Dallas/Fort Worth

Rents in Austin are recording a visible increase during the past 12 months due to a couple of factors, of which the most striking is the area's economic development last year and continuing this year.

The plant will also leverage some of the most advanced manufacturing technologies including pre-flattening steel technologies to improve material yield by almost 25%, and water/energy management.

Invesco, which last week completed the acquisition of MassMutual's asset management affiliate OppenheimerFunds in a deal reportedly valued at $5.7 billion, will be adding 500 jobs and investing $70 million as part of its major expansion in Atlanta.

The Offices Two at Frisco Station, a six-story 210,000-square-foot class-A office building at the corner of Cowboys Way and Gridiron Road, recently topped out and is slated for completion in October.

The 86,500-square-foot center, Rockridge Plaza, benefits from proximity to a dense residential population, hotels and office complexes that drive a high volume of traffic through the area.

Upon the closing of the deal, which is expected in the third and fourth quarter of this year, RoundPoint will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Freedom Mortgage.

Dallas office completions totaled 7 million square feet and 31 projects last year, second only to New York City, with another 6.6 million square feet expected by the end of 2019.

Fort Capital has established itself as an aggressive purchaser of class-B industrial assets with the ability to capitalize on market and capital improvements to unlock maximum value for investors, says Fort's Wolff.