MAUMELLE, ARK. — Health Dimensions Group (HDG) has opened Mira at Maumelle, which the developer asserts is the first senior living community in the Little Rock suburb of Maumelle. Mira at Maumelle provides independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The number of units was not disclosed. HDG manages the property, bringing its portfolio to 48 communities in eight states.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — A partnership between nonprofit developer The NHP Foundation, Capital A Housing and the Austin Housing Finance Corp. has broken ground on Seabrook Square, a 204-unit affordable housing project in East Austin. Units will be reserved for households earning 60 percent or less of the area median income, and Seabrook Square will also house 3,000 square feet of commercial space. Financing for the project includes a $40 million tax-exempt bond issued by the City of Austin; $32.3 million in 4 percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) equity syndicated by Boston Financial; $13.5 million in subordinate debt financing from the Austin Housing Finance Corp.; and a $3.4 million construction loan from Citibank. Completion is slated for late 2025.
SAND CITY, CALIF. — EKN Development and Garn Development have received $67.1 million in construction financing for the development of a dual-branded, 215-room hotel in Sand City, a tiny beach city on the shores of Monterey Bay in Northern California. JLL Capital Markets represented the borrower and secured at $39 million first mortgage loan from HALL Structured Finance. Nuveen Green Capital provided a $28.1 million C-PACE loan. The 139,660-square-foot development will include a 127-room Courtyard by Marriott and an 88-room Residence Inn by Marriott. The property will also offer 3,133 square feet of flexible meeting space; a courtyard with resort-style pool, cabanas and a fully equipped stage to accommodate live performances and events; and an independently branded restaurant and bar.
PEORIA, ARIZ. — CBRE has arranged a $35.2 million construction loan for Arizona-based Bela Flor Communities to develop Bella Olivia, a build-to-rent property in Peoria, a northwestern suburb of Phoenix. Construction is currently underway, with the property slated to open in summer 2024. Located at 9625 W. Olive Ave., Bella Olivia will feature 112 one-, two- and three-bedroom units across 16 residential buildings. Community amenities will include a resort-style pool and spa, designated walking trail, tot lot and dog park. Bruce Francis, Doug Birrell, Bob Ybarra, Shaun Moothart, Nick Santangelo and Jim Korinek of CBRE Capital Markets Debt & Structured Finance secured the 80 percent loan-to-cost, full-term interest-only, nonrecourse loan with an initial 30-month term.
FISHERS, IND. — Developer Thompson Thrift has received approval from the City of Fishers to begin work on the next two phases of the $750 million Fishers District mixed-use development. Located near I-69 and 116th Street, The Union will include 55,000 square feet of retail space, 60,000 square feet of Class A office space, a 150-room boutique hotel, a 250-unit multifamily community and 805 structured parking spaces. Thompson Thrift is currently in negotiations for the hotel and about 40 percent of the retail space. Infrastructure work will begin this year, with vertical construction slated to begin in early 2025. The Crossing at Fishers District will comprise 62 acres, the centerpiece of which will be the city-owned 7,500-seat event center that is currently under construction. The center is the future home of the Indy Fuel, the professional hockey minor league affiliate of the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks. The surrounding mixed-use development will feature office, retail, restaurant, residential, hotel and entertainment components. The event center is slated for completion later this year. Chicken N Pickle, an indoor-outdoor entertainment concept with a restaurant and pickleball courts, has committed to space at The Crossing. Thompson Thrift first began work on Fishers District in 2015. Once …
WAUKEGAN, ILL. — PREMIER Design + Build Group has completed the redevelopment of an aging, 225-acre business park in the Chicago suburb of Waukegan into a modern campus for high-tech manufacturing, logistics and life sciences users. PREMIER’s work to reinvent the former McGraw Park Campus began 10 years ago. The original development was named for Foster McGraw, who founded the American Hospital Supply Corp. (AHSC). The company occupied the campus before being acquired by Baxter Travenol Laboratories in 1985. The property is located on Waukegan Road near I-94. PREMIER completed the redevelopment project in three phases, ultimately demolishing 1.2 million square feet of obsolete space. The last remaining building on the campus was a 1970s-era concrete warehouse. PREMIER tore down the building and replaced it with a state-of-the-art distribution facility for The Visual Pak Cos., a contract packaging company. The new building features a cross-dock configuration with more than 50 loading docks. Overall, the new business park totals 11 buildings and 3.4 million square feet of Class A space. Tenants include Medline, Amazon, Jelly Belly and Peloton. Throughout the project, PREMIER worked with Cornerstone Architects Ltd., Swift Structural Design, LJB Inc. and Manhard Consulting Ltd.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A partnership between locally based developer Fields Grade and New York City-based Alpine Residential has begun leasing Starling, a 39-unit apartment building in Jersey City’s Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood. Designed by GRT Architects, Starling offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such as a rooftop lounge, fitness center, coworking space, golf simulator and a package room, as well as ground-floor restaurant space. Rents start at $2,690 per month for a studio apartment.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — A joint venture between Essex Capital and Ascend Property Group has broken ground on Front Row, an 11-acre mixed-use project in downtown Huntsville. The $220 million first phase of Front Row is now underway, following news last week that Banco Inbursa and a group led by Keel Point and Opportunity Alabama provided $115 million in construction financing. The first retail space is slated for delivery in late 2025, followed by apartments and office space in early 2026. Upon full build-out, the first phase of Front Row will comprise two six-story buildings featuring 545 apartments, 36,000 square feet of office space and 47,000 square feet of retail space. Further plans for the project — including a hotel, a class A office tower and luxury condos — will be disclosed at a later date, according to the developers. The development will be situated across from the Von Braun Center, a 170,000-square-foot entertainment center that opened its doors in 1975. The developers state that Front Row is intended to interlink the Von Braun Center with other key areas of the city, such as Big Spring Park, Fountain Circle, University of Alabama Huntsville and Downtown Greenway. The project’s team also includes …
CHEROKEE, ALA. — An affiliate of AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity firm specializing in aerospace investments, has purchased a vacant industrial facility in Cherokee spanning nearly 2.3 million square feet. The Retirement Systems of Alabama sold the facility to AEI for an undisclosed price. The property sits on a 638-acre site at 1200 Haley Drive in northwest Alabama’s Shoals area and was previously home to tenants including National Steel Car, Navistar and FreightCar America. AEI plans to renovate the facility to serve as an aerospace center and house the headquarters of aerospace suppliers, manufacturers and innovators. The company will also be partnering with Poarch Band of Creek Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans with reservation lands in lower Alabama, on the project. The facility sits roughly 75 miles west of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
GASTONIA, N.C. — Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has preleased 56,280 square feet of industrial space in metro Charlotte to WRH Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Decima Corp. Henry Lobb, Abby Rights and Christopher Skibinski of Avison Young represented GCP in the lease transaction. Casey Mulhern of Foundry Commercial represented WRH Manufacturing, which produces and distributes raw and finished wood products serving the homebuilding and woodworking industries. GCP broke ground in 2022 on Northwest Gateway Logistics Park, a two-building industrial park spanning nearly 300,000 square feet. The Birmingham, Ala.-based developer is building the park on a speculative basis at 1215 Jenkins Road in Gastonia, which is situated directly off I-85. GCP plans to deliver the park in the first quarter of this year. WRH Manufacturing will occupy space within a 132,395-square-foot warehouse. Both facilities feature 32-foot clear heights, a combined 57 dock-high doors and a shared 200-foot truck court. GCP is developing Northwest Gateway Logistics Park in partnership with Phelan Bennet.
