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SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — A partnership between St. Clair Commercial Realty and Ledo Capital has broken ground on a 377,300-square-foot industrial project in the Central Texas city of San Marcos. The project represents Phase I of a larger development that will ultimately consist of three buildings totaling 665,760 square feet. The building will feature 36-foot clear heights, 80 dock-high doors, two drive-in doors and 185-foot truck court depths, as well as 3,485 square feet of office space. Design-build firm ARCO/Murray is the general contractor for the project, and Stream Realty Partners is the leasing agent. Phase I is slated for a second-quarter delivery.

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TOMBALL, TEXAS — Colliers has brokered the sale of a 16.2-acre commercial development site located along South Chestnut Street in Tomball, a northeastern suburb of Houston. Tom Condon Jr. of Colliers represented the buyer, the Tomball Economic Development Corp. (TEDC), in the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. The TEDC bought the parcel with the intent of assembling a larger site, specific development plans for which have yet to be determined.

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HOUSTON — Stream Realty Partners has negotiated a 25,938-square-foot office lease renewal at Kirkwood Tower in West Houston. The 15-story, 286,000-square-foot building is located in the Energy Corridor and was recently purchased by affiliates of Apollo Global Management. Adam Ross and Danielle Rothchild of Stream represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. Jim Bailey of CBRE represented the tenant, Texon, a provider of liquids marketing and patented technology blending services.

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KATY, TEXAS — Locally based brokerage and development company NewQuest has signed leases with four food-and-beverage tenants at Texas Heritage Marketplace, the firm’s $400 million mixed-use development in the western Houston suburb of Katy. The tenants are Tex-Mex restaurant Escalante’s (5,005 square feet), pizzeria Tony C’s (4,900 square feet), Japanese food concept Aji Izakaya (2,800 square feet) and confectionary Kilwin’s (1,400 square feet). Bob Conwell led the lease negotiations for NewQuest.

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MANSFIELD, TEXAS — Locally based developer House of Tangram has purchased 30 acres in Mansfield, located south of Fort Worth, for a new mixed-use project. The site is situated within the 100-acre, $2.5 billion Staybolt Street District development, and the project will include a 288-unit hotel that will be known as Carbon Mansfield and a 33,000-square-foot convention center. The acreage is adjacent to a 166,000-square-foot, multi-sport stadium that is under construction and will be the permanent home of North Texas SC, the MLS NEXT Pro affiliate of FC Dallas. The convention center has been designed to support sports, medtech and high-performance events. House of Tangram is also planning to open Cache Legitimate and KUBO, a dual-branded hotel concept that will feature robotic bartenders, drone delivery and immersive media walls as the norm. Construction on the 30-acre parcel is scheduled to begin next summer and is expected to last about two years.

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HOUSTON — Alliance Industrial Co. will develop TriPort 8, an 881,521-square-foot industrial park in southeast Houston. The project, which Alliance is developing in partnership with Northwestern Mutual, will span five buildings across 62 acres. Buildings will be able to accommodate users with requirements from 30,000 to 250,000 square feet and will feature 32- to 36-foot clear heights. Luke Hoyl with Virtue Real Estate Partners represented Alliance in the acquisition of the site. Stream Realty Partners has been appointed as the leasing agent and has inked several new deals.

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ABILENE, TEXAS — Florida-based commercial brokerage firm Franklin Street has arranged the sale of The Windsor Hotel Apartments in the West Texas city of Abilene. The number of units was not disclosed, but the 10-story, 110,000-square-foot building was originally constructed in 1926 as a Hilton hotel. Franklin Street represented the seller, North Management LLC, in the sale of the property to Utah-based Studio 168 Productions. Occupancy at the time of sale was roughly 95 percent.

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HOUSTON — A subsidiary of private equity firm Apollo Global Management has purchased Kirkwood Tower, a 286,000-square-foot office building located in the Energy Corridor area of West Houston. The building, which was originally constructed in 1984 and renovated in 2015, offers amenities such as a fitness center, sauna, wellness room and a rooftop jogging track, as well as an onsite bank branch. Stream Realty Partners now leases the building and has inked several new deals.

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ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — Sabey Data Centers, a Seattle-based owner-operator that is a joint venture between Sabey Corp. and National Real Estate Advisors LLC, has broken ground on a 54-megawatt project in the northern Austin suburb of Round Rock. The three-story facility represents Building B within a larger campus, and the first 18 megawatts of power are expected to be available to users in the third quarter of 2027.

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By Taylor Williams In 2016, the Dallas Cowboys went 13-3, finished in first place in the NFC and had five players earn All-Pro selections — arguably the team’s best season-long performance since its heyday in the 1990s.  That’s about all the reminiscing that this writer, who hails from Atlanta, cares to do on the 2016 NFL season. But is it purely coincidental that one of the Cowboys’ most dominant regular-season campaigns in the past three decades coincided with the opening of The Star, the team’s world headquarters and practice facility in Frisco? Perhaps. But for the North Texas region as a whole, the planting of the Cowboys flag outside of city limits marked a sort of coming-out party, a bold declaration that the areas north of the metroplex were primed for major job and population growth, as well as corresponding real estate development.  “When Frisco secured the Dallas Cowboys’ headquarters and The Star District in 2016, it seems to have led to a waterfall of momentum,” says Gloria Salinas, senior vice president and chief growth officer of the Frisco Economic Development Corp. “During that time, Frisco demonstrated an ability to align civic leadership with business priorities, accelerating timelines for that …

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