Fred Caldwell discusses the design and development process of Remington Square in Houston, Texas. The mixed use project was designed around a courtyard area that encourages outdoor meetings and activities to help bring people together. Breaking the mold of traditional office development was a challenge. The initial phases comprise 200,000 sq. ft. [...]
Sugar Land’s Use of Incentives to Recruit Business
Regina Morales, the Director of Economic Development for the City of Sugarland reviews the process that the Minute Maid headquarters home to Sugar Land. The Sugar Land Town Square concept was an important factor to Minute Maid. But the tax abatements and economic development incentive tools were an important part of the process [...]
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Houston’s International District has Broad Appeal
Video - Danny Nguyen discusses the development of Houston’s “International District”. Condominiums, both office and retail are popular form of tenancy in the International District. Bellaire Blvd. is the primary axis of the International District with many new projects focused on the intersection with the West Sam Houston Toll Road. The International [...]
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Lindenberger on West Houston Industrial Leasing
Video - Jeff Lindenberger discusses the issues pertaining to recent leasing activity in a client’s building in the Cole Creek Business Park in West Houston. The building has some tough competition from other institutionally owned properties in the same development. The design of the building also presented some challenges. Billy Gold with [...]
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Sugar Land Town Square from Concept to Completion
By: Don Janssen, SIOR, Planned Community Developers
I’ve been working as a member of this development team for 28 years and for probably 15 of those years, we have thought about what we would do with our prime corner. We started looking around the country at projects that incorporated what you see here: retail, residential, a [...]
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Panattoni Aquires a 60 Acre Tract in North Houston for a 486,000 sq.ft. Distribution Facility
One of the more significant real estate transactions I’ve been involved in recently was the sale of a 60-acre tract of land on the southeast corner of Airtex and I-45 North to Panattoni Development. The commercial real estate developer is planning a 486,000-square-foot, cross-dock, LEED-certified distribution facility in the first phase.
There were a number of issues with [...]
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The Sale of 41 Acres by MacGregor’s Heirs to Univ. of Houston
One of the most difficult but most satisfying and rewarding commercial real estate transactions I have worked on involved 41 acres inside the loop originally owned by the MacGregor family. The sale closed earlier this year. The property was donated to the City of Houston in the 1920s to be used as a [...]
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Two Steps to a New Crane Served Facility
I recently completed a two-part commercial real estate transaction for Energy Steel Products, which was looking for a little different facility in Northwest Houston. The unique aspect was they were looking for cranes, and crane-served buildings are very much in short supply in Houston’s commercial real estate market today. After our search for crane-served facilities [...]
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Replace a 400,000 sq.ft. Warehouse in Less Than 33 Hours
As a tenant representative team, we work on a daily basis negotiating leases on behalf of tenants; not on behalf of the landlord. Several months ago we received an urgent phone call from one of our good clients. The client’s 400,000 sq.ft. Memphis warehouse had been destroyed overnight by a massive series of tornado. This [...]
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A Tight Market for Industrial Space in Northwest Houston
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I spend most of my time in the Northwest and North side of town doing tenant representation and leasing and have been active in the Houston commercial real estate market for about a year and a half.
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