AUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas-based developer Presidium has begun leasing Presidium 183, a 374-unit multifamily project located near The Domain in North Austin. Designed by O’Brien Architects, Presidium 183 offers several different floor plans, and units are furnished with stainless steel appliances, quartz-style countertops and individual washers and dryers. Amenities include a coworking lounge with private offices, fitness center with yoga and spin studios, a speakeasy-style bar, entertainment room with a theater and golf simulator, outdoor game lawn, pool and a dog run. Construction began in late 2023. Rents start at roughly $1,320 per month for a studio apartment.
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EL PASO, TEXAS — Hunter Hotel Advisors, an Atlanta-based brokerage firm, has arranged the sale of the 111-room Home2 Suites by Hilton El Paso Airport hotel. The hotel is located less than two miles from El Paso International Airport and offers amenities such as a pool, fitness center and complimentary breakfast. Kami Burnette of Hunter Hotel Advisors represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was San Diego-based owner-operator Pacific Pearl Hotels.
ADDISON, TEXAS — Holt Lunsford Commercial has negotiated a 21,000-square-foot office lease renewal in the northern Dallas metro of Addison. The tenant is Foundation Energy Management LLC, and the space is located within Liberty Plaza II. Chase Stone and Hayden Parker of Holt Lunsford represented the landlord, Massachusetts-based Franklin Street Properties, in the lease negotiations. Mary Stoner Yost of Colliers represented the tenant.
DALLAS — De La Vega Development is nearing completion of Phase I of The Central, a 27-acre mixed-use project located at the corner of North Haskell Avenue and the North Central Expressway in Dallas. Phase I of the project features a central communal park known as The Pavilions at The Central that can also support retail and restaurant uses. Designed in collaboration with local architecture firms GFF and Bud Creative, The Pavilions features four interconnected structures with outdoor seating that are surrounded by various biophilic elements and spaces that promote communal gathering. In addition, the space is located across from The Oliver, a 19-story apartment building that developer StreetLights Residential recently began leasing. Full completion of the park and pavilions is slated for the summer.
HOUSTON — Locally based developer Fein has broken ground on Echo Lake, a 326-unit apartment community that will be located in North Houston. The site spans 21.4 acres within the CityPlace mixed-use development, and the property is named after the 1.2-acre lake and trail system that will serve as a focal point of the project. Designed by Steinberg Dickey Collaborative and financed by Comerica Bank, Echo Lake will have two- and three-story buildings that will house one-, two- and three-bedroom units and Class A amenities. About 40 percent of units will be townhouse-style residences with attached garages. Fein is developing Echo Lake in partnership with Open House Group, an equity investment that was arranged by John Fenoglio of CBRE. The first units are expected to be available for occupancy in the second quarter of 2026, with full completion slated for mid-2027.
BAYTOWN, TEXAS — JLL has brokered the sale of Blackline Cold Storage, a 297,640-square-foot facility located in the eastern Houston suburb of Baytown. Built in 2022 within the Cedar Port Industrial Park master-planned development, the facility features 45-foot clear heights, 22 dock doors, over 36,000 pallet positions and an ESFR sprinkler system. Trent Agnew, Will Mogk, Keenan Ryan and Clay Anderson of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was Atlanta-based cold storage owner-operator Americold Realty Trust.
DALLAS — Leon Industrial, a division of locally based development and investment firm Leon Capital Group, has begun construction on a 118,178-square-foot project near Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport. The facility will be known as 161 Airport Center and will feature 32-foot clear heights, 130-foot truck court depths, an ESFR sprinkler system, up to 28 trailer parking spaces and additional outside storage space. Stream Realty Partners is the leasing agent. Completion is slated for late this summer.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Greysteel has arranged the sale of Candle Chase Apartments, a 116-unit apartment complex in southwest Fort Worth that was built in 1969. According to Apartments.com, the property offers one- and two-bedroom units that range in size from 715 to 1,198 square feet. Doug Banerjee and Sterling Warren of Greysteel represented the seller, Epic Capital Partners, in the transaction. The buyer, an entity doing business as Delara Chase LLC, has rebranded the property as Delara Chase Apartments.
NVIDIA to Develop Two AI Supercomputer Manufacturing Plants in Texas As Part of $500B U.S. Investment
by John Nelson
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA), a Santa Clara-based tech firm that primarily designs and manufactures graphics processing units (GPUs) for artificial intelligence (AI) use, plans to develop two new AI supercomputer manufacturing plants in Texas. The new projects will include a plant in Houston that NVIDIA is co-developing with Foxconn and a factory in Dallas that NVIDIA is building with Wistron. Further real estate specifics for the new facilities were not shared, but NVIDIA plans to create “digital twins” to design and operate the factories, which will be reliant on automation and robotics. Mass production of NVIDIA AI supercomputers at both plants is expected to ramp up in the next 12 to 15 months, according to NVIDIA. Additionally, NVIDIA announced that it has started production of NVIDIA Blackwell chips at the TSMC Arizona campus in Phoenix. NVIDIA is partnering with Amkor and SPIL for packaging and testing operations in Arizona. The new Texas plants and the production of NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Arizona are part of the company’s $500 billion push to mass produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers on U.S. soil, which would represent the first time that the company’s supercomputers were made entirely domestically. Together, the announcements …
AUSTIN, TEXAS — JLL has brokered the sale of Driftwood Self Storage, a 482-unit facility in southwest Austin. Constructed on 13.5 acres in 2021, Driftwood Self Storage comprises 96,433 net rentable square feet of climate-controlled space. The property, which was roughly 93 percent occupied at the time of sale, also features drive-up units, covered parking and fully enclosed RV units. Steve Mellon, Brian Somoza, Adam Roossien and Matthew Wheeler of JLL represented the Houston-based seller, The Jenkins Organization, in the transaction and procured the buyer, California-based Platinum Storage Group.