Bank OZK is cranking up its Houston presence, nearly tripling the size of its local office as it builds out its Corporate and Institutional Banking operation. The Little Rock–based lender plans to expand its Brookhollow Central footprint from roughly 15,000 square feet to about 40,000 square feet, giving growing deal teams and support staff room to breathe. Work on the new space is already underway and is slated to house groups tied to equipment finance, asset-based lending and other CIB lines.
As the Houston Business Journal reported, the bank’s local office will expand from about 15,000 to 40,000 square feet at the Brookhollow Central campus in northwest Houston. The move lines up with a broader, companywide push to scale fee-generating and corporate lending businesses in multiple markets.
Permit filings show the build‑out is real
State construction records confirm the Brookhollow project is already on the books. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation lists a project called “Bank OZK - Brookhollow Renovation” at Brookhollow Central III that covers a 24,000-square-foot interior finish on the building’s seventh floor, with a May 11, 2026 start date and an October 31, 2026 projected completion date, according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. That filing lines up with the larger square-footage increase reported by local business press.
This is part of a deliberate CIB expansion
Bank OZK has repeatedly told investors it is intentionally scaling its Corporate and Institutional Banking platform and adding talent to support diversified corporate and industrial lending. Jake Munn, the bank’s president of CIB, described the business in the company’s April investor call as a scalable, multi-product platform that the bank expects will be a primary growth engine going forward, according to Bank OZK.
Brookhollow Central: a big, visible campus
Brookhollow Central is a three-building, Class-A office campus north of the 610 Loop that offers large floorplates and on-site amenities pitched squarely at growing corporate tenants. The property’s leasing and marketing materials highlight the complex’s scale and accessibility at the intersection of Highway 290 and the Loop, making it a convenient hub for banks or capital markets teams that need room to scale, according to Hertz Investment Group. Background on the bank’s earlier Houston push has been detailed in prior coverage by The Real Deal.
The Brookhollow build-out dovetails with the bank’s stated timeline for CIB growth and should free up space for additional hires and operational teams in Houston as the group scales. Renovation records list an internal cost estimate and the fall 2026 completion window, which gives the bank time to outfit the space and shift more activity into the campus later this year. Local readers can expect to see more Bank OZK activity around Brookhollow as the CIB unit continues to expand, according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
