Four Austin projects win national construction awards

Four Austin-area projects won top honors at the Associated Builders and Contractors National Excellence in Construction Awards held recently in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Austin-based American Constructors won an Eagle citation — the highest award — for The Girls’ School of Austin campus. It won in the institutional category for projects valued at less than $5 million.

Selma, Texas-based Spawglass won an Eagle citation for the Luci and Ian Family Garden at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center…

UW snaps up new office project in the University District

New office space in the University District is very difficult, if not impossible, to find, and the University of Washington already has taken the next new block of space even though it won’t be ready for another year.

Blume Company Real Estate on Monday said it has started building a six-story addition to the University Center, a mixed-use property that’s home to Trader Joe’s, Performance Bicycle and Sundance Cinemas. The addition, called 4545 Roosevelt, is going up on top of an existing parking…

Flywheel Networks boosts lease in Sacramento

A residential real estate networking company has signed a lease to more than triple its space in Sacramento.

Flywheel Networks, based in San Francisco, will go from 2,000 to about 9,000 square feet in a building at 9719 Lincoln Village Drive.

Broker Jon Lang of Turton Commercial Real Estate, who worked on behalf of the landlord for the lease, said Flywheel needed room to grow.

“This is one of the few plug-and-play call centers in Sacramento with under 20,000 square feet of space and that was…

Exclusive: Another industrial park coming to southwest Houston

A new industrial park is headed for southwest Houston.

The Levey Group, based in Bellaire, told Houston Business Journal that it plans to develop 5 Corners Business Center, on Beltway 8 between Highway 59 and Highway 288. Initial plans for the site include a total of 546,275 square feet of flex, rear-load and front-load industrial space.

The park will include four Class A tiltwall facilities, and boasts 3,000 feet of frontage on Beltway 8 with five entrances off the beltway.

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Colorado investors buy Adam's Rib golf community near Eagle

A group of Colorado investors says it has purchased the Adam’s Rib Ranch golf-community property and Adam’s Mountain Country Club in the Brush Creek Valley near Eagle.

The buyers group is led by Chad Brue, principal of Brue Capital, and includes Dan Bennett of Vail, owner of Southwest Greens of Colorado, according to an announcement Monday of the March 20 sale.

The property includes 2,655 acres of land, a working 1,553-acre ranch, an 18-hole Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course that opened in 2007,…