Property Type

Tradition-Lovers Lane Seniors Housing Community Opens in Dallas

by Haisten Willis September 17, 2015

DALLAS — Tradition Senior Living (TSL) has opened The Tradition-Lovers Lane Community, including independent living, assisted living and memory care, at 5850 E. Lovers Lane in Dallas. The complex is a rental community with no buy-in fee. The 7.5-acre campus includes the 202-unit independent living building and the 109-unit assisted living and memory care property fronting Milton Street. Jonathan Perlman is founder and CEO of Tradition Senior Living, which is developing, marketing and managing the project. Houston architects Meeks + Partners designed the independent living building, and Dallas architects D2 Architecture designed the assisted living and memory care property. The community will include a physical and occupational therapy center, a therapy pool with an underwater treadmill, nursing, a multi-sensory room and medication management. The Tradition-Lovers Lane is the second community developed by TSL.

September 17, 2015

Office Texas

Architecture Firm Pelli Clarke Pelli to Design Frost Tower in San Antonio

by Haisten Willis September 17, 2015

SAN ANTONIO — Architecture firm Pelli Clarke Pelli will design the Frost Tower, Frost Bank’s new headquarters and San Antonio’s first new downtown office tower in three decades. The architecture firm, based out of New Haven, Conn., will orchestrate the design of the 400,000-square-foot office tower. Fred Clarke and Bill Butler will lead the project. Pelli Clarke Pelli has designed and developed towers including the World Financial Center in New York and the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. Texas-based KDC will partner with Weston Urban to serve as the development team for the tower project. Alamo Architects will serve as the local consulting architects. Construction on the project is slated to begin next fall and will be completed in 2018 or 2019.

September 17, 2015

Industrial Texas

Excel Filters to Expand into 6.8-Acre Site at Expo Business Park in Austin

by Haisten Willis September 17, 2015

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Trammell Crow Company (TCC) has been appointed as the developer for the construction of a 57,600-square-foot, Class A build-to-suit industrial building. The project, Expo 12, will be Excel Filters’ new satellite manufacturing facility in Expo Business Park, a new industrial park located in Southeast Austin. TCC and Clarion Partners recently sold the 6.8-acre site for Expo 12 to a private investment company, who is leasing the building to Excel Filters. Construction on the project has commenced and will deliver in May 2016. Excel Filters will expand its operations from Los Angeles into Austin. Upon completion of the new building, Excel will staff the facility with existing personnel and new local hires. Expo 12, located in the four-building second phase of Expo Business Park, will include 28-foot clear heights, 13 dock-high doors and truck courts. Expo Business Park spans 37 acres and is located at 6231 E. Stassney Lane in the newly established Triple Freeport Zone. Mark Emerick, John Barksdale, Ace Schlameus and Darryl Dadon with CBRE’s Austin office represented both TCC and Excel Filters in the deal.

September 17, 2015

Mixed-Use Retail Texas

Three New Retailers Sign on at Mixed-Use Lakeside Development in Houston

by Haisten Willis September 17, 2015

HOUSTON — Three new retailers have signed on at Caldwell Cos.’ mixed-use development, The Boardwalk at Towne Lake. Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co., a coffee shop and bakery, World of Beer, a tavern with a craft beer focus, and Massage Heights, a massage and skin therapy provider, are the latest tenants to sign leases at the Northwest Houston project. The Boardwalk at Towne Lake offers restaurant, retail and recreational spaces accessible by walking, driving and boating. The three new retailers join Texas Children’s Pediatrics, Copper Creek Orthodontics and restaurants Jaxton’s and Taisho at the site.

September 17, 2015

Hospitality Texas

M&M Arranges Sale of 60-Room Hospitality Property in East Texas

by Haisten Willis September 17, 2015

PALESTINE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of La Quinta Inn & Suites Palestine, a 60-room hospitality property located in Palestine. Chris Gomes and Skyler Cooper of Marcus & Millichap’s Dallas office, along with Allan Miller of the firm’s San Antonio office, marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. Gomes, Cooper and Miller also procured the buyer, a private investor. La Quinta Inn & Suites Palestine is located at 3000 S. Loop 256, just west of Palestine Regional Medical Center. The property is a 60-room, interior corridor, midscale hotel situated on approximately three acres. The three-story hotel was built in 2007 with a wood frame and stucco exterior. The property features a fitness center, a 324-square-foot meeting room, outdoor pool with spa and breakfast/dining area. Guest rooms offer amenities such as a pillow top bed, microwave, refrigerator and work desk.

September 17, 2015

Massachusetts Multifamily Northeast