Monday, September 9, 2013

Cousins Properties Closes $1.1 Billion Texas Portfolio Acquisition


10-building Greenway Plaza, Houston, TX


777 Main Street, Fort Worth, TX
ATLANTA, GA--Cousins Properties Incorporated (NYSE: CUZ) has completed its previously announced acquisition of Greenway Plaza, a 10-building, 4.4 million-square-foot office portfolio in Houston, and 777 Main, a 980,000-square-foot Class-A office tower in Fort Worth, Texas, for a total gross purchase price of approximately $1.1 billion in cash from Crescent Real Estate Holdings LLC.


Cousins Properties Closes Two Mortgages Totaling $303 Million

ATLANTA, GA--Cousins Properties Incorporated (NYSE: CUZ) announced today that it has closed two mortgages, at Post Oak Central and Promenade, generating approximately $303 million in proceeds.

Post Oak Central, Houston, TX
The Post Oak Central non-recourse mortgage, totaling approximately $189 million, has a 7 year term and a fixed rate of 4.26%.

Cousins purchased Post Oak Central, a Class-A office complex comprising 1.3 million square feet in the Galleria submarket of Houston, in February 2013 for approximately $233 million. The building is currently 94% leased, up from 92% leased at the time of purchase.

The $114 million Promenade non-recourse mortgage has a 9 year term and a fixed rate of 4.27%.


Promenade office tower, Atlanta, GA
Cousins purchased this Class-A office tower, located in the Midtown submarket of Atlanta, in November 2011 for approximately $135 million. The 774,000-square-foot building is 87% leased, up from 58% at the time of purchase.

The funds generated by these mortgages will be used to partially fund Cousins’ previously announced $1.1 billion Texas office portfolio acquisition, which closed today.

For a complete copy of the company’s news releases, please contact:

Cousins Properties Incorporated
Cameron Golden, 404-407-1984
Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications

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