{"id":347835,"date":"2026-06-24T01:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347835\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:11:13","slug":"galleria-area-office-building-for-sale-after-foreclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347835\/","title":{"rendered":"Galleria-Area Office Building For Sale After Foreclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A 632K SF office building at 5400 Westheimer Court is listed for sale after its sole tenant moved out and the owner turned it over to the lender.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/placeholder.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n      Bisnow\/Maddy McCarty\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      5400 Westheimer Court\n    <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The nine-story building was formerly known as the <a class=\"tag tag-126289\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/houston\/news\/office\/enbridge-acquisition-of-spectra-energy-to-create-largest-energy-infrastructure-company-in-na-64803\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"126289\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spectra Energy<\/a> Headquarters and served as such until Spectra was acquired by pipeline company Enbridge Inc. in 2017. <a class=\"tag tag-126290\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/enbridge\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"126290\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Enbridge<\/a>\u00a0occupied 620K SF of the building until it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/real-estate\/article\/Enbridge-to-move-Houston-offices-to-newer-16992990.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">moved to a much smaller space in the Energy Corridor<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Enbridge\u2019s lease officially expired in April this year, after the $52.5M loan on the property had been transferred to <a class=\"tag tag-37610\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/special-servicing\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"37610\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">special servicing<\/a> in January, according to special servicer comments provided by <a class=\"tag tag-187010\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/morningstar-credit\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"187010\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Morningstar Credit<\/a>. <a class=\"tag tag-715\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/ladder-capital-finance\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"715\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ladder Capital Finance<\/a> provided the loan to the building&#8217;s owner, PTAD Realty.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">PTAD is an entity controlled by the DiMare family of DiMare Fresh food distributors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.costar.com\/article\/1514389269\/energy-giant-to-slash-space-in-new-orleans-center-vacant-houston-tower-downgraded-cbl-parts-with-kentucky-mall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to CoStar News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">PTAD wished to transition the building to the lender in an orderly fashion, according to the comments from Argentic, the special servicer. The foreclosure sale occurred June 2, and <a class=\"tag tag-274\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/jll\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"274\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JLL<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/invest.jll.com\/uk\/en\/listings\/office\/5400-westheimer-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">now marketing the property for sale<\/a> on behalf of the lender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, 5400 Westheimer Court\u2019s value has been slashed by 75%, according to Morningstar. The new appraised value is $20.7M, down from $84.5M when the loan was originated in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWith submarket vacancy still in the mid-20% range, leasing up even a significant portion of the 614,000 square feet at the subject is going to be a daunting task,\u201d Morningstar said in a <a class=\"tag tag-793\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/cmbs\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"793\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CMBS<\/a> Newsflash on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The office building was built in 1981 and sits on 6.4 acres, according to the sale listing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">An entity called Tanglewood Manor LP in May bought a 3-acre tract at Westheimer Court and Yorktown Street that was previously part of the office building\u2019s parking lot, according to <a class=\"tag tag-47312\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/harris-county\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"47312\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harris County<\/a> records. A replat request filed with the city indicates a townhome development may be planned for that site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Attempts to reach PTAD Realty, Argentic and <a class=\"tag tag-43307\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/ladder-capital\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"43307\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ladder Capital<\/a> Finance for comment were unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Spectra Energy Headquarters\u2019 story mirrors that of 3000 Post Oak, a 442K SF office building about a mile away. That building was left vacant by <a class=\"tag tag-177983\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/bechtel\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"177983\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bechtel<\/a> Energy\u2019s departure in 2022.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A representative of 3000 Post Oak\u2019s owners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/houston\/news\/office\/lender-foreclose-vacant-post-oak-office-building-134359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Bisnow in April<\/a>\u00a0that they planned to turn the building over to the lender through foreclosure, despite their best efforts to reposition it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 632K SF office building at 5400 Westheimer Court is listed for sale after its sole tenant moved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[124149,40030,124147,4245,56,58,57,18805,124145,124148,124146],"class_list":["post-347835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-argentic","tag-enbridge","tag-enbridge-inc","tag-foreclosure","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-office","tag-ladder-capital-finance","tag-morningstar-credit","tag-spectra-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}