ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Ridge Development, the industrial development arm of Transwestern Development Co., will break ground in the second quarter of 2016 on Park 20/360, a speculative, 1.6 million-square-foot industrial park in Arlington. The location feeds into the Great Southwest Industrial District, one of the largest individually platted industrial districts in the country. A joint venture between Invesco and Ridge Development owns the 119-acre project. Phase I will consist of four buildings totaling 1.2 million square feet and is expected to be complete in the first quarter of 2017. Phase II will also include four buildings and will total 356,060 square feet. It is scheduled to break ground in the third quarter of 2017 and be completed in the second quarter of 2018. Transwestern’s Joe Rudd and John Brewer are providing leasing services. Park 20/360’s buildings will accommodate users from 20,000 square feet to 715,000 square feet. Alliance Architects Inc. is the project’s architect, Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers is the civil engineer and Professional Services Industries Inc. will handle geotechnical and environmental aspects of the project.
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LOS ANGELES — Hileman Cowley Partners has purchased Victory Studios, a 56,547 –square-foot television production and broadcast center in the Los Angeles submarket of Burbank, for $15.3 million. Telepictures Productions, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, currently occupies the studio. The company has occupied the property since 1994. Telepictures produces television shows like Extra, the Ellen DeGeneres Show and TMZ. Hileman Cowley purchased the existing ground lease and the underlying land. The assets were held by different entities. Mike Guterman and Brad Sevier of Highland Realty Capital arranged a non‐recourse, fixed-rate bank acquisition loan for the transaction. Andrew Burke and Mark Evanoff of Avison Young represented the undisclosed seller.
MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS — Conor Commercial Real Estate and joint venture partner USAA Real Estate Co. have completed Phase I of Gateway Southwest Industrial Park. The multi-building development is located in Missouri City, a southwest suburb of Houston. Situated on 36 acres at the interchange of Beltway 8 and U.S. 90 Alternate, the business park provides visibility along both highways. Phase I includes two Class A, speculative industrial buildings designed to provide warehouse and distribution services for single- or multi-tenant configurations. Building 1 is a 131,560-square-foot facility with 28 dock doors and divisibility to 31,460 square feet. The 217,440-square-foot Building 2 offers a cross-dock design with 66 dock doors and tenant suites from 54,360 square feet. Phase II of Gateway Southwest Industrial Park will consist of Building 3, located on a site that can accommodate up to 176,800 square feet. Edward Bane and Jon Michael of Bridge Commercial Real Estate represented Conor Commercial/USAA Real Estate in the land acquisition, and serve as marketing agents at the new industrial business park. Cadence McShane Construction Co. and Powers Brown Architecture provided the design/build construction services.
SAN ANTONIO — Stream Realty Partners has arranged the sale of a 6,000-square-foot medical office building located at 21708 Hardy Oak Blvd. in the far north-central submarket of San Antonio. Michael Kent of Stream Realty represented the seller, LAIT Texas LLC, in the transaction. The property was built in 2001 and tenants include Physical Therapy and Birth Center Stone Oak. The building is near North Central Baptist and Stone Oak Methodist hospitals, with access to Loop 1604 and Highway 281.
DENVER — Jackson Square Properties has sold the 345-unit Villas at Parker apartment community in Denver to Advenir for an undisclosed sum. The community is located at 1090 S. Parker Road. It was built in 1972 and renovated in 2008 and 2009. ARA Newmark represented Jackson Square in this transaction.
MONT BELVIEU, TEXAS — MB Retail Associates has purchased 41 acres for a retail development in Mont Belvieu, 30 miles east of Houston. MB Retail is a joint venture between Houston-based Fidelis Realty Partners and San Antonio-based H-E-B. The site is located at the northwest corner of I-10 and FM 3180 and is within a mixed-use district. The retail development will total 285,000 square feet and will include an 84,000-square-foot H-E-B grocery store. The city of Mont Belvieu was the seller, and Shaw Commercial Properties was the broker of record.
HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Houston Heights Retail Redevelopment, a 12,050-square-foot retail property in Houston. Gus Lagos and Evan Altemus of Marcus & Millichap’s Houston office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a partnership. Altemus and Lagos also procured the unnamed buyer. Houston Heights Retail Redevelopment is located at 1803 Ella Blvd.
PLAINFIELD, IND. — KeyBank has provided a $13.2 million Fannie Mae loan for an apartment complex in Plainfield, approximately 17 miles southwest of Indianapolis. Gladden Farms Apartments is a 220-unit affordable housing community that operates under the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program established by the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Gladden Harmony Housing LLC will use the loan proceeds to fund the acquisition and refinance the property.
BUCYRUS, OHIO — Regency Properties has acquired East Pointe Plaza, a 70,882-square-foot shopping center located in Bucyrus, approximately 65 miles north of Columbus, for an undisclosed price. The property is Regency’s first acquisition in Ohio. The center is currently 96 percent leased to tenants including Peebles, Dollar Tree and Hibbett Sports. The acquisition also includes two out-lots with road frontage available for future development.
ST. CHARLES, ILL. — Adelphia Properties has brokered the sale of a 4,350-square-foot retail building net leased to Gabby’s Kitchen for an undisclosed price. Geneva State Bank sold the property to a local independent restaurant operator. The second-generation freestanding building was built in 2010 and is located at 1650 W. Main St. in St. Charles, approximately 45 miles west of Chicago. George Spirrison and Simeon Spirrison of Adelphia Properties represented both parties in the transaction.