Lovett Commercial

Lovett Commercial is a Houston commercial real estate developer led by president Frank Liu. It’s based on Polk Street just east of downtown and builds and manages property across Texas, from Houston and Austin to Plano, College Station and Killeen. The company’s bread and butter is neighborhood retail and large grocery-anchored shopping centers, but it’s best known in Houston for urban redevelopment of old industrial buildings, with POST Houston, Sawyer Yards, Print House and First Industrial in its portfolio. Lovett also handles leasing and management in house. It’s the owner and developer of the Folgers coffee plant site, where OMA is designing FLAMA, the Frank Liu Jr. Academy for Music and Arts.

Three functions that most developers hand to third-party brokerages are kept in house here: property management, leasing and investment sales. For a tenant, that changes who answers the phone — and the company publishes who that is by function rather than routing everything to a general inbox.

David Foor handles acquisitions, development and dispositions. Hattie Parker handles leasing and management. Frank Liu is president. All three are reachable at direct dial numbers and individual email addresses, which is a small thing that matters when a lease question has a deadline attached.

The development niche is narrower than “commercial real estate” suggests. The stated specialties are neighborhood retail, urban redevelopment and large grocery-anchored shopping centers — three formats that share a dependency on daily foot traffic rather than regional draw. The company frames its own purpose around stimulating commercial growth in neighborhoods, and says it works closely with established companies to bring particular services into growing areas, which is a different leasing posture from filling vacancies with whoever bids.

The leasable inventory reflects that. The property search offers only two property types, retail and land, and square footage filters run from roughly 1,000 up to 10,000 square feet. This is small-bay space for operators, not institutional blocks.

Named projects run well beyond the best-known one: 1818 Washington, Print House, First Industrial, Sawyer Yards, Cullen and The Crossing at Katy-Fulshear.

Geographic reach extends past Houston into Central and North Texas, with dedicated property pages for Austin, Plano, College Station, Killeen, Copperas Cove, Lago Vista and Cross Roads. The spread is worth noting: Killeen and Copperas Cove are Fort Cavazos-area markets, and Lago Vista and Cross Roads are small exurban ones — not the metros a Houston developer would be assumed to work in.

The headquarters at 2410 Polk Street, Suite 200 sits in Houston’s East End, within walking distance of the redevelopment districts the company has worked in, which is at least consistent.

Operationally, tenants are served through a dedicated Tenant Resources section and vendors bill through a separate portal at bills.lovettcommercial.com, so both sides of the building have their own channel rather than sharing one.