South Carolina

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Barton Malow | Edifice joint venture team has begun structural steel work at Roper St. Francis Healthcare’s $1.2 billion Roper Hospital development in North Charleston. The start of steel work signals the 27-acre project’s transition from below-grade construction to its vertical rise. Designed by E4H Environments for Health Architecture and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the hospital campus will span 805,000 square feet and will offer 328 inpatient beds, a 47-bay emergency department, 44 critical care beds, 18 operating rooms, a comprehensive imaging department and a 12-bay hemodialysis unit. Completion is targeted for 2029.

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HARDEEVILLE, S.C. — Henderson Park, an international private equity real estate firm, and Green Room Partners (GRP), a Charleston-based real estate development and investment firm, has broken ground on The Bower, a 266-unit build-to-rent community located in Hardeeville, about 17 miles north of Savannah. Situated off US-278 in the state’s Lowcountry region, the community will include amenities such as a centrally located clubhouse with a library, coworking space, community kitchen, lounge and fitness center. Outdoor amenities will include a swimming pool, kitchen and bar, cabana, grilling stations, pickleball courts, a putting green, fire pit and dog park, as well as an interconnected walking trail system. The amenity space will be completed by July 2027, while the first residences at The Bower are expected to deliver in November 2027.

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BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. — Don McMinn and Andrew Koriwchak of Marcus & Millichap’s Taylor McMinn Retail Group have brokered the sale of a freestanding retail property in Boiling Springs, a city in Upstate South Carolina’s Spartanburg County. Chase Bank occupies the property on a 15-year, corporate guaranteed ground lease that features 10 percent rent increases in the initial term and extension options. The seller, a repeat developer for Chase Bank retail branches, delivered the property earlier this year. The undisclosed buyer purchased the store in a 1031 exchange. The sales price was also not disclosed. “This sale demonstrates that investment-grade assets continue to attract strong buyer demand, commanding aggressive pricing for low-rent deals in prime locations — despite the surplus of net lease inventory,” says McMinn.

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $58 million loan to refinance two multifamily communities in North Charleston: Ellevate St. Ives and Ellevate North Charleston. Walker Layne, Matt Wallach, Stephen West, Austin Sneed and Tyler Roberts of Walker & Dunlop secured the floating-rate, interest-only bridge loan through Bridge Investment Group on behalf of the borrower, Chapel Hill, N.C.-based Eller Capital Partners. Located at 7930 St. Ives Road, Ellevate St. Ives comprises 248 apartments ranging in size from 680 to 1,048 square feet, according to Apartments.com. Amenities at the garden-style complex include a clubhouse, car wash area, fitness center, swimming pool, playground, courtyard and grilling and picnic areas. Ellevate North Charleston, which is situated at 2225 Greenridge Road, offers 192 garden-style apartments and features a mix of amenities such as a resort-style swimming pool, fitness center, picnic area, pet play area, dog park, outdoor grills and tennis courts. Both properties participate in South Carolina’s affordable housing tax abatement program, with 75 percent of units reserved for residents making 80 percent or less of the area median income (AMI), and 20 percent of the apartments reserved for residents making 50 percent or less of the AMI, in exchange for …

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — JLL Capital Markets has negotiated the sale of Gateway One, a 252,720-square-foot distribution facility located within 803 Industrial Park in Columbia. Pete Pittroff, Dave Andrews, Michael Scarnato and Michael Lewis of JLL represented the seller, locally based Magnus Development Partners, in the transaction. Atlanta-based Invesco Real Estate acquired the property for an undisclosed price. Delivered in 2023 as the first building within 803 Industrial Park, Gateway One features tilt-up concrete construction with rear-load configuration, 260-foot depths, 32-foot clear heights, ESFR sprinkler systems and energy-efficient LED lighting with motion sensors. The property is fully leased to four tenants across industries such as manufacturing, consumer products distribution, outdoor recreation and specialty automotive solutions. Gateway One also sits adjacent to Columbia Metropolitan Airport, with immediate access to I-26 and I-77.

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SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Charlotte-based Stone City Capital will develop Seamist Commons, a 68-acre mixed-use development located in the Charleston suburb of Summerville. The development will include retail and restaurant space in a walkable, village-style setting; office space; residential units with a central community “Commons”; a 28-acre forest preserve with potential future trailheads; golf cart accessibility; electric vehicle charging infrastructure; and outparcels for build-to-suit users and ground-lease tenants. Seamist Commons will serve a trade area anchored by approximately 20,000 nearby homes. Preleasing efforts are underway for Phase I of Seamist Commons, featuring retail spaces ranging in size from 1,400 square feet to 11,900 square feet. In early 2027, Core Commercial plans to break ground on Seamist Commons Boulevard, a two-story promenade. Coldwell Banker Commercial Atlantic (CBC Atlantic) is leading leasing efforts for the retail space at Seamist Commons.

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The Upstate South Carolina industrial market is at an inflection point — an expected condition in a maturing and evolving market. Similar transitions have occurred in prior cycles and have consistently required lease rates to adjust more rapidly than traditional annual market escalations. These adjustments are driven by a combination of factors, including supply and demand dynamics, construction costs, capital markets and broader economic conditions. Currently, construction costs are the primary constraint impacting new deliveries. The post-COVID development surge resulted in over 30 million square feet of speculative industrial construction, a portion of which has yet to be fully absorbed.  Today, we are approaching pre-COVID metrics with roughly 6.4 million square feet of speculative inventory (delivered or under construction) and an overall vacancy rate of approximately 7.3 percent. At this level, certain submarkets are at the point where additional speculative inventory will be required to meet tenant demand. The challenge lies in pricing. Much of the existing vacant space was delivered under a materially different construction cost structure, resulting in lease comps that do not reflect today’s construction and land costs. While incremental rent growth has occurred, it has not fully bridged the gap between legacy pricing and the economics …

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Locally based Ziff Real Estate Partners (ZRP) has acquired West Ashley Shoppes, a 136,327-square-foot shopping center located at 946 Orleans Road in Charleston’s West Ashley neighborhood. Baltimore-based Continental Realty Corp. (CRC) purchased the shopping center from ZRP for approximately $22.6 million via its Continental Realty Fund IV LP investment vehicle. Tom Kolarczyk of JLL represented the seller in the transaction. Situated across from Citadel Mall, West Ashley Shoppes was 90 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Ross Dress for Less, Dollar Tree and Cost Plus World Market. There is roughly 13,000 square feet of shop space available for lease, according to ZRP. CRC owned West Ashley Shoppes for 10 years prior to the sale.

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BEAUFORT, S.C. — Colorado-based Spartan Investment Group has acquired three self-storage facilities totaling 1,710 units in Beaufort, a city in coastal South Carolina, for an undisclosed price. The seller was also not disclosed. The facilities include a 121,643-square-foot, 694-unit property at 481 Parris Island Gateway and a 77,270-square-foot, 632-unit property at 240 SC-128. The third asset is a 30,802-square-foot, 384-unit facility at 100 Lady’s Island Commons. Totaling 229,715 rentable square feet, the newly acquired self-storage facilities represent Spartan’s first acquisitions in 2026.

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Nashville-based Longleaf Capital Partners has obtained an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for 185 Littlejohn Street, a two-building industrial property in Spartanburg. The 247,000-square-foot property sits on 24.1 acres in close proximity to interstates 26 and 85, as well as Inland Port Greer and BMW’s U.S. manufacturing headquarters. Patterson Real Estate Advisory Group arranged the senior loan through Georgia Banking Co. Longleaf plans to overhaul the property’s building systems, address deferred maintenance and market the 114,000 square feet of available Class B space to prospective tenants.

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