HOUSTON — Houston-based Q10 KDH has arranged a $26.1 million non-recourse loan for a portfolio of single-tenant office buildings located across Texas. The portfolio consists of 20 assets totaling 295,104 square feet across 18 markets. Proceeds were used for both acquisitions of new properties and refinancing of existing assets in the undisclosed borrower’s portfolio. Emily Zarcaro of Q10 KDH arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan, which included five years of interest-only payments, through Silverpeak Argentic. The names of the properties were not disclosed.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Greysteel has arranged the sale of Ridglea Square Apartments, a 54-unit multifamily community in Fort Worth. The property was built in 1960 and is located near Texas Christian University, the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens and Fort Worth Zoo. Doug Banerjee, Boyan Radic, Andrew Mueller, Andrew Hanson, Scott Simon, Jack Stone and Moises Maldonado of Greysteel represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. Both parties requested anonymity.
Like most major cities, Houston has had its fair share of market cycles. However, this most recent decline in the local economy’s growth rate that was caused by a steep drop of oil prices put a heightened level of stress on the Houston office market. Fortunately, the energy sector has turned the corner, and, paired with the ever-diversifying economic base, the Houston economy is buzzing again. As such, Houston’s population and job growth have translated into early signs of improvement in office market fundamentals. The metro’s employment base, which is currently seeing some of the highest employment numbers in history, is growing at more than twice the national rate. This rapid rate of expansion has provided the office market with much-needed positive momentum as we look toward the new year. Improving Fundamentals The much-anticipated turnaround in the office market is here. Asking rents, occupancy rates and absorption are all increasing across the metro area and across all building classifications. In the third quarter of 2018, the office market posted approximately 1.1 million square feet of positive net absorption. This is a significant improvement compared to the negative net absorption of roughly 1.1 million square feet in the first quarter of …
LANCASTER, TEXAS — Jones Development Co. (JDC) will build a 615,000-square-foot, build-to-suit distribution center in the southern Dallas metro of Lancaster for discount retailer Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, which will ultimately purchase the property. The Class A facility will be located within Wintergreen Exchange, a 71-acre industrial park, and is expected to be complete by the fourth quarter of 2019. Building features will include 36-foot clear heights, 75-foot speed bays, 100 dock doors, 14,500 square feet of office space and an ESFR sprinkler system. Gary Collett and David Eseke of Cushman & Wakefield marketed the property on behalf of JDC. John Van Buskirk of Lee & Associates, along with Sharon Morrison and Brad Struck of ESRP, represented Ollie’s Bargain Outlet in the deal. The project team is comprised of general contractor Bob Moore Construction, civil engineer Pacheco Koch and designer Alliance Architects.
EL PASO, TEXAS — Hanson Asset Management LP has broken ground on Hanson Spec Building B, a 125,646-square-foot industrial project located at 9581 Joe Rodriguez Drive in El Paso. The Class A property will be situated one block from the Zaragoza International Bridge and will be available for lease beginning in July 2019. CBRE is marketing the property on behalf of Hanson. Two additional buildings are planned next door for any future expansion requirements.
IRVING, TEXAS — Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) will relocate its corporate headquarters from San Francisco to Irving’s Las Colinas district, where it already has a regional office. The company’s new campus will obtain LEED Gold certification and feature an array of amenities and enhanced technology capabilities, according to a statement from the company. The relocation will begin in April of next year. The number of jobs that will be relocated was not provided.
SAN ANTONIO — Regal Self Storage Development has acquired land at 12615 Judson Road near Interstate 35 in northeastern San Antonio for the construction of a new, Class A facility. Though subject to change, Phase I of the site plan proposed by the seller would deliver 704 units totaling 82,100 net rentable square feet. Phase II would expand the site by 10,800 gross square feet. Jon Danklefs and Michael Mele of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the land sale. A timeline for construction has not yet been established.
HOUSTON — LMI Capital, a Real Estate Capital Alliance (RECA) member, has closed four loans totaling $15 million for a quartet of multifamily properties totaling 335 units throughout the greater Houston area. The properties are located in the Galveston, Spring Branch and north Houston submarkets. Jamie Safier of LMI Capital placed the loans for the Galveston and north Houston communities, as well as for one of the Spring Branch assets. Jamie Mullin of LMI Capital placed the loan for the other Spring Branch property. The borrowers, lenders and property names were not disclosed.
DALLAS — Senior Care Centers, a Dallas-based operator of more than 100 seniors housing communities in Texas and Louisiana, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S. bankruptcy court for the Northern District of Texas. The company is the largest skilled nursing provider in Texas, but has struggled to pay its rent. Sabra Health Care REIT (NASDAQ: SBRA) and LTC Properties (NYSE: LTC) — two publicly traded real estate investment trusts that combined own 49 Senior Care Centers locations — both reported that they have not been paid in months. Senior Care Centers also received a slew of bad press last year after not evacuating residents in advance of Hurricane Harvey, which resulted in state citations and dozens of care violations. (The Category 4 hurricane made landfall along the Texas coast in August 2017.) The company reported “burdensome debt levels and expensive leases” as reasons for its bankruptcy filing. All facilities will remain open during the restructuring, and the company claims it will continue to pay all vendors and its 11,000 employees during the process. “As the entire industry has seen, the leases associated with the communities have become cost-prohibitive,” says Michael Beal, chief operating officer. “This kind of action …
TULSA, OKLA. — The Pizzuti Cos., a Columbus, Ohio-based development firm, has broken ground on a $55 million, 800,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Tulsa for Whirlpool Corp., a Michigan-based manufacturer of home appliances. ARCO Construction Co. Inc. is handling the design/build of the facility, which will be situated next to a manufacturing plant that produces 2.1 million cooking products per year. Construction of the facility began in late November and completion is slated for December 2019.