DALLAS — Global architecture and engineering firm Page has signed a 34,000-square-foot office lease extension at the historic Mercantile National Bank Building in downtown Dallas. The firm has operated out of the property, located at 1800 Main St., since 2011 and will add an additional seven years to its lease term. Matt Heidelbaugh and Billy Gannon of Cushman & Wakefield represented Page in the lease negotiations.
HOUSTON — JLL has negotiated the sale of the historic Dakota Lofts apartment building, a 53-unit property in Houston’s Warehouse District. The property was originally built in 1911 and housed the Bute Paint Factory. The Randall Davis Co. renovated the building in 1993, when the facility was converted to multifamily housing featuring vintage loft-style units. Chip Nash and Bob Heard of JLL, along with Jim Hurd and Bishale Patel of Houston Income Properties, represented Randall Davis in the sale. Dakota Lofts was more than 90 percent occupied at the time of sale.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Locally based developer KDC has topped out the new 100,000-square-foot office headquarters building in McKinney for SRS Distribution Inc., a provider of building products and supplies. The four-story, Class A property is located on the corner of the Sam Rayburn Tollway and Alma Road on the northern outskirts of Dallas. The new headquarters features an array of indoor and outdoor amenities, as well as conference and meeting space. Completion is scheduled for spring 2020. Gensler is serving as the design architect, and Adolfson & Peterson is the general contractor. SRS plans to add about 150 new jobs to the local economy over the next decade.
SAN ANTONIO — SmartStop Self Storage, a self-managed REIT that owns 112 operating and under-development self-storage properties across 17 states and Toronto, has sold a 440-unit facility in San Antonio. The property, which spans 83,400 net rentable square feet, was acquired in January 2016 by Strategic Storage Growth Trust Inc. (SSGT) and was part of the portfolio merger between SmartStop and SSGT that was completed in January 2019. The undisclosed buyer plans to redevelop the site into a mixed-use property with office and multifamily uses.
HOUSTON — A partnership led by Senterra Real Estate Group has acquired four acres at 3440 Richmond Ave. in Houston for the development of a mixed-use project, specific elements and construction schedules of which were not released. The site is located at the northwest corner of Buffalo Speedway across from the eastern edge of the Greenway Plaza campus and includes a pad site currently occupied by BB&T Bank. David Hightower of Midway and Davis Adams of JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between Midway and Cathexis RE Holdings, in the deal. Senterra was self-represented.
MUSTANG, OKLA. — JLL has negotiated the sale of Silver City Town Center, an 89,600-square-foot retail center in Mustang, a southwestern suburb of Oklahoma City. The property was approximately 92 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Mustang Urgent Care, Four Star Fitness, Mustang Optical, Laura’s Laundromat, Bronco Bowl, Playbox Indoor Playland and Marco’s Pizza. Aaron Johnson, Barry Brown, Austin Ross and Ross Crawford of JLL represented the seller, Fields Investments, in the transaction. The buyer and sales price were not disclosed.
HOUSTON — Lee & Associates has arranged the sale of a 34,482-square-foot industrial asset located at 10130 W. Gulf Bank Road in Houston. Patrick Wolford of Lee & Associates represented the seller, CDG Properties LLC, in the transaction. Joe MacDougall of MacDougall & Co. Inc. represented the buyer, 10130 West Gulf Bank-2019 LP.
DALLAS — The Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC), a mixed-use and residential real estate developer and operator with projects across the country, has announced a series of changes for the nine-year-old company. The Dallas-based firm plans to focus on its master-planned communities in Texas, Hawaii, New York, Maryland and Nevada and sell its non-core assets valued at roughly $2 billion over the next 12 to 18 months. HHC expects to net $600 million in cash proceeds from the sales. The Dallas Morning News reports that HHC will put several high-profile projects up for sale, including the Outlet Collection at Riverwalk in New Orleans, the Bridges of Mint Hill in Charlotte, Elk Grove in Sacramento and 110 North Wacker, a 56-story office tower under construction in Chicago. HHC says the office tower will deliver in October 2020 and is 69 percent preleased. HHC recently sold Cottonwood Mall in Salt Lake City for $56 million and plans to shop Monarch City, a 261-acre mixed-use project that the Allen City Council approved earlier this summer. Leadership change, HQ move Paul Layne, president of HHC’s Central region, is taking over as CEO effective immediately as David Weinreb and Grant Herlitz are stepping down from …
PORT ARANSAS, TEXAS — Sea Oats Group has begun construction on Cinnamon Shore South, a $1.3 billion mixed-use project that represents an expansion of the 300-acre Cinnamon Shore development in Port Aransas, located outside Corpus Christi on the Texas coast. In addition to luxury homes, Cinnamon Shore South will feature several commercial components, including roughly 120,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, a 12,000-square-foot health and wellness center, 175-room hotel and 40,000 square feet for office or live/work space. In addition, a 225-room hotel and convention center that can accommodate as many as 2,000 attendees will also be developed on Cinnamon Shore property, with the groundbreaking slated for February 2020 and the opening scheduled for 2021.
HOUSTON — International developer Skanska has purchased a full city block in downtown Houston for approximately $55 million with plans to develop a mixed-use project with office, multifamily and retail uses. According to The Houston Chronicle, the development timeline and additional details on the project will be determined after a master-planning process that is expected to begin by the end of the year.