Texas

Belmond-Haltom-City

HALTOM CITY, TEXAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of Belmond, a 312-unit apartment community located north of Fort Worth in Haltom City. Built on 17 acres in 2001, the property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units with an average size of 980 square feet. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, playground, dog park, coffee bar, clubhouse, outdoor grilling and dining stations and package lockers. Joey Tumminello, Taylor Hill, Drew Kile, Michael Ware and William Hubbard of IPA represented the seller, Dallas-based Knightvest Capital, in the transaction and procured the buyer, an entity doing business as TwinkleStar Asset LLC.

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DALLAS — Adolfson & Peterson (AP) Construction has broken ground on a 39,000-square-foot civic project in East Dallas. The site spans 3.2 acres at 9731 Lake June Road. The two-story building will be known as the East Dallas Government Center and will house multiple departments of Dallas County, including several related to law enforcement. Completion is scheduled for next summer.

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Gulfbelt-Logistics-Park-Houston

HOUSTON — A joint venture between Trammell Crow Co. (TCC) and CBRE Investment Management has broken ground on Phase I of Gulfbelt Logistics Park, a speculative industrial project in southeast Houston that will add 498,798 square feet of space across three buildings to the local supply. Phase I will consist of one cross-dock, one rear-load and one front-load building with footprints ranging from 88,750 to 278,858 square feet and with 28- to 36-foot clear heights. Project partners include Burton Construction Co., Powers Brown Architecture and LJA Engineering. Veritex Community Bank is providing construction financing, and CBRE will handle the park’s leasing assignment on behalf of ownership. Completion is slated for next spring.

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LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — California-based investment firm Bixby Capital Management has purchased a 241,104-square-foot industrial park in the northern Dallas suburb of Lewisville. Red River Business Park consists of three rear-load buildings with 28- to 32-foot clear heights that are situated on a 19.4-acre site at the intersection of I-35 and State Highway 121. Los Angeles-based PCCP financed the acquisition of the property in conjunction with Bixby’s purchase of a 222,382-square-foot warehouse near Nashville.

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GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Global Real Estate Advisors (GREA) has arranged the sale of Cottonwood Park Village, a 175-unit apartment complex located in the central metroplex city of Grand Prairie. Built in the 1980s, the property offers a range of floor plans and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, outdoor grilling and dining stations and onsite laundry facilities. The buyer and seller were not disclosed. Cottonwood Park Village was 92 percent occupied at the time of sale.

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LAREDO, TEXAS — Austin-based investment firm Buchanan Capital Partners has acquired an 86,310-square-foot warehouse in the South Texas city of Laredo. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 172 Interamerica Blvd. was completed earlier this year and offers 29-foot clear heights, 26 dock doors, 52 trailer parking spaces and 3,000 square feet of office space. Buchanan acquired the property in partnership with Frontier Real Estate Partners. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.

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HOUSTON — Colliers has negotiated the sale of a 66,500-square-foot industrial outdoor storage facility in northeast Houston. Built in 2008, the facility sits on approximately 15 acres at 9803 Sheldon Road and includes 10 acres of stabilized storage space, four grade-level doors, one dock-high door and 6,000 square feet of office space. Zack Taylor and Todd Moore of Colliers represented the seller in the transaction. Mike Taetz, also with Colliers, represented the buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.

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InterFace-Austin-Industrial

AUSTIN, TEXAS — The concept of locating similar types of commercial real estate uses in close proximity to one another to allow those users to naturally develop synergies — clustering — is an age-old practice in certain asset classes like office, retail and hospitality. But the strategy can make sense for industrial real estate as well, especially in a time in which new subcategories of industrial uses are attracting capital and generating demand for space. Logistics and distribution users, for example, typically identify transportation costs as their top line item on the expense side of the ledger. Those companies have little choice but to pay top dollar for land or space near the rooftops of their existing customer bases so as to minimize transit costs. Editor’s note: InterFace Conference Group, a division of France Media Inc., produces networking and educational conferences for commercial real estate executives. To sign up for email announcements about specific events, visit www.interfaceconferencegroup.com/subscribe. Data center uses cannot properly and profitably function without access to cheap electricity, hence the ability of Texas to land many of those deals via its deregulated power grid. Suppliers of smaller industrial parts and components are often supported by a handful of major manufacturers, and …

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Chalk-Hill-Dallas

DALLAS — Kaizen Development Partners has begun work on Chalk Hill, a mixed-use redevelopment project in Uptown Dallas. Kaizen is now demolishing all structures on the 2.3-acre site at the corner of Wolf and North Harwood streets, which previously served as the home of North Texas Public Broadcasting. Plans for Chalk Hill include over 400,000 square feet of Class A office space, a 217-key luxury hotel that will be developed in partnership with HN Capital Partners, 61 luxury condos and multiple food-and-beverage options. BOKA Powell is designing Chalk Hill, and Balfour Beatty is serving as the general contractor. JLL is leasing the office space.

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San-Marcos-Business-Park-Building-C

SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — JLL has arranged an undisclosed amount of construction financing for Phase I of San Marcos Business Park, a speculative industrial project that will add 377,300 square feet of space to the local supply. Located within the Whisper South master-planned development, the rear-load building will feature 36-foot clear heights, 75 dock doors, two drive-in doors and an ESFR fire sprinkler system. Matt Stewart, Ace Sudah, Jackson Finch, Jacob Michael and Cameron Sepahi of JLL arranged the loan through an undisclosed regional bank on behalf of the developer, Ledo Capital Group.

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