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AUSTIN, Texas, March 13, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stratus Properties Inc. (NASDAQ: STRS) ("Stratus" or the "Company") today announced the closing of a $24.0 million non-recourse loan to refinance the loan for the retail property at Jones Crossing, a wholly-owned H-E-B grocery anchored, mixed-use project in College Station, Texas, the location of Texas A&M University.
The new loan matures April 1, 2028, has a lower interest rate than the refinanced loan and resulted in net cash proceeds to Stratus of approximately $1.2 million.
William H. Armstrong III, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Stratus, stated, "We are pleased to announce the successful refinancing of our Jones Crossing loan. Like our recent Kingwood Place and Lantana Place refinancings, this loan refinancing reflects our strategic approach of taking advantage of lower interest rates and extending our debt maturities. We believe these refinancings will allow us to retain these cash-flowing properties while real estate market conditions improve, ultimately benefiting Stratus and its shareholders."
About Stratus
Stratus Properties Inc. is engaged primarily in the entitlement, development, management, leasing and sale of multi-family and single-family residential and commercial real estate properties in the Austin, Texas area and other select markets in Texas. In addition to our developed properties, we have a development portfolio that consists of approximately 1,600 acres of commercial and residential projects under development or undeveloped land held for future use. Our commercial real estate portfolio consists of stabilized retail properties or future retail and mixed-use development projects with no commercial office space. We generate revenues and cash flows from the sale of our developed and undeveloped properties, the lease of our retail, mixed-use and multi-family properties and development and asset management fees received from our properties.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
This press release contains forward-looking statements in which Stratus discusses factors it believes may affect its future performance. Forward-looking statements are all statements other than statements of historical fact, such as plans, projections or expectations related to Stratus’ investment strategy for Jones Crossing and expectations regarding the Austin and Texas real estate markets. The words "anticipate," "may," "can," "plan," "believe," "potential," "estimate," "expect," "project," "target," "intend," "likely," "will," "should," "to be" and any similar expressions and/or statements are intended to identify those assertions as forward-looking statements.