CEDAR PARK, TEXAS — Local investment firm CapRidge Partners has purchased a 30,000-square-foot building in Cedar Park, a northern suburb of Austin. The sales price was $6.7 million. The structure is located within the Scottsdale Crossing master-planned development and is known as ITC-1615 Scottsdale Building One. The building was fully leased at the time of sale to three tenants. Witt Westbrook of JLL represented the seller, a partnership between BCA Industrial Partners and Growth Capital Partners, in the deal.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the sale of Gruene Heights, a 25,767-square-foot retail center in New Braunfels, located northeast of San Antonio. Built on 3.5 acres in 2024, the center was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Papa Johns, Garcia’s Mexican Food and Chicken Salad Chick. Cathy Nabours, Kyle Shaffer and Sam Nichols of SRS Real Estate Partners represented the seller, a San Antonio-based developer, in the transaction. The buyer was a Houston-based private investor.
By Taylor Williams The challenges are multi-faceted. The timelines are elongated. The costs are brutal. The capital is tight. The consumers’ incomes are strained. The prevailing logic favors buying over building. The list goes on. And yet some retail developers in Texas and Oklahoma see the current environment as one that represents a unique chapter in the saga of their business — one that makes them glad they do what they do. That sentiment is not just a factor of a post-COVID resurgence built on the realization that brick-and-mortar stores and e-commerce platforms work better in tandem than in opposition. And it’s not just a natural byproduct of favorable supply-demand dynamics that have pushed retail occupancies and rents to record highs in most major markets. It goes beyond being the beneficiary of new capital flows as the commercial real estate darlings of the past decade — industrial and multifamily — have experienced softening fundamentals. The feeling is, in the words of Stevie Wonder, all these things and more. “It’s a special time in this business, even if it’s a different one,” says David Neher, president at Dallas-based Rainier Development Co. “There’s a fair amount of front-end risk and planning for …
FRISCO, TEXAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of Stonebrook Village, a 216-unit apartment complex in Frisco. Built on 14 acres in 1994, Stonebrook Village offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units with an average size of 899 square feet. Amenities include a pool, clubhouse, basketball court and a playground. Joey Tumminello, Taylor Hill, Michael Ware and William Hubbard of IPA represented the seller, New Jersey-based Strata Capital, in the transaction and procured the buyer, California-based Paskin Group.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — JLL has arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for a 162-room extended-stay hotel near downtown Fort Worth. The Home2 Suites Fort Worth Cultural District hotel was built in 2020 and offers amenities such as a 630-square-foot meeting space, an outdoor pool and a fitness center. John Bauman, Scott Dickey, Jordan Buck and Charlie Mossy of JLL arranged the loan through Inwood National Bank on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Ad Astra Capital and TMGOC Ventures.
FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS — General contractor Drymalla Construction Co. has completed a 111,000-square-foot academic project in Fort Bend County. Designed by Pfluger Architects, Haygood Elementary School is part of the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District and can support about 850 students. Funded by proceeds from a $1.5 billion bond that was approved in 2022, the school is located within the Cross Creek West master-planned development and features 46 classrooms and a library.
HOUSTON — United Steel Structures has signed an 11,752-square-foot office lease in West Houston. The provider of industrial construction, engineering and acoustic solutions is taking space at the building at 1407 Enclave Parkway, which according to LoopNet Inc. was built in 1998 and totals 209,185 square feet. Dan Boyles of Partners Real Estate represented United Steel in the lease negotiations. Paul Frazier and Chrissy Wilson of JLL represented the undisclosed landlord.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — New York City-based Machine Investment Group has purchased Rise 120, a 227-unit apartment complex in the northern Austin suburb of Georgetown. Completed in early 2024, Rise 120 offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, resident lounge, grilling area and a dog park. Machine Investment Group, which partnered with Alta Real Estate Partners on the acquisition, plans to add additional amenities, including a golf simulator, sauna and cold plunge. Walker & Dunlop represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — GEICO has signed a 198,000-square-foot office lease at Galatyn Commons, located in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Richardson. The insurance provider, which last spring committed to occupying the entirety of Building B at the four-building, 800,000-square-foot campus, is now taking additional space in Building D. Mapletree, a global investment firm based in Singapore, owns Galatyn Commons. GEICO expects to hire another 1,000 people to staff its three Richardson buildings over the next two years.
TEXARKANA, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 121-room hotel in Texarkana, located near the Texas-Arkansas border. Built on 2.3 acres in 2014 and renovated in 2023, the Residence Inn by Marriott Texarkana offers amenities such as an indoor pool, fitness center, business center and meeting/event space. Chris Gomes of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed, Dallas-based seller in the transaction and procured the buyer, an affiliate of Daugherty Property Group.