Development

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BREA, CALIF. — Cadence Living, Flournoy Development Group and Harrison Street have broken ground on Cadence Brea, an 80-unit assisted living and memory care in the Orange County city of Brea. The project team includes Thoma-Holec Design, Irwin Partners Architects and Flatiron Development Group. “This is a unique opportunity and part of our overall strategy to focus on boutique, high-end, amenity-laden communities with high walkability scores,“ says Rob Leinbach, principal with Cadence. “We are focused on locations with a high barrier to entry,” adds Justin Osborne, vice president at Flournoy Development Group. “It is rare that we come across a site with this many amenities in close proximity.” The community is scheduled to open in first-quarter 2024. This will be the third community delivered in the Cadence/Flournoy partnership after Cadence Olney in the Washington, D.C. suburb in Montgomery County, Maryland and Cadence at Kent-Meridian in the Seattle MSA. Cadence Brea is also the eighth collaboration between Cadence and Harrison Street.

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FRESNO, TEXAS — Houston-based Guefen Development Partners has acquired two parcels totaling roughly 40 acres in Fresno, located southwest of Houston, for the development of a 320-unit build-to-rent residential project. The tracts include a 30.3-acre parcel along Rabb Road and a 9.7-acre adjacent parcel fronting State Highway 6. Jason Scholtz of Colliers represented the family that sold the land to Guefen Development. A construction timeline was not disclosed.

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GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Texas-based developer Presidium has begun leasing Presidium Hill Street, a 290-unit multifamily project located in the central metroplex city of Grand Prairie. Units are furnished with stainless steel appliances, smart technology lock systems and Ecobee thermostats. Amenities include a pool, business lounge with conference rooms, rooftop terrace, fitness center, onsite car wash and a pet grooming area. Project partners include O’Brien Architects, interior design firm SLJ Design Group and civil engineer Kimley-Horn. Move-ins are scheduled to begin in spring 2022.

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ST. LOUIS — New + Found is scheduled to break ground on the second phase of City Foundry STL in January. The $125 million project will include a 272-unit apartment tower, 83,000-square-foot office building, 25,000 square feet of retail space and a 481-car parking garage. Lawrence Group is the lead architect and interior design firm for the project. ARCO/Murray will construct the apartment building, while Lawrence Group’s construction team will build the timber office building. Completion is slated for early 2024. CliftonLarsonAllen LLP secured $49.7 million in joint venture equity funding for the project. City Foundry STL is the transformation of the former Federal-Mogul foundry site into a mixed-use development. Phase I includes a food hall as well as creative office, retail and entertainment space.

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TAMPA, FLA. — Altman Cos. has broken ground on Altís Grand at Suncoast, a 449-unit apartment community in Tampa. Rockpoint Group provided equity for the project, and PNC Bank provided debt. Construction is slated for completion by 2023. Altís Grand at Suncoast will offer one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Unit features include bathrooms equipped with dual sink vanities, a soaking tub, quartz countertops, 39-inch cabinets, frontload washers and dryers, stainless steel and energy-efficient appliances. Community amenities include a fitness center, Starbucks cyber cafe, multiple coworking lounges, wellness treatment room, pool, private conference room, game room, indoor air-conditioned dog grooming spa, a multipurpose trail, pet park, hobby/craft room and a 24/7 automated package pickup station. Residents will enjoy membership to The Club, an onsite clubroom that will host activities including daily continental breakfast, Sunday brunch and “Wine Down Wednesdays.” Altman plans for Altís Grand at Suncoast to achieve National Green Building Standard (NGBS) certification, and the property’s sustainable initiatives will include 100 percent energy-efficient designer lighting, Energy Star refrigerators and dishwashers, high-efficiency water heaters and sub-metered water stations and electric car charging stations.

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HIALEAH, FLA. — CBRE has arranged the sale of North Dade Distribution, a 16.5-acre industrial site under development in Hialeah. Dallas-based Dalfen Industrial purchased the site for $26.4 million. Christian Lee, Chris Riley, José Lobón, Amy Julian and Royce Rose of CBRE represented the seller, Coconut Creek, Fla.-based Butters Realty, in the transaction. Slated to be completed in March 2023, North Dade Distribution will total 298,354 square feet. The rear-load warehouse will feature 32-foot clear heights, a 120-foot truck court, 240-foot building depth, separate ingress and egress access for cars and trucks and an ESFR sprinkler system. Located on the corner of 97th Ave. and 165th St., the site provides access to Interstate 75 and the Florida Turnpike via NW 138th St.

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BOSTON — South Carolina-based Greystar is nearing completion of a 126-unit multifamily project in Boston’s historic Bay Village neighborhood. Designed by Sasaki and Höweler + Yoon, the property rises 19 stories and spans 150,000 square feet, including ground-floor retail space. Boston-based Transom Real Estate handled the permitting and entitlement processes prior to selling the site to Greystar. Construction began in March 2020, and full completion is slated for next summer.

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SOMERVILLE, MASS. — A partnership between Leggat McCall Properties, DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners and Deutsche Finance America (DFA) has received $246 million in construction financing for 808 Windsor, a life sciences development located roughly four miles outside Boston in Somerville.  Brett Paulsrud and Henry Schaffer of JLL Capital Markets secured the five-year loan through Bank OZK. 808 Windsor will be positioned adjacent to the newly developed Union Square MBTA Green Line Station within Boynton Yards, a master-planned development that is set to span up to 1.35 million square feet. The 11-story property will include 346,000 square feet of state-of-the-art lab space, 7,000 square feet of retail and 242 below-grade parking spaces. A timeline for the development was not announced. Boston remains a top life sciences market in the U.S., with recently announced projects including the conversion of a 105,000-square-foot building in suburban Boston and the conversion of a 102,727-square-foot office building in Boston’s Seaport District into life sciences space, among others.   Leggat McCall Properties is an owner, developer and service provider for corporate, educational and healthcare properties across the greater Boston area. The company has developed over 42 million square feet of projects over the past 10 years.  …

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The COVID-19 pandemic changed the ways schools operate, how classes were taught, and how students learned and socialized in 2020. Life still hasn’t returned to normal for anyone, including students away at college.  Interior design may seem like a lower priority in the wake of such a health crisis, but these professionals would argue the exact opposite — that it’s more important than ever. That’s because leasing, retention, and making students and parents feel safe and secure as they return to their college experiences is more important than ever.  The pandemic shifted higher education from in-person classes to online learning in 2020. This gave students and parents an entire year to reassess whether going away to school was the right decision going forward. This has been compounded by a focus on increasing education costs, as well as many colleges announcing that the 2021 to 2022 school year would emphasize hybrid learning, with lots of classes remaining online as the Delta variant took hold.  The cumulative result of all this was a 4 percent decrease in undergraduate enrollment in 2021, per the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Freshman enrollment for the fall 2021 semester start sank by 13 percent when compared to …

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Hillwood will develop a 135,000-square-foot speculative office building within the 900-acre Alliance Town Center development in Fort Worth. Hillwood Commons II is the first of two planned sister buildings and will be expandable to up to 270,000 square feet. The building will feature increased air filtration, bipolar ionization systems, touchless doors, electric vehicle charging stations and connectivity to the outdoors via the Alliance Town Center trail network and park system. Completion is slated for February 2023.

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