COLUMBIA, S.C. — Magnus Development Partners has broken ground on Gateway 2, the fourth building at the 803 Park industrial campus adjacent to Columbia Metropolitan Airport. Set to deliver by second-quarter 2027, the 226,800-square-foot building will feature CSX rail service, 18 dock doors, 50- by 54-foot bay spacing and an ESFR fire protection system. Magnus has tapped Chuck Salley, Thomas Beard and John Peebles of Colliers to lease and market Gateway 2. At full completion, 803 Park will comprise five buildings spanning nearly 1 million square feet. To date, three buildings totaling 625,440 square feet have been delivered in the park and are fully leased to six tenants.
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HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — Trilogy Investment Co. has closed on a construction loan for REV3 at The Celeste, a 172-unit build-to-rent (BTR) townhome community underway in Huntsville. The loan amount was not released. Situated on Plummer Road on the north side of Huntsville, the property represents Trilogy’s second BTR opportunity zone fund development with Pinnacle Partners. REV3 at The Celeste will feature three-bedroom townhomes with attached garages, as well as a resort-style pool, clubhouse, fitness center and outdoor gathering spaces. Trilogy and construction affiliate REV3 Homes plan to deliver the first residences at the project in early 2027.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — Subtext has completed VERVE Tempe, a 769-bed student housing development located at 1047 S. Terrace Road near the Arizona State University campus in Tempe. Subtext completed the 15-story community in partnership with FrontRange Capital Partners and TPG Real Estate Partners. Kennedy Wilson provided financing. The development team included ESG Architecture & Design and Brinkmann Constructors. VERVE Tempe spans 479,388 square feet and offers 240 units in studio through four-bedroom configurations. Shared amenities include a rooftop pool and clubroom with a game lounge, photo booth and entertaining kitchen; hot tub and cold plunge; outdoor fire pits, a game lawn and grilling stations; two-story fitness center with smart workout equipment, indoor and outdoor fitness spaces, a dedicated yoga room and wellness suite with a meditation room and sauna; golf simulator; study lounge with private and group study spaces; a pet spa and dog run; lobby coffee bar; and 1,800 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
BERKELEY, ILL. — Dermody has broken ground on the LogistiCenter at Berkeley, a 357,619-square-foot facility at 5300 St. Charles Road in Berkeley, a western suburb of Chicago. The project is a redevelopment of an older, functionally obsolete industrial building. The property will feature a clear height of 40 feet, 57 dock-high doors, 357 car parking spaces and 63 trailer stalls. The project is expected to be available for lease in the first quarter of 2027. Charlie Kenning, Jackie Shropshire and Dan McGillicuddy of JLL are representing Dermody.
TAMPA, FLA. — The University of South Florida (USF) and its development partners have broken ground on the $500 million first phase of Uptown Landing, a new mixed-use project situated within walking distance of the planned USF on-campus football stadium. The first phase of the project comprises 30 acres and will include 717 beds of student housing; 152 apartments reserved for graduate students and USF employees; four to six restaurant venues; 68,000 square feet of retail space; a hotel and conference center and academic research facilities. Delivered through a master development agreement with ACE Fletcher LLC, this development marks the largest public-private partnership (PPP) in the history of the State University System of Florida. ACE Fletcher is a partnership between Capstone Development Partners, Aureate Development and Ellison Development. The project team also includes Provident Resources Group, CBI Construction, Baker Barrios Architects and Kimley-Horn. Funding for the project includes $270 million in tax-exempt bond financing for the student housing, hospitality, restaurant and retail uses, as well as a roughly $225 million investment for the Translational Research Institute. Capstone Management Partners will provide maintenance and operations services at the student housing building in a shared services agreement with USF. The first phase is …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Space Craft has launched leasing at Oxbow, a 389-unit apartment development underway at 2125 N. Davidson St. in Charlotte’s Optimist Park neighborhood. Sentral manages the apartment community, which is will provide direct access to the Cross Charlotte Trail. Residences at Oxbow will range from studio apartments to four-bedroom units spanning 410 to 1,501 square feet, as well as 1,258-square-foot townhomes and more than 11,300 square feet of ground-level retail space. Monthly rental rates will range from $1,320 to $3,325, according to Apartments.com. Amenities at Oxbow will include separate cardio and strength gyms, a spa with a sauna and treatment room, coworking space, content studio, makers space, lounge, fleet share services, guest suites, self-serve market and two rooftop venues. The design-build team includes Shook Kelley (architect), Swinerton (general contractor) and Timberlab (cross-laminated timber provider).
DALLAS — April Housing, Blackstone Real Estate’s affordable housing division, has reopened Waterford at Goldmark Apartments, a 220-unit mixed-income housing community in North Dallas, following a $20 million renovation. Waterford at Goldmark is an age-restricted property that offers one-, two- and three-bedroom, townhome-style units. Income restrictions were not disclosed. Renovations included new fixtures, energy-efficient appliances and lighting throughout units’ bathrooms and kitchens; updates to amenity spaces such as the playground, pool and gym facilities; and the installation of new water heaters and rooftop solar panels. April Housing partnered with the Dallas Housing Finance Corp. on the project, which preserves the property’s affordability status for another 30 years.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based owner-operator Domain Cos. is nearing completion of Majestic, a 255-unit apartment building in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood. Designed by Handel Architects with interiors by GoodRich Design, Majestic will offer studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units, 25 percent of which will be set aside as affordable housing. Amenities will include a landscaped roof terrace, an indoor–outdoor fitness center and a courtyard garden. Domain topped out the 10-story building over the summer, and the opening is set for next year.
WAYNE, N.J. — Florida-based owner-operator Basis Industrial has received a $24 million construction loan for a self-storage project in the Northern New Jersey community of Wayne. ExtraSpace Storage will operate the facility at 555 Hamburg Turnpike, which will span 85,330 net rentable square feet across 586 climate-controlled units. Construction is underway and expected to be complete in early 2028. NexBank and NexPoint provided the loan.
CHICAGO — Greenstone Partners has brokered the $4.4 million sale of 1276 W. Washington Blvd., a development site in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood. Danny Spitz and Malek Abdulsamad of Greenstone represented the buyer and seller. The property consists of a 14,850-square-foot parcel of land owned by a longtime Greenstone client. The buyer plans to build a condominium development on the site.