AUSTIN, TEXAS — FUSE Workspace, a Texas-based provider of flexible workspace solutions, has opened a 33,000-square-foot space at 2105 E. MLK Blvd. in East Austin. The space is the company’s fourth in Austin and offers an array of private offices, dedicated individual desks, enterprise suites and meeting rooms. CB Capital owns the building. Work on the project began in April.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — JLL has arranged a $55.5 million loan for the refinancing of Urban East, a 381-unit apartment community in Austin. The newly built property, which includes an affordable housing component, is located southeast of the downtown area near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Urban East offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom residences that are furnished with stainless steel appliances, tile backsplashes, granite countertops, walk-in closets, individual washers and dryers and private patios/balconies. Amenities include two pools, a fitness center, private conference rooms, a rooftop lounge, resident clubhouse and kitchen, dog park and a game room with a bowling alley. JLL arranged the floating-rate debt on behalf of the owner, a partnership between Battery Global Advisors, the Housing Authority of the City of Austin, River City Capital Partners and LDG Development. The direct lender was Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
SAN ANTONIO — Developer DXD Capital has broken ground on an 870-unit self-storage project in San Antonio. The multi-story facility at 11202 Misty Woods St. will feature 80,490 net rentable square feet of climate-controlled space. Reliable Commercial Construction is the general contractor for the project, which is being financed by Illinois-based financial holding company Wintrust. Extra Space Storage will manage the facility, which is slated for a third-quarter 2025 opening.
PLANO, TEXAS — Orlando-based Foundry Commercial will undertake a 323,000-square-foot industrial conversion project in Plano. The 22-acre site at 2700 W. Plano Parkway houses a 250,000-square-foot office building that will soon be demolished to construct two industrial buildings. These buildings will total 226,900 and 96,100 square feet and have 32-foot clear heights. JLL arranged construction financing for the redevelopment, which will be known as Plano Midpoint and is slated for an early 2026 completion. Holt Lunsford Commercial has been appointed as the leasing agent.
FORNEY, TEXAS — Grocer H-E-B will open a 131,000-square-foot store in Forney, an eastern suburb of Dallas. The site is located at the junction of U.S. Highway 80 and Gateway Boulevard. Details on specific store features and offerings were not disclosed. Construction is underway, and the opening is scheduled for early 2026. The San Antonio-based grocer operates about 435 stores throughout Texas and Mexico.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — SQUAN Construction Services, a New Jersey-based infrastructure design-build firm, has signed a lease at Sun Valley Industrial Park in Fort Worth. The square footage was not disclosed. Todd Hubbard and Joe McLiney of NAI Robert Lynn represented the landlord, Empire Holdings, in the lease negotiations. Landon Brune of CBRE represented the tenant.
DALLAS — General contractor Balfour Beatty has broken ground on a $95.5 million mixed-use development that will be located in the Knox-Henderson area of Dallas. The site spans a quarter-mile stretch of North Henderson Avenue between Glencoe Street and McMillan Avenue that has been vacant for decades. The 161,000-square-foot development will have 10 buildings, and plans currently call for 12,000 square feet of restaurant space, 75,000 square feet of retail space, 74,000 square feet of office space and 500 subgrade parking spaces. A partnership between New York-based Acadia Realty Trust and Dallas-based Ignite-Rebees is leading the development, which will also deliver new street paving, decorative crosswalks, enriched landscaping and buried utility lines. Dallas-based GFF is the project architect. A groundbreaking ceremony took place earlier this month, and completion is slated for fall 2026.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS —Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Cantera Apartment Homes, a 172-unit multifamily complex located in the northern Dallas metro of Carrollton. Built in 1969, the property consists of 12 buildings on a 6.2-acre site at 1910 S. Josey Lane. Units come in one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Amenities include a pool and onsite laundry facilities. Wesley Racht, Joey Murry, Nick Fluellen and Bard Hoover of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a partnership between Touro Co. and Catalyst Equity Partners, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, an entity doing business as Cantera CRG LLC. Fritz Waldvogel of Colliers Mortgage originated an undisclosed amount of Fannie Mae acquisition financing for the deal.
PEARLAND, TEXAS — Los Angeles-based PCCP LLC is underway on construction of a 109-unit build-to-rent residential project in the southern Houston suburb of Pearland. Skymor at Pearland will consist of 58 four-bedroom homes with an average size of 1,938 square feet; 29 three-bedroom residences with lofts that will average 1,866 square feet; and 22 three-bedroom units with no lofts that will span 1,763 square feet on average. All homes will include two-car garages. Communal amenities will include a playground, dog park and nature trails. PCCP has partnered with Integrity Community Builders on the project, and the first homes are expected to be available for occupancy by February 2025. Barkley Development sold the 13-acre site on which the project will be developed after acquiring the acreage in 2023 and handling the entitlement process and establishing infrastructure.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Cytracom has signed a 30,000-square-foot office lease in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. The provider of cloud-based communication and networking services will occupy the entire top floor of the building at 7300 State Highway 121 for its new headquarters. The building is part of District 121, a $250 million mixed-use development by Craig International. Kent Smith of NAI Robert Lynn represented Cytracom, which plans to move into its new space in January, in the lease negotiations.