HOUSTON — Investment and management firm Capital Square 1031 has launched an investment fund for the acquisition of a memory care community in the Kingwood neighborhood of Houston. The 10,000-square-foot community includes 16 beds, and was delivered in April. Village Green Alzheimer’s Care Home, a local operator of five memory care communities in metro Houston, operates the property under an absolute net lease whereby Village Green is responsible for all expenses, including structure, maintenance and repairs. Bill Pyle of EDGE Realty Capital Markets represented the seller, Verdad Real Estate, in the transaction. Bear Real Estate Advisors represented Capital Square 1031.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — KWA Construction, a Dallas-based general contractor specializing in multifamily projects, has broken ground on HUB 121 at Craig Ranch, a 286-unit community in McKinney, located north of Dallas. Designed by Domus Studio Group, the property will offer units with high-end appliances, smart devices and ceilings of up to 13 feet. Amenities will include a pool, bocce ball court, coworking office space exclusively for residents, a fitness center and several dog parks. Completion is slated for December 2020.
HOUSTON — Local firm Davis Commercial Development has broken ground on Cypress Preserve Logistics Center, a 560,000-square-foot distribution center in Houston. The 31.9-acre site offers proximity to Interstate 45 and Hardy Tollway. Cypress Preserve Logistics Center will feature two cross-dock buildings that will offer spaces ranging in size from 64,500 to 258,000 square feet. The development will also include two tilt-wall buildings totaling 41,500 square feet. The cross-dock buildings will feature 32-foot clear heights, 165 trailer parking spaces and office space, while the tilt-wall buildings will have 24-foot clear heights, ESFR sprinkler systems and custom office finishes. Delivery is slated for October. Walker Barnett and Ryan Byrd of Colliers International will handle leasing of the development.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A partnership between Ridgeline Capital Partners and Harrison Street has acquired Fort Behavioral Health, a 124,990-square-foot healthcare property in Fort Worth. The Class A facility was renovated in 2018, includes 125 beds and offers services such as addiction treatment programs and residential programs for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Vizion Health is the operator of the property, the seller of which was not disclosed.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $20.3 million sale of Mirador, a 228-unit seniors housing community in Corpus Christi. The Class A facility was developed in 2011 and offers 125 independent living apartments, 44 assisted living residences, 18 memory care units and 41 skilled nursing units. Mirador was 82 percent occupied at the time of sale. Allen McMurtry, Paul Carr and David Kliewer of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Addison, Texas-based Senior Quality Lifestyles Corp., in the transaction. The buyer was an affiliate of Methodist Retirement Communities, which is based in metro Houston.
ROANOKE, TEXAS — Civitas Senior Living and LKP Ventures have broken ground on Harvest of Roanoke, an 83-unit seniors housing community in Roanoke, located due north of Fort Worth. Situated on 5.2 acres along the Texas 114 Corridor, the developers claim this is the first senior living community to be developed in the area. The community will feature 67 assisted living and 16 memory care apartments in a 67,000-square-foot building. Harvest of Roanoke is scheduled to open in fall 2020. Arrive Architects, Senior by Design and Ridgemont Commercial Construction are also contributing to the project.
Businesses and industries whose supply chains are tied to Port Houston are dealing with tariffs on select imports, volatile energy markets and a one-two punch of rising rents and construction costs for any industrial space they want to lease or have developed for them. But based on the performance of Houston’s nearby Southeast industrial submarket, these larger geopolitical and economic forces are wreaking minimal havoc. An increasingly diverse mix of industrial users has landed in Houston over the past five or so years. These tenants include national retailers and third-party logistics (3PL) firms that see Houston as an emerging regional distribution hub, as well as suppliers of durable consumer goods and companies that service the petrochemicals industry. The port submarket is seeing heightened activity from all of the above. At the same time, the infrastructure within Port Houston has expanded. Ship channels are in the process of being deepened and widened. Special equipment has been introduced that allows overweight containers to safely and legally leave the port and hit the roadways. Demand for rail-served properties is growing, particularly on the north side of the Houston Ship Channel, leading to more of those projects. And Harris County has begun work on …
TORONTO — Dallas led the nation in construction and absorption of industrial space between the beginning of the second quarter of 2018 and the end of the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report from Toronto-based Avison Young. While Dallas technically finished behind Los Angeles as the No. 2 city in completions of industrial projects over the last 12 months, the city took the gold medal for total space under construction at 30.9 million square feet. In addition, Dallas claimed the top spot for industrial absorption during this period, with positive net absorption of 23.4 million square feet. As such, the report pegged the city’s industrial vacancy rate at a healthy 6.8 percent. The report also cited the growth of e-commerce and demand for last-mile logistics services as the principal drivers of industrial growth, and noted that a total of 272 million square feet of new space was completed across 46 markets during the past 12 months. Philadelphia, the Inland Empire (California), Atlanta and Chicago rounded out the Top 5 with regard to space under construction.
DALLAS — Bridgeview Real Estate, a privately held developer and owner-operator will implement a multimillion-dollar renovation plan at LBJ Tower, a 10-story, 204,461-square-foot office tower in Dallas. Bridgeview, with help from Stream Realty Partners, will redesign the building’s lobby to feature modern finishes and lounge space, as well as add a 75-person meeting space and a fitness center. The renovation project, which is meant to elevate the building’s appeal to relocating corporate firms, is expected to be complete by the fourth quarter.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS — JLL has arranged a $10.5 million loan for the refinancing of Rockridge Plaza, an 86,500-square-foot retail center located in the West Texas city of Lubbock. The property was 95 percent leased at the time of sale to a mix of national retailers and local businesses. Jimmy Board and Wes Wallace of JLL arranged the fixed-rate, nonrecourse loan through Deutsche Bank on behalf of the borrower, Graco Real Estate Development.