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DALLAS-James "Rocky" Reese, a one-time majority stakeholder in a 21-location Family Hospice, has abandoned retirement to try his hand at the hospitality industry. The $8-million, 78-room Lighthouse Inn in a quiet Gulf Coast town is the flagship property.
INLAND EMPIRE, CA-The Los Angeles-based Arden Realty sells the four-building portfolio of nearly 344,000 sf of class A office space to a private investor based in Northern California. The properties' occupancies range from 93% to 98%.
PORTLAND-Oregon's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 8% in April, up from 7.6% in March. By comparison, the U.S. jobless rate matched an eight-year high by rising two tenths of a percentage point in April to hit 6%.
DALLAS-Younan Properties picks off the 303,720-sf One Graystone Center from Kolter for $8 million less than the assessment. It's the second Dallas deed in four months; the third comes next month. The 60%-leased Graystone will now get a $2-million makeover.
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL-In its first expansion outside the United States, Officespace.com licenses its product to a Brazilian partnership that launches a commercial real estate listing service for Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new site encompasses 149 buildings with 11.8 million sf.
BAYTOWN, TX-A Houston investor gets a 95%-leased complex in a submarket with an 89% occupancy average. The deal's sweet spot is that an upside plan, started by the seller, left some collection on the rent hike because some leases had yet to roll.
SAN DIMAS, CA-CT Realty of Newport Beach relinquishes deeds to a 288-unit, three-property portfolio to Essex Property Trust, one of five would-be buyers who put up an offer in excess of the $36.5-million ask.
ROWAYTON, CT-Graham Capital Management, L.P., has purchased the historic Rock Ledge property at 40 Highland Ave., and will relocate its headquarters operations into the 102,492-sf building here. The investment management firm plans to spend at least $10 million to renovate the building prior to occupancy early next year.
FORT WORTH-A memorandum, signed this morning in Austin, starts talks for a site and a team to set up the nation's fourth entrepreneur center. All metropolitan areas in the state will be considered, not just the Fort Worth regional office, officials say.
HOUSTON-Progressive County Mutual Insurance of New Mayfield, OH, has leased freestanding buildings in the far southwest and north submarkets to try out a new concept, drive-through claims centers. One is 28,000 sf and the other, 21,000 sf.