MECHANICSVILLE, VA. — WEDGE Acquisitions LLC has purchased a 1.7-acre parcel in Mechanicsville for $690,000 for the development of a retail strip center. Upon completion, the property, located at 8527 Meadowbridge Road, will comprise 6,500 square feet. Dunkin’ will anchor the center. Nathan Shor of S.L. Nusbaum represented WEDG in the transaction, and Douglas Tice III, also with S.L. Nusbaum, represented the seller, Lisa G. Waitman.
Development
DALLAS — Two Arizona-based firms, developer Creation and LGE Design Build, have opened a $17 million joint headquarters office in Dallas. The companies collaborated on the acquisition, design and build-out of the 32,000-square-foot space, which is located at 1280 E. Levee St. in the Dallas Design District and will house about 40 employees. Amenities include a fully stocked breakroom, speakeasy, fitness center, interior library and multiple conference rooms. Creation and LGE, which plan to occupy about 20,000 square feet and lease the remaining 12,000 square feet, will retain their current spaces and operations in Arizona.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — New York City-based developer Rockefeller Group has broken ground on Constitution Logistics Center, a 147,000-square-foot industrial project in the Northern New Jersey community of Piscataway. The 18-acre site at 10 Constitution Ave. formerly housed a 100,000-square-foot office building that was owned and occupied by hearing aid manufacturer WS Audiology and that is now being demolished. Constitution Logistics Center will feature a clear height of 36 feet, 41 loading docks, 123 car parking spaces and 57 trailer stalls. Completion is slated for the second quarter of 2024. ARCO Construction is the general contractor for the project. Cushman & Wakefield and KBC Advisors have been appointed as the leasing agents.
Watermarke Properties Buys City Centre Office-to-Apartment Conversion Project in Orange, California
by Jeff Shaw
ORANGE, CALIF. — Watermarke Properties has acquired City Centre I, a 6.8-acre multifamily redevelopment project, for $22.5 million. The current property is a Class A, 150,161-square-foot office building suitable for multifamily or mixed-use conversion. Current zoning designations for the site allow for up to 60 units per acre. Primary use of the site’s ground floor is slated for retail. Newmark’s Kevin Shannon, Paul Jones, Ken White, Chris Benton, Anthony Muhlstein and Brandon White represented the undisclosed seller.
LAS VEGAS — Lincoln Property Co. has broken ground on Windsor Commerce Park, a nearly 1.6 million-square-foot industrial project in Las Vegas. The eight-building, 86-acre, Class A industrial park is LPC’s first ground-up industrial endeavor in Nevada. It is scheduled for completion during the third quarter of 2024. Kevin Higgins, Garrett Toft, Jake Higgins and Kelsey Higgins from CBRE are the project’s exclusive leasing brokers.
MINDEN, NEV. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of a development site in Minden, approximately 50 miles south of Reno. The five-acre parcel is fully entitled for construction of a seniors housing community totaling up to 130 units. The site is strategically located adjacent to Carson Tahoe Minden Medical Center, which Carson Tahoe Regional Health — the region’s largest healthcare provider — operates. The buyer was a West Coast-based seniors housing developer that is affiliated with a seniors housing operator. Information on the seller and price were not disclosed.
CHICAGO — McShane Construction Co. and Powers & Sons Construction have completed 23rd Place at Southbridge, a 206-unit mixed-income community located on Chicago’s Near South Side. The Community Builders and McCaffery Interests developed the project, which is situated on the former Harold Ickes Homes site. The two-building development features 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Approximately 50 percent of the units are affordable to households earning up to 80 percent of the area median income. The project features amenity space on the first and sixth floors, including lounges, terraces and a fitness center. A new public right-of-way, 23rd Place, connects the two buildings and can be closed off to create public gathering space for community activities. The transit-oriented development is located adjacent to the Cermak-McCormick Place Green Line L stop. Nia Architects and Antunovich Associates provided architectural services.
PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLA. — A joint venture between The St. Joe Co., Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HLT) and Key International have opened the Embassy Suites by Hilton Panama City Beach Resort, a 255-room resort overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. Located in the popular Florida Panhandle vacation town of Panama City Beach, the resort features one- and two-bedroom suites, including two-bedroom family suites and suites with bunk beds. The resort features a pool complex with a waterslide and hot tub, a fitness center, business center and approximately 15,500 square feet of meeting and event space. The property also includes two restaurants: Blu Bar & Grill, which will serve lunch and dinner, and Fin, which will provide guests with complimentary breakfast. Vue 55, a 3,800 square-foot open-air event venue on the fifth floor, will also be available for weddings and group functions. The resort is in the Pier Park shopping and entertainment district. According to the Panama City Beach website, Pier Park currently offers 124 stores, as well as restaurants such as Dick’s Last Resort and Hook’d Pier Bar and Grill, an IMAX theater and a Ferris wheel. “The location of this resort is unlike anything in the market,” says …
PORT WENTWORTH, GA. — Lineage Logistics has opened Savannah Fresh-Port Wentworth, a 220,000-square-foot industrial facility near the Port of Savannah. The $78 million development supports 65 new jobs. The temperature-controlled facility has 23 inbound and outbound lanes that can process more than 40 trucks daily, moving up to 1.4 million pounds of produce per day, according to Lineage. The new facility brings the Michigan-based REIT’s total investment in Chatham County to more than $100 million and its Georgia portfolio to over 3 million square feet.
CHAMBLEE, GA. — Atlas Real Estate Partners and FIDES Development plan to break ground in early May on The Hawkins, a $70 million multifamily community in the Atlanta suburb of Chamblee. The 192-unit mid-rise community will feature a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, as well as 15,000 square feet of amenity and commercial space. Amenities will include a fitness center, coworking space, pet spa, dog park, community room, pool courtyard, bike room and a rooftop lounge overlooking the nearby DeKalb-Peachtree Airport.