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https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...ate=2023-02-08

Former Houston Area Women's Center HQ sold to California apartment developer

By Jeff Jeffrey – Senior reporter, Houston Business Journal
Feb 7, 2023

A California-based multifamily developer has acquired the former home of the Houston Area Women’s Center headquarters in the Allen Parkway corridor and appears to be preparing to demolish the building to make way for a new development.

Harris County deed records show a subsidiary of San Diego-based Fairfield Residential purchased the property at 1010 Waugh Drive from the HAWC on Dec. 22. A Fairfield employee confirmed the purchase to the Houston Business Journal, though the company did not immediately respond to requests for comment about its plans for the property.

That said, a filing submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation states Fairfield is planning a 630,000-square-foot high-rise apartment building with a garage at 1010 Waugh. The TDLR filing said the new development is expected to cost $85 million by the time it is completed in 2025. Information in TDLR filings is often preliminary and subject to change.

The new apartment complex will join several others that recently opened or are underway in the immediate area, including the 290-unit luxury apartment tower called The Sovereign at Regent Square on the next block of West Dallas Street. The Sterling at Regent Square, the second residential component in Boston-based GID Development Group’s closely watched mixed-use development, opened a little over a year ago down the street. Hanover Co. also recently opened the first apartment units in its Autry Park mixed-use development in between Regent Square and the adjacent Alta River Oaks complex. Just a couple blocks north of the 1010 Waugh site, Florida-based Mill Creek Residential is building the 392-unit, 17-story Modera Waugh apartment tower across the street from Whole Foods. A couple blocks east of Whole Foods, The NRP Group's Lumen 367-unit apartment complex at 2400 W. Dallas St. is now leasing.

And today, this info from Paco Jones on HAIF

Architect:
GDA Architects

Information:
14-stories total. Levels 1-4 are parking and Levels 5-14 are residential (374,228 SF). 340 residential units with amenity/pool terrace on Level 5 and sky lounge at Level 14.