DALLAS — HFF has secured $175 million in financing for a seven-property, 5 million-square-foot industrial portfolio in California, Texas and Mississippi. HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, a fund managed by Clarion Partners, to secure a fixed-rate loan through TIAA-CREF. Loan proceeds were used to retire debt on the portfolio. The assets include two properties in San Bernardino, Calif., two in the Dallas area and one in Southaven, Miss. The portfolio is 94.1 percent leased and the properties were built between 2001 and 2005. John Rose led HFF’s team.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Sealy & Co., a commercial real estate investment company headquartered in Dallas, has acquired a Gardner Tanenbaum Holdings project in Oklahoma City through the Sealy Strategic Equity Partners investment fund. The 280,000-square-foot industrial building is located near I-35 and Britton Road in north Oklahoma City. The tenant, utility tape manufacturer ShurTech Brands, recently signed a 15-year lease.
AUSTIN — Karlin Real Estate and developer Trammell Crow Co. have broken ground on Parmer 3.2, a new Class A office building offering 192,000 square feet of prime office space. Parmer 3.2 is the first phase of new construction at PARMER, Karlin’s 400-acre, master-planned technology and office park in Austin. Parmer 3.2 is a three-story office building featuring 64,000-square-foot floor plates designed for either single or multi-tenant occupancy. Construction is expected to be complete in the second quarter of 2015. Parmer is zoned for up to 9 million square feet of office, industrial, hotel and retail use. The development is bordered by McCallen Pass on the west, East Howard Lane on the north, Harris Ridge Boulevard on the east and Parmer Lane on the south, with close access to I-35 and U.S. 183.
SAN ANTONIO — CBRE has brokered the sale of Potranco Village Shopping Center in San Antonio to an unnamed buyer. Texas-based Barshop & Oles Co. sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Potranco Village, located at 430 W. Loop 1604 in the Far West San Antonio submarket, is near the intersection of Highway 90 and Loop 1604. The center includes 18,000 square feet of space and is 100 percent occupied. Tenants include Pei Wei Asian Diner, Wingstop and GNC. Academy Sports + Outdoors shadow-anchors the property. Barshop & Oles Co. will continue to lease and manage the asset for the new owner. Chris Cozby, Chris Gerard and Kevin Holland of CBRE represented the seller in an off-market transaction.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — ZC+O has completed construction of Research Forest Lakeside Building 4 in The Woodlands. The 12-story, 297,827-square-foot office building is the second of eight new buildings to be built in the 77-acre, mixed-use development located on Lake Woodlands. The building is pre-certified LEED Gold. ZC+O is an association between Ziegler Cooper and Odell.
DALLAS — Dougherty Mortgage LLC has arranged a $4.1 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of Prince Hall Apartments, a 192-unit multifamily housing property in Dallas. Dougherty’s Dallas, Texas office arranged the 10-year term, 30-year amortization loan for Prince Hall LTD. Dougherty Mortgage is based in Minneapolis with offices in California, Colorado, Maryland and Texas.
DALLAS — Crow Holdings Capital Partners LLC has broken ground on Mountain Creek, a new industrial park situated along Interstate 20 & Grady Niblo Road in Dallas. The 87-acre development will include two buildings totaling 1.3 million square feet of distribution and warehouse space. Phase I of the project will include one building totaling 630,000 square feet. McFadden & Miller is the contractor and Azimuth Architecture is the architect.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of Northpark Village in Lubbock. Cincinnati, Ohio-based Phillips Edison & Co. bought the grocery-anchored center for an undisclosed price. Lubbock-based United Supermarkets anchors the 70,479-square-foot Northpark Village at the intersection of 4th Street and Slide Road. Texas Tech University is two miles from the center. The complex is 96.8 percent occupied. Other tenants include Starbucks and GNC. Chris Cozby, Chris Gerard and Kevin Holland with CBRE represented the unnamed seller in an off-market sale.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Encore Wire Corp. has announced plans for an expansion of its McKinney headquarters. The company is in its 25th year in business and will invest more than $30 million to expand its manufacturing facilities and provide more than 125 new jobs in McKinney. The company has more than 1,180 employees and is the largest taxpayer in McKinney. The expansion of its existing aluminum wire plant will add 128 new jobs and increase the size of the plant from 200,000 square feet to 450,000 square feet. The expansion is expected to be complete in December.
EL PASO — Hackman Capital Partners LLC has purchased two facilities formerly owned by a Hoover Inc. affiliate. The acquisition includes a plastic injection molding and CNC (computer numerically controlled) tool making facility in El Paso and a manufacturing building in Juarez, Mexico. The firm partnered with Industrial Assets Inc. and Maynards Industries to purchase the assets in a bulk transaction. The El Paso building contains 423,435 square feet while the Juarez building spans 274,295 square feet.