SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — Transwestern has been selected by Equus Capital Partners Ltd. to lease and manage the Comerica Bank Building, a 193,998-square-foot office building located at 1 Sugar Creek Center Blvd. in Sugar Land. Doug Little and Louann Pereira of Transwestern will provide leasing services for the complex. The building’s amenities include surface parking and an attached four-level parking garage, a deli and full-service banking facility.
HOUSTON — CBRE has arranged a 3,535-square-foot lease with Peli Peli Kitchen, a new fast-casual restaurant chain inspired by modern South African and Southern cuisines. The restaurant will be located within the Gateway at Spring Valley development at 9090 Katy Freeway in Houston. Eric Lestin and Kyle Golding of CBRE’s Houston office represented Peli Peli in the site selection and lease transaction. The new restaurant is slated to open by spring 2016. Peli Peli Kitchen joins its sister restaurant Peli Peli, which has locations in the Vintage Park Shopping Center and the Houston Galleria. Houston-based Ersa Grae Corp. is the developer of Gateway at Spring Valley, located at the corner of Campbell Road and I-10.
GARLAND, TEXAS — RagingWire Data Centers, a data center provider, has purchased 42 acres of land in Garland to build a 1 million-square-foot data center campus known as TX1. The 80-megawatt property will be located off of the President George Bush Turnpike at the intersections of Lookout Drive and Campbell and Telecom roads. The city of Garland and Garland Power & Light worked with RagingWire to provide planning assistance and economic development incentives for the project. Construction is expected to begin immediately on the first of five 180,000-square-foot data centers at the TX1 campus. Leasing of wholesale build-to-suit vaults, custom data center buildings and retail colocation cages and racks is expected to commence by September 2016. Bo Bond and Ali Greenwood of JLL represented RagingWire in the land acquisition.
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS — NorthMarq Capital has arranged the $13 million refinance of a three property multifamily portfolio consisting of 588 units in Wichita Falls. The properties are located at 3611 and 4515 Maplewood Ave. and 4700 Taft Blvd. Rob Hervey and Mark Dodson of NorthMarq secured financing on behalf of the borrower through a CMBS lender. The loan is structured under a 10-year term with a 30-year amortization schedule.
HOUSTON — EDGE Realty Partners has arranged two retail leases totaling 3,078 square feet at separate shopping centers located in Houston. In the first transaction, EDGE Realty Partners negotiated a 1,730-square-foot lease for OXXO at Sandbridge Plaza at the intersection of Eldridge Parkway and Sandbridge Drive. In the second transaction, the brokerage firm arranged a 1,348-square-foot lease for One Stop Nutrition at Briar Forest Plaza at the intersection of Eldridge Parkway and Briar Forest Drive in Houston. Hannah Smith of EDGE Realty Partners represented the landlord, West Houston Retail, in both transactions. Schuyler Pulford of Remax Commercial represented OXXO, and Jim Hendrix of Streetwise Retail Advisors represented One Stop Nutrition.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — NorthStar Midstream, a midstream crude and natural gas service, storage and transportation company, has relocated its corporate headquarters from Minneapolis to The Woodlands, a northern suburb of Houston. The new office occupies 7,500 square feet on the top floor of Parkwood I, an office complex at 10077 Grogan’s Mill Road. Terms of the lease were not disclosed. Rob Banzhaf, managing principal of Newcor Commercial Real Estate, represented NorthStar in the office lease transaction. Lisa Hughes with The J Beard Company represented the landlord, Parkwood Holdings.
Since 2011, Austin’s multifamily market has become one of the strongest in the state and nation. With stable job growth, demand is projected to remain strong. Marketwide occupancy hovered around 94 percent at the end of the second quarter of 2015, with rents increasing at a 6 percent year-over-year clip. Austin and Travis County continue to rack up the rankings, with Thumbtack naming the area a top environment for small businesses and WalletHub naming it the best large U.S. city to live in. Headlight Data ranked Travis County the second fastest-growing financial services sector in 2014 and Austin came in as the number one city for startup activity on the 2015 Kaufmann Index. Generally, the first question on everyone’s minds is how long this bullish cycle will last. With the development pipeline running at historically high levels, what is the impact on today’s market and how does the future look? Apartment construction dropped off dramatically in 2010 and remained compressed until 2014. However, population grew incredibly fast during the construction trough, resulting in heightened demand. Today, there are 16,000 units in some stage of development with just over 10,000 expected to deliver in 2015. The difference between today and the …
PLANO, TEXAS — Developer Sam Moon Group has broken ground on a new 15-story, 304-guestroom Renaissance hotel in Plano. Part of the new 250-acre Legacy West master development, the hotel will include more than 100,000 square feet of conference and meeting space, restaurants, an outdoor bar terrace and a third-floor amenity deck with a swimming pool, bar, spa and fitness center. An attached parking garage will provide 470 parking spaces for guests. Brasfield & Gorrie will serve as general contractor and HKS Hospitality Group will serve as architect on the project. Other project team members include Looney & Associates, Blum Engineering, Brockett/Davis/Drake Inc., Bancorp South and Jones Lang LaSalle. Construction of the hotel is expected to be complete in spring 2017.
CONROE, TEXAS — Lancaster Pollard’s private equity program, Propero Seniors Housing Equity Fund, has provided $26.7 million to develop Woodhaven Village, a new seniors housing community in Conroe, about 40 miles north of Houston. A joint venture led by Paradigm Senior Living, the landowners and passive individual investors are developing the community, which will include 60 independent living units, 60 assisted living units and 24 memory care beds. The joint venture expects to complete construction in late 2016. Propero is a private equity fund established by Lancaster Pollard to invest in seniors housing properties through triple-net leases with experienced operators.
DALLAS — Westdale and StreetLights Residential are teaming up to develop The Case Building, a 17-story high-rise apartment tower located at the intersection of Hall and Main streets in the Deep Ellum neighborhood in Dallas. According to the developers, the 337-unit property will be the first high-rise development ever in Deep Ellum. The units will span between 500 and 1,300 square feet and feature 10-foot concrete ceilings, exposed brick walls and open metal shelving. Community amenities will include a business lounge, conference room, studio offices, club room with coffee bar, full-service bar, pool table, private dining room, dog wash station, bike storage room, fitness center and an outdoor swimming pool. Leasing will begin in early 2017, and the co-developers expect to deliver the first units in spring 2017. StreetLights Residential Texas Construction LLC is serving as general contractor for the project.
