COLLEGE STATION, TX – Parallel, an Austin-based real estate development firm, has broken ground on a 750-bed property at 401 First Street that will serve students attending Texas A&M University and marking the firm’s second recent development in College Station.
The project at 401 First Street will offer a mix of unit types with an emphasis on studio, one- and two-bedroom units. The property will provide a modern, well-amenitized property focused on community and academics and is expected to open in Fall 2024. Amenities will include a full-service smart market, influencer room, gaming lounge, dog park, walkup townhomes, pool and spa, outdoor kitchen, outdoor study area, outdoor gaming, yoga room, fitness room, community spaces with study areas and a sky lounge overlooking Texas A&M and Northgate.
“Parallel is excited to break ground on its second project in Northgate near the A&M campus,” said Kristen Penrod, principal at Parallel. “This project will provide a mix of units focused on living and learning near a campus that is projecting continued enrollment growth. Parallel looks forward to being able to provide A&M students with a highly amenitized, purposefully built product in the Northgate area.”
The company spent a lot of time researching the College Station market to make a community catering to the next generation of students. The result is a community focused on academic success with multiple unit options for students, ranging from studios and one-bedroom units all the way up to a walkup six-bedroom, two-tale townhome unit.
Partners on the project include BOKA Partners, Rogers O Brien Construction, Alison Royal Interiors, RLG Engineers, Mitchell and Morgan Civil Engineering, V3 Engineers, Infinisys and SMR Landscape.

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PHOENIX, AZ – CIM Group, a community-focused real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender and developer, announced that a CIM-managed fund has closed a $204 million construction loan to Medistar Corporation, GMH Communities, and a fund sponsored by CBRE Investment Management to finance the development of Central Station, a one million-square-foot mixed-use transportation hub in Downtown Phoenix.
Located at 300 N. Central Ave. at Van Buren Street, Central Station will consist of 362 apartments, 435 student housing units with 655 beds, over 100,000 square feet of office and retail space, and 427 subterranean parking spaces across two 22- and 33-tale towers and a podium. Central Station is adjacent to and seamlessly integrates with an existing bus and light-rail transit center and is a public-private partnership with the City of Phoenix and the federal Transit Authority. Central Station broke ground in April 2022.
Central Station is situated adjacent to Civic Space Park and Arizona State University s Downtown campus and within a small distance to major employment centers, the Metro Light Rail, and Sky Harbor International Airport.
CIM Group, an active lender through its CIM Real Estate Debt Solutions business, recently closed a $136.7 million loan for the construction of a 42-tale condominium tower in Honolulu. In 2021, CIM provided a $135.85 million construction loan to Medistar Corporation for the development of a student housing complex and parking garage at Texas A&M Innovation Plaza in Houston. CIM Group seeks to provide senior and subordinate transitional bridge and construction loans for commercial real estate projects with strong sponsors.
CIM Group applies its broad experience as an owner, operator, and developer of all types of commercial real estate to its lending strategy and believes this helps differentiate the company from many other debt providers. Through mortgage and mezzanine loans, affiliates of CIM Group provide bridge and construction financing to owners and developers of commercial real estate in major markets across the United States and works with borrowers to offer an array of lending solutions.

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GOODYEAR, AZ – Embrey, a San Antonio, TX-based vertically integrated real estate investment company, has closed on land in Goodyear, Arizona, the future home to the Senna at Canyon Trails multifamily community. With this development, Embrey is further broadening its footprint in the Phoenix metropolitan area, one of the fastest-growing markets in the country.
Senna at Canyon Trails will be a 284-unit Class A community that will feature upscale amenities such as a two-tale clubhouse overlooking the resort-style pool and a meticulously landscaped courtyard with shade canopies and a firepit. The fitness center also faces the pool courtyard and offers on-demand technology. Other amenities include a connected dog washroom with a grooming table and dryer. Each unit will be equipped with high-end finishes, private balconies and 9′ ceilings. A handful of ground floor units offer private yards around the pool and face the walkable retail and restaurants immediately adjacent to the property.
Goodyear is in the rapidly growing Southwest Valley of the Phoenix Metropolitan area. Senna at Canyon Trails will be conveniently located near major transportation corridors and is approximately 23 miles from downtown Phoenix and 27 miles to the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
“Goodyear has quickly become the Phoenix area’s premier industrial and manufacturing submarket,” states Jimmy McCloskey, Executive Vice President of Development. “This project will be part of a larger retail development and is near many desirable places of employment including Amazon, Chewy.com and Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Senna at Canyon Trails will be a highly sought-after community for this rapidly growing area.”
Construction is scheduled to commence this fall and is expected to be completed in the spring of 2025.

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