PINEHURST, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of United Storage, a 94-unit self-storage facility in Pinehurst, located about 50 miles northwest of Houston. The property spans 20,960 square feet. Dave Knobler and Casey Kral of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. An undisclosed buyer, also a private investor, purchased the asset.
IRVING, TEXAS — Connecticut-based IT consulting firm Gartner Inc. has signed a 54,920-square-foot office lease expansion at Las Colinas Connection 1 in Irving. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 1999 and spans 231,681 square feet. Randy Cooper, Matt Heidelbaugh, Amber Roberts, Lou D’Avanzo and Andy May of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Sarah Hinkley of Thirty-Four Commercial and Joel Pustmueller of JLL represented the landlord, Piedmont Office Realty Trust.
MESQUITE, TEXAS — The Mesquite City Council has approved plans for the development of Spradley Farms, a 652-acre mixed-use project that will feature more than 2,500 single-family homes and commercial components. The government body also approved Urban District 30, an 80-acre industrial development. Urban Logistics Realty is developing the $71 million industrial project, which will include five buildings spanning 979,000 square feet and is expected to generate between 500 and 1,000 new jobs. A groundbreaking ceremony for the project was held on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, and completion of the project is scheduled for the third quarter of 2020. Stream Realty Partners will handle leasing of Urban District 30. Other project partners include MYCON General Contractors and GSR Andrade Architects.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Scion Student Communities, a joint venture between the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), GIC and The Scion Group, has acquired MUZE, a 502-bed student housing community located two blocks from the University of Texas at Austin. The newly built property offers one-, two-, three-, four- and five-bedroom units with shared amenities including a rooftop pool, sky lounge and study and recreation spaces. A partnership between Kayne Anderson Real Estate and developer Parallel Co. sold the community for an undisclosed price. Scion Student Communities now owns 75 student housing communities totaling more than 48,000 beds in 52 university markets.
DALLAS — JLL has arranged the sale of the W Dallas Victory Hotel, a 33-story property located adjacent to the American Airlines Center in the Uptown district of Dallas. The 252-room hotel features a restaurant, lobby bar, terrace bar, resort-style infinity pool and pool deck on the 16th floor and 10,800 square feet of meeting and event space. The building also contains non-owned ground-floor retail space and residential condominiums on floors 18 to 32. Michael Kavanau and Parker Sherrill of JLL represented the seller, Estein USA, in the transaction. A partnership between HN Capital Partners and Dunhill Partners Inc. purchased the asset for an undisclosed price. De’On Collins of JLL and Randy Fleisher of Hamilton Realty Finance placed a three-year, floating-rate acquisition loan through Starwood Property Trust for the deal.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — San Francisco-based investment firm Drawbridge Realty has sold a fully repositioned corporate office campus located at 3100 Alvin Devane Blvd. in Austin for $18.5 million. Drawbridge originally acquired the two-building property, formerly known as Sierra Technology Center, in 2012 via a joint venture with Austin-based HPI. The redevelopment plan upgraded the office lobby, common areas, roof, mechanical systems and parking areas, as well as interior tenant spaces. Todd Mills, Carrie Caesar and Hunter Mills of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the deal on behalf of Drawbridge. The buyer was not disclosed.
PLANO, TEXAS — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 24,000-square-foot office lease in Plano for Samsung SDS, a division of the South Korean tech giant that provides IT services. The tenant will occupy space at APEX, a 186,244-square-foot, Class A building located at 3033 George Bush Highway. Scott Hobbs, Kim Lyon and Ashley Tanton of Cushman & Wakefield represented Samsung SDS in its property search and lease negotiations. Duane Henley and Nathan Durham of Transwestern represented the property’s landlords, Champion Partners and Cross Harbor Capital.
HOUSTON — GID Development Group has broken ground on Phase II of Regent Square, a mixed-use project located at West Dallas and Dunlavy streets near Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston. Designed by Boston-based architecture firm CBT, Phase II will consist of 50,000 square feet of retail space, a 600-unit apartment building and activated community space. The retail space is expected to be available for occupancy by the first quarter of 2021, and the residential component is slated to be complete by the third quarter of 2021. Phase I of the project was completed in 2014. Arch-Con is the general contractor, and JLL is handling leasing of the retail space.
TULSA, OKLA. — Covenant Living Communities and Services has acquired Inverness Village, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Tulsa, for an undisclosed price. As part of the transition, the community will be rebranded as Covenant Living at Inverness. The community opened in 2003 and features 196 independent living apartments, 40 cottages, 20 garden homes, 31 assisted living apartments, 12 memory care units and 44 skilled nursing rooms. The property sits on 192 acres. Covenant Living also owns and operates a senior living rental independent and assisted living community in Bixby, Okla. Covenant Living at Bixby has been in operation for five years.
DALLAS AND FORT WORTH, TEXAS — New York-based Arbor Realty Trust Inc. has provided five loans totaling $68.6 million for the refinancing of a portfolio of multifamily properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex. The portfolio spans approximately 1,100 units. Vincent Chiodo of Arbor Realty Trust provided the loans, all of which carried 12-year terms, fixed interest rates and six years of interest-only payments, through Fannie Mae. The property names and borrowers were not disclosed.