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Tight office market brings buyers to Interwood

Launching its planned $1.4 billion portfolio of properties with its first Houston acquisition, New York private equity firm KTR Capital snapped up the Interwood Business Center last week.

The Interwood Business Center, a 192,000 sq. ft. warehouse facility located at the intersection of JFK Blvd. and Heathrow Forest Parkway.

The quality of the Wolff Companies master-planned development, proximity to George Bush Intercontinental Airport and shortage of comparable area properties were the deciding factors. According to published reports, the 192,000 square-foot property developed by Midway Companies fielded 10 offers in the six months it was on the market.

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Don Chase, principal with KTR, is enthusiastic about the property and the area's strong fundamentals. Industry watchers expect the first Houston purchase by the $505-million Keystone Industrial Fund LP won't be its last.

Rusty Tamlyn and Ralph Tullier with Trammell Crow represented the owner, AEW/Midway Industrial LP, in the transaction.

Also in Interwood... FedEx operates a $12 million regional hub on 32 acres housing air, ground, trucking and transport operations. The U.S. Postal Service located a $60-million, 734,000-square-foot regional mail-handling facility on 90 acres in the development. Averitt Express, Prime Source, NuFlo Technologies, U.S. Foodservices, ExxonMobil Production, First Health, Administaff and Veolia Water have all found a home in Interwood.

Available sites are ideal for office, service center, hotel, conference center, retail, and warehouse/distribution uses, ranging from 2 to 16 acres.

For more information on Interwood or any of Wolff Companies' properties in the Houston area, please visit us at www.wolffcompanies.com or give us a call.

Thank you,

David W. Hightower, CCIM, CRE
Executive Vice President
Wolff Companies
20 Briar Hollow Lane
Houston, TX 77027
e-mail: dwh@wolffcompanies.com
telephone: 713-626-8050
fax: 713-626-3093
www.wolffcompanies.com