OKLAHOMA CITY — Home2Suites by Hilton has opened a 115-room hotel located off Interstates 40 and 44 near Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City. The pet-friendly property features amenities such as a combined fitness and laundry area, an indoor saltwater pool and a fire pit and grill area. Suites offer fully equipped kitchens and modular furniture. Nashville-based Platinum Hospitality LLC will manage the property.
HOUSTON — First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. has broken ground on First 290 @ Guhn Road, a 126,250-square-foot distribution center located at 6913 Guhn Road in northwest Houston. The front-load facility will feature 32-foot clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system, 185-foot truck court, 137 parking stalls and up to 46 trailer stalls. Completion is slated for summer 2018. Stream Realty Partners will handle leasing of the facility.
SPRING, TEXAS — Greystone has provided a $36.4 million bridge loan for the acquisition of Parkside Place Apartments, a 384-unit multifamily community in Spring, about 45 minutes north of Houston. The property features amenities such as a pool, demonstration kitchen, complimentary coffee bar, fitness and business centers, a movie-screening room with an arcade and a game room. Donny Rosenberg of Greystone originated the loan, which carries a two-year term with two six-month extensions, on behalf of Houston-based Ilan Investments.
FLOWER MOUND AND GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Dallas-based SWBC Real Estate LLC has sold two multifamily properties totaling 662 units in the Dallas area for $100 million. Virginia-based Weinstein Properties purchased the 358-unit River Walk Village in Flower Mound and the 304-unit Timberview Ranch in Grand Prairie from SWBC. Construction of the two Class A properties was completed in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Will Balthrope, Drew Kile and Joey Tumminello of Marcus & Millichap’s Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) division brokered the sale.
FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — Realty Capital Management has broken ground on Lakeside Professional Office, a 21,750-square-foot project in Flower Mound. The Class A property is being developed on a speculative basis. Bancorp South provided the construction loan for the project, which is expected to be complete by summer 2018.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Fitness Connection has opened a 55,000-square-foot gym at Shops at Tech Ridge, a 504,153-square-foot shopping center on Austin’s north side. The club will offer a kids’ club with a movie theater, a women’s-only workout area, a sauna and a variety of group fitness classes. This is the second location that Fitness Connection has opened in Austin in the past year.
San Antonio is one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities, with a booming, diversified economy that’s luring new businesses and young people at a rate that most other metro areas can only envy. Lacking Austin’s hipster cred, Dallas’ moneyed glamour and Houston’s perennial position at the epicenter of a global industry, San Antonio’s many strengths are often overlooked. While this lower profile hasn’t slowed growth in the Alamo City, it has left its expanding market for Class A apartments comparatively underserved. Led by education and health services, the San Antonio area’s economy added approximately 21,500 new jobs in 2016. This represents a 2.1 percent growth rate, a healthy pace for the San Antonio MSA, albeit a slight reduction from the 2.8 percent growth rate in 2015, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. This steady expansion fueled a population boom that saw 47,906 new residents join the metro between July 2015 and July 2016. This 2 percent growth rate ranked San Antonio as the 10th fastest-growing MSA with a population greater than 1 million people, according to estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials Lead the Way San Antonio isn’t just a leader in total population growth; it also ranks …
FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — Greystar is developing Elan Flower Mound, a mixed-use community that will be situated on 13 acres in the northern Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metro of Flower Mound. The property will feature 426 apartments ranging in size from 493 to 1,558 square feet, as well as 40 townhomes ranging in size from 1,309 to 1,848 square feet. Amenities will include a theater room, pool, fitness center, dog park and bike repair area. Designed by Meeks + Partners, the project will also deliver more than 15,000 square feet of retail space. Construction is already underway with a target completion date of fourth-quarter 2018.
PLANO, TEXAS — JLL has arranged a $45 million Fannie Mae loan for the acquisition of Windhaven Park Apartments, a 474-unit multifamily community located in the northern Dallas suburb of Plano. The property features two pools, a pet park, soccer field, volleyball court and community clubhouse. Tim Leonhard and Chris Crump of JLL arranged the loan on behalf of BSR Trust, an Arkansas-based multifamily operator.
FORT WORTH, ARLINGTON AND STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has closed the sale of three multifamily properties totaling 351 units in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area. Catholic Charities of Fort Worth sold the 200-unit Casa apartments in Fort Worth, the 65-unit Nuestro Hogar in Arlington and the 86-unit Casa Brendan apartments in Stephenville. Collectively, the assets fetched a sales price of more than $20 million. Al Silva of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and secured the institutional buyers.