OKLAHOMA CITY — Developer HarborChase has completed HarborChase of South Oklahoma City, an upscale seniors housing community. The property offers assisted living and memory care services, as well as respite stays. Amenities include a full-service bistro, exhibition kitchen, bar and cocktail lounge, fitness and wellness center and a fine dining restaurant. Residents have already begun moving into the building.
WACO, TEXAS — New Era Partners, a division of Texas-based development and investment firm New Era Cos., has acquired the 48-bed Oceans Behavioral Hospital in Waco. The newly built facility provides both inpatient and outpatient mental health treatments. New Era acquired the asset as part of a portfolio of healthcare properties that includes three behavioral hospitals that are operated by Oceans Healthcare. The Plano-based provider has about 25 behavioral health facilities in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The seller was not disclosed.
PLANO, TEXAS — Cawley Partners and Rosewood Property Co. will develop a 1 million-square-foot office project at Heritage Creekside, a 156-acre mixed-use development in Plano. The four-building project will be developed in phases and will include a central courtyard and an amenity hub. Phase I will feature a six-story, 250,000-square-foot building with a fitness center, conference center and a rooftop deck. The development team hopes to begin construction by the first quarter of 2021.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Locally based general contractor KWA Construction has topped out The Cooper, a 390-unit apartment project located in Fort Worth’s Medical District. Designed by architecture firm GFF and developed by Dallas-based Lang Partners, The Cooper will feature studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units, as well as townhomes. Amenities will include a pool, fitness center with a yoga studio, outdoor grilling area, media center, clubhouse, business center and a coffee bar. Completion is slated for this fall.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — Houston-based development and management firm Allied Orion Group has begun leasing Riverhaus Creekside, a 281-unit apartment community in the San Antonio suburb of New Braunfels. Floor plans feature one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging in size from 722 to 1,440 square feet. Riverhaus Creekside offers amenities such as a pool, fitness center, dog park and a resident clubhouse with a cyber lounge. Move-ins are expected to begin later this month.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — JK & JY Development LLC has broken ground on The View Condominiums, a 268-unit residential project in the northern Dallas suburb of Carrollton that will also include 31,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Designed by locally based firm Humphreys & Partners Architects, the property will offer amenities such as a pool, social lounge, fitness center, game room, business center and a fully equipped kitchen and bar. Construction is expected to be complete by early 2022.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — PCCP LLC has provided a $46 million acquisition loan for Indie and Candela, two adjacent apartment communities totaling 258 units in Austin. Indie was completed in mid-2018, totals 139 units and includes ground-floor retail space. Candela was completed in mid-2019 and features 119 units and various amenities on the ground floor. The seller was Transwestern Development Co. The borrower was not disclosed.
Many of today’s headlines about multifamily housing have focused on the market’s two extremes: homelessness and high-end penthouses. Meanwhile, a crisis has been growing in the “missing middle;” there is a shortage of affordable rental housing for middle-class workers like teachers, firefighters and police officers. In recent years, middle-income families have been struggling with flat wages and rising childcare, education and healthcare costs. Not only are families being priced out of homeownership, but they’re finding fewer rental units in their price range. Indeed, rents have been rising, particularly in cities with booming economies. Nationwide, only 37 percent of all available units rent out at or below $1,200 per month, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) Out of Reach report and the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Yet only in 13 states do workers earn an average of at least $22.96 per hour, the amount required to comfortably afford a $1,200/month apartment. Charlotte is short 34,000 affordable housing units and Salt Lake City lacks 54,000. In total, there is a need for hundreds of thousands more affordable rental units. The problem is a matter of supply as well as demand. Formidable obstacles currently impede the …
PLAINVIEW, TEXAS — The City of Plainview and Hale County are nearing completion of Hale County Business Park, a 150-acre industrial development in West Texas. The site is located along the Interstate 27 corridor in Plainview, roughly midway between Amarillo and Lubbock. The park is also situated on the BNSF Rail Line, which runs adjacent to the southern boundary. An official ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held on Tuesday, March 24. Western Equipment, a provider of John Deere tractors and parts, has signed a 45,000-square-foot lease as the park’s first tenant.
OKLAHOMA CITY — A partnership between investment firm GMF Capital and Oklahoma-based Vesta Capital has acquired Sycamore Farms, a 398-unit apartment community in Oklahoma City. Built in 1998, the property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging in size from 692 to 1,300 square feet. Amenities include two pools, a 24-hour fitness center, outdoor grilling and picnic areas, a business center and a dog park. Mitch Sinberg, Matthew Robbins and Abigail Beauchamp of Berkadia secured a $33.8 million Freddie Mac acquisition loan for the deal on behalf of the buyer. That loan carried a 10-year term, a fixed interest rate and five years of interest-only payments.