This Week's Houston Deal Sheet

Houston won big at this year's annual National Apartment Association's Excellence Awards. NAA annually grants Excellence Awards in 23 categories, and this year, Houston took home six. 

Houston won the Membership Development Award. Pictured are 2016 NAA chairman Marc Ross, HAA 2016 president Alison Hall, HAA director of membership and marketing Amanda Sherbondy, HAA membership and marketing coordinator Lauren Wolfson, Association Executives Council president Jon Lowder and NAA president/CEO Doug Culkin accepting that honor at the ceremony.

The rest of the Houston award winners were: 

• Thomas Baird, CAM, CAMT: Apartment Maintenance Technician of the Year
• Phillip Basarabescu: Independent Rental Owner of the Year, 100 Units or Less
• Mark & Teri DaRonch and Jake Leatham: Independent Rental Owner of the Year, 101 to 500 Units
• Chad Christian, NALP, CAM, CAPS: Professional Designate of the Year
• The Circle at Herman Park: Best Community, five to 20 years old, more than 150 units
• Spring Brook Lofts: Best Community, 20+ years old, up to 150 units

SALES

Marcus & Millichap’s Gus Lago completed the sale of land off Highway 90 in Sugar Land. The asset had a list price of $1.2M. 

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Simply Self Storage purchased Access Self Storage at 650 Bay Area Blvd. JLL's Steve Mellon and Brian Somoza executed the deal on behalf of the seller. 

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16430 Park Ten Place (above) has been sold. The deal was brokered by Ryan Bishop and Mat Volz of Stream. The Energy Corridor office building offers over 110k SF of rentable office space.

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4.33 acres were purchased on Main Street in Katy. Retail Solutions' Sam Affanhe, Lyle Cowand and Martin Turner repped the buyer.  

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Northwinds Commercial Realty's Dylan Schopper completed the $8.4M land sale of 15.6 acres on Aldine Meadows in Houston to Aldine ISD.

THIS AND THAT

This year’s Hartman REIT Volunteer Day was organized with the Salvation Army in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. 35 employees contributed their time at the Salvation Army in various ways, such as loading bags to give to families in the food pantry and assembling sack lunches. Photo: Alexis Reaves, Tina Liljedahl, Lisa Tomich and Brooks O’Neal.

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Transwestern was retained to provide leasing services for the 466k SF campus at One Westchase Center, 10777 Westheimer.

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Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors, the largest Coldwell Banker Commercial brand in the world, will expand brokerage operations to the Houston market.

EXECS

Kirksey announced three new hires: Nour Hussein in the healthcare division, Brinn Miracle in interiors and Georgia Williams in the education design department.