ARLINGTON, PLANO AND DALLAS, TEXAS — Grubb & Ellis has completed three Dallas-area office leases. In Arlington, Unified investigations & Sciences leased 19,360 square feet of space, located at 1700 Tech Center Pkwy., from Parkway Industrial Partners. Cribb Altman and Lee Wagner of Grubb & Ellis represented the tenant. Canon Shoults of Holt Lunsford represented the landlord. In Plano, RamQuest Software leased 15,745 square feet of office space at Three Legacy Town Center, located at 5801 Tennyson Pkwy., from Tennyson Development LP. Grubb & Ellis’ Daniel Rudd and Billy Vahrenkamp represented the tenant. Ward Eastman of CAPSTAR Commercial Real Estate Services represented the landlord. Finally, Robert Half International leased 13,424 square feet of space, located within Dallas’ Occidental Tower at 5005 LBJ Freeway, from Occidental Tower Corp. Heather Shover and Russ Johnson of Grubb & Ellis represented the landlord. Kyle Pierson of Newmark Knight Frank represented the tenant.
DALLAS — Corgan Associates has been selected to design the new Reading Room for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, a museum devoted to the assassination of President Kennedy. The Reading Room will be located within the Dallas County Administration Building (formerly the Texas School Book Depository) at 411 Elm St. Corgan will renovate former administrative space and the southeast corner meeting space, as well as create a Media Room that the museum will share with Dallas County employees. The museum is scheduled to open in November.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Construction is currently under way for the expansion of Bonnie Ruth’s Café Trottoir et Patisserie, a restaurant located within The Shops at Starwood in Frisco. Bonnie Ruth’s will expand into an adjacent 2,137-square-foot vacant space. The expansion will contain additional bar seating, a private dining area for groups, a take-out area and an expanded bakery. Construction is slated for completion in September. The restaurant will add a breakfast menu to its offerings to coincide with the expansion. The Shops at Starwood is a mixed-use center located at the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Lebanon Road. Phase III of the project is scheduled to break ground in 2009.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — W.P. Carey & Co. has selected Jones Lang LaSalle as the exclusive leasing agent for 2370 North Performance Drive, a 282,000-square-foot, Class A office building located in Richardson. Constructed in 2001, the seven-story property is situated within the Galatyn Park submarket. It contains 846 parking spaces, convenient access to a nearby DART station and an average floor plate size of 40,285 square feet. Sandie Matejek and Shannon Brown will lead the Jones Lang LaSalle leasing team. This most recent assignment brings the company’s leased and managed portfolio in the DFW Metroplex to approximately 15 million square feet.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Corpus Christi-based Susser Holdings Corp. has reached an agreement to purchase a portfolio of 25 convenience stores. The purchase includes leaseholds for 24 of the stores and the real estate underlying the final property. Twenty-three of the stores are located throughout Texas and the other two are located in Louisiana. All of the locations have been constructed in the past 7 years, and Susser currently supplies fuel to 11 of the stores through its wholesale fuel business. The company plans to sublet a majority of the locations to independent operators. The all-cash transaction is expected to close at the end of August. Susser Holdings currently operates more than 515 convenience stores in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico under the Stripes and Town & Country brands. Its wholesale fuel division supplies branded fuel to approximately 370 independent dealers.
HOUSTON — Hendricks & Partners (H&P) has brokered the sale of Chancellor, a 224-unit multifamily community located at 311 Parramatta Ave. in Houston. The property was purchased by Miami Beach, Fla.-based JPMCC 2006-LDp9 Parramatta Lane Apartments LLC. The seller was locally based Chancellor Apartments LLC. Chip Nash and Greg Austin of H&P’s Houston office represented the seller. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio office of Transwestern has completed a lease for 50,000 square feet of office space at Bank of America Plaza, located in San Antonio’s central business district. Martin Down and Larry Mendez of Transwestern represented the landlord, Talcott Realty Investors, in lease negotiations. The tenant is the General Services Administration. Bank of America Plaza is a 532,900-square-foot, Class A office tower located at 300 Convent St.
HOUSTON — Goodrich Petroleum Corp. has signed a long-term lease for the top three floors of 801 Louisiana Street, located in Houston. The company, which plans to use the 37,000-square-foot space as its new headquarters, will move into the building this summer. Its lease has an expansion option. Bob Parsley and Stan Voelkel of Colliers International represented Goodrich Petroleum in lease negotiations. Jay Kyle, also of Colliers, represented the landlord, TPMC. The building recently under went significant interior renovations, with exterior improvements expected to be complete in the coming months.
DENTON, TEXAS — Stan Johnson Co. has completed the sale of a freestanding Walgreens store located on a 1.73-acre lot in Denton. The 14,820-square-foot building is 100 percent leased to Walgreens Co. Gill Warner, Rod Pickney and Chad Byerly of Team Warner of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller, a retail developer. The team also represented the buyer, an institutional investor, in the $4.45 million transaction.
HOUSTON — CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) has brokered the sale of approximately 1.15 acres of land on Yorktown Crossing Parkway in Northwest Houston. CS Copperfield Ventures, LTD, a Buffalo Wild Wings franchise group, purchased the land from Satya, Inc. Matt Keener, Russell Janicek and Mark Raines of CBRE represented the buyer. Josh Jacobs and Chris Pitts of Page Partners represented the seller.