FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 46,104-square-foot industrial lease at 14275 Welch Road in the northern Dallas metro of Farmers Branch. Adam Graham of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, Missouri-based Don Smith & Associates, in the lease negotiations. Barry Stokes of Exeter Property Group represented the landlord, Finlayson Logistic Assets LLC.
CHICKASHA, OKLA. — Arbor Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: ABR) has provided a $1.7 million Freddie Mac loan for the refinancing of Winding Creek Apartments, a 50-unit multifamily asset in Chickasha, a southwestern suburb of Oklahoma City. The property was built in 1974 on eight acres. Eric Regenbogen of Arbor Realty originated the loan through Freddie Mac’s Small Balance Loan program on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
DALLAS — Colony Industrial has sold a light industrial portfolio spanning 2.3 million square feet across four states for $136 million. Nuveen Real Estate, a subsidiary of TIAA, purchased the properties. The sale includes 18 buildings in Atlanta, five in Dallas, five in Houston and six buildings spread across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. CBRE National Partners represented Dallas-based Colony Industrial in the sale. Colony Industrial is the industrial platform of Colony Capital Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), a real estate investment firm with $44 billion of assets under management. “We’ve owned and operated these assets for some time and the portfolio value had achieved Colony Industrial’s targets,” says Lew Friedland, managing director at Colony Capital and head of Colony Industrial. “We reevaluate the portfolio as opportunities arise, and this sale to Nuveen enables us to rebalance our property mix to align with our long-term strategic plans.” Nuveen is an investment manager that maintains its international headquarters in New York. — Kristin Hiller
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TD Bank: Construction Delays have Bolstered the Multifamily Market
It may sound counterintuitive, but Gregg Gerken, head of U.S. commercial real estate at TD Bank, believes some of the challenges the multifamily development market has faced have actually benefited the market. He specifically references labor shortages and construction delays. There were concerns in some areas that too much product might come online too fast, hampering absorption and rent growth. But the recent speedbumps have allowed the pipeline to even out a bit, staggering the delivery of new units and preventing overbuilding. Demand still outpaces supply in many markets, which has led to average vacancy rates of around 5 percent and healthy rent growth. Both developers and renters can look forward to new product delivering at a steady pace in 2019. Watch the video to hear takeaways from MBA CREF and 2019 predictions from Gerken.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Keurig Dr Pepper (NYSE: KDP) will relocate its Texas headquarters from Plano to a 350,000-square-foot office space at The Star in Frisco. The build-to-suit property will serve as the company’s second headquarters alongside its current office in Burlington, Mass. Approximately 1,100 employees work in the current Plano location, which KDP has occupied since 1998. The new space is expected to be available for occupancy in 2021.
KILGORE, TEXAS — HFF has brokered the sale of a 550,000-square-foot distribution center leased to Orgill, the world’s largest independent hardware distributor, in the eastern Texas city of Kilgore. Built in 2007 on 65.2 acres, the property is currently being expanded by almost 329,000 square feet with completion expected in mid-2019. Adam Herrin and Stephen Bailey of HFF represented the seller, Elysian Partners LLC, in the transaction.
DALLAS — CBRE Hana, the newly formed coworking subsidiary of the Los Angeles-based full-service real estate firm, will open its first space within PwC Tower at Park District, a 500,000-square-foot office building in Dallas. The space will offer private office suites, conferencing facilities and event space, and the location offers walkability to the Uptown and Arts District areas, as well as Klyde Warren Park. The space is expected to open in mid-2019.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 55,232-square-foot industrial lease at 2080 McDaniel Drive in the northern Dallas metro of Carrollton. Nathan Denton of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, Buzzballz, a provider of alcoholic beverages, in the lease negotiations. Gil Stroube and Michael Peinado of Lincoln Property Co. represented the landlord, Prologis.
DALLAS — Regional lender and intermediary BMC Capital has arranged a $6.1 million acquisition loan for an undisclosed retail property in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area. The non-recourse loan features a 4.7 percent fixed interest rate, a 75 percent loan-to-value ratio, a 10-year term and a 30-year amortization schedule. The borrower was not disclosed.
Industrial users in Texas, particularly e-commerce firms operating out of large-format distribution centers, are finding it harder and harder to staff their facilities with experienced, talented workers. Development of both speculative and build-to-suit warehouses and distribution centers has been on fire in major Texas markets over the last several years, driven by an abundance of land, exceptional infrastructure and climbing populations. According to CoStar Group, Dallas-Fort Worth’s (DFW) industrial supply grew by 3.5 percent, or roughly 30 million square feet, in 2017. That figure represents the highest single-year inventory growth in more than a decade. Approximately 21 million square feet of new space hit the market in 2018, and for 2019, CoStar forecasts that nearly 24 million square feet of product will be delivered. Houston’s supply growth has been tamer, averaging about 12.2 million square feet annually between 2015 and 2018. But the market is projected to add another 13.2 million square feet this year, per CoStar. With a couple exceptions, more than 90 percent of the new product delivered in DFW and Houston in each year between 2015 and 2018 was distribution space. The distribution building booms in Texas’ two biggest markets have occurred in the face of escalating …