ARLINGTON, TEXAS — HFF has arranged debt financing for 101 Center, a mixed-use property located adjacent to the University of Texas at Arlington. The property, which was completed earlier this year, features 244 conventional apartments and student housing units totaling 493 beds, as well as 18,400 square feet of retail space. Jeremy Sain of HFF arranged the non-recourse, floating-rate loan through Credit Suisse on behalf of the borrower and developer, Catalyst Urban Development.
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS — Houston-based Land Tejas Development will build a 70-acre entertainment destination within Lago Mar, a 2,033-acre master-planned community in the Galveston suburb of Texas City. The project will deliver a resort complex, as well as condos, townhomes and 250,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Completion of Phase I of the project is slated for early 2020. Trez Capital is providing project financing.
DENISON, TEXAS — Swagit Productions LLC, a Dallas-based video streaming company, will open a 10,000-square-foot office in Denison, a city in north Texas near the Oklahoma border. The company’s new facility will be located along State Highway 84 and will be remodeled in advance of the opening. The move is expected to create up to 40 new jobs, with hiring slated to begin this winter and operations commencing in spring 2019. Kent Smith of NAI Robert Lynn represented Swagit in the lease negotiations.
SAN ANTONIO — SRS Real Estate Partners has negotiated the sale of two restaurant properties in San Antonio for $4.4 million. Both assets were built in 2012, feature drive-thru lanes and are triple net leased for 15 years to Bush’s Chicken, a Waco-based restaurant chain. Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS, along with Chris Mueller of San Antonio-based Mueller Ventures, represented the single seller of both assets. The buyers were undisclosed, individual private investors.
Development of data centers is surging across the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, and the party is really just getting started. According to research from JLL, DFW is the fourth-largest data center market in the country in terms of supply with approximately 3.7 million square feet of inventory providing 505 critical megawatts of power. DFW’s development pipeline spans more than 1.1 million square feet of new projects totaling about 215 critical megawatts that are either planned or already under construction. Data centers typically produce about 150 watts of power per square foot. A facility’s total power intake minus the portion needed to cool the equipment represents its critical megawattage — its true capacity for storing and processing data. A number of state-level factors have contributed to DFW’s rapid ascension up the national data center ladder. Texas possesses a great deal of fiber optic connectivity, which gives users fast, reliable transmission of data and helps reduce costs. In addition, the state has its own power grid, as well as an abundant, cheap supply of natural gas to fuel power costs, which are typically the most expensive operating item for data centers. An arid climate, ample available land and friendly development policies have …
BEE CAVE, TEXAS — The Bee Cave City Council has approved the latest phase of development of Village at Spanish Oaks, an 80-acre mixed-use project that will be located along State Highway 71 in Bee Cave, a northwestern suburb of Austin. The project represents the final phase of Spanish Oaks, a 1,200-acre master-planned development by CCNG Inc. and Greenbrier Southwest Corp. Preliminary plans call for office, retail, restaurant, hotel and residential components. According to The Austin American-Statesman, construction of the buildings is expected to begin in 2020.
SAN ANTONIO — Tampa-based self-storage brokerage firm SkyView Advisors has arranged the sale of 1604 Store and More, a 558-unit self-storage facility in San Antonio. The property totals 140,220 net rentable square feet across 269 climate-controlled units and 289 non-climate-controlled units. Ryan Clark and Cameron Vale of SkyView Advisors represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
HOUSTON — French investment bank Natixis has originated a $45 million loan for the acquisition of Venue Museum District, a 224-unit multifamily complex in Houston. The Class A, mid-rise property, which is located at 5353 Fannin St., features one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, resident lounge, fitness center and outdoor kitchen. The borrower was Hines Global Income Trust.
HOUSTON — Newcor Commercial Real Estate has brokered the sale of a 12,000-square-foot industrial building located at 8715 Golden Spike Lane in Houston. David Alexander of Newcor Commercial represented the seller, NSH Properties, in the transaction. Kyle Prater of Newmark Knight Frank represented the buyer, Hyvonen Properties, which will occupy the property and use it for cold storage.
HOUSTON — Houston-based Orr Commercial has sold Memorial Thicket Corner, an 8,729-square-foot retail strip center in Houston’s Energy Corridor. Completed in 2014, the center was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Mattress Firm, Vision Source and USA Nails. Ryan West and John Indelli of HFF marketed the property on behalf of Orr Commercial. The buyer was not disclosed.
