DALLAS — Colliers International has brokered the sale of 7920 Belt Line Road, a 190,830-square-foot office building in North Dallas. The property was built in 1983 and recently received $2.3 million in capital improvements. Creighton Stark and Chris Boyd of Colliers International represented the seller, a partnership between Pillar Commercial and Blue Vista Capital Management, in the transaction. New Orleans-based Uhalt Investments purchased the property for an undisclosed amount. The sale included an adjacent medical pad site for potential future development.
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FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS — Regional healthcare provider Southwestern Health Resources has signed a 150,000-square-foot lease at Browning Place, a 627,560-square-foot office complex in the northern Dallas metro of Farmers Branch. Amenities at the complex include an onsite bank branch, jogging trail, café and a fitness center. Duane Henley of Transwestern represented the landlord, Browning Place LLC, in the lease negotiations. Paul Whitman and Pat McDowell with JLL represented the tenant.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — Berkadia has provided a $29.7 million Freddie Mac loan for the refinancing of Palazzo, an apartment community located in the Central Texas city of San Marcos. According to Apartments.com, the property was built in 1997 and totals 300 units in one-, two- and three-bedroom formats. Amenities include a pool, a fitness center, clubhouse, business center and a dog park. Andy Hill and Tyler Nowlin of Berkadia originated the 10-year loan, which was structured with five years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. The borrower, Florida-based Atlantic Pacific Real Estate Group, originally acquired the property in 2014.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Biopharmaceutical firm Lexicon Pharmaceuticals has sold its 260,950-square-foot life sciences campus in The Woodlands, about 30 miles north of Houston. The campus comprises five buildings. Dan Boyles and Jon Silberman of NAI Partners represented Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, which is relocating to another property in The Woodlands, in the deal. The name and representative of the buyer were not disclosed.
ROSENBERG, TEXAS — Bellomy & Co. has arranged the sale of Texas Storage, a 335-unit self-storage facility in Rosenberg, a southwestern suburb of Houston. The property spans 44,718 net rentable square feet. Bill Bellomy and Michael Johnson of Bellomy & Co. represented the seller, locally based firm Diehl Investments II LP, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, Delaware-based BCORE Storage Jennetta LP.
MCALLEN, TEXAS — Coldwell Banker Commercial has brokered the sale of Main Place Shopping Center, a 172,000-square-foot retail power center located in the Rio Grande Valley city of McAllen. Main Place Indoor Market anchors the property, which was built on 20 acres in 1988. Daniel Galvan and Julissa Trevino of Coldwell Banker represented the buyer, locally based firm Big Sky Real Estate Investments LLC, in the transaction. The center was 84 percent leased at the time of sale.
DALLAS — ProPak Logistics has signed a 103,085-square-foot industrial lease at 8801 Autobahn Drive in South Dallas. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 1997 and totals 270,490 square feet. Canon Shoults and John Gorman of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Boston-based TA Realty, in the lease negotiations. Michael Meaden of CBRE represented the tenant.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Tanenbaum Equity Partners (TEP), a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based Gardner Tanenbaum, has purchased a portfolio of 42 federally leased properties in 11 states for $106.5 million. Most of the buildings, which collectively total 573,000 square feet, were constructed as build-to-suits for government agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Veterans Administration. A Dallas-based team of Sunny Sajnani, Todd McNeill and Brandon Wilhite of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. arranged acquisition financing through Arkansas-based Centennial Bank on behalf of TEP. A Colliers International team led by Geoff Ficke represented TEP in the sale. The seller was CoreCivic, according to the Nashville Business Journal.
PLANO, TEXAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of The Huntington, a 320-unit apartment community that is located less than a mile from the Legacy West corporate campus in Plano. The property was built on five acres in 2018 and features studio, one- and two-bedroom units averaging 914 square feet. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, lounge and a dog park. Drew Kile, Will Balthrope, Joey Tumminello and Grant Raymond of IPA represented the seller, Catalyst Urban Development, and procured the buyer, Fairfield Residential.
HOUSTON — JLL has arranged two loans totaling $40 million for the refinancing of 5300 Memorial and 10497 Town & County, two office buildings totaling 302,980 square feet in Houston. The properties respectively span 153,671 and 149,309 square feet and were 93 and 91.5 percent leased at the time of the loan closings. John Ream led a JLL team that arranged the floating-rate financing through East West Bank on behalf of the borrower, metro Philadelphia-based Equus Capital Partners.