Category: Focus 2020

New Leases Bring Avion Business Center Asset to Full Occupancy

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With 28,989 square feet of deals inked recently, Avion Business Center Building 500 is now at 100 percent occupancy. Younger Partners’ Trae Anderson and Garrett Marler represent the landlord, Fort Worth-based Fort Capital. “Located at 2155 Chenault Drive in Carrollton, the three-building complex was purchased by Fort Capital in February. In the past two months, the 28,989-square-foot Building 500 went from 0 percent occupancy to fully leased,” Anderson said. “Building 300 and Building 400 each have one spec suite vacancy remaining ranging from 2,000 square feet to 4,500 square feet.” The recently completed leases include JDC Healthcare Management, which leased 18,447 square feet, represented by CYC Commercial’s Cyrus Chen. CLVR Agency inked 4,237 square feet, represented by Rich Young Company’s Rich Young Jr. AuthenTEK Solutions leased 3,729 square feet and Beyond Engineering signed a 2,576-square-foot lease, represented by Stream Realty Partners’ Lena Pierce and Ryan Boozer. Avion Business Center features immediate access to Dallas North Tollway, President George Bush Turnpike (Highway 190), I-635 And I-35 with close proximity to Addison Airport. The three-building office/flex complex totals 77,339 square feet.

JLL to Consolidate Houston Business Lines at New Office in Galleria Area

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Stonelake Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm with offices in Houston, Dallas and Austin, has executed a long-term lease with JLL for 81,999 square feet at 200 Park Place, a 15-story, 210,000-square-foot Class-AA office building located at 4200 Westheimer Road within the Park Place | River Oaks development. Located in the Galleria area, the new luxury office building will feature JLL’s company name and logo on top. JLL’s property management team is also managing the property. The new office will consolidate JLL’s Houston offices and several business lines in one location. “This consolidation keeps us ahead of our ever-expanding clients’ needs and continues to foster JLL’s core value of teamwork,” said Dan Bellow, president – Houston, JLL. “I am excited about this move and believe that this physical integration of all our business lines will benefit both employees and clients as we work together to provide expert advisory services and client-focused solutions for the full range of real estate needs.” JLL executive vice president Ronnie Deyo and senior vice president Beau Bellow represented JLL in the lease negotiation. Stonelake principal William Peeples represented the property ownership. “We are thrilled that JLL has chosen 200 Park Place as its new Houston headquarters,” said Peeples. “When we set out to design 200 Park Place, a tenant like JLL is exactly who we had in mind—name brand recognition, strong emphasis on company culture, a dedication to their employees and clients and an appreciation for quality.” JLL will occupy three floors of modern innovative workspace, which will feature a beautiful open three-story staircase for easy connection between floors. The amenity-rich facility is conveniently located with plenty of residential and retail options nearby and offers easy walkability to the River Oaks District and Highland Village. “Stonelake and their team delivered a beautiful building that provides JLL a modern workplace while also achieving a timeless design,” said Bellow. “200 Park Place is a building we are proud to have our name on top of.” JLL’s Project and Development Services is managing the buildout of the new workspace utilizing the firm’s (Re)imagine strategies and best practices to support the health and well-being of their employees. Private offices and workstations will be laid out and designed with a certain level of distancing and boundaries in mind by using storage towers and cabinets. Breakrooms will be designed with larger proportions in order to expand the areas where people congregate. “Within the same space, you can connect together or separately,” said Bellow. “This will be a place where you can live and celebrate the company’s values and culture—a place to collaborate and share in order to build social capital. The main idea is to design a space that provides balance, options, choice and control over how employees want to work on a given day.” 200 Park Place, Stonelake’s third phase of Park Place | River Oaks, was substantially completed in April 2020 and is now more than 65 percent leased. The “flight to quality” trend is apparent at 200 Park Place as companies look to improve the efficiency and quality of their office space. Announced tenants at 200 Park Place include JLL, Charles Schwab, Compass Real Estate, Veritas Title Partners, and Stonelake, the building’s developer and owner. JLL is expected to take occupancy in summer 2021.

Dallas-Area Light Industrial Building Trades Hands

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JLL’s capital markets team has closed the sale of an 83,140-square-foot, multi-tenant, value-add light industrial building at 1501 N. Plano Road in the northern Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas. JLL worked on behalf of the seller, Prattco Creekway Industrial. Berkeley Partners purchased the asset for an undisclosed sum. The one-story building was completed in 1984 and features four loading docks, two drive-in doors, nearly 40 percent office finish and ample parking. The property is home to a mix of nationally and locally based companies with an average remaining lease term of slightly less than four years. Located in Richardson, the property is within the epicenter of the Richardson Industrial submarket, Dallas’ largest and most active suburban submarket. Properties in this submarket benefit from a strong user demand for light industrial space and minimal vacancy. The building is at the intersection of Plano Road and E. Collins Boulevard with frontage and direct access to major Dallas arterials, including State Highway 75, President George Bush Turnpike and Interstate 635. The JLL capital markets investment advisory team representing the seller was led senior director Stephen Bailey, director Zane Marcell and analysts Zach Riebe and Erin Lazarus.

CBRE Signs Lease at Oxbow to Consolidate Three San Antonio Offices

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CBRE announced plans today to consolidate its three San Antonio offices in the Oxbow building at 1803 Broadway Street. The firm will relocate its 81 employees to approximately 17,000 square feet of office space on the top floor of Silver Ventures’ new eight-story building in Q2 2021. “We’re eager and excited to bring employees across multiple service lines together under one roof,” said Gardner Peavy, managing director of CBRE’s San Antonio market. “In addition to providing a world-class workplace environment, our new office will be steps away from the Pearl, one of the most vibrant, burgeoning mixed-use areas in the country. From being able to work independently or collaboratively in our space to meeting clients in the shaded outdoor courtyard or at a nearby café, our office will support the ever-changing needs of our employees and clients.” The new office is part of CBRE’s Workplace360 initiative, the company’s leading-edge approach to workplace strategy, designed to promote employee flexibility, mobility and productivity. Workplace360 offices feature a balance of workplace settings, including both collaborative and private spaces that employees can self-select to accommodate their hour-by-hour needs. The company’s in-house design practice will manage the workplace design. “Leveraging our architectural and interior design team, we can take lessons learned from our 80+ Workplaces360 offices around the world, as well as experience designing client workplaces, to bring our workplace strategy to life in San Antonio,” said Peter Van Emburgh, global lead of CBRE’s corporate real estate. Oxbow is located north of downtown San Antonio near the Pearl, the area’s premier mixed-use space featuring acclaimed restaurants and cafes, unique retail shops, public green spaces, a year-round farmers market, the award-winning Hotel Emma, residential, office space and more. The building includes ground-floor retail and restaurant space and shares a shaded courtyard, community fountain and community park area with the adjacent Credit Human building, which was also developed by Silver Ventures. CBRE’s Christi Griggs and Steve Thomas, who oversee the leasing and marketing for the Oxbow, represented Silver Ventures in the lease negotiations. Employee committees will participate in decision-making to create a unique office experience that caters to the surrounding San Antonio culture and history while also reflecting the CBRE brand.

M Kidd Properties Represents Martin Preferred Foods for Renewal of 73,586 SF Lease

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Martin Preferred Foods, L.P., a local leader in food distribution and processing for 75 years, has renewed 73,586 SF of space at 2017 White Street. The landlord, Prologis, was represented by Ryan Patronella. The tenant was represented by Mark Kidd, Sr. and Mark Kidd, Jr. of M Kidd Properties, Inc.

M2G Ventures Inks Several Preleases at Historic Fort Worth Building

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M2G Ventures, a North Texas-based real estate investment and development company, has inked deals with a corporate relocation, a boutique bowling concept, and one of the largest female-owned personal injury law firms in the country at PROOF, 901 W. Vickery Boulevard in Fort Worth. Built in 1926, Proof’s first life began when Adkins-Polk Whole Grocers built it to serve the growing population of Fort Worth. As the city transformed through the years, so did the purpose of the building. In 2010, the building was sold to Firestone & Robertson Distilling, signaling the true second life to the space. Within its walls, the famed TX Whiskey was imbibed by the masses, and Proof was further endeared to Fort Worth. Cut to today, the project has been redeveloped to house corporate headquarters, entertainment users, and flagship locations. The new leases bring the 40,665-square-foot mixed-use project to 72 percent released. Signed tenants include Bowlounge, a retro-style bowling alley, occupying 15,000 square feet; Witherite Law Group, personal injury firm, occupying 7,000 square feet and recently announced Trinity Real Estate Investment Services, who will occupy 6,500 square feet. M2G Ventures anticipates the remainder of the 12,000+ square feet of available space to fill up quickly as the new year approaches. “We’re thrilled to end this year with a big accomplishment through the renovation of PROOF,” said Jessica Miller Essl, co-president of M2G Ventures. “Our goal was to showcase the building’s 94 years of milestones while repurposing the design to create a modern-day mixed-use location. We’ve been able to exceed our expectations for this legacy asset and that’s a tall order.” Throughout the renovation, M2G has made intentional and curated decisions to revive the deep history of the building by using modern touches to highlight key architectural details of its unique time capsule. The interior is a beautiful combination of earth tones and textures of brick, wood, stone and metal with lofty ceilings and wide-open windows. The exterior showcases prominent modern-day Brooklyn and mid-century Chicago styles of massive bricks, large original fire doors and expansive open-air patio space. Repurposed artifacts also serve as art and fixtures both in and outside to balance the history and modernity inviting visitors to once again use this one-of-a-kind space.