KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — NAI Mertz has brokered the $9.3 million sale of a 97,000-square-foot industrial flex building located at 780 Fifth Ave. in King of Prussia, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. Scott Mertz and John Adderly of NAI Mertz represented the seller, Fifth Avenue KOP LP, an affiliate of New Jersey-based Rudner Real Estate, in the transaction. The buyer was an affiliate of Philadelphia-based Velocity Ventures Partners. The property was 89 percent leased at the time of sale.
MINNEAPOLIS — Davis Medical Investors LLC has acquired an eight-property, 309,735-square-foot medical office portfolio for $112 million. The Minneapolis-based buyer acquired the assets through a new fund backed by Capital One. Three of the buildings were purchased from Davis Medical Investors-affiliated partnerships and the other five were acquired from undisclosed, third-party sellers. The portfolio comprises three properties in Minnesota, three in Tennessee and one each in Ohio and Connecticut. The acquisitions in Tennessee and Connecticut represent Davis Medical Investors’ entry into those markets. The portfolio was 99 percent leased at the time of sale with an average lease term of more than eight years. The buildings in the portfolio are an average of 10 years old. According to Mark Davis, founder and managing partner at Davis Medical Investors, the fund will be able to acquire more than 20 medical office buildings totaling up to $240 million. “Despite some of the acquisitions being temporarily put on hiatus because of COVID-19, we stayed in close contact with the sellers to ensure we successfully brought these deals to fruition,” says Stewart Davis, executive vice president of investments at Davis Medical Investors. The properties in the portfolio include: M Health-Fairview in Minneapolis, which is …
DULUTH, GA. — The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners voted to acquire 39 acres at Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, including the portion of the mall that houses most of the mall’s inline tenants, food court and the shuttered Belk-Parisian store. The Urban Redevelopment Agency of Gwinnett County (URA) will buy the land for $23 million from Moonbeam Capital Investments LLC, a Las Vegas-based investor that bought the mall in 2013 from Simon. Moonbeam Capital put the mall up for sale last fall. The sale does not include the locations of Macy’s, Mega Mart and Beauty Master, which are tenant-owned. Additionally, the former Sears building, which Northwood Ravin acquired in 2018, was not part of the sale. Gwinnett Place Mall was originally completed in 1984. The mall has been used in the film industry in recent years as the setting for movies and TV shows including “Stranger Things,” “Holidate,” “Ozark,” “I, Tonya” and “Greenleaf.” Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners chairwoman Charlotte Nash says the county has been attempting to acquire the land for several years and will redevelop the parcel that has “incredible opportunity.” Gwinnett County will engage the County Department of Planning and Development, the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement …
WARNER ROBINS, GA. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $3.7 million sale of a 13,076-square-foot retail strip center within Merganser Commons in Warner Robins. Zach Taylor of Marcus and Millichap’s Taylor McMinn Retail Group implemented a parcelization strategy to sell Merganser Commons for a total of $14.7 million on behalf of the seller, EA Columbia Properties. A 45,600-square-foot Publix anchors Merganser Commons. The strip center was the last piece of Merganser Commons to be sold. “By taking a parcelization approach we were able to maximize the seller proceeds,” says Taylor. Tomahawk Properties LLC acquired the asset.
PHOENIX — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of Maxwell on 66th, a multifamily property located at 6611 E. Mayo Blvd. in Phoenix’s North Scottsdale corridor. The property traded hands for $122.5 million, or $351,003 per unit. The names of the buyer and seller were not released. Built in 2020 on 15 acres, Maxwell on 66th features 349 apartments, averaging 940 square feet per unit, spread across 11 buildings. Units offer at least nine-foot ceilings, ultra-modern gourmet kitchens and hand-scraped oak hardwood floors. Select units feature integrated decks and bookshelves, built-in wine racks, oversize soaking tubs and mountain views. Community amenities include a central courtyard, swimming pool, tanning pool, yoga lawn, putting green and electric car charging stations. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
GILBERT, ARIZ. — Dalfen Industrial has purchased Gilbert Distribution Center, an industrial property located at 1495 E. Baseline Road in Gilbert, a southeast suburb of Phoenix. The property was acquired in an off-market transaction for an undisclosed price. The name of the seller was not released. Built in 2014, the property features 109,510 square feet of industrial space. At the time of sale, the facility was 100 percent leased to two longstanding tenants: Scrapbook.com and TLC Label. Dalfen Industrial has acquired and developed more than $1.2 billion of last-mile industrial properties this year.
SAN DIEGO — A joint venture between San Diego-based Hills Properties and a fund managed by Westport Capital Partners has acquired an industrial portfolio in San Diego’s Miramar industrial neighborhood. Providence II Camino Santa Fe LLC sold the assets for $11.3 million. Located at 8250-8260 Camino Santa Fe, the two-building portfolio features 61,000 square feet of multi-tenant industrial space. Evan McDonald of Colliers International represented the seller in the deal.
SHEBOYGAN, WIS. — Founders 3 Real Estate Services has brokered the sale of a 23,220-square-foot office property in Sheboygan for $2.6 million. Built in 1989, the asset is located at 1441 N. Taylor Drive. BMO Harris Bank is the anchor tenant. Bob Flood and Andy Hess of Founders 3 represented the seller, BL-Branch Group One LLC. The buyer was JVL Ventures Real Estate I LLC.
DALLAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of Hanover Midtown Park, a 422-unit multifamily community located in the Preston Hollow area of Dallas. The property was built on 11 acres in 2018 and features one-, two- and three-bedroom units with an average size of 895 square feet. Amenities include a pool, media center, clubhouse, conference room and a bocce ball court. Drew Kile, Will Balthrope, Joey Tumminello and Grant Raymond of IPA represented the seller, Houston-based Hanover Co., in the transaction. The IPA team also procured the buyer, Florida-based Waypoint Real Estate Investments.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Newmark has brokered the sale of Elan Apartment Homes and Parmer Place, two multifamily communities in Austin totaling 560 units. Elan Apartment Homes was built in 2007 and totals 270 units, while Parmer Place was constructed in 2008 and consists of 290 units. The two properties, which were both 95 percent occupied at the time of sale, were sold as part of a portfolio deal that also included the disposition of a 266-unit community in Morrisville, N.C. Sean Wood and Patton Jones of Newmark represented the seller, New York-based Gamma Real Estate, in the transaction. The buyer was Bluerock, a New York-based institutional alternative asset manager.