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Tuesday, March 28, 2000

Leeward Isles units are adding a room
14 two-bedroom apartments, to open in July, will include garages, storage area

Paul Iverson/Caller-Times

John Janz is the owner of the new two-bedroom apartments now under construction for Leeward Isles II. The units, located on Padre Island, will have extra storage and garages that will be able to fit a car with space to spare.

Gulf views and a tropical setting are among the features to be offered with the expansion of the Leeward Isles apartments under construction on Padre Island.
   The 14 new units in Leeward Isles II, on track to open in July, will be 975-square-foot, two-bedroom apartments that include garages and storage areas.
   John Janz, who bought the original 44-unit apartment complex eight years ago, plans on also building another 15 units on the south side of the development located at 15002 Leeward Drive this fall.
   The apartments will include a kitchen that opens into a living room, a walk-in pantry, dishwashers and extra storage. The garages will be large enough not only to park a car, but also to have room left over for a boat or a workshop, Janz said.
   The single-bedroom apartments draw a clientele of renters who include pilots from Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, airline attendants and health care professionals, Janz said. He hopes the new units will bring in new pairs of renters who want to split the rent of an apartment.
   "We're pretty optimistic about the island," he said.
   The rents will be between $750 and $850 per month.
   The landscaping at the three developments will be tied together with xeriscape gardening and tropical plants.
   New construction method in use on ClearSource Communications
   ClearSource Communications, one of the city's newest telecommunications companies, has chosen one of the most recent types of construction to build its Corpus Christi headquarters.
   The 21,000-square-foot building will use a concrete construction technique in which the walls of the building are poured, set and then lifted upright using a crane.
   This type of construction can go faster than other types of construction, said Sam Beecroft, president of contractor B.E. Beecroft Co. Inc. Work on the project began in December and is expected to be completed in July.
   Freese & Nichols, a Fort-Worth-based engineering firm, designed the building.
   The building will be located at 6441 Saratoga Blvd., at the intersection of Charter Lane.
   The first phase, a 5,000-square-foot section to be completed in the next 30 days, will house the telephone switching equipment and be the central beginning of the fiber-optic cable that will web throughout the city, said ClearSource spokesman Ray Perez.
   While the second division of the building is under construction, the cables and telecommunications infrastructure will be assembled inside. The rest of the building will provide office space for 125 new employees, Perez said.
   Comfort Inn in Calallen to be ready by Labor Day
   A 65-room Comfort Inn is under construction at 3838 U.S. Highway 77 near Calallen. The building will have meeting rooms, a conference room and a bar, said John Smith, framing contractor. The two-story, 37,341-square-foot hotel is expected to open around Labor Day. General contractor is Richard Brown of George West.



Business writer Andrea Jares can be reached at 886-3678 or by e-mail at jaresa@caller.com. On Real Estate is published every other Tuesday in the Business section.

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