SPRING LAKE PARK, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of Spring Lake Park Marketplace for $1.9 million. The 8,764-square-foot retail building is located at 8097 Highway 65 in Spring Lake Park, about 12 miles north of Minneapolis. Caribou Coffee anchors the fully occupied property, which was built in 2005. Jared Shapiro, Craig Fuller, Erin Patton and Scott Wiles of Marcus & Millichap marketed the building on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. An undisclosed buyer purchased the asset at 98 percent of the list price.
DENVER — Dayton, Ohio-based The Connor Group has purchased Broadstone Lowry, an apartment property located at 8505 Lowry Blvd. in Denver. Alliance Residential sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Built in 2019, Broadstone Lowry features 300 apartments with designer kitchens, hardwood-style plank flooring, stainless steel appliances, walk-in closets with built-in shelving, and patios and decks. Community amenities include a resort-style pool, spa, pool-side cabanas, outdoor kitchen and large fire pits; rooftop amenity deck with panoramic views, outdoor kitchens and entertaining areas; wellness center with meditation pods and a living green wall; pet wash and grooming station; fitness center; yoga studio; and several courtyards. Terrance Hunt, Shane Ozment, Amanda Meldrum and Craig Ratterman of Newmark Knight Frank represented the seller in the deal.
HELENA AND CLANCY, MONT. — CareTrust REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRE) has acquired two skilled nursing facilities in an off-market transaction. The first property is Apple Rehab Cooney, an 80-bed facility located on the campus of the St. Peter’s Health Regional Medical Center in Helena. The second is Elkhorn Healthcare & Rehabilitation, a 70-bed facility located in neighboring Clancy. National skilled nursing operator Eduro Healthcare will manage the communities. The transaction was CareTrust’s first to be initiated and closed in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Underwriting assets involves some added challenges in these somewhat unusual times, but these buildings were well-run and the parties were pragmatic in dealing with those uncertainties,” says Dave Sedgwick, CareTrust’s chief operating officer. CareTrust’s total initial investment for the two assets was $16.5 million, inclusive of transaction costs and $500,000 of funding to Eduro to improve the facilities. Annual cash rent under the existing Eduro master lease, to which the two properties were added, will increase by approximately $1.6 million. The master lease has a remaining term of approximately 9.5 years, with two five-year renewal options and CPI-based annual rent escalators. The acquisitions were funded using cash on hand.
SUPERIOR, COLO. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a retail property located at 400 Center Drive in Superior. An out-of-state family trust sold the asset to a California-based investor for $2.1 million. Bank of the West occupies the 3,532-square-foot building on an absolute triple-net lease with 2.5 years remaining on the term. Built in 2004, the property is situated on a 0.94-acre lot less than half a mile from U.S. 26. Drew Isaac, Ryan Bowlby and James Rassenfoss of Marcus & Millichap’s Net Lease Properties Group represented the seller in the deal.
WHEAT RIDGE, COLO. — NAI Shames Makovsky has negotiated the sale of a retail building located at 9830 W. I-70 Frontage Road South in Wheat Ridge. Lag B’Omer Partnership and Lag B’Omer LLC sold the asset to Going Green LLC for $2.7 million. The property features 19,200 square feet of retail space. Jake Malman and Sandy Feld of NAI Shames Makovsky represented the seller in the transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — SRS Real Estate Partners has negotiated the $22.7 million sale of seven single-tenant outparcels around Mall at Millenia in Orlando. The outparcels total 104,188 square feet and six were leased to retail tenants including BJ’s Brewhouse, DSW, Ethan Allen, Old Navy, Olive Garden and West Elm at the time of sale. The final outparcel is an office building that was leased to Ingenus Pharmaceuticals at the time of sale. Mall at Millenia comprises more than 1.1 million square feet and includes anchors such as Macy’s, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale’s. The property is located at 4200 Conroy Road, six miles southwest of downtown Orlando. Patrick Luther, Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Nutt of SRS, along with Gradon Willard of BluRock Commercial Real Estate, represented the undisclosed seller, which was the original developer of the property. Limestone Asset Management, an affiliate of Miami-based Orion Real Estate Group, acquired the portfolio.
BOSSIER CITY, LA. — Caesars Entertainment and Vici Properties have entered into an agreement to sell Harrah’s Louisiana Downs Casino, Racing & Entertainment for $22 million. The buyer, Rubico Acquisition Corp., will pay Vici $5.5 million and Caesars $16.5 million. The sale is expected to close by early 2021. The property is located at 8000 E. Texas St. in Bossier City, 10 miles east of downtown Shreveport. The casino floor offers 150,000 square feet of games, dozens of TVs and a high-limit area. Louisiana Downs also features a dirt horse-racing track. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards ordered casinos to close in March due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Casinos in the state were allowed to reopen in May at limited capacity.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Dallas-based CONTI Organization has acquired Vine Apartments, a 420-unit community located at 711 Trinity Circle in Arlington. Built on 21 acres in 1980, the garden-style property consists of 23 three-story buildings housing one- and two-bedroom units. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, dog park, volleyball court and tennis courts. Daniel Baker and Chandler Sims of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Including this transaction, CONTI’s portfolio consists of 31 multifamily properties totaling more than 9,000 units.
HOUSTON — Berkadia has brokered the sale of Scott Plaza, a 150-unit apartment community located in the Sunnyside neighborhood in south Houston. The property was built in 1970 and features an average unit size of 858 square feet. Scott Bray, Ryan Epstein and Jennifer Ray of Berkadia represented the seller, Scott Plaza Associates Ltd., in the transaction. LEDG Capital, an investment firm with five offices across the country, purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.
HOUSTON — Heavenrich & Co. has negotiated the $5.3 million sale of Villa Toscana at Cypress Woods, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in northwest Houston. Villa Toscana was built in 2009 on an 80-acre medical campus, anchored by the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. Heavenrich & Co. represented the sellers, national owner-operator StoneGate Senior Living and an unnamed, publicly traded REIT. The buyer was O&M Investments, a private equity firm focused on skilled nursing. Villa Toscana’s occupancy was 76 percent at the time of sale.