The History Maker Homes' deal not only doubles the room for the headquarters team when it moves into Richland Corporate Centre at 9001-03 Airport Freeway, but triggers Gaedeke's plan to start work on an eight-story, 150,000-sf sister building. History Maker's 50-member team now offices in the Gramercy Building at 6815 Manhattan Blvd. in Fort Worth.
If the plan stays on track, the office development will start to rise in the fourth quarter. "I've got several large prospects to open the building so we won't know until the next quarter if it will go spec or not," Belinda Dabliz, the 11-year leasing agent for the two-building, 139,175-sf Richland Corporate Centre, tells GlobeSt.com. The proposed Richland Corporate Centre II is being courted at $23 per sf plus electric. BOKA Powell Architects in Dallas designed it.
Dabliz says direct talks began nine months ago with History Maker's executives, who also discussed being the opening act for the building on the drawing board. "The timing was such that they didn't want to wait," she says. The inbound tenant has until Oct. 1 to vacate its Fort Worth space, but she says the team's targeting Sept. 1 to build in breathing room for transition or delays.
History Maker will become the second-largest tenant in Richland Corporate Centre, getting a freeway-facing building sign to go along with a deal for the fourth floor and part of the sixth in the nine-story structure owned by Dallas-based Gaedeke Group. The existing space, now more than 95% leased, is tagged at $17.50 per sf for the garden-office building and $18.50 per sf to $19.50 per sf for the tower.
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