agency now occupies 10,000 square feet on the 62nd floor of the office tower. The design emphasizes a central collaborative area with open space. All millwork was custom designed to fit Purohit’s needs. Bear Construction was the general contractor for the project.
DURHAM, N.C. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Hock Plaza, a 327,160-square-foot medical and educational office building in Durham. Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC acquired the 12-story building from Hines. The sales price was $142 million, according to the Triangle Business Journal. Constructed in 2004, Hock Plaza is situated on more than 2.5 acres at 2424 Erwin Road, adjacent to Duke University Hospital. The building is home to 34 different Duke University medical institutes, centers and research functions, including Duke Cancer Institute, the Center for Autism and Brain Development, and the Center for Smoking Cessation. The property, which includes a 1,057-space parking garage, is located within North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Jay O’Meara, Will Yowell, Lee Asher, Chris Bodnar and Ben Kilgore of CBRE arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller. The sales price was a record price per square foot in the state of North Carolina, according to O’Meara. Chicago-based Harrison Street is a real estate investment management firm focused on the education, healthcare and storage sectors. The firm has approximately $12.8 billion in assets under management. Houston-based Hines is a privately owned global real estate investment, development and management firm with $100 billion in assets under management. — …
Houston’s resilient multifamily market has turned a corner and is poised for growth this year, according to experts across a range of industries. While the city faced significant headwinds in 2017, mainly a sluggish energy sector and a major hurricane that damaged thousands of homes and apartments, Houston’s strong fundamentals have paved the way for the multifamily market to post its strongest performance since 2015. The impacts of Hurricane Harvey generated unexpected changes in the multifamily market. The storm, estimated to be one of the costliest in U.S. history, damaged nearly 135,000 homes and more than 100,000 apartment units. Consequently, the rental market saw a spike in absorption from displaced homeowners and existing renters whose apartments were uninhabitable, thus reversing the supply imbalance and anemic rent growth that had stifled the market since the multifamily building boom — and subsequent oil bust — of 2015. Basic Numbers A surge in demand drove multifamily occupancy up 120 basis points to 90.1 percent between August and September of 2017, its highest level since the fourth quarter of 2015. The heightened demand translated into a monthly rent increase of 1.4 percent. In effect, rent grew to $999 per month on average in September, …
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — KDC has broken ground on the new, 165,000-square-foot corporate headquarters for Independent Bank Group, a subsidiary of regional lender Independent Bank. The Dallas Business Journal reported in July that the project is valued at roughly $52 million. The six-story property will be situated on 10.4 acres within the Craig Ranch Corporate Center in McKinney, a northern suburb of Dallas. Approximately 400 employees are expected to occupy the property upon completion, which is slated for December.
SAN ANTONIO — Houston-based DC Partners will develop Thompson San Antonio Hotel, a 162-room hospitality project that will be located in the RiverWalk area of San Antonio. The 20-story property will also include 58 residences. Amenities will include 5,000 square feet of meeting space, a pool with cabanas and a bar, fitness center and a spa. Construction is expected to begin within the next month, according to realtynewsreport.com.
SAN ANTONIO — HFF has negotiated the sale of Nacogdoches Crossing, a 22,434-square-foot shopping center located at 6826 N. Loop 1604 in northeast San Antonio. The property, which is shadow-anchored by a Walmart Supercenter and leased to tenants such as Taco Cabana and Rolling Oaks Dental, includes two acres of development-ready land that can accommodate about 19,000 square feet of additional retail space. John Taylor and Drew Fuller of HFF represented the seller, Santikos Real Estate Services, a San Antonio-based retail developer, in the transaction. A private investor purchased the asset free and clear of debt for an undisclosed price.
DALLAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of Rosemont at Timber Creek, a 100-unit affordable housing community in south Dallas. The property was built in 2003 and was 99 percent occupied at the time of sale. Amenities include a pool, playground, fitness center and business center. Jeff Kunitz, Alex Medeiros, Chris Deuillet and Chandler Sims of CBRE represented the seller, Cascade Affordable Housing, in the transaction. Minnesota-based Dominium Development and Acquisition purchased the property for an undisclosed price.
BAYTOWN, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of A Low Cost Self Storage, a 305-unit self-storage facility in the Houston metro of Baytown. The sale of the 35,214-square-foot property includes 1.5 acres of expansion land fronting State Highway 146. Dave Knobler of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. Knobler also procured the buyer, an individual who owns 14 self-storage facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast operating under the name The Storage Place.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — Mazda and Toyota leaders have selected Huntsville as the site of their new joint venture auto manufacturing plant. The automakers will invest $1.6 billion in the facility, located approximately 14 miles from Toyota’s existing Huntsville plant. The new plant will have the capacity to build 300,000 vehicles annually, with production split evenly between the two lines for each company to produce the Toyota Corolla and Mazda’s crossover model that will be newly introduced to the North American market. The facility is expected to create up to 4,000 jobs, and production is expected to begin by 2021. The joint venture plant marks the 11th U.S. manufacturing facility for Toyota.
ATLANTA — Granite Properties has formed a long-term partnership with Third & Urban for the recapitalization and development of two warehouse properties in Atlanta’s West Midtown district. The partnership will create a portfolio to include the recapitalization of Complex, an adaptive reuse project Third & Urban unveiled in December 2016. The building is 80 percent leased to tenants including Proof of the Pudding, Bold Monk Brewing, Look Listen and LTX Solutions. The project is on track to be fully leased by June. In addition, the partnership will acquire and develop a group of warehouses located at 1218 and 1236 Menlo Drive, also in the West Midtown district. Similar to Complex, the new development — dubbed Inland Tract — will offer creative flex space for tenants that need both office and warehouse space.
