GARLAND, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Broadway Plaza, an 8,228-square-foot retail property located in Garland. Philip Levy of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Worth office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a developer. Broadway Plaza is located at 6226 Broadway Blvd. The center is 83 percent leased, and all current leases are triple net. Tenants include T-Mobile, Dallas Gold & Silver, Sprint and AT&T. The building was constructed in 2011 and sits on 1.1 acres.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — The Austin City Council has voted in favor of removing a restrictive covenant on the historic Dabney-Horne home on the University of Texas West Campus. The property will be moved one-half mile from its current location at 507 W. 23rd St. to make room for a new student housing development. The proposed 175-foot tall project will provide 670 beds for students, of which 10 percent will be offered as affordable housing at 60 percent area median family income. Austin City Realty founder David Kanne owns the Dabney-Horne house, which was zoned historic in 1992, and uses it as his company’s headquarters. The home will be relocated to nearby 901 Shoal Cliff Court. Kanne plans to sell the site on 23rd Street to Johnson Trube & Associates, an Austin-based developer that plans to build the student housing property.
DALLAS — Bell Partners Inc. has acquired Avenue H, a recently completed, 208-unit apartment community located in the Knox-Henderson area of Dallas. The community has been renamed Bell Knox District and will be managed by Bell Partners. Completed in 2015, Bell Knox District is a Class A community and the first to be built in the last 10 years in the Knox/Highland Park neighborhood. The property is nearing the end of lease-up and is 82 percent occupied. The community is a six-story, podium-style building above two levels of structured parking. Floor plans consist of a mix of studios, one-bed/one-bath and two-bed/two-bath layouts. Property amenities include a clubhouse with a conference center and coffee bar, pool deck, fitness studio, outdoor barbeque area with grills, elevator access and covered parking.
HOUSTON — Simon Property Group plans to add a luxury hotel and residential tower to The Galleria, a premier shopping destination in Houston. The hotel and residences, which will both be located in the same building, will be situated on the corner of Sage and West Alabama streets. The project is part of a multi-year transformation of The Galleria, which began with the creation of a 200,000-square-foot flagship Saks Fifth Avenue store adjacent to the current location. Once the new Saks store opens later this month, Simon will convert the existing Saks store into a multi-level mall extension featuring 110,000 square feet of space. The tower will be on the site of a former Macy’s store and will span between 25 and 30 stories. Groundbreaking is expected in late 2017.
MANSFIELD, TEXAS — Silver Arch Capital Partners has provided a $12.6 million loan secured by an 81-acre development site in Mansfield. The borrower, Dallas-based development group Geyer Morris Co., was under contract to acquire the site and the two-year interest-only funding was utilized to complete the acquisition. The vacant site is situated along US 287 and Broad Street and is entitled for the development of a 500,000-square-foot retail center, slated for completion in the spring of 2018.
DALLAS — Capital Senior Ventures, a subsidiary of Baltimore-based Capital Funding Group, has acquired 33 skilled nursing facilities totaling 4,200 beds in south-central Texas, plus some shovel-ready development sites, for an undisclosed sum. Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap specializing in serving institutional and major private real estate investors, advised the seller, Regency Post-Acute Healthcare System, in the deal. According to IPA, the transaction is the largest seniors housing sale in Texas history. Joshua Jandris, Mark Myers, Peyton Stanforth and Charles Hilding led the Dallas-based IPA team.
ENID, OKLA. — GBT Realty Corp. has acquired an 11.3-acre retail site in Enid for the development of a 100,000-square-foot retail center. Situated across from Oakwood Mall, the site was formerly home to Walmart and a distribution center for the regional home and garden retailer Atwoods Ranch and Home. GBT acquired the site from Atwood’s Distribution LLC for $3.9 million. Construction is underway with the demolition of the existing distribution center.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Alliance Architects Inc. has been awarded shell and interior design services for the expansion of DataBank’s facility in Richardson. The building is located within Digital Realty’s Dallas Data Center Park campus. In addition to 11,000 square feet of data hall dedicated to customer hardware, the 16,000-square-foot expansion will also feature technical areas, offices and customizable storage space.
BEE CAVE, TEXAS — Disney Investment Group (DIG) has arranged the sale of Shops at the Galleria, a 537,685-square-foot retail center located in the Austin suburb of Bee Cave. The center was 99 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Lowe’s Home Improvement, Best Buy, Marshall’s, HomeGoods, Cost Plus World Market, Michaels, PetSmart, Office Max, Old Navy and Ulta Beauty. DIG procured the buyer, Chicago-based InvenTrust Properties Corp., and CBRE represented the seller, Christopher Commercial Inc., in the transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Cielo Property Group has purchased a five-story office building located at 900 Congress Ave. in downtown Austin. The 64,000-square-foot building includes nine levels of off-site accessory parking at 816 Colorado St. Cielo purchased a 15-story office tower located across the street at 823 Congress Ave. in 2014. The company plans to upgrade the Art Deco-style building with a renovation of the lobby and elevators, as well as improvements to its streetscape and canopy. This is the sixth downtown Austin property that Cielo has acquired since it was founded in 2010. The company also owns three historic mixed-use buildings at 315, 319 and 323 Congress Ave., as well as 601 W. Third St., where it plans to break ground on a 29-story office tower called Third + Shoal later this year.
