AUSTIN, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of the 210-room Wyndham Garden Austin hotel, located just south of the city’s downtown area. Hotel amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center, 10,500 square feet of meeting space and a snack bar/deli. Allan Miller, Chris Gomes and Matt Omansky of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. The buyer was a partnership between two undisclosed firms based in Texas and Arkansas that are conducting business as Dreamliner Global Inc. The new ownership has tapped G&G Hospitality to manage the hotel.
DALLAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of Sylvan Thirty, a 201-unit apartment community in West Dallas. Built on six acres in 2015, the property offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units with an average size of 856 square feet. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, clubhouse and a party lounge. Drew Kile, Joey Tumminello, Michael Ware, Taylor Hill, Jeffrey Kindorf and Will Balthrope of IPA represented the seller, Los Angeles-based Arc Capital Partners, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, San Francisco-based Polaris Real Estate Partners.
HOUSTON — Coterra Energy Inc., a product of an October 2021 merger between Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas and Denver-based Cimarex Energy, has signed a 122,000-square-foot office headquarters lease in Houston. The tenant will relocate to Memorial City Plazas, a 1 million-square-foot office campus in Houston. Owned by MetroNational, the three-building development is currently undergoing a $20 million renovation project that is slated for a fourth-quarter completion. Brad MacDougall and Warren Alexander represented MetroNational in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. Jim Bailey of Cushman & Wakefield and Lucian Bukowski of CBRE represented the tenant.
HOUSTON — International developer Skanska has sold West Memorial Place I and II, two office buildings located in Houston’s Energy Corridor submarket, for $147 million. The two-building complex totals approximately 716,000 square feet. West Memorial Place I was completed in 2015, and the sister building was completed in 2016. Amenities include a fitness center, onsite dining options and a connected parking structure. The buyer was a joint venture led by Houston-based Fuller Realty Interests LLC.
HOUSTON — Triten Real Estate Partners, a development and investment firm with offices in Houston and Dallas, has purchased a portfolio of outdoor storage facilities totaling 100 acres in northeast Houston. The sites are located near Interstates 610 and 10, as well as Union Pacific railyards, and can also support truck parking and drayage users. Andrew Jewett of CBRE represented Triten Real Estate in the transaction. Blake Gibson of Colliers represented the undisclosed seller.
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — Houston-based Midway will develop a 128,000-square-foot build-to-suit industrial facility for Bluebonnet Nutrition Corp., a locally based provider of dietary supplements, in the southwestern Houston suburb of Sugar Land. Powers Brown Architecture is designing the project, and D.E. Harvey Builders is the general contractor. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter. Jarret Venghaus of JLL represented Midway in its acquisition of the 7.4-acre site from Houston-based energy firm Baker Hughes.
DALLAS — Los Angeles-based Thorofare Capital has provided a $41.9 million loan for the refinancing of a portfolio of 13 office buildings in the Dallas Design District. The buildings total 160,687 square feet. The undisclosed, locally based borrower will use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements. The loan was structured with interest-only payments and a flexible prepayment schedule.
TULSA, OKLA. — Stan Johnson Co., a locally based brokerage firm focused on net-leased assets, has arranged the $7.3 million sale of a 13,225-square-foot retail property in Tulsa that is leased to CVS. The property was built in 2011. B.J. Feller of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller in the transaction. A California-based institutional investor acquired the asset. The deal traded at a cap rate of 5.25 percent and was executed via a 1031 exchange.
PHILADELPHIA — Equus Capital Partners has acquired a 5.4 million-square-foot industrial portfolio located across the Sun Belt and East Coast. The properties were purchased from Prologis for $900 million, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal. The 75-property portfolio primarily comprises multi-tenant, infill, shallow-bay assets located across seven major distribution markets in Texas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia. The acquisition was made on behalf of the company’s sponsored value-add fund, Equus Investment Partnership XII L.P. The portfolio was 98 percent leased to 250 tenants at the time of sale, which included e-commerce, logistics providers, manufacturing, business-to-business and business-to-consumer users. Equus made headlines with another large-scale industrial acquisition in October of last year, buying a 7.3 million-square-foot industrial portfolio in Arizona for $1.1 billion. “We remain disciplined in our approach to appropriately scaling our industrial holdings across the U.S. on behalf of our investment partners,” says Kyle Turner, partner and director of investments for the Philadelphia-based firm. “This most recent investment further diversifies our platform holdings in the industrial sector and provides access to dynamic distribution locations poised to benefit from improving industrial fundamentals and sustained population growth,” he continues. Kyle Turner, Tim Feron, Laura Brestelli, Joe Felici, Scott Miller and Ryan Klancic …
By Mike Otillio, research director, Colliers The Dallas office market and North Texas region as a whole continue to evolve as leading destinations for corporate relocations, led in part by a favorable business climate. This reputation as a top landing spot for regional workforce consolidations and outright relocations from other states has helped Dallas become a national leader in some key back-to-work metrics. According to research from security firm Kastle Systems, which monitors keycard, fob and app usage within thousands of office buildings across the country, the average occupancy rate in December across 10 of the country’s biggest markets was 40.6 percent. Dallas was one of the 10 markets tracked in the report, posting an above-average occupancy rate of 52.3 percent. The basic business-friendly climate and healthy pace of job and population growth, along with evidence that users are making stronger pushes to return to their workspaces, have accelerated the market’s office investment sales recovery for value-add, core-plus and stabilized product. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, such as a prolonged spike in cases from the Omicron variant, we expect this trend to continue through 2022. Dallas recorded several notable sales of iconic office assets in 2021, plus numerous deals for suburban …