Transwestern, Spear Street Buy ExxonMobil Campus in Houston
ByHouston—Transwestern Development Co. just grabbed an opportunity to build a new 24/7 destination in Houston. In partnership with Spear Street Capital, Transwestern acquired the nearly 16.9-acre site at 3120 Buffalo Speedway, ExxonMobil’s former Upstream Research Campus. Transwestern is keeping mum on the amount it paid ExxonMobil for the multi-structure property, which, according Harris County records, has a 2016 appraised value of approximately $62.1 million.
Located in the Greenway submarket, the complex first popped up on the real estate market’s radar in 2014, when ExxonMobil tapped commercial real estate services firm JLL to sell the asset as the company prepared to develop a new campus 25 miles from downtown Houston. “This is one of the largest and most desirable in-fill tracts remaining in all of Houston,” Rudy Hubbard, managing director with JLL, said in a prepared statement upon announcing the assignment. “This premier site is ideal for a mixed-use redevelopment that includes office, retail, residential and hospitality components.”…