ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Locally based investment firm S2 Capital has acquired Cypress Club Apartments, a 272-unit multifamily community in Arlington. Built in 2014, the property offers one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, fitness center and playground. The seller was not disclosed. Mark Brandenburg of JLL arranged acquisition financing for the transaction through Freddie Mac.
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS — A limited liability company has purchased Hawks Landing, a 102-unit multifamily asset in Kingsville, located south of Corpus Christi. The community features a pool, dog park, basketball court, playground and a resident clubhouse. Dougherty Mortgage arranged an undisclosed amount of Fannie Mae acquisition financing through a partnership with Old Capital Lending on behalf of the new ownership. The names of the buyer and seller were not released.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Chicago-based Brennan Investment Group has sold two industrial properties totaling 84,535 square feet in Austin. The first property is located at 4120 Commercial Center Drive near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on the southeast side. The second building is located at 9210 Cameron Drive on the northeast side. The buyer was Texas-based investment firm Stonelake Capital Partners. Both buildings were fully occupied at the time of sale.
DALLAS — Rehrig Pacific Co., which manufactures and distributes plastic products for the food and agriculture industries, has signed a 127,789-square-foot industrial lease renewal at 613-625 Mockingbird Lane in Dallas. Canon Shoults of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Alpha Industrial, in the lease negotiations. Craig Jones of JLL represented the tenant.
TERRELL, TEXAS — A group of anchor tenants that includes Ross Dress for Less, Hobby Lobby and Five Below have opened their stores at Crossroads at Terrell, a 275,000-square-foot shopping center located about 35 miles east of Dallas. Marshalls, Rack Room Shoes, Ulta Beauty, Petco, and Academy Sports + Outdoors are scheduled to open later this year. Film Alley, an entertainment concept with movies, bowling and arcades, opened at Crossroads at Terrell earlier this year. Future restaurant users at the property will include Olive Garden, Raising Cane’s and Chili’s, which will accompany the likes of Whataburger, Chick-fil-A and Chipotle Mexican Grill. RealtyLink and Oakridge Investments are co-developing the property, and CBRE is leasing it.
EL PASO, TEXAS — Greysteel has arranged the sale of Las Lomas Apartments, a 232-unit multifamily asset in El Paso. The property is located adjacent to several entertainment concepts, including Topgolf, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and iFly indoor skydiving facility. Jack Stone, Doug Banerjee and Andrew Hanson of Greysteel represented the Chicago-based seller and procured the California-based buyer in the transaction.
DALLAS — Sperry Commercial has brokered the sale of Stemmons Center, a 42,594-square-foot shopping center located at 2629 N. Stemmons Freeway in Dallas. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built on 4.4 acres in 1979. Calvin Wong and Daniel Eng of Sperry Commercial represented the buyer and the seller, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
HOUSTON — Local multifamily investment firm Three Pillars Capital Group has purchased Camino Del Sol, a 122-unit multifamily community in southeast Houston. Built on 4.2 acres in 1969, the property offers a pet play area and onsite parking. Three Pillars will implement a capital improvements program, the scope and timing of which are still being determined. The seller was GE 2507 LLC.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — MIMCO, an El Paso-based retail investment firm, has acquired Four Corners Shopping Center, a 32,000-square-foot retail center located at the intersection of South Congress Street and William Cannon Drive in Austin. Tenants include Austin Regional Clinic, Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen and Schlotzsky’s Deli. The seller was not disclosed. With this transaction, MIMCO’s Central Texas portfolio now spans more than 2 million square feet of shopping center space.
For many years, companies seeking to establish major distribution operations for the southwestern United States flocked to one market: Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW). Any deal that required a warehouse or logistics space of several hundred thousand square feet or more headed to the metroplex, and Houston received what was left — deals falling anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 square feet. That began to change in 2010, when oil was consistently trading at close to $100 per barrel. Subsequent innovations in hydraulic fracturing that lowered the threshold at which offshore drilling companies could turn a profit, combined with escalated tensions among Middle Eastern producers, kept prices for American crude at high levels until December 2014. At the time of this writing, oil futures traded at about $58 per barrel, suggesting that any hopes of a recovery by mid-2019 had been premature. But between 2010 and 2014, when the party was in full swing, Houston experienced tremendous job growth that attracted tens of thousands of new residents to the city. More housing was built, and significant amounts of industrial absorption began to stem from the need to store and distribute consumer goods, from food to furniture to household appliances. Today, Houston’s population is …
