Acquisitions

ATLANTA — CBRE has arranged the $19 million sale of 3301 Windy Ridge, a six-story, 106,574-square-foot office building within Wildwood Office Park in Atlanta’s Cumberland-Galleria submarket. The property is located near The Battery Atlanta and SunTrust Park, home to Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves. 3301 Windy Ridge was 98 percent leased to a diverse tenant roster at the time of sale. Individuals Christian Lopez and Jeff Lopez acquired the property from a joint venture between Greenstone Partners and RSF Partners. Tom Shafer and John Hinson of CBRE represented the seller.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Trinity Partners has negotiated the $6.8 million sale of 7 Technology Circle, a four-story, 86,733-square-foot office building in northeast Columbia. The property is located off Farrow Road near Interstate 77, about 10 miles northeast of downtown Columbia. Macon Lovelace and Paul Hartley of Trinity Partners represented the seller, Corocan Columbia LLC, in the transaction. Milton Thomas of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, 7 Technology Circle LLC.

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NEW JERSEY — Dallas-based Colony Industrial has acquired a 33-property industrial portfolio totaling more than 1.3 million square feet in New Jersey. The portfolio comprises assets located in several cities in northern New Jersey that are currently 99 percent occupied. The sale included three development sites located in Carteret and West Caldwell. Brian Fiumara, Michael Hines, Brad Ruppel, Lauren Dawicki and Thomas Monahan of CBRE represented the seller, New Jersey-based developer Hampshire Real Estate Cos., in the transaction. The sales price was undisclosed.

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OREM, UTAH — Colliers International has arranged the sale of Promenade Place, a student housing property located at 875 S. Geneva Road in Orem. Woodbury Corp. sold the asset to a private out-of-state investor. Constructed in 2017, Promenade Place is a transit-oriented, 429-bed student housing property located adjacent to Utah Valley University. While terms of the transaction were not released, the sale is one of the largest student housing transactions in Utah and set a record as the highest price per bed, according to the brokers. Rawley Nielsen, Mark Jensen and Darren Nielsen of Colliers facilitated the deal and represented the seller.

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BRIGHTON, COLO. — A partnership between Littleton, Colo.-based C&A Cos. and Delaware-based Commonwealth Group has completed the disposition of Elements at Prairie Center, an apartment community in Brighton, a northeast suburb of Denver. Akron, Ohio-based Summit Management acquired the property for $72 million. Developed in 2018 by C&A Cos. and Commonwealth Group, Elements at Prairie Center is the second apartment community the partnership has developed in the Brighton area that are fully powered by geothermal energy. Situated on 15 acres, the property features 264,579 rentable square feet spread across 288 one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Community amenities include a resort-style outdoor swimming pool, off-leash dog park and fitness center. Dan Woodward, David Potarf and Matthew Barnett of CBRE represented the sellers in the deal. Brady O’Donnell, Jeff Halsey and Jill Haug of CBRE Capital Markets Debt & Structured Finance arranged acquisition financing for the buyer.

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CARLSBAD AND MIRAMAR, CALIF. — A joint venture between Stos Partners and Boston-based Long Wharf Capital has purchased two industrial assets in Southern California for a total consideration of $13.9 million. In the first transaction, the joint venture acquired a 70,224-square-foot property, located at 6212 Corte Del Abeto in Carlsbad, from a private seller for $9.7 million in an off-market transaction. The building is fully occupied by a go-kart racing tenant. The asset features a mix of office and warehouse space, as well as grade- and dock-high loading positions. Rusty Williams and Chris Roth of Lee & Associates, along with Tres Reid of CBRE, represented the buyers in the transaction. In the second deal, the partnership purchased a vacant 27,510-square-foot industrial building, located at 8330 Arjons Drive in Miramar, from a private investor for $4.2 million. The new owners plan to upgrade the property with a new roof, new façade, parking lot improvements, updated landscape plan and interior renovations. Jason Smithson of NAI represented the seller in the transaction.

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BOULDER, COLO. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the sale of View 57, an office building located at 1855 S. 57th Court in Boulder. McGarvey’s Shoal LLC acquired the property from 57th Element, an investment partnership led by Boulder-based Element Properties, for $9.9 million. John Jugl of NKF represented the seller in the deal. Originally built as a R&D lab facility, the 30,464-square-foot property was redesigned into a boutique creative office project that includes newly renovated lobby, an overhaul of the exterior, 11-foot to 12-foot exposed ceilings, updated HVAC systems and the addition of windows, showers and lockers on both floors.

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DENVER AND NEW YORK CITY — UDR Inc. (NYSE: UDR), a multifamily REIT based in Denver, has struck an agreement with its joint venture partner MetLife Investment Management to swap their interests in a national multifamily portfolio in a deal valued at nearly $1.8 billion. As part of the agreement, UDR will buy out MetLife’s stake in 10 apartment communities, one property under construction and four development land sites that are collectively valued at $1.1 billion. The 10 properties total 3,321 units and include Strata in San Diego; Crescent Falls Church in Falls Church, Va.; Charles River Landing, Lodge at Ames Pond and Lenox Farms in metro Boston; Towson Promenade in Towson, Md.; and the 1,513-unit, four-property Vitruvian Park campus in Addison, Texas. The assets have an average age of eight years and 95.7 percent occupancy at the time of this announcement. “The acquired communities are primarily located in markets targeted for expansion, are immediately accretive to our earnings, have operational upside and improve the diversification of our portfolio,” says Tom Toomey, chairman and CEO of UDR. Also as part of the agreement, MetLife Investment Management will purchase UDR’s stake in five apartment communities valued at a combined $645 million. …

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FORSYTH, GA. — IDI Logistics has sold a 750,000-square-foot, build-to-suit industrial facility to Five Below in Forsyth. The new building, which IDI delivered in May, features 40-foot clear heights. This was the first building delivered within IDI’s Meridian 75 Logistics Center, a 250-acre industrial park located about 60 miles south of downtown Atlanta. Five Below has occupied the entire distribution facility since it opened. Founded in 2002, Philadelphia-based Five Below is a national retailer that sells products that cost $5 or less. Bob Robers and Pat Murphy of Cushman & Wakefield represented IDI Logistics in the transaction. Mark Sims, Ray Stache and Lisa Pittman of Cushman & Wakefield represented Five Below. The sales price was not disclosed.

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LOUISVILLE, KY. — Cushman & Wakefield and Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Kentucky have brokered the $10.9 million sale of Paragon Place, a three-story, 83,153-square-foot office building in Louisville. Paragon Place is situated at 9100 Shelbyville Road, 12 miles east of downtown Louisville. Amenities at the property include a conference center, courtyard with a fountain and tenant storage space. Craig Collins of Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Kentucky and Samir Idris and Andy Johns of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sellers, Banyan Street Capital and Oaktree Capital, in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.

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