Lone Star PACE Wins Most Creative Financing at 2025 Best Real Estate Deals Awards
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Lone Star PACE Wins Most Creative Financing at 2025 Best Real Estate Deals Awards
Lone Star PACE, a leading administrator of the Texas C-PACE program, was honored with the Most Creative Financing award at the Dallas Business Journal’s 2025 Best Real Estate Deals ceremony. The recognition highlights the firm’s role in administering a $27 million Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) assessment for HALL Arts Hotel in the Dallas Arts District —…
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The Case for Senior Lender Consent in C-PACE Financing
In this episode of “In Conversation with Lone Star PACE,” we sit down with Joe Euphrat, Managing Principal at GreenRock Capital, to explore the evolving relationship between senior lenders and C-PACE financing, shedding light on why lender consent is required and how increasing familiarity with the mechanism is paving the way for broader acceptance. Senior…
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Texas C-PACE Projects Eligible for Increased Funding Following Guidance Change
Lone Star PACE, a leading administrator of Texas’ C-PACE program, is pleased to announce a change to program guidelines that allows a greater portion of project costs to be financed by Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy. Keeping PACE in Texas, the stakeholder group that determines best practices for the Texas C-PACE program, has approved an…
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Beyond Sustainability: How CIRRUS Low Carbon Maximizes Developer ROI
In this episode of In Conversation with Lone Star PACE, Beau Engman of PACE Equity breaks down his company’s CIRRUS Low Carbon program, which provides access to a decreased cost of capital when developers build or renovate with a lower-carbon design. “Most developers build what they can optimize from the upfront economics,” Engman told Lone…
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Unpacking C-PACE Trends & Combined Construction Financing with Bayview PACE
In this episode of In Conversation with Lone Star PACE, Jason Clouet of Bayview Asset Management stops by to discuss the journey of C-PACE financing from niche to mainstream. Clouet also fills us in on his company’s combined financing program, which seamlessly blends C-PACE with construction and bridge loans, and where he believes the market…
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Developers Can Pair C-PACE with Q Flow to Maximize Investment in Sustainability
In this episode of In Conversation with Lone Star PACE, we sat down with Ryan Hollis, account executive overseeing U.S. operations for Qualis Flow, a platform that helps developers make informed decisions about cost using real-time materials and waste data. “Q Flow helps projects stay on track by giving the customer a full view of…
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From Boardrooms to Bedrooms: C-PACE Can Help Office Conversions Pencil
As dense urban areas grapple with an abundance of unused workspace and housing shortages, office-to-residential conversions have emerged as a creative means of killing two birds with one stone. More than 3,000 housing units in Dallas were created by conversions between 2021 and 2024, making the city one of the nationwide leaders in adaptive reuse.…
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How a $1B Investment into PACE Equity Stands to Grow the C-PACE Market
The amount of available C-PACE financing reached new heights last month after Aquarian Holdings acquired a majority stake in PACE Equity, one of the industry’s foremost C-PACE capital providers. In this episode of our web series In Conversation with Lone Star PACE, PACE Equity President and founder Beau Engman stops by to unpack the significance…
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C-PACE Financing Fills Void Left Behind by Banks
C-PACE financing is poised to gain even more relevance next year as banks continue to pull back on lending to commercial real estate, according to new data from CBRE. Loan volumes surged in the third quarter as spreads tightened and debt liquidity returned to high-quality assets. Most financing was provided by alternative lenders, and that…
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Unpacking Nuveen Green Capital and CDPQ’s Game-Changing C-PACE Financing Program
The C-PACE market is getting a $600M boost thanks to a new integrated financing program aimed at advancing sustainability in commercial real estate. Earlier this month, Nuveen Green Capital and global investment firm CDPQ announced they would join forces to offer a one-stop shop for Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy financing. The first-of-its-kind program supports cost-effective…