HOUSTON — Accounting firm Abbott & Associates has signed a 4,848-square-foot office lease renewal in southeast Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 12600 N. Featherwood Drive was built in 1987 and totals 75,166 square feet. Ryan Hartsell of locally based brokerage firm Oxford Partners represented Abbott & Associates in the lease negotiations. Ryan Clark of The Mission Cos. represented the landlord.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — San Francisco-based developer Legacy Partners has completed Ovation at Galatyn Park, a 361-unit apartment community in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Richardson. Designed by WDG Architecture, Ovation at Galatyn Park offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units that range in size from 500 to 1,700 square feet and are furnished with quartz countertops and various pieces of smart-home technology products. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, sky lounge, outdoor game room, arcade, billiards room and a podcast studio. Legacy developed the project in partnership with Bridge Investment Group. Construction began in June 2021. Rents start at $1,525 per month for a one-bedroom apartment.
DALLAS — Sidley Austin LLP has signed a 118,484-square-foot office lease at 23Springs in Uptown Dallas. The law firm will relocate from an 80,000-square-foot space at the nearby McKinny & Olive complex to four full floors and a partial fifth floor of the 26-story, 626,215-square-foot building in early 2026. Granite Properties is developing 23Springs, which is slated for a March 2025 completion. Craig Wilson, Randy Cooper, and Greg Biggs of Stream Realty Partners represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Robert Jimenez, Burson Holman and Elizabeth Fortado represented Granite Properties on an internal basis.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Locally based firm Peak Development Partners has sold a 14-acre industrial development site located at the corner of El Dorado Parkway and Stonebridge Drive in the northeastern Dallas suburb of McKinney. Peak originally acquired 18 acres at the site last year and will break ground on four retail pads on the other four acres later this year. Evan English and Tim McNutt of DBA Real Estate represented the buyer, SLX Development, in the transaction. Peak was self-represented.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Amped Fitness, a Florida-based fitness retail chain, will open a 38,562-square-foot gym at Richardson Plaza, a retail center located at 110 W. Campbell Road on the northeastern outskirts of Dallas. Grayson Duyck of California-based brokerage firm Matthews Real Estate Investment Services represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. The tenant representative was also not disclosed. The gym, which will be the 25th in the country for Amped Fitness, is scheduled to open at the end of the year.
HOUSTON — Locally based brokerage firm Finial Group has negotiated a 25,000-square-foot industrial lease at Central Green Business Park in North Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 1950 S. Starpoint Drive was built in 1992, features 24-foot clear heights and includes 10,000 square feet of office space. William Alcorn and Jack Gaffney of Finial Group represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Henry Landwermeyer of Boyd Commercial represented the tenant, Pulse Wire & Cable.
By Taylor Williams When it comes to industrial supply growth in Central Texas, the usual suspects — land availability, interest rate movement, time-consuming permitting and approval processes — are all secondary to the need for more infrastructural development to support these projects. Roadways, public transit systems, electrical capacity, sewerage and water services — these are the key ingredients in the recipe for successful industrial development in Central Texas that can sometimes be overlooked or understated in importance. As such, economic development corporations (EDCs) in the area are prioritizing infrastructure development in their work as they help developers add much-needed industrial space to support the area’s burgeoning population. While underlying, efficient infrastructure is critical to all real estate developments and human occupation, it is especially crucial to industrial projects. Large-scale manufacturing facilities — think Tesla in East Austin and Samsung in its northern suburb of Taylor — employ thousands of people. Housing hasn’t caught up to population growth in many of the surrounding communities, necessitating alternate means of commuting. In addition, manufacturing and e-commerce facilities tend to have above-average electrical capacity requirements. Financially, meeting that demand might be made somewhat easier in a state that has a deregulated power grid, but logistically, …
The data center market remains a powerhouse of growth and demand in the commercial real estate world. REBusinessOnline sat down with Ryan Goeller, a principal at NAI KLNB commercial real estate services in Virginia, to discuss the various factors impacting this dynamic asset class. REBusinessOnline: Briefly, a data center is a dedicated building housing computer servers and storage systems, constantly processing and managing data for various applications. What is the current state of the data center market? Goeller: Extremely active, with very high demand. Development pipelines are at full power and are strained in certain markets. Leasing demand is through the roof. REBusinessOnline: What types of tenants use these data centers, and what are their space needs? Goeller: The majority of the time, the need for space is so insatiable that entire buildings are leased to single users, especially when it comes to large hyperscale computing projects. However, there are still colocation providers housing smaller tenants in certain buildings. A lot of the activity happening in Northern Virginia is hyperscale activity. These are large tech companies coming in and building 2-million-square-foot campuses that they’re fully occupying themselves. In these instances, the tenants aren’t likely to move once they occupy a space; …
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged a $37 million loan for the refinancing of Dane Park, a 392-unit apartment community in Grapevine. The property is located in the northern-central part of the metroplex and features one- and two-bedroom units. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, game room, sports court, resident clubhouse and outdoor grilling and dining stations. Dane Park also offers pet daycare, grooming and concierge services. Brian Eisendrath and Cameron Chalfant of IPA arranged the debt. The borrower and direct lender were not disclosed.
HOUSTON — Temenos Community Development Corp. and The NHP Foundation have opened a 95-unit supportive housing complex in Houston. The property includes an entire floor dedicated to at-risk youth, and 80 units replace those lost to The Texas Department of Transportation to make way for highway improvements. The City of Houston Housing & Community Development provided $12.5 million for the project, and The Harris County Community Services Department provided $11 million. The Houston Housing Finance Corp. and the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs also contributed to the capital stack.