COLLEGE STATION AND ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — Wheelock Street Capital LLC has refinanced two Marriott-branded hotels it owns in Texas: the 125-room Courtyard Marriott located at 3939 State Highway 6 near Texas A&M University in College Station, and the 113-room Courtyard Marriott located at 2700 Hoppe Trail next to Dell headquarters in the Austin suburb of Round Rock. Steven Klein, Casey Wenzel and Roy Shepard of HFF arranged the three-year, floating-rate loan. Wheelock Street Capital will use the refinancing to take out existing acquisition financing and to provide capital to continue its property improvement plan. The financing is part of a $45 million package for four hotels spanning 441 rooms in Texas and Tennessee.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — National Health Investors Inc., a Tennessee-based healthcare and seniors housing REIT, has acquired a 126-bed skilled nursing facility in New Braunfels, a northeastern suburb of San Antonio, for $13.9 million. NHI will lease the facility, which opened in 2015, to an affiliate of The Ensign Group Inc., a company with numerous subsidiaries that operate rehabilitative and assisted living properties.
DALLAS — Lee & Associates and EDGE Realty Capital Markets have co-brokered the sale of a 14,000-square-foot office property, located at 2320 Stemmons Trail in west Dallas. The sale price of the building, which is currently occupied by Octapharma Plasma, a blood donation center, was $3 million. Allen Buchanan and Joshua Harper of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Double Run LP, a California-based investment firm. Mark Mordecai and Brandon Crow of EDGE represented the undisclosed seller.
HOUSTON AND AUSTIN, TEXAS — LMI Capital has arranged $15 million for the refinancing of two retail properties in the greater Houston and Austin areas. The first transaction was a 10-year loan for a 102,000-square-foot site in southeast Austin, and the second transaction was a seven-year loan for a 21,000-square-foot property in north Houston. Both loans included a 4.75 percent fixed interest rate, flexible step-down payment and minimal closing costs. The names and addresses of the properties were not disclosed.
BIXBY, OKLA — Marcus & Millichap has closed the sale of Self Storage Depot, a 76,050-square-foot self-storage facility in Bixby, a city about 20 miles south of Tulsa. Located at 13455 S. Memorial Drive near U.S. Route 64, the Class A property was valued at more than $100 per square foot at the time of sale. Trey Hammond and Michael Mele of Marcus & Millichap procured the buyer, a private investor, and represented the seller, a limited liability company, in conjunction with the firm’s Oklahoma broker of record, Tom Mann.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co., a Florida-based real estate investment firm, has purchased WestCliff Center, a 136,185-square-foot shopping center located at 3563 Alton Road in Fort Worth, from RD Management for roughly $15 million. Situated on 10.3 acres and located less than a mile from Texas Christian University, the property is divided into three contiguous parcels, the asset encompasses four single-tenant properties and one multi-tenant property. The shopping center is currently 96 percent leased to tenants such as Albertsons, which occupies the anchoring 39,000-square-foot property; Cook Children’s Health Foundation, which leases the second largest property, a 38,000-square-foot office building; and Dollar General and Ace Hardware, which share the 55,000-square-foot, multi-tenant building. DuWest Realty represented the buyer in the transaction.
HUNTSVILLE. TEXAS — The Preiss Co., a Raleigh, N.C.-based firm specializing in student housing development, has acquired Gateway at Huntsville, a 160-unit complex located at 5050 Sam Houston Ave. in Huntsville, roughly an hour north of Houston. Situated on a 12-acre site about a mile from Sam Houston State University, the property consists of six four-story buildings comprising 416 bedrooms and bathrooms. In addition to a swimming pool, grilling station and basketball and volleyball courts, the complex also offers a complimentary shuttle to and from campus.
SPRING, TEXAS — EDGE Capital Markets has brokered the sale of West Rayford Retail Center, an 18,512-square-foot, multi-tenant retail asset in Spring, a northern suburb of Houston. Located at 8633 W. Rayford Road, the property is currently leased to tenants such as Sherwin Williams and Lush & Co. Spa. Josh Jacobs and Burdette Huffman of EDGE represented the seller, LSP Rayford LLC, while Sumner Hollingsworth of Hollingsworth & Associates represented the undisclosed buyer.
DALLAS — Colliers International Group Inc. has closed the sale of Meadow Central, a 179,184-square-foot office complex located at 10260 and 10300 N. Central Expressway in north Dallas. The property was 91 percent occupied at the time of sale. Creighton Stark and Chris Boyd of Colliers represented the sellers, Sunwest Real Estate Group and Libitzky Property Cos., which acquired the property in 2010. The representative of the buyer, Ascent Real Estate Advisors LLC, was not disclosed.
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS — CBRE Hotels has arranged the sale of a Holiday Inn Express & Suites, located at 2440 Gulf Freeway in Texas City, a submarket of Houston. Peet Hotels Inc. sold the 70-room property, just off Interstate 45 between Houston and Galveston, to Texas City Hospitality LLC for an undisclosed price. Eric Guerrero, Michael Yu, Rahul Bijlani and Dennis Drake of CBRE represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction.