HOUSTON — A joint venture between Hallandale Beach, Fla.-based Beacon Investment Properties, Menorah Mivtachim and Psagot has acquired One City Centre, a 609,000-square-foot, Class A office building located at 1021 Main St. in Houston's CBD. Menorah Mivtachim and Psagot are two Israeli financial institutions. The joint venture purchased the 31-story office property from Behringer Harvard. One City Centre is currently 84 percent leased and was recently certified LEED Gold. Tenants include Waste Management and Energy XXI. Beacon also purchased a 560,000-square-foot office portfolio in Houston, Ashford 5, 6 & 7, last month.
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HOUSTON — Houston-based Standard Equipment Co. has selected Satterfield & Pontikes Construction to build four industrial properties totaling 185,000 square feet at its corporate headquarters complex in northwest Houston. Standard Equipment awarded Satterfield & Pontikes the $13 million project, which will include a 54,000-square-foot flex building and three crane-served industrial buildings.
HOUSTON — Berkeley Point Capital has provided a $40 million acquisition loan for the 380-unit AMLI Towne Square Apartments, located in Houston. The property will be renamed Standard on West Dallas. Ed Belz of Berkeley Point's Boston office arranged the seven-year loan through the Fannie Mae DUS lender program on behalf of the borrower, Baron Properties. The borrower plans to spend $4.4 million on capital improvements on the property.
SAN ANTONIO — NorthMarq Capital has secured $13.7 million in acquisition financing for the 384-unit Enclave Apartments, located at 2555 NE Loop 410 in San Antonio. Luke Donahue of NorthMarq's Phoenix office arranged the 10-year loan amortized over 30 years through Freddie Mac on behalf of the borrower, Enclave Communities.
HOUSTON — Q10 Kinghorn, Driver, Hough & Co. (KDH) has arranged construction/permanent financing for a 117,184-square-foot office/warehouse, located at the northeast corner of Heathrow Forest Parkway and Aldine Bender in the Interwood Business Park in Houston. Larry Peters of KDH's Houston office arranged the loan through a middle market bank in Houston on behalf of the borrower, SUHM Spring Works.
DALLAS — Chef John Coleman will open a restaurant and food kiosk in the new Klyde Warren Park, a 5.2-acre deck park built above Woodall Rodgers Freeway next to downtown and uptown Dallas. Savor, the restaurant, will be a gastropub featuring a custom mixology program. Bill Johnson of Atlanta-based Johnson Studios is designing the restaurant's interior. Savor will debut as a food truck until the restaurant is delivered in mid-2013. Relish, a permanent kiosk, will be a companion to Savor.
AUSTIN — Muskin Commercial has arranged the sale of the 122-unit Salem Walk Apartments, located in Austin. Ellen Muskin and Daniel Elam of Muskin Commercial represented the seller, a Santa Rosa, Calif.-based partnership, in the transaction.
HOUSTON — Hendricks & Partners has brokered the sale of the 76-unit Memorial Trails, an REO, garden-style apartment complex located at 14900 Memorial Drive in Houston. Chris Ross, Mike Miller and Will Caruth of Hendricks & Partners' San Antonio office, along with Chris Malcolm of Hendricks & Partners' north Los Angeles branch, represented the seller, Newport Beach, Calif.-based Kinecta Federal Credit Union, in the transaction. The buyer was San Francisco-based FAOF Memorial Trails.
DALLAS — Jones Lang LaSalle has secured Crosstex Energy's 108,525-square-foot lease at Crosstex Court, a seven-story corporate office development previously known as Cedar Springs Plaza, located at 2501 Cedar Springs Road in uptown Dallas. Steve Thelen, Jeff Staubach, Torrey Littlejohn and Vince Burt of Jones Lang LaSalle represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Michael Dudley and Hunter Lee of CBRE Group represented the landlord, Caddo Holdings.
SAN ANTONIO — Johnson Capital has arranged $6.7 million in mezzanine financing for the construction of the 225-unit Tobin Lofts, an off-campus student housing development serving the students of San Antonio College, which owns the $30 million development. Tobin Lofts will also feature a retail component. NRP Group has begun developing the property, which will open prior to the fall 2013 semester. Austin-based Campus Advantage will manage the community upon completion. Ron Davis of Johnson Capitals' Dallas office arranged the loan through a national private equity fund, while a separate $20 million construction loan was provided by a regional bank.