DALLAS — Cushman & Wakefield has secured a 68,263-square-foot office lease renewal at One McKinney Plaza, a 263,921-square-foot, Class A office property located at 3232 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas. Craig Wilson, Randy Cooper, Dan Harris, and Wills Bauer of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant, ISNetworld, a Dallas-based human resources firm. The landlord, Gaedeke Group, was represented internally by Elliot Prieur.
HOUSTON — Hunt Mortgage Group has provided three Fannie Mae loans totaling $61.5 million for the refinancing of three apartment communities in the metro Houston area. All three non-recourse bridge and permanent loans were for the same borrower, Charlie Yalamanchili and Ilan Investments LLC, a Houston-based commercial real estate and multifamily investor. The financing included a two-year, floating-rate loan for Ravello at Tuscan Lakes, a 244-unit community located at 1750 E. League City Parkway in League City; a 10-year loan with four years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule for Breton Mill, a 392-unit property located at 13555 Breton Ridge St. in Houston’s Champions/Willowbrook submarket; and a 10-year loan with five years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule for Champion Oaks, a 252-unit community also situated in the Champions/Willowbrook submarket. The Ravello loan included a $150,000 reserve for capital improvements, and the Breton Mill and Champion Oaks refinances were closed utilizing Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards program, which funded the borrower’s planned energy- and water utility-saving improvements. Colin Cross led Hunt Mortgage’s origination team in Dallas for the refinancings.
DALLAS — Dallas-based Oaxaca Interests plans to develop three new retail buildings at Sylvan | Thirty, a mixed-use development at Sylvan and Fort Worth avenues in West Dallas. Each building will span 3,500 square feet. Oaxaca will also demolish an existing drive-thru bank, reconfigure the parking lot and update the exterior of the existing office building at Sylvan | Thirty. The design team includes architect Lake Flato and landscape architect Hocker Design Group. Sylvan | Thirty’s existing retail space is more than 75 percent leased to tenants such as TacoDeli, Cibodivino, Whisk Crepes, Houndstooth Coffee, Pink Pedi, Cox Farms Market, Sync Yoga & Wellbeing, Betty Ringer, Craft & Co. Salon, Vernacular, Arnold Brothers Dry Cleaner and Ten. Cooper’s Meat Market is anticipated to open next month. Oaxaca Interests plans to break ground on the three retail buildings in early 2018.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Atlanta-based Pollack Shores has purchased Eastside Station, a newly built, 330-unit apartment community in east Austin, in an off-market transaction. Pat Jones of ARA Newmark represented the seller and developer, Columbus, Ga.-based Flournoy Development. The mid-rise property is situated within walking distance of downtown Austin, the University of Texas campus, the 10-acre Plaza Saltillo project, Medical District, Main Street Hub, the future site of the Oracle Cloud Campus and Google’s and Facebook’s new offices. Community amenities include a rooftop lounge, resort-style pool, two-story lifestyle fitness center and a clubroom with a demonstration kitchen, cyber café and business center. Units include nine-foot ceilings, open-concept kitchens, spa-like bathrooms and walk-in closets.
DENTON, TEXAS — Mohr Capital has sold ESAB North American Center, a 422,819-square-foot industrial building located on 30.1 acres at 2800 Airport Road in Denton. Built in two phases in 1970 and 2016, the property is fully leased to ESAB, an equipment and filler metal manufacturer. The asset is situated near the intersection of Interstates 35 East and 35 West in the Northwest Dallas industrial submarket. It features 18- and 36-foot clear heights, 19 dock-high doors, one drive-in door and 200-foot truck courts. New Mountain Net Lease Corp. purchased ESAB North American Center from Mohr Capital for an undisclosed price. Adam Herrin, Stephen Bailey, Mark West and Coler Yoakam of HFF represented Mohr Capital in the transaction. Brandon Chavoya and Michael George of HFF arranged a five-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan through KeyBank Real Estate Capital on behalf of New Mountain Net Lease.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — NAI Robert Lynn has brokered the sale of an 82,960-square-foot industrial facility located at 1301 Apollo Road in Richardson. Baker Drywall Investments LLC, an affiliate of Mesquite, Texas-based BakerTriangle, purchased the property for an undisclosed price. BakerTriangle is a drywall and plaster specialty contractor with more than 1,300 employees across six offices in Texas. Michael Stanzel of NAI Robert Lynn represented the seller, The Trident Co., and Craig Phelps of JLL represented the buyer. Trident, a metal services company based in Richardson, sold the excess building but maintains a location nearby at 405 N. Plano Road, according to NAI Robert Lynn.
As a lender in construction and permanent financing of new multifamily properties, Mason Joseph Co. is constantly assessing and reassessing future supply and demand estimates for rental properties. Tarrant County has several high-profile apartment properties under construction, causing some in the lending industry to ask if the market is on the verge of being oversupplied. Our answer to that question is a firm “no.” Since 2010, a year in which Tarrant County boasted a ratio of 1.07 housing units per household, the market has suffered diminished production of all housing types. As of 2017, ESRI estimates that the units-to-household ratio is closer to 1.09. While that difference appears small, it means about 14,000 fewer housing units were built in Tarrant County from 2010 to 2017 than would be expected. A review of housing permits issued for the following two periods supports that data. From 2001 to 2010, the volume of housing units permitted exceeded the number of new households by an average of 821 units per year. From 2011 to 2017, the equation flipped and Tarrant County added 354 more households than housing units annually, implying the county has now been undersupplied by about 1,200 units per year for the …
MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS — Electronics retailer Best Buy will occupy a new 550,000-square-foot distribution center on a 36.4-acre tract along U.S. Highway 90A in Missouri City, a southwestern suburb of Houston. Seefried Industrial Properties and 4M Investments LLC will co-develop the property, which is scheduled to open prior to the 2018 holiday season, according to realtynewsreport.com. Best Buy currently operates about 130 stores throughout Texas, including 13 in Houston proper.
KATY, TEXAS — PGIM Real Estate, the real estate investment vehicle of Prudential Financial Inc., has acquired LaCenterra at Cinco Ranch, a 412,900-square-foot mixed-use property in Katy. The 34-acre, Class A lifestyle center features 273,522 square feet of retail space, which is anchored by Trader Joe’s, and 139,378 square feet of office space. Those components are 93 percent and 89 percent leased, respectively. The final phase of the development features an eight-screen Alamo Drafthouse Cinema location, which is currently slated for a 2018 completion. Mark Seedorff of PGIM led the transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Dallas-based design-build general contractor ARCO/Murray has completed construction of Lakeline Storage, a 736-unit self-storage facility located at 11000 Lakeline Blvd. in Austin. The three-story, climate-controlled property consists of 115,000 square feet of gross rentable storage space, with both drive-up and interior units currently available for rental. The Jenkins Organization, a Houston-based real estate firm specializing in self-storage assets, will operate the facility.
