OKLAHOMA CITY — Dallas-based Gatehouse Capital has topped out a 132-room boutique hotel that is part of Phase I of OAK, a 20-acre mixed-used project in Oklahoma City. The first phase also includes 135,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 320 apartments and a 7,000-square-foot central green space. Phase II will feature 100,000 square feet of office space and an additional 85,000 square feet of retail space. Full completion is slated for next September. Veritas Development is the master developer of OAK.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Locally based brokerage firm Muskin | Elam Group has arranged the sale of Cielo at Burnet, a 48-unit apartment complex in North Austin. Daniel Elam and Lyles Carter of Muskin | Elam Group represented the undisclosed, Georgia-based seller in the transaction. The buyer, which also requested anonymity, plans to implement a value-add program and rebrand the property as Colony Creek Apartments. Cameron Hart and John Romano of Berkadia originated acquisition financing for the deal.
DALLAS — Royal Finish Inc., a provider of building restoration services, has signed a 11,533-square-foot lease renewal at Sandhill Business Center, an industrial flex property in northeast Dallas. Brian Pafford of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services represented the landlord, OMO Investment Co., in the lease negotiations. Reegan Busby of Colliers represented the tenant.
Location’s importance to commercial real estate has become a cliché. But in logistics and industrial considerations, the idea is new again — it’s not about where you are but where customers need to go and the primacy of transportation. If you’re not at the place and time that clients need, it doesn’t matter how theoretically fine the setting or how impressive the facilities are. “Transportation is roughly 12 times the cost of industrial real estate,” says Adam Roth, executive vice president at NAI Hiffman. Finished products, goods and materials are sent into and out of facilities over and over again. Shipping and trucking are a stiffly recurring expense and a much higher spend than real estate. “If I can impact your transportation spend, the real estate is a much smaller factor in the supply chain. If you can address the current concern of transportation, real estate rates almost doesn’t matter, due to a location’s supply chain advantages. Real estate can be one of the best ways to combat transportation costs.” The Rule of 1.5 In practical terms, customers’ plans for transportation are a series of changes, starting at factories, going to ports or warehouses for inventory, on to major and …
HOUSTON — McCord Development will build a 45-acre life sciences campus at Generation Park, the company’s 4,300-acre master-planned development in northeast Houston. Known as BioHub Two, the 500,000-square-foot campus represents the first phase of a larger life sciences development initiative at Generation Park and will house manufacturing, lab and traditional office space. McCord has concurrently invested $30 million in infrastructural upgrades to support the site. The construction timeline is contingent upon McCord securing a tenant or buyer for the site. Once a deal is secured, McCord could have buildings ready for occupancy within 18 to 24 months.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — Arizona-based lender Arriba Capital has provided a $28.5 million construction loan for a new student housing project that will serve students at Texas A&M University in College Station. The complex will feature 339 beds across 199 units, each of which will have a full kitchen, study desks and washer and dryer. Communal amenities will include a pool, fitness center, study lounges and a game room. BKV Group is the project architect, and McGough is the general contractor. The borrower was not disclosed.
PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS — LandPark Advisors, a Houston-based investment and management firm, has acquired Park Central Self Storage, a 312-unit facility in Port Arthur, located south of Beaumont along the Texas Gulf Coast. The facility sits on 3.8 acres and totals 48,430 net rentable square feet. LandPark, which acquired the asset in partnership with Sunset Capital, will operate the property under its Right Move Storage brand. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of TEPCO Storage, a 45-unit self-storage facility in New Braunfels, located on the northeastern outskirts of San Antonio. The site spans 1.4 acres. Jon Danklefs of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction. Sean Delaney, also with Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer. Both parties were limited liability companies that requested anonymity.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Locally based brokerage firm Newcor Commercial Real Estate has arranged the sale of a 10,000-square-foot industrial building located north of Houston in The Woodlands. Ryan Dierker and Rob Banzhaf of Newcor represented the seller, Black Forest Ventures, in the transaction. O.J. Bobek of Bobek Realty Group represented the buyer, M. Libman Investment LLC. The single-tenant building was fully leased at the time of sale.
PASADENA, TEXAS — An affiliate of New York City-based Olive Tree Holdings has completed the $4 million renovation of The Life at Beverly Palms, a 308-unit apartment community located in the eastern Houston metro of Pasadena. The property was built in 1971 and offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Unit interiors received new paint and windows, and exterior upgrades included refreshed sidewalks, roofs and landscaping. Olive Tree also enhanced the amenity spaces, which include a community room, pool, picnic area, laundry center, dog park and playground.