Texas

HUTCHINS, TEXAS — National Container Group LLC has signed a 10-year, 120,960-square-foot industrial lease at Intermodal Business Center in Hutchins, a southern suburb of Dallas. Construction is underway to reconfigure the property, which was built in 2017 and features 32-foot clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system and 38 dock doors, for National Container Group’s needs. Jean Russo of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Michael Grant and Susan Singer of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services represented the landlord, Intermodal Warehouse Partners.

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HOUSTON — The Boulder Group, an investment brokerage firm specializing in net-leased assets, has arranged the $9.2 million sale of a single-tenant retail property leased to 24 Hour Fitness in Houston. The 50,000-square-foot building is positioned as an outparcel to Willowbrook Mall, which is anchored by Dick’s Sporting Goods, Dillard’s, JC Penney, Macy’s, Nordstrom Rack, Sears and Apple. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Boulder Group represented the seller, a Texas-based private partnership, in the transaction. The buyer was a 1031 exchange investor.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — FourPoint Investment Sales Partners has brokered the sale of Dryfield Apartments, a 28-unit multifamily property located near State Highway 183 in North Austin. Built in 1969, the property offer amenities such as a pool and onsite laundry facilities. Kevin Dufour and Kyle Peco of FourPoint represented the California-based seller in the transaction. The undisclosed buyer will implement a value-add program to the property’s exteriors and unit interiors.

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HOUSTON — NAI Partners has negotiated an 8,100-square-foot industrial lease for BSN Sports, a distributor of athletic apparel and equipment, a t 11707 S. Sam Houston Parkway West in Houston. Chris Caudill of NAI Partners represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Boone Smith and Garret Geacccone of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, DRA Advisors LLC.

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HOUSTON — JLL has arranged a $140 million loan for the refinancing of GreenStreet, a 617,000-square-foot mixed-use development in Houston’s Central Business District. GreenStreet spans four contiguous city blocks and features office, retail, restaurant and entertainment uses, as well as central open-air green space. Colby Mueck, Matthew Putterman and Laura Sellingsloh of JLL arranged the funds through Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies on behalf of the borrowers, Lionstone Investments and Midway.

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CEDAR PARK, TEXAS — FourPoint Investment Sales Partners has brokered the sale of The View at Cedar Park Town Center, a 166-unit multifamily community in Cedar Park, a northern suburb of Austin. Built in 2017, the property features amenities such as a resort-style pool, fitness center, pet park and a business center. Kevin Dufour and Kyle Peco of FourPoint handled the transaction on behalf of the Ohio-based seller. The buyer was also undisclosed.

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DALLAS — Locally based firm JMJ Development will build a 176-room Mandarin Oriental hotel in Dallas’ Turtle Creek neighborhood. The 25-story building will also house 100 residential units and feature a spa and an undetermined amount of ballroom and meeting space. A construction start date was not announced, but the hotel is expected to open in 2022.

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RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has negotiated the sale of Atria Richardson, a 90-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Richardson, just north of Dallas. A publicly traded REIT sold the property. Originally constructed in 1999, the 62,000-square-foot community is located near the University of Texas-Dallas campus. Another publicly traded REIT and its Florida-based property manager acquired the community for an undisclosed price. Ben Firestone, Michael Segal, Joshua Salzman and Alex Florea of Blueprint brokered the transaction.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Rastegar Property Co., a locally based investment firm, has purchased Escala Apartments, a 30-unit multifamily asset located in Austin’s Clarksville neighborhood. The property offers proximity to the employment hubs of Google, Indeed and Facebook. Rastegar plans to create residential condominium units and to renovate and modernize the building exterior and the interior of each unit.

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All the recent talk in the Houston industrial market has focused on the amount of distribution space that is under construction or proposed for development. As a result, many industrial real estate professionals are worried about certain submarkets becoming overbuilt. This is a reasonable thought, given that Houston has more distribution space under construction than ever before — roughly 18 million square feet is under construction citywide, compared to the previous high in 2015 of 15 million square feet. However, there is also an exceptionally high level of demand in the market that could easily allow more than half of that space to be quickly absorbed once delivered. What is most promising about Houston’s industrial market — and what has also partially defined the evolution of this space — is the sheer volume of larger requirements. There are currently more than a dozen deals  across the city involving users that are seeking anywhere from 400,000 to 1.5 million square feet. This certainly bodes well for Houston’s industrial distribution market, which continues to attract large-scale developers and tenants due to the growing local and regional population. Access to the Port of Houston — which is great for retailers looking for another …

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