PITTSTON, PA. — Square Mile Capital Management has provided a $54.4 million construction loan for Interstate Distribution Center, a 1.1 million-square-foot distribution facility in Pittston. The project is located at the convergence of Interstates 81 and 476. Amazon, Lowes, Walmart, and FedEx all occupy distribution facilities nearby. Square Mile Capital provided the loan to a joint venture between affiliates of Endurance Real Estate Group and Blue Vista Capital.
NEW YORK CITY — Seniors housing REIT giant Welltower Inc. (NYSE:HCN) and international real estate firm Hines have announced plans for a 17-story seniors housing community on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The project will be the second of its type for the partnership. A 16-story seniors housing community named The Welltower is currently under construction in Midtown. An undisclosed “passive institutional investor” is also involved in both projects. The companies acquired the development site, located at Broadway and 85thStreet. Plans call for a 140,000-square-foot “The Welltower West” building rising from the 9,100-square-foot plot. Existing commercial structures on the site will be demolished to make way for construction. SLCE Architects LLP will design the project. Sarah Hawkins and Bevin Littlehale of Hines and John Olympitis and Talal Khan of Welltower, both out of their respective New York regional offices, led the transaction teams on the land acquisition.
WARMINSTER, PA. — Binswanger has brokered the $1.7 million sale of a six-acre development site in Warminster. Located at 273 West County Line Road, the property is zoned as an industrial office district. Patagon Storage LLC acquired the property with plans to develop a self-storage facility. Chris Pennington and Jason Ostach of Binswanger represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
FAIRFIELD, CONN. — Benchmark has opened Sturges Ridge of Fairfield, an assisted living and memory care community in Fairfield, a coastal town between New York City and Hartford. The 85,000-square-foot community offers 68 assisted living units and 20 memory care units. It is Benchmark’s 18thcommunity, and is located in the hometown of company founder Tom Grape. Terry Hornikel, executive director of the new community, lives in Fairfield and brings more than 40 years of senior living and healthcare experience, including as a certified gerontologist.
RIALTO, CALIF. — Panattoni Development Co., in partnership with PGIM Real Estate, has started construction of Building 1. The 1.2 million-square-foot industrial building is located within the Rialto Fulfillment Center at 3520 S. Cactus Ave. in Rialto. Situated on 122 acres, Rialto Fulfillment Center is a planned two-building, 2.25 million-square-foot fulfillment and distribution center. Building 1 will be a freestanding cross-docked facility with internal truck drive around capacity. The facility will feature 40-foot minimum warehouse clearance height, an ESFR sprinkler system, eight-foot minimum flat Ductilcrete warehouse slab, 56-foot by 60-foot typical bay spacing with 70-foot speed bays, and 4,000 amp building service with base infrastructure for 12,000 amps. Additionally, the building will feature 196 dock-high doors, four grade-level loading doors, two fully secured truck courts, 544 off-dock trailer stalls and 685 auto parking stalls. Completion of Building 1 is slated for fourth-quarter 2019. Peter McWilliams, Mike McCrary and Ruben Goodsell of JLL are handling the leasing efforts for the Rialto Fulfillment Center.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Weitzman has completed the redevelopment of Trinity Plaza, a 59,438-square-foot retail center located at North Josey Lane and the George Bush Turnpike in Carrollton. The project upgraded the center’s façade, signage, landscaping and parking, and also delivered new spaces for both a junior anchor and an endcap restaurant. Current tenants include Café Brazil, Party City and O’Reilly Auto Parts. Hodges & Associates served as project architect.
HOUSTON — Parkway Property Investments LLC will build a 600-space parking garage annex at Phoenix Tower, a 34-story office building located within Greenway Plaza in Houston. The structure, which will adjoin Phoenix Tower’s original eight-story garage, will span eight floors and 247,000 square feet. The groundbreaking is expected to occur before year’s end, and completion is slated for late 2019. HOK is the project architect and Kimley Horn is the project engineer.
SEATTLE — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has officially selected New York City and Arlington, Va., as the homes for its second headquarters, confirming reports last week of the e-commerce giant’s decision to split HQ2. Amazon will invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters locations, with more than 25,000 employees in each new headquarters. Both campuses will feature 4 million square feet of new office space, which is expandable up to 8 million square feet at each location. New York City and Arlington will join Seattle as the company’s three headquarters in North America. “These two locations will allow us to attract world-class talent that will help us to continue inventing for customers for years to come,” says Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. “The team did a great job selecting these sites, and we look forward to becoming an even bigger part of these communities.” The New York location will be in Queens’ Long Island City neighborhood. The Arlington office will be in River Landing, a newly branded neighborhood encompassing parts of Pentagon City and Crystal City in Arlington and Potomac Yard in nearby Alexandria. Amazon estimates the incremental tax revenue to exceed $10 billion for the New York location …
ATLANTA — Atlanta-based Songy Highroads LLC, in partnership with Hyatt Hotels Corp., is developing Hyatt Place Centennial Park, located at 300 Luckie St. in downtown Atlanta. Construction has reached the fifth floor of the 11-story hotel, which is slated to open in August 2019. Situated one block north of Centennial Olympic Park and adjacent to the Georgia Aquarium, the hotel will feature 175 guestrooms, a pool, fitness center, on-site food service, parking deck, 2,100 square feet of meeting space and retail space fronting Luckie and Marietta streets. Reeves Young is serving as general contractor, and Wakefield Beasley is providing architectural services for the project.
ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLA. — Hunt Midwest and Integral Senior Living have broken ground on The Capstone at Royal Palm, a seniors housing development located on Okeechobee Boulevard in Royal Palm Beach, a village in South Florida’s Palm Beach County. Slated to open in early 2020, The Capstone at Royal Palm will feature 84 studio, one- and two-bedroom assisted living and memory care suites, offering accommodates for up to 114 residents. Community amenities will include a great room, formal dining room, fitness center, bistro lounge, sunroom, walking trails, gazebo and a dog park. Integral Senior Living will manage the property upon completion.
