HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of HP Storage, a 314-unit self-storage facility in Houston. Built in 2016 and expanded in 2019, HP Storage sits on a 4.5-acre site on the city’s northwest side and consists of five one-story buildings and one three-story building. Units offer climate- and non-climate-controlled space, as well as flexible configurations for retail/office uses and units dedicated to container storage. Dave Knobler, Mixson Staffel and Charles LeClaire of Marcus & Millichap represented the Texas-based seller and procured the New York-based buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
HOUSTON — Nuveen Green Capital and Lone Star PACE have provided an $8 million C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) loan for Ashford Yard, an 83,000-square-foot retail project in West Houston. Ashford Beer Garden has preleased 21,000 square feet as the anchor tenant of the development. Loan proceeds will be used to install a high-efficiency building envelope and windows, upgraded HVAC systems, enhanced lighting fixtures and water systems with low-flow plumbing fixtures. The borrower was not disclosed.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Locally based brokerage firm LanCarte Commercial has negotiated a 50,099-square-foot industrial lease in Grand Prairie, located roughly midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. The space is located within Suite 200 at the building at 1201 Avenue S. Parker LanCarte and Mark Boone of LanCarte, along with Chris Routledge of Westbrook Real Estate, represented the tenant, thrift store retailer Brightmore Brands, in the lease negotiations. CBRE represented the undisclosed landlord.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged $29 million in construction financing for an industrial project in northwest Houston. The square footage was not disclosed, but the development will have 84 condo-style units. Known as Lifestyle Industrial, the project is designed to incorporate elements of office, retail and entertainment. Adam Mengacci, Travis Headapohl and Matt Polci of IPA arranged the loan on behalf of the developer, X Space Group. The direct lender was also not disclosed.
KEMAH, TEXAS — California-based brokerage firm RealSource Group has arranged the $5.4 million sale of a single-tenant retail building in Kemah, located southeast of Houston, that is net leased to Mister Car Wash (NASDAQ: MCW). The 5,462-square-foot building was constructed in 2021 and is backed by a fully guaranteed corporate lease. Austin Blodgett and Jonathan Schiffer of RealSource Group, in association with ParaSell, Inc., represented the seller, a local private investor, in the transaction. Chase Cameron of Matthews represented the buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.
HOUSTON — Smurfit Westrock has signed a 78,683-square-foot industrial lease in northwest Houston. The provider of packaging services is taking space within Patriot Business Park, a three-building, 462,591-square-foot development. Tyler Maner, Natalie Gilbert and Jeremy Lumbreras of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, a partnership between Standard Real Estate Investments and Investment & Development Ventures, in the lease negotiations. Paul Dominique and Hayden Dominique of Colliers represented the tenant.
DALLAS — Local investment firm CanTex Capital has acquired four industrial outdoor storage (IOS) facilities totaling 47,465 square feet in the Brookhollow neighborhood of Dallas. Three of the four sites will immediately undergo capital improvements, with CanTex planning to renovate office and warehouse spaces and make functional yard improvements. Chase Miller of NAI Robert Lynn represented CanTex in the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Bain Capital and 11North Partners has acquired five open-air retail centers for approximately $300 million. The properties total roughly 757,000 square feet and are located in Carlsbad, Calif.; Falls Church, Va.; Altamonte Springs, Fla.; and Sugar Land, Texas. The seller was not disclosed. Anchor tenants of the portfolio include Harris Teeter, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Costco and Equinox, with sales from those anchor stores exceeding $900 per square foot. The portfolio, which was more than 93 percent occupied at the time of sale, also features a mix of food, fitness, medical, service and other necessity-based tenants. “Open-air, grocery-anchored retail continues to demonstrate some of the most compelling risk-adjusted fundamentals in the real estate landscape,” says Brian Harper, founder and managing partner of New York City-based 11North. “These assets align squarely with our strategy of building a portfolio of institutional-quality, open-air centers, anchored by best-in-class necessity and lifestyle tenants that serve as cornerstones of their communities,” adds Martha Kelley, a managing director at Boston-based Bain. The acquisition follows Bain and 11North’s recent capital raise of $1.6 billion that is dedicated to investing in open-air retail throughout the co-owned, 11North platform. Together with …
By Taylor Williams There’s nothing free in this world, not even a full-blown, multi-year resurgence in brick-and-mortar retail real estate. The ferocious revival of physical retail in the post-COVID era, headlined by fewer national bankruptcies, record rental and occupancy rates and renewed investor interest, has slowly but surely been stymied and hamstrung by macroeconomics. Despite real ingenuity and entrepreneurship among today’s operators, the business of leasing retail space in high-growth markets remains fraught with potential deal-killers that go beyond supply-demand dynamics that are favorable to landlords. For Texas retail brokers who specialize in tenant representation — men and women who genuinely love helping businesses grow, expand and serve their communities — that means taking on fresh challenges day in and day out. It means navigating pitfalls that have a way of consuming the two most valuable commodities on the planet: time and money. It means perfecting the art of self-motivation, of having ananticipatory mindset and thinking multiple steps ahead. It means embracing the hustle. Since venturing out on his own following a 12-year career at Weitzman, Matthew Rosenfeld, founder and president of Dallas-based brokerage firm The Rosenfeld Company, has lived and breathed these realities. Rosenfeld’s shop has been open for …
HOUSTON — JLL has negotiated the sale of Fairbanks Northwest Distribution Center, a 357,570-square-foot industrial property in northwest Houston. The two-building, cross-dock complex was constructed on a 23.4-acre site in 2023. The buildings span 194,780 and 162,790 square feet and were 80 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants in the automotive parts distribution and recreational facilities sectors. Building features include 32-foot clear heights, as well as a combined 72 dock doors, eight drive-in doors, 10,471 square feet of office space and parking for 252 cars and 111 trailers. Trent Agnew, Charles Strauss, Lance Young and Brooke Petzold of JLL represented the seller, Triten Real Estate Partners, in the transaction. The buyer was a fund backed by Ares Real Estate.