KANSAS CITY, MO. — Tutera Senior Living & Health Care has added 26 senior living communities to its portfolio through a transaction with AlerisLife and an ongoing partnership with Diversified Healthcare Trust. The expansion, which includes eight owned acquisitions and 18 new management agreements, strengthens Tutera’s Midwest presence. With this addition, Kansas City-based Tutera will operate 108 communities across 11 states, with 66 dedicated senior living communities totaling 5,422 units. The company’s overall portfolio now encompasses 9,755 units, with a mix of 56 percent senior living and 44 percent skilled nursing. The expansion broadens Tutera’s footprint into Tennessee, adding to its presence in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Carolina. The phased acquisition and transition of the 26 communities is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Some properties will transition to new names under Tutera.
Acquisitions
ANNAPOLIS, MD. — Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) has completed the acquisition of the retail center situated within Annapolis Town Center in Anne Arundel County, roughly 30 miles outside Washington, D.C. Federal Realty, a REIT based in North Bethesda, Md., purchased the property for $187 million. According to local reporting by the Capital Gazette, PGIM Real Estate was the seller. Anchored by Whole Foods Market, Annapolis Town Center totals 480,000 square feet. Other tenants at the property include a Life Time fitness club, Anthropologie, Sephora, RH (formerly Restoration Hardware), True Food Kitchen and Williams Sonoma. Target shadow-anchors the acquired portion of Annapolis Town Center. Greenberg Gibbons Commercial developed the mixed-use Annapolis Town Center property in 2008, with development costs estimated at $500 million. In addition to the retail component, the development features office space, luxury condominiums and apartments. The Capital Gazette reports that PGIM acquired the property from Greenberg Gibbons in 2018 for an undisclosed price. This acquisition marks the continuation of Federal Realty’s growth of its retail portfolio; the firm also acquired Town Center Plaza and Town Center Crossing in Kansas earlier this year. Federal Realty owns 102 properties that comprise approximately 3,500 tenants across 27 million commercial square feet, as well as approximately …
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services has arranged the sale of a 68,080-square-foot, vacant industrial building in North Fort Worth. The building was constructed in 1981 on a 3.9-acre site at 2500-2536 N.E. Loop 820 and can accommodate a single or multiple users. Todd Lambeth and Richard Hitz of Bradford represented the seller, an entity doing business as Direct Investment Ltd., in the transaction. The buyer, Dallas-based CanTex Capital, has also retained Bradford as the leasing agent.
GRANBURY, TEXAS — Locally based investment firm Skywalker Property Partners has purchased a 60,000-square-foot industrial facility in Granbury, located southwest of Fort Worth. Old Granbury Industrial Park consists of 11 buildings on a 9.3-acre site that were fully leased at the time of sale. Trevor Short of Trinity Real Estate Investment Services represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Jack Mock represented Skywalker on an internal basis.
CELINA, TEXAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of Bobcat Crossing, a 29,309-square-foot retail center located in the North Texas city of Celina. The center is located within the Carter Ranch master-planned development and is home to 13 tenants, including Sherwin-Williams and Subway. Michael Austry and Jared Aubrey of CBRE represented the seller, Standridge Cos., in the transaction. The buyer was Houston-based investment firm Stablewood.
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Harrison Street, Morningstar Properties Acquire 21-Property Self-Storage Portfolio
by Abby Cox
CHICAGO AND MATTHEWS, N.C. — A joint venture between Chicago-based Harrison Street Asset Management and Matthews-based Morningstar Properties has acquired a portfolio of 21 self-storage properties totaling morning than 10,800 units. The properties are located in Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Arkansas, with 71 percent of the assets situated in top 30 U.S. metropolitan areas such as Houston, Austin, Charlotte and Atlanta. The portfolio was 90 percent leased at the time of sale and spans more than 1.3 million rentable square feet. Morningstar will continue operating and managing the portfolio. The seller was not disclosed. Harrison Street and Morningstar previously completed 41 self-storage investments across five Sun Belt states.
Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer Negotiates $11.6M Sale of Distribution Facility in Salem, Virginia
by Abby Cox
SALEM, VA. — Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer has negotiated the $11.6 million sale of a 170,000-square-foot distribution facility located in Salem. ReaderLink Distribution Services LLC, the country’s largest book distributor to mass merchandisers and other non-bookstore outlets, fully occupies the facility and has been a tenant at the site for 25 years. Bo McKown of Thalhimer’s Capital Markets Group represented the undisclosed buyer in the transaction. Davis Stoneburner of Thalhimer’s Industrial Services Group will lead leasing efforts for the new ownership.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Continuum Advisors has brokered the sale of Laurel Circle, a 270-unit continuing care retirement community located in the Northern New Jersey community of Bridgewater. Totaling 270 units, Laurel Circle features 183 independent living apartments, 19 independent living villas, 30 assisted living residences, 10 memory care units and 28 skilled nursing units. The property also includes several undeveloped acres for future expansion. David Kliewer and Jay Jordan of Continuum arranged the transaction. An affiliate of Maxwell Group and Senior Living Communities was the buyer. The seller, a joint venture that included seniors housing owner-operator LCS, recently invested more than $15 million in capital improvements to the property.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Ariel Property Advisors has arranged the $24 million sale of a multifamily development site in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. The assembled site at 67-75 4th Avenue and 77 St. Marks Place can support 84,780 buildable square feet of product. Sean Kelly, Stephen Vorvolakos and Nicole Daniggelis of Ariel represented the seller, private investor Tolib Mansurov, in the transaction. The buyer was another private investor, Shimon Kleinman.
Pacific Development Partners Divests of 85,000 SF Office Building in Carlsbad, California to Sharp HealthCare
by Amy Works
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — Pacific Development Partners has completed the sale of an 85,000-square-foot office building, located at 1265 Laurel Tree Lane in Carlsbad, to Sharp HealthCare for $31 million. Lars Eisenhauer and Dan Henry of CBRE, along with Greg Lewis and Steven Field of JLL, represented the seller, while Mike Labelle of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer in the transaction. Initially developed for the 24 Hour Fitness corporate headquarters, the three-story property features a ground-floor fitness facility and two floors of corporate office space. Sharp HealthCare plans to convert the top floor into a Sharp Rees-Stealy outpatient clinic with immediate occupancy and grow into the balance of the building over time. 24 Hour Fitness will continue to operate out of the first and second floors until the phased conversion is complete.