LONGVIEW, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Longview Climate Storage, a 114-unit self-storage facility located about 100 miles east of Dallas. Dave Knobler, Brandon Karr, Danny Cunningham and Mixson Staffel of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a Houston-based private investor, in the disposition of the facility, which spans 11,108 net rentable square feet. The quartet also procured the buyer, a limited liability company.
DALLAS — Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services has negotiated the sale of Shady Trail Business Center, a 68,043-square-foot flex property in Dallas. Shane Benner and Josh Meraz of Bradford represented the seller, an entity doing business as WC Shady Trail Business Center LLC, in the transaction. Rich Young Jr. of Rich Young Cos. represented the buyer, a Los Angeles-based limited liability company, in the deal. Shady Trail Business Center was 92 percent leased at the time of sale.
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Re-Evaluating Valuations: One Year Later
Four months into the pandemic, Meghan Czechowski, valuation lead for Apprise by Walker & Dunlop and managing director of the Midwest Region, advised multifamily appraisers not to jump to conclusions about the long-term impacts of the pandemic. “We did advise caution, and it ended up playing exactly the way we thought it would: results differed market by market and asset by asset. That’s how we approach valuation at Apprise to start with, and that approach is how most of the appraisal industry wound up valuing multifamily throughout the pandemic.” Over a year after her initial assessment, Meghan spoke again to REBusinessOnline about what has changed in the world of multifamily appraisals and where those changes are trending. Incorporating Valuation Data from 2020 Early in 2020, there was a general assumption that there would be a discount in multifamily values, but there were no sales to support that assumption until June/July of last year when sales comps appeared on properties in most markets. Now it is essential to ensure that the data Apprise collects reflects the current reality. Once the shutdowns ended, data collection became easier. Czechowski says that real-time information allowed for an even better way to understand, analyze and …
FRISCO, TEXAS — Locally based firm CloudLoft Management Inc. will develop The Enclave in Frisco, a 120,000-square-foot office complex that will be located at the northwest quadrant of the North Dallas and Sam Rayburn tollways. The complex will consists of nine low-rise buildings with multiple outdoor workspaces. In addition, the campus will feature basketball and pickleball courts, jogging and walking paths, grill areas and outdoor meeting spaces. Corgan is designing the project, and Dowdey, Anderson & Associates is the civil engineer. A construction timeline was not disclosed. Dallas-based Fults Commercial Real Estate has been tapped as the leasing agent.
CONVERSE, TEXAS — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the sale of The Heights at Converse, a 200-unit apartment community in Converse, a northeastern suburb of San Antonio. Built in 2015, the property offers amenities such as a pool, clubhouse, fitness center, cybercafé, dog park and a playground. John Carr and Ben Fuller of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Acme Development LLC, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, California-based Investors Management Group, which purchased the asset for an undisclosed price with plans to implement a value-add program. David Bleiweiss of Berkadia originated an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for the deal.
HOUSTON — NorthMarq has arranged a loan of an undisclosed amount for the refinancing of Houston Design Center, a 281,356-square-foot office and showroom on the city’s west side. John Burke of NorthMarq arranged the nonrecourse, fixed-rate loan through an undisclosed regional bank on behalf of the borrower, locally based investment firm MLB Capital Partners.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Greystone has provided a $45 million Freddie Mac loan for the refinancing of a 306-unit multifamily property in Fort Worth. Cary Tremper of Greystone originated the financing, which carried a 10-year term, fixed interest rate, 30-year amortization schedule and five years of interest-only payments. The borrower and name of the newly built property were not disclosed.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — RealSource Group has brokered the sale of a 3,010-square-foot single-tenant retail property in Arlington that is triple-net leased to 7-Eleven. Austin Blodgett of RealSource, along with ParaSell Inc., represented the seller, a private developer based in Houston. Jeremy McChesney of Hanley Investment Group represented the buyer, a 1031 exchange investor based in Southern California. The asset traded at a cap rate of 4.7 percent. The 7-Eleven store, which includes a fuel station, opened on June 10 to mark the beginning of a new 15-year lease.
BUDA, TEXAS — Minneapolis-based developer United Properties has broken ground on Phase I of Buda Midway, a project that will add 474,000 square feet of industrial space to the local supply. The site is located at the junction of Interstate 35 and State Highway 45 on the southern outskirts of Austin. Phase I will comprise three buildings — two rear-load facilities each totaling 115,090 square feet and one cross-dock facility totaling 244,285 square feet — on 35.9 acres. Completion of Phase I is slated for early 2022. Project partners include Aquila Commercial, Kimley-Horn Design and Engineering Consultants, Powers Brown Architecture, RC Page Construction and Hitchcock Design Group. Phase II of Buda Midway will include up to three buildings totaling 326,000 square feet. Once finished, the buildings will provide 30- to 36-foot clear heights, ample trailer parking and 200-plus automobile parking spots.
TULSA, OKLA. — Saint Francis Health System will undertake a $250 million renovation and expansion of its Saint Francis Hospital South campus in Tulsa. The healthcare provider has tapped Cushman & Wakefield’s project development and services team to lead the project. Specifically, the team plans to deliver a 51,000-square-foot renovation of imaging spaces and four operating rooms and a 232,600-square-foot expansion that will add four operating rooms, a six-story tower with 124 patient rooms and a 600-space parking garage. Completion of the renovation and expansion is slated for March 2025.