Texas

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PLANO, TEXAS — Kintetsu Group Holdings Co. has begun construction on a 217-room hotel in Plano, located northeast of Dallas, that will be operated under the Japanese conglomerate’s Miyako Hotels & Resorts brand. Designed by Gensler with interiors by Looney & Associates, the Miyako Hybrid Hotel Plano will be a 12-story building that will house a traditional Japanese restaurant, lobby bar, Japanese bakery, banquet and meeting space and a rooftop bar and outdoor pool. The Beck Group is the general contractor for the project, which is expected to be complete in fall 2027.

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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — General contractor Manhattan Construction Co. has broken ground on a 211,000-square-foot academic project on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. The Aplin Center, named after Arch “Beaver” Aplin III, the founder of truck stop and convenience store chain Buc-ees, will house immersive learning labs for students enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Mays Business School. DLR Group and Pickard-Chilton co-designed The Aplin Center, which is expected to open in 2028.

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HOUSTON — JLL has negotiated the sale of Sugar Park Plaza, a 95,032-square-foot shopping center in southwest Houston. The center consists of one inline retail building and three pad sites and was fully leased at the time of sale. Tenants include Marshalls (anchor), Aga’s Restaurant & Catering, Skechers, Chase Bank and Magnum Staffing. John Indelli and Ryan West of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the off-market transaction. Michael King and Michael Johnson, also with JLL, arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, Dhanani Private Equity Group.

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DALLAS — Houston-based developer Alliance Industrial has broken ground on Park Six35, a 362,065-square-foot project in North Dallas. The site is located in the Valwood submarket, which lies at the junction of interstates 35 and 635, and the development will feature three buildings that will be able to support users with requirements ranging from 35,000 to 146,000 square feet. Buildings will have rear-load configurations and 32-foot clear heights. Demolitions of existing structures on the site are underway, and the groundbreaking of the new buildings is scheduled to occur before the end of the year. Holt Lunsford Commercial has been tapped as the leasing agent.

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HOUSTON — MetroNational has acquired the 309,144-square-foot retail component of CITYCENTRE, a 47-acre mixed-use development in West Houston. The retail portion frames a central green space at the property and is home to roughly 24 food-and-beverage concepts such as Bellagreen, Daily Gather, Eddie V’s Prime Seafood, Grimaldi’s Pizzeria, Hopdoddy Burger Bar, North Italia, Sal y Pimienta, Seasons 52, The Capital Grille and Yard House. Retailers include Allen Edmonds, Anthropologie, Kendra Scott, Sephora, Sur la Table, Tecovas, Warby Parker and West Elm. MetroNational has partnered with Radom Capital to renovate the retail portion of CITYCENTRE. JLL represented the seller, Dallas-based TriGate Capital, in the transaction. MetroNational represented itself.

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WACO, TEXAS — JLL has arranged the sale of a 181,708-square-foot retail property in Waco that is leased to tenants including Sprouts Farmers Market, Best Buy, Office Depot and Burlington. The property is part of Central Texas Marketplace, a 526,000-square-foot power shopping center that was built between 2005 and 2015. Adam Howells, Barry Brown, Erin Lazarus and Brennan Fewin of JLL represented the seller, Ball Ventures, in the transaction. The buyer was G3C Operating LLC, an entity controlled by Dallas-based investor James “Corky” Nix.

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BAYTOWN, TEXAS — Partners Real Estate has negotiated a 101,968-square-foot industrial lease in Baytown, an eastern suburb of Houston. The tenant is Architectural Surfaces Group, and the space is located within Building 2 of GrandPort 99 Business Park. Travis Land of Partners represented the landlord, a partnership between Alto Real Estate Funds and Industrial Development & Ventures (IDV), in the lease negotiations. Colton Hector and Ed Frantz of CBRE represented the tenant.

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HOUSTON — Third Coast Infrastructure LLC has signed a 20,800-square-foot office lease in downtown Houston. The locally based energy infrastructure company plans to move into its new space within Norton Rose Fulbright Tower, a 28-story building located at 1550 Lamar St., sometime next year. Griff Bandy of Partners Real Estate represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Skanska owns the building.

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DALLAS — JLL has arranged the $1.2 billion refinancing of NorthPark Center, a 1.9 million-square-foot enclosed mall in North Dallas. NorthPark Center originally opened in 1965 and has subsequently undergone multiple renovations and expansions. Today, the mall is home to nearly 200 tenants, with Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Macy’s, Dillard’s, Eataly and AMC Theatres serving as the anchors. A consortium of lenders led by Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs provided the financing to the owner, NorthPark Management Co., an entity that is owned and controlled by the Nasher/Haemisegger family. Timothy Joyce, Trey Morsbach and Matt Maksymec of JLL led the debt placement efforts. NorthPark Center was 98.6 percent leased at the time of the loan closing. The financing will retire the existing mortgage, and ownership will use excess proceeds to redeem equity interests in the property and return full ownership back to the family.

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TULSA, OKLA. — Dallas-based Rainier Development Co. has unveiled plans for Riverline, a 37-acre mixed-use project in Tulsa that is valued at approximately $400 million. The site is located south of Joe Creek and east of Lewis Avenue in what the development team describes as “one of Tulsa’s most dynamic growth corridors.” Plans call for approximately 650 luxury apartments that will come in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, set above 200,000 square feet of retail, dining and entertainment space. Rainier is developing Riverline in partnership with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Construction of the first phase is scheduled to begin next year and to be complete in late 2027 or early 2028.

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