NEW CANEY, TEXAS — Hope Media Group, a provider of religious content, will open its global headquarters office within Valley Ranch, a 1,400-acre master-planned development in the northeastern Houston suburb of New Caney. The facility will house video and podcast production space, studios with noise isolation features and modern collaborative spaces. Gensler is the project architect, and Houston-based Tellepsen is the general contractor. Construction is expected to begin before the end of the year. Signorelli Co. owns Valley Ranch.
SAN ANTONIO — Palladium USA, in partnership with the San Antonio Housing Trust Public Facility Corp. (PFC), has broken ground on Palladium Crestway, a $65 million affordable housing project in San Antonio. Income restrictions for the community were not disclosed. Palladium Crestway will be a three-story building with 271 units on a 10-acre site. Residences will come in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Amenities will include a pool, fitness center, conference center, sports court, dog park, computer lounge, children’s playroom and clubroom with a mini-kitchen. Preleasing will begin next summer, and full completion is slated for next winter. The San Antonio Housing Trust PFC issued $31 million in tax-exempt bonds that were purchased by Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust. PNC Bank provided a $27 million equity investment. Kim Parker of Dynamic Commercial Real Estate represented Palladium USA in the purchase of the land. Cross Architects designed the Palladium Crestway, and Brownstone Construction is serving as the project’s general contractor.
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — San Francisco-based Legacy Partners and Pondmoon Capital Holdings USA have opened Merit, a 296-unit apartment community in the northern Dallas suburb of Lewisville. The development features one-, two- and three-bedroom units that range in size from 630 to 1,500 square feet and are furnished with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, work-from-home spaces and private balconies/patios. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, dog park, coworking space, outdoor gaming area and a 24-hour convenience mart. Project partners included JHP Architecture and Provident General Contractors.
HOUSTON — JLL has negotiated the sale of Memorial Pointe, a 226,586-square-foot office building in Houston’s Energy Corridor area. The 11-story building sits on 2.5 acres and has received multiple capital improvements since 2017, including a renovated lobby, and was 25 percent leased at the time of sale. Rick Goings, Tom Hall and Chad Coluccio of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer was Interra Capital, a Houston-based private equity and financial advisory firm.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Fitness operator House of Gainz will open a 41,000-square-foot gym at 235 Canyon Ridge Drive in northeast Austin. The facility, which will be the company’s second in the Austin area, will offer boxing, HIIT and boot camp classes, a range of fitness equipment and weights, posing room, cold plunge, sauna and a wellness center. The opening is scheduled for November. Kristiana Beck of Realty Austin represented House of Gainz in the lease negotiations. Bryan McMurrey of Transwestern represented the landlord.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Locally based brokerage firm Cravey Real Estate Services has arranged the sale of a 9,500-square-foot office building located at 1434 S. Port Ave. in Corpus Christi. Lynann Pinkham of Cravey Real Estate represented the seller and occupant, Plains Capital Bank, in the transaction. Jesus Barba Jr. represented the buyer, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Inc. Plains Capital Bank will continue to lease back the space for the next 18 months while going through the site selection process for a future hub.
HOUSTON — Parkway, which is a partnership between Orlando-based Parkway Property Investments and Houston-based Midway, has acquired CityWestPlace, a four-building, 1.4 million-square-foot office campus in Houston’s Westchase District. Designed by Keating Mann Jerrigan Rottet and Daniel Mann Johnson & Mendenhall, CityWestPlace was constructed between 1993 and 2001 and renovated in 2020. Amenities include a conference space, multiple food-and-beverage options, two fitness centers, trails and sports fields. Eastdil Secured represented the undisclosed seller, which previously owned an interest in the property, in the transaction. Parkway will continue to operate the property, and Parkway’s development partner, Midway, will oversee the continued development of CityWestPlace.
WHITE SETTLEMENT, TEXAS — Locally based developer Street Realty will build West Loop Business Park, a 140,000-square-foot industrial project in White Settlement, a western suburb of Fort Worth. West Loop Business Park will comprise 14 shallow-bay buildings on a 12-acre site. Each building will span 9,900 square feet and can be subdivided for multiple tenants or marketed to a single tenant. Construction is scheduled to begin before the end of the year and wrap up in the third quarter of 2024. FirstBank Southwest provided construction financing for the deal.
DALLAS — Public media organization KERA will open a new headquarters facility in Uptown Dallas. The site is adjacent to the Katy Trail, and the square footage has yet to be determined. KERA has also formed a partnership with Kaizen Development to construct the new facility, with construction scheduled to begin late next year. Kaizen also purchased 2.4 acres at the southern end of the site from KERA with plans to build a 400,000-square-foot office building and a residential tower of an undetermined size. Delivery of those projects, which will include 20,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, is slated for 2027.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Dayton Superior Corp., an Ohio-based concrete supplier, has signed a 51,101-square-foot industrial lease renewal at RiverPark Business Center in Fort Worth. The development consists of two buildings totaling 500,635 square feet on a 25-acre site. Michael Spain and Jason Finch of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Partners represented the landlord, an entity doing business as SCG River Park Business Center LP, in the lease negotiations. Caleb McCoy of JLL represented the tenant.