HOUSTON – NAI Houston has leased a 44,000-square-foot industrial office/warehouse building located at 6028 Navigation Blvd. in Houston’s East End submarket. Clay Pritchett with NAI Houston represented the landlord, East End Holdings Ltd. Realm Professionals represented the tenant, ERA Industries LLC.
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HOUSTON – HFF has arranged financing for the development of Market Square Tower, a 40-story, mixed-use tower that will include 463 residential units and 21,000 square feet of retail in downtown Houston. HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, Woodbranch Investments, to secure the loan through Pacific Life Insurance Co. Market Square Tower will be located on 1.4 acres at 777 Preston, comprising a full city block bounded by Milam, Preston, Louisiana and Congress. The project is due for completion in fall 2017, with residences ranging from 550 to 1,950 square feet. Amenities will include two pools, a virtual golf simulator, indoor basketball court, screening room and banquet room. HFF’s debt placement team included Travis Anderson, Matt Kafka and Cory Fowler.
OKLAHOMA CITY – CBRE’s National Retail Investment Group has arranged the sale of Centennial Plaza, a 23,797-square-foot power center in Oklahoma City. CBRE worked on behalf of Kimco Realty Corp., which sold the property to American Realty Capital-Retail Centers of America Inc., a publicly registered, non-traded REIT. Centennial Plaza is 100 percent occupied and anchored by retailers including Home Depot, Best Buy, Gordmans and Guitar Center. The property is located at 5801 N. May Ave. near Oklahoma City’s Nichols Hill and Meadowbrook Acres neighborhoods. It was built in 1992. Chris Cozby, Chris Gerard, Mark Inman and Kevin Holland with CBRE represented the seller.
SAN ANTONIO – Corporate Office Properties Trust has executed a full-building lease with the United States Government for a 160,500-square-foot building under construction in San Antonio’s Sentry Gateway office park. The building will be completed later this year with a lease start date in the first quarter of 2016.
AUSTIN – Sizmek Inc., an open ad management platform company, is relocating its Dallas headquarters to Austin and has signed a 17,077-square-foot lease at IBC Bank Plaza in the Austin central business district. The company already has a sales and operations office in Austin. Endeavor Real Estate Group is developing the 194,749-square-foot, Class A office tower at 500 W. Fifth Street. The office portion of the tower is 90 percent leased. Will Douglas and Jerry Frey with CBRE represented Sizmek. Travis Dunaway and Jonathan Tate with Endeavor represented the landlord.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS – Lee & Associates has completed a lease renewal for a 72,450-square-foot industrial space located at 1213 WN Carrier Pkwy. in Grand Prairie, just west of Dallas. Mark Graybill and Scott Giordano with Lee & Associates represented the landlord, Indcor Properties. Jackson & Cooksey represented the tenant, Schilli Distribution Services.
PLANO, TEXAS – Hilton Worldwide has opened the Hilton Dallas/Plano Granite Park hotel, a 299-unit Hilton Hotels & Resorts property, in the Granite Park master-planned community just north of Dallas. Granite Park is a 90-acre mixed-use development located at the intersection of the Sam Rayburn Tollway and Dallas North Tollway. Companies with a presence in the area include Hewlett Packard, Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group, PepsiCo, Siemens and J.C. Penny. BOKA Powell was the architect for the hotel. Amenities at the hotel include the on-site Carso Mediterranean Grill, a fitness center and pool. The hotel also attaches to a 30,000-square-foot conference center.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS – London-based Barclays Bank has selected McKinney for the site of a new technology center. Barclays is a Global Fortune 500 company offering services including personal banking, credit cards and investments. The company will move into the McKinney Corporate Center 1 building at Craig Ranch. Barclays Technology Center will occupy more than 40,000 square feet of Class A office space at 6800 Weiskopf Ave. Barclays has been working on the deal since last December and expects to move into the space later this fall.
CYPRESS, TEXAS – A San Antonio-based self-storage developer has purchased 3.29 acres on Spring Cypress Road in Cypress with plans to build a three-story, 110,000-square-foot self-storage facility late this year. Brian Cisarik, Robert Loeb and Jeff Bailey with SurePoint Self Storage worked to arrange the sale. The group already has five facilities in San Antonio. Houston-based developer Bobby Grover is partnering with Cisarik, Loeb and Bailey.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS – Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of O’Reilly Auto Retail Strip, a 19,840-square-foot retail property in Arlington. Jason Vitorino with Marcus & Millichap’s Dallas office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. An outside Texas broker represented the buyer, a 1031 exchange investor from the West Coast. The center was 93 percent occupied at the time of sale. O’Reilly Auto Retail Strip is located at 629 West Pioneer Pkwy. in Arlington, just off Matlock Road.