CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Old Capital has provided a $9.2 million acquisition loan for Embassy House Apartments in Corpus Christi. A local investment group acquired the asset, which was built in 1980. Located only a few miles from the beach, the new owners plan to update the property and then reposition for a long-term hold. Old Capital provided the non-recourse Fannie Mae loan with 80 percent leverage.
MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS — Colliers International has arranged the sale of 6,500 square feet at 13370 S. Gessner Road in Missouri City. AAA Tran Real Estate Management LLC purchased the property. Tasha Bannister of Transtar Fine Properties represented the buyer in the transaction. Barkley Peschel of Colliers International represented the seller in the transaction. Madera Studio, a professional photography and portrait studio, will occupy the space.
ADDISON, TEXAS — Abilene Christian University (ACU) has signed a long-term lease for 25,000 square feet of office space at One Hanover Park, an eight-story, 195,894-square-foot, Class A office building located at 16633 N. Dallas Parkway in Addison. PMRG’s Kurt Cherry, Brittany Ricketts and Shea Byers handled the deal internally for the firm. Holden Lunsford and James Engels of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented ACU. Built in 1998, One Hanover is located along the Dallas North Tollway and is 96 percent occupied.
SAN ANTONIO — Old Capital has provided a five-year loan with a fixed interest rate, a 25-year amortization schedule and one year of interest-only payments for French Chalet Apartments in San Antonio. Local buyers acquired the value-add asset. Using loan proceeds, the new owners will perform exterior and interior renovations to increase the value of the property.
DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Fairmeadows Apartments, a 200-unit apartment property situated on 11.7 acres in Duncanville. John Barker of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Worth office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a partnership. Barker also secured the buyer, a partnership that assumed an existing Fannie Mae loan. Fairmeadows Apartments is located at 800 Merrill Road in Duncanville, a city situated within Dallas County nine miles from downtown Dallas. The construction includes a concrete slab foundation, wood framing, brick with vinyl siding exterior and pitched composition roofs. On-site amenities include laundry facilities, a swimming pool and a playground area.
HOUSTON — Transwestern has represented MOD Pizza in five leases totaling 13,662 square feet for new locations in the Houston area. Grant Walker and Chris Reyes of Transwestern served as advisors for MOD Pizza in the Houston market, and represented the retailer in the transactions. MOD will be operating over 100 stores across the U.S. by the end of 2015, with plans to open more than 30 additional locations in Houston within the next four to five years. MOD Pizza’s newest Houston locations include 3,175 square feet at 19820 Southwest Freeway in Sugar Land, 2,797 square feet at 5777 San Felipe St. in Houston, 2,744 square feet at 2682 Pearland Parkway in Pearland, 2,446 square feet at 10123 Louetta Road in Houston and 2,500 square feet at 14555 Memorial Drive in Houston.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Robert Hervey and Mark Dodson of NorthMarq Capital’s Los Angeles office have arranged the $16.5 million refinancing of Landmark Towers, a 274,656-square-foot office property located at 3335-3555 NW. 58th St. in Oklahoma City. The transaction was structured with a 10-year term, five years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. NorthMarq arranged financing for the borrower through its relationship with a CMBS lender.
San Antonio, despite being the second largest city in Texas by population, sometimes takes a back seat to the Lone Star State’s other booming metro areas. The city might not have the energy of Houston, the weirdness of Austin or the Cowboys of Dallas, but more than 1.4 million people call the Alamo City home, and businesses are starting to take notice. San Antonio has added more than 300,000 residents since 2000, and a reasonable cost of living makes it an attractive city for workers young and old. The city continues to experience strong corporate growth and increased tourism activity, which is bringing more jobs to the city. San Antonio’s unemployment rate of 3.8 percent sits well below the national rate of 5.5 percent, and is also below Texas’ unemployment rate of 4.2 percent. Texas is the home of oil, and recent price uncertainty has made some investors worry about the state’s big cities. But there’s no worry in San Antonio: While new oil and gas production from the Eagle Ford Shale south of the city is expanding and having a positive impact on the region, the presence of energy-related businesses in San Antonio represents only one sector of the …
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Trademark Property Co. has completed a 57,000-square-foot Class A office building, named WestBend 2, at its WestBend mixed-use development in Fort Worth. Located at 1701 River Run Road, the three-story building is situated on top of The Fresh Market grocery store and other retailers and restaurants opening at WestBend. The adjacent Trinity Trails provides access to walking or biking and allows for Trinity River views from all floors. Additional amenities include outdoor seating and meeting space, bicycle storage, onsite locker rooms with showers and garage parking separate from retail parking. Regus, a provider of flexible workspace, will outfit 15,000 square feet at WestBend. The new office building is part of the redevelopment efforts underway at WestBend, which upon completion in fall 2015 will include 278,000 square feet of retail, dining and office space. Current WestBend tenants include Zoë’s Kitchen, East Hampton Sandwich Co. and Silver Fox.
FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — InvenTrust Properties Corp. has acquired The Highlands of Flower Mound a 169,447-square-foot shopping center located in Flower Mound, for $45.8 million. Highlands of Flower Mound is 96 percent occupied, with 60 percent of its roster comprising original tenants. The center is shadow anchored by a Super Target and is leased to Bed Bath and Beyond, Cost Plus World Market, Stein Mart, Pier 1, Famous Footwear and Party City. InvenTrust became a self-managed REIT in 2014. The company owns 108 multi-tenant retail properties, comprising 15.5 million square feet of retail space in 24 states.
