The first residents are moving into Florida-based Mill Creek Residential’s first apartment complex under its new Beckett by Mill Creek brand, which is aimed at providing attainable living.

Beckett Cottingham at 13958 Cottingham in southeast Houston is a garden-style community offering 360 units spread across 11 three-story buildings. Beckett Cottingham offers one- and two-bedroom floorplans with average square footage of 1,026 square feet.

—- Lincoln Property Company has a new M&A lead as the company seeks growth through mergers and acquisitions. The firm appointed Alison Daubert as chief strategy and M&A Officer. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, Daubert will lead strategic initiatives in support of the company’s growth. Daubert previously worked as a partner at Baker Tilly.

—-A new mixed-use development is incorporating U.S. Navy shelter designs from 1941 called Quonset huts into its architecture. 

The Dallas Morning News reports the PS1200 development has apartments, offices, a restaurant, coffee shop, and gallery built from modified Quonsets. The apartments at the top two levels of the huts are 1,100 sf each and have a monthly rent of $3,000. The ground floor is office space. The galvanized steel huts used for the project had a budget of $10 million.

The project is developed by Philip Kafka and designed by Marlon Blackwell with landscaping by DIRT Studio and constructed by SteelMaster.

—-Industry veteran Matt Rader has been appointed managing director at BBG and will be based at its Dallas headquarters. BBG is the nation’s largest independent commercial real estate services firm. Rader brings more than two decades of experience in the real estate industry and has expertise in cost segregation, purchase price allocation, due diligence, tax, and tax credits.

Connect Texas Multifamily 2023 will take place on Aug. 22, 2023 at Virgin Hotel in Dallas. Click here for more information and to register.