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HOUSTON — Atlanta-based Songy Highroads has opened Hyatt Place Houston Galleria, a 157-room hotel located across from the Galleria shopping center in Houston. Aimbridge Hospitality manages the 12-story hotel, situated at 5252 W. Alabama St. The hotel contains three floors of common space and nine guestroom floors with both suites and standard rooms. Onsite amenities include a swimming pool, fitness center, meeting space, business center, dining options, a market and a lobby coffee shop and bar. Songy Highroads began development of the hotel in August 2014 and also developed the Hyatt Regency Houston Galleria, a 325-room hotel located adjacent to the Hyatt Place that opened in October 2015. Songy Highroads owns both hotels, which are part of a 7.6-acre mixed-use development that also contains two office towers and retail space.

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HOUSTON — NAI Partners has represented Circle 8 Services in the lease of a 40,000-square-foot industrial building on 9.6 acres located at 3004 Aldine Bender Road in Houston. Chris Caudill of NAI Partners represented the tenant, Circle 8 Fluid Services, during the negotiations, while Hart Schleicher of Capital Real Estate Commercial represented the landlord, 3004 Aldine Bender Partners. Circle 8 Fluid Services is a mobile crane and fluid services operator.

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WEST LAKE HILLS, TEXAS — Velocis, a private equity real estate manager, has sold West Woods Shopping Center in West Lake Hills, an Austin suburb. The 189,340-square-foot center was sold to Global Retail Investors, an affiliate of First Washington Realty, for an undisclosed price. Velocis purchased the retail asset in 2012 and invested in signage upgrades, landscaping and parking lot improvements. The property is located at the intersection of Bee Caves Road and Walsh Tarlton Lane and is anchored by Stein Mart, Michaels, Petco and CVS/pharmacy. The property was 98 percent leased at the time of sale. HFF’s Jim Batjer and Barry Brown brokered the sale on behalf of Velocis. Lincoln Property Co. provided property management services, and Bryan Dabbs of BKD Realty handled leasing for West Woods.

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DALLAS — Senderra RX, a disease state management specialty pharmacy, has signed a long-term lease that will move its corporate office to Lake Highlands Tower, a Class A office building located at 9330 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in Dallas. Senderra RX will occupy 21,642 square feet of the 15-story office building, having outgrown its existing facility. Amenities at the property include a full-service bank, barber shop, dry cleaner, conference center and on-site security. Cushman & Wakefield’s Dan Harris and Craig Wilson represented Senderra RX in the transaction. Blake Shipley and Jay Bailey of JLL represented the landlord, Gregory & Malouf Interests.

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WACO, SHERMAN AND FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II (CVMC) has acquired a portfolio comprising healthcare properties and a data center in Texas for $58.9 million. CVMC acquired the Heritage Park Portfolio on Nov. 20, 2015, for $33.9 million. The Heritage Park Portfolio consists of two healthcare properties located in Sherman that are 100 percent leased: Heritage Park – Sherman I (Heritage Park Surgical Hospital) and Heritage Park – Sherman II (Visionary Medical Imaging). Heritage Park Surgical Hospital is a 57,576-square-foot medical facility that was built in 2005 and renovated in 2010 to become a full-service surgical hospital. Heritage Park Surgical Hospital houses eight operating suites, three procedure rooms and 14 private recovery rooms, and supports an average of 15,000 surgeries per year. Visionary Medical Imaging, an 8,055-square-foot medical imaging center located adjacent to Heritage Park Surgical Hospital, was built in 2005 and offers MRI, CT, X-Ray and bone density scanning services. In addition to the Heritage Park Portfolio, CVMC acquired Baylor Surgery Center at Fort Worth, a one-story, 36,800-square-foot ambulatory surgery center located on 3.5 acres. The property, located one mile from Baylor Surgical Hospital at Fort Worth, was built in 1998 and renovated in 2015 …

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Donley Plaza, Austin, Texas

AUSTIN, TEXAS — CBRE Capital Markets has brokered the sale of Donley Plaza, a 69,547-square-foot office asset in Austin. Nashville-based OakPoint Real Estate and local partner Haverwood Management purchased the asset from a California-based partnership. Donley Plaza marks the fifth office acquisition in Austin for the OakPoint/Haverwood duo. Donley Plaza, located at 2201 Donley Drive in north-central Austin, was 65 percent occupied at the time of closing. The building was constructed in 1983 and renovated in 2013. The buyer has an opportunity to lease one full floor of the building in a location just east of the Domain, a mixed-use community. OakPoint and Haverwood are partnering with a local architecture firm to redevelop Donley Plaza for creative and tech-oriented users. Additionally, the new ownership group is in the early planning stages for a build-to-suit on the adjacent vacant site, which is being marketing to large corporate users seeking value office space in and around the North Austin/Domain submarket.

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Brazos on Hulen, Fort Worth, Texas

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Greysteel has arranged the sale of The Brazos on Hulen, a 100-unit multifamily community in Fort Worth. Greysteel’s Boyan Radic, Doug Banerjee, Andrew Mueller and Ryan Hill represented the seller, Classic Asset Acquisition 3, in the sale of The Brazos on Hulen to Tyler Associates. The property includes 28 one-bedroom units, 56 two-bedroom/two-bathroom units, eight three-bedroom/two-bathroom units and eight three-bedroom/three-bathroom units.

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Gardens Apartments, Dallas, Texas

DALLAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Illinois Gardens Apartments, a 36-unit apartment property located in Dallas. John Barker and Mark Allen of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Worth office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. Illinois Gardens Apartments is located at 3333 E. Illinois Ave. in Dallas. Illinois Gardens is a two-story apartment community constructed of brick with wood siding. Unit amenities include walk-in closets and mini blinds. Common area amenities include an on-site laundry facility, interior courtyards and gated entry. Recent capital improvements include new pitched roofs, exterior wood replacement, cabinets, electrical outlets, flooring and both interior and exterior paint.

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DALLAS — Equity Office has closed a new lease transaction with Sabre for 196,048 square feet in Solana Business Park in Dallas. Cushman & Wakefield’s Chris Taylor, Rodney Helm and Layne Mayfield represented Solana on the Sabre leasing transaction. Ryan Matthews and Cannon Camp of JLL represented Sabre, which inked a new deal to lease all of Building 2 at the Terrace at Solana, as well as the first three floors of Building 3. Solana Business Park is undergoing a $65 million campus renovation that modernizes the property’s original architectural design. The majority of the renovations are finished with final completion scheduled for mid-2016. Solana Business Park is a five-minute drive from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

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Executive Place, Fort Worth, Texas

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Texas Bank Financial has acquired a 47,830-square-foot, multi-tenant office building in southwest Fort Worth as the new headquarters location for its mortgage company. Executive Place, a two-story building located at 4521 S. Hulen St. near I-20, was 100 percent leased at the time of sale. The new owner’s first order of business will be to undertake a series of upgrades aimed at heightening curb appeal, including accentuating the exterior. In the fourth quarter of 2016, Texas Bank Mortgage Co. will move its 45-employee headquarters team into 18,000 square feet on the second floor from leased office space about two miles to the south. Gary Walker of Arlington-based Coldwell Banker Commercial Alliance DFW represented the buyer.

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