TEXAS — Walmart Health will open 18 new facilities across Texas in the coming months, including three clinics in the Houston area that opened earlier this year. Of the remaining 15 facilities, 10 will be located in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and the other five will also be in the Houston area. The location in the southwestern Houston suburb of Sugar Land marks the 50th nationwide for Walmart Health, which originally launched in 2019.
WESTLAKE, TEXAS — Weider Fitness & Health has signed a 5,500-square-foot office lease in the North Texas city of Westlake. The space is located within The Terraces, an eight-building, 1.1 million-square-foot development that was originally constructed as a campus for IBM and recently underwent a $25 million repositioning. Haley Hullett of JLL represented the landlord, Chicago-based Glenstar, which bought the property in 2019, in the lease negotiations.
AUSTIN AND TAYLOR, TEXAS — South Korea-based Samsung Electronics will receive up to $6.4 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act for multiple projects at two separate locations in Central Texas. The U.S. Department of Commerce has signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) with the tech giant, which now plans to increase its investment in the state of Texas to $40 billion. Funding will be used for the development of new facilities in Taylor — roughly 35 miles northeast of Austin — as well as for the expansion of Samsung’s existing Austin facility. The proposed investment is expected to support the creation of more than 20,000 jobs, including 4,500 manufacturing positions. Samsung, which has been manufacturing computer chips in the United States since 1996, previously announced plans for the Taylor facilities and an investment of $17 billion in November 2021. The company also plans to claim the Department of the Treasury’s investment tax credit, which is expected to cover up to 25 percent of qualified capital expenditures. In Taylor, the manufacturing site will include two fabrication plants, a research-and-development (R&D) facility focused on the development and research of new technology and an advanced packaging facility …
MESQUITE, TEXAS — California-based investment firm CapRock Partners has acquired Peachtree Distribution Center, a 396,750-square-foot warehouse located in the eastern Dallas suburb of Mesquite. Built in 2001, the cross-dock property features 31-foot clear heights, 66 dock-high doors, three drive-in doors, 120-foot truck court depths (expandable to 175 feet), an ESFR sprinkler system and roughly 12,700 square feet of office space. Randy Baird, Ryan Thornton, Jonathan Bryan, Eliza Bachhuber, Nathan Wynne and Elliott Dow of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. CapRock Partners plans to make capital improvements to the property, which was fully leased to three tenants at the time of sale.
KATY, TEXAS — LTC Properties Inc. (NYSE: LTC) has provided a $12.7 million senior loan to Ignite Medical Resorts for the acquisition of a skilled nursing and assisted living campus in Katy, a suburb west of Houston. The campus was built in 2017 and includes 78 units (48 skilled nursing and 30 assisted living) and 104 licensed beds (70 skilled nursing and 34 assisted living). The five-year loan features full-term interest-only payments at a current rate of 9.15 percent and includes a capital expenditures investment of approximately $800,000 for campus improvements.
HOUSTON — Colliers has brokered the sale of an 81,500-square-foot industrial complex in northwest Houston. The six-building complex at 6002 W. 34th St. sits on 3.8 acres and was 95 percent leased at the time of sale. Jason Tangen and Paul Dominique of Colliers represented the seller, a local family that has owned and operated the park since its original construction in 1978. The name and representative of the buyer, as well as the sales price, were not disclosed.
WESTLAKE, TEXAS — ECI Software Solutions has signed a 25,468-square-foot office lease in the North Texas city of Westlake The space is located within The Terraces, an eight-building, 1.1 million-square-foot development that was originally constructed as a campus for IBM and underwent a $25 million repositioning in 2021. Jeff Eckert of JLL represented the landlord, Chicago-based Glenstar, in the lease negotiations. Stephen Rury of Colliers represented the tenant.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Locally based brokerage firm Holt Lunsford Commercial has negotiated a 12,000-square-foot industrial lease renewal at Riverbend Business Park in northeast Fort Worth. The development comprises 1.4 million square feet across 32 buildings. William Wilson and George Jennings of Holt Lunsford represented the landlord, Riverbend Properties, in the lease negotiations. The tenant was steel fabricator Patriot Erectors.
DALLAS — Locally based investment firm Forefront Commercial Real Estate has purchased the North Dallas Infill Portfolio, a collection of four industrial buildings totaling 627,303 square feet in the Dallas area. The portfolio’s buildings, which are located in Addison, Farmers Branch and Carrollton, were fully leased to 13 tenants at the time of sale. Building features include 22- to 24-foot clear heights, front- and side-load configurations, 76 total dock high doors and over 77,000 total square feet of office space. Dustin Volz, Stephen Bailey, Dom Espinosa, Zach Riebe, Taylor Hare and Chloie Mercer of Newmark represented the seller, AEW Capital Management, in the transaction.
PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS — Los Angeles-based Thorofare Capital has provided a bridge loan of an undisclosed amount for The Jovie at Pflugerville, a newly built, 182-unit apartment complex located on the northern outskirts of Austin. The age-restricted property offers 120 one- and two-bedroom units with an average size of 920 square feet. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, library, clubroom and bar, game room, private dining and event space and a coworking lounge. B.K. Newsom of CBRE arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, regional developer Wilson Capital.