GAINESVILLE, TEXAS — A partnership between B-29 Investments and Hughes Commercial has broken ground on Camp Howze Industrial Rail Park, a 489-acre industrial park in Gainesville, located north of the metroplex in Cooke County. Located along I-35 and U.S. Highway 82, the master-planned development could ultimately feature as much as 7 million square feet of industrial space across 14 buildings. Camp Howze Industrial Rail Park will be able to accommodate users with requirements from 50,000 to 1 million square feet and will also offer build-to-suit facilities for lease or purchase. BNSF Railway is constructing a rail connection that will provide direct service to the park, with service expected to commence in the second quarter of 2027. Stream Realty Partners is leasing the development.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of Flintridge, a 188-unit, garden-style apartment complex in Arlington. Built in 1979, Flintridge offers one- and two-bedroom units with an average size of 743 square feet and amenities such as a pool, clubhouse, business center and onsite laundry facilities. Michael Ware, Drew Kile, Joey Tumminello and William Hubbard of IPA represented the seller, an undisclosed lender, in the transaction and procured the buyer, Apogee Capital.
HOUSTON — New Hope Housing has completed NHH Avenue C, an affordable seniors housing project in Houston’s Magnolia Park/East End neighborhood. The number of units in the age-restricted (55-plus) complex was not disclosed, but residences come in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Amenities include a standalone community building, lounges and dining areas, a theater room and onsite resident programming services.
WALLER COUNTY, TEXAS — Clay Development & Construction Inc. has broken ground on a 31,800-square-foot speculative industrial project in Waller County, located northwest of Houston. The building will be situated on a 2.4-acre site within Pederson West Business Park and will feature 120-foot truck court depths, 23 parking spaces and build-to-suit office space. Completion is slated for early next year.
BROOKSHIRE, TEXAS — Local owner-operator Clay Development & Construction Inc. has broken ground on two industrial buildings totaling 552,240 square feet in Brookshire, a western suburb of Houston. The 291,720-square-foot Twinwood Distribution Center IV and the 260,520-square-foot Twinwood Distribution Center V are both part of the 200-acre first phase of Uplands Twinwood Business Park. The buildings both feature 36-foot clear heights, 69 dock-high doors, four drive-in ramps and 2,600 square feet of office space, in addition to a combined 342 car parking spaces and 120 trailer parking spaces. Completion is slated for the first quarter of next year. KBC Advisors has been tapped as the third-party leasing agency for the two buildings.
SAN ANTONIO — JLL has negotiated the sale of Union Square, a two-building, 323,949-square-foot office campus located on the north side of San Antonio. Building I was constructed in 1986 and offers 192,763 square feet across 10 floors, and Building II, which was completed in 2006, houses 131,186 square feet across six floors. The campus was roughly 95 percent leased at the time of sale. Drew Fuller, Chuck King and Patrick McCord of JLL represented the seller, a joint venture led by local owner-operator Worth & Associates, in the transaction. A partnership led by SynerMark Properties that includes Tryperion Holdings purchased the property for an undisclosed price.
KATY, TEXAS — BGO, the institutional investment firm formerly known as BentallGreenOak, has acquired a two-property industrial portfolio totaling 299,520 square feet in the western Houston suburb of Katy. Known as Heritage West and completed earlier this year, the portfolio comprises front-load buildings totaling 90,480 and 209,040 square feet that feature 32- and 36-foot clear heights, respectively. BGO acquired the portfolio, which was fully leased at the time of sale, in partnership with Austin-based Harbor Capital. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
BLUE MOUND, TEXAS — Zenith IOS (industrial outdoor storage) has purchased a 7.5-acre facility in Blue Mound, a northern suburb of Fort Worth. The property at 1151-1201 Cantrell Sansom Road consists of three buildings totaling approximately 29,300 square feet with 12 drive-through bays and four dock-high loading doors. Andrew Wieseman of Nashville-based brokerage firm Matthews sourced the deal on behalf of Zenith, which acquired the facility as part of a larger portfolio deal that included properties in Duncanville, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
By Taylor Williams On some level, they knew this was coming, right? They just thought it would be over by now. Indeed, the expression, “survive till ’25” has proven insufficient as a barometer for when the multi-year slowdown in multifamily rent growth and valuations — inevitable consequences of the record-high sales prices and record-low cap rates that were achieved in 2021 and 2022 — would eventually fizzle out. Unprecedented supply growth in recent years, catalyzed by historically low interest rates and insatiable demand and taken to perhaps the highest of highs in Texas, has, unsurprisingly, generated cyclical pain in subsequent years. True, that pain is submarket-specific and is likely on its way out, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s tough sledding for many multifamily owners right now. “Multifamily has had almost everything possible thrown at it in the past few years: interest rates rising, rental rates flatlining due to supply growth and operating expenses going up across multiple categories, from payroll to insurance to repairs/maintenance,” says John Griggs, co-CEO and co-founder of Texas-based developer Presidium. “Everything started flipping the wrong way at the same time. Some of those variables may correct in our favor, but it’s now been …
HOUSTON — Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), a global pharmaceutical company best known for manufacturing treatments and medications such as Opdivo and Eliquis, will open a $2.3 billion manufacturing campus in Houston. The Princeton, N.J.-based firm chose a site within McCord Development’s 4,300-acre Generation Park for the approximately 600,000-square-foot project. “This investment reflects our confidence in America’s continued leadership in biopharmaceutical innovation,” says Christopher Boerner, board chair and CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb. “As part of our $40 billion commitment to the United States, we’re building the domestic manufacturing capabilities needed to deliver the next generation of medicines and support future scientific breakthroughs. Houston and the state of Texas offer the talent, infrastructure and partnership needed to help bring that vision to life.” Situated in northeast Houston, Bristol Myers Squibb’s new campus will be designed to be both modular and multi-modal, allowing the company to reconfigure manufacturing capacity for multiple types of medicines — including small molecules, biologics and antibody-drug conjugates — as needs arise. The new campus is estimated to create nearly 500 skilled jobs in the Houston area for roles including operations technicians, production specialists, maintenance and engineering professionals, quality control/assurance experts and administration. Bristol Myers Squibb also anticipates …
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