RICHMOND, TEXAS — RealSource Group has brokered the sale of a 47,000-square-foot retail building leased to LA Fitness in Richmond, located southwest of Houston. The newly constructed building is located within the 525,000-square-foot Waterview Town Center, which is across the street from an Amazon distribution center and in front of a 300-unit apartment community. Austin Blodgett of RealSource, in conjunction with brokerage firm ParaSell Inc. represented the Houston-based seller in the transaction. Blodgett and ParaSell also represented the buyer, a private partnership based in Texas.
TEMPLE, TEXAS — Rowan Green Data, a data center developer and infrastructure provider with offices in Houston and Portland, will develop a $300 million hyperscale campus in the Central Texas city of Temple. The project will span approximately 135,000 square feet and have a power capacity of about 500 megawatts. In the data center space, the amount of electricity needed to power the servers and cool the equipment is the highest variable cost; as such, the size of data center deals is frequently measured by the consumption of megawatts rather than square footage. All factors being held equal, one megawatt of energy is enough to power 500 or so homes for a full year. The facility, whose hyperscale designation indicates that it will be marketed to large tech companies with heavy cloud-based operations, will be constructed in two phases on a 32-acre site. Construction of the first phase is slated for a summer-2022 delivery, and full completion is scheduled for 2023.
DALLAS — Locally based investment firm S2 Capital has purchased a portfolio of four multifamily properties totaling 1,893 units, including three in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex and one in Austin. The properties are: Hyde Park at Montfort in Dallas (662 units); Twin Creeks Crossing I (347 units) and Twin Creeks Crossing II in Allen (330 units); and Tintara at Canyon Creek in Austin (554 units). Taylor Snoddy, James Roberts and Philip Wiegand of NorthMarq represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Jeff Erxleben, Lauren Bresky, Kevin Leamy and Loren Heikenfeld, also with NorthMarq, arranged an undisclosed amount of floating-rate debt on behalf of S2 Capital. The new ownership plans to invest in capital improvements to Tintara at Canyon Creek and Hyde Park at Montfort.
DALLAS — A partnership between Dallas- and California-based Fenway Capital Advisors and New York-based Waterfall Asset Management will redevelop Campbell Centre, an 878,564-square-foot office complex in Dallas. The two-building property, which will be renamed The Gild, was originally built in the 1970s and is located in the North Central Expressway submarket. The project will add new tenant lounges, a boutique café and new coffee bars and dining areas, as well as a new conference center. In addition, the development team will update restrooms and corridors, expand tenant suites and develop a connecting park between the two buildings. Gensler is designing the project, and Stream Realty Partners is the leasing agent. Renovations are scheduled to begin immediately, and full completion of the project is slated for the first quarter of 2023.
BEE CAVE, TEXAS — Newmark has arranged the sale of Estates at Bee Cave, a 316-unit multifamily property in the Austin area. Units feature one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans and are furnished with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and individual washers and dryers. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center, game room, cyber lounge and a demonstration kitchen. Patton Jones and Andrew Dickson of Newmark represented the seller, Internacional, in the transaction. The buyer was an affiliate of New York City-based Abacus Capital Group.
PORTLAND, TEXAS — Oldham Goodwin Group, a Texas-based development, management and brokerage firm, has sold Palm Bluff Place, a 250-unit multifamily property in the Corpus Christi suburb of Portland. Oldham Goodwin completed the project in 2017. Units are available in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans; range in size from 705 to 1,313 square feet; and feature stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and wood-style flooring. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, outdoor kitchen and grilling stations and a resident lounge/clubhouse. The buyer was an undisclosed institutional private equity group.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Tesla (NYSE: TSLA) will relocate its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin, CEO Elon Musk announced at a company shareholder meeting on Thursday night. Information on where the company’s new headquarters office will be located and when the move will commence was not immediately available. The electric vehicle manufacturer announced in July 2020 that it had selected a development site near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport for its $1 billion Gigafactory. Vehicle production at the Gigafactory, which will span more than 2,500 acres and employ some 7,000 people, is expected to begin in 2022. Musk’s other signature company, SpaceX, operates a rocket production facility and test site near the South Texas city of Brownsville. In explaining the move, Musk cited rising home prices and lengthy commute times for employees as primary deterrents to the company continuing to operate out of the Silicon Valley. Tesla joins Oracle and Digital Realty Trust as one of the latest major tech firms to announce a relocation from the Bay Area to the Texas state capital. The stock price of Tesla, which was founded in 2003, opened at $785.46 per share on Friday, Oct. 8, following the breaking of the news. The company’s …
HOUSTON — Lee & Associates has arranged the $58 million sale of Holly Hall Apartments, a 569-unit multifamily community in Houston. The sales price equates to roughly $102,000 per unit. The property is located on an 18.5-acre site near NRG Stadium and Texas Medical Center. Units range in size from 598 to 1,354 square feet and are furnished with custom cabinetry, granite countertops and individual washers and dryers. The amenity package consists of a pool, fitness center, spa, picnic area, pet play area and a courtyard. Matthew Jacocks of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Miami-based GDF Properties, in the transaction. The seller was Harbert Management Corp FEICA/Holly Hall LLC. Seth Denison, also with Lee & Associates, arranged acquisition financing for the deal.
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — The Praedium Group, a New York City-based investment firm, has acquired Norra, a 347-unit apartment community located in the northern Dallas suburb of Lewisville. The newly built property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units that feature stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, vinyl plank flooring and full-sized washer and dryers. Communal amenities include a pool, fitness center, clubhouse, work lounge, recreational lounge with a kitchen, dog park and a package locker system. The seller/developer of Norra was not disclosed. New York Life Real Estate Investors, a division of New York Life Insurance Co., provided acquisition financing for the deal. Information on starting rents was not disclosed.
HOUSTON — A partnership between Chicago-based investment firm Harrison Street, 2ML Real Estate Interests and local developer Hines has broken ground on a 270,000-square-foot life sciences building in Houston. The building, which represents the first phase of the Levit Green mixed-use development, is located on a 53-acre site adjacent to Texas Medical Center. Additional uses at Levit Green will include retail, residential and office space. DE Harvey Builders is the general contractor for the project, which is slated for a fourth-quarter 2022 delivery. JLL is marketing the space for lease.