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DURHAM, N.C. — Colliers Mortgage has provided a $14.9 million HUD 221(d)(4) loan for Oakley Square, a 100-unit affordable housing property located in Durham. The borrower, Oakley Square Housing Partners LP, will use the loan for the acquisition and substantial rehabilitation financing of Oakley Square. The loan features a 40-year term and a 40-year amortization schedule. Colliers Securities LLC provided tax exempt bonds to the borrower, which will also receive equity from the sale of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). Colliers Mortgage, formerly known as Dougherty Mortgage, is part of Colliers International and is a nationwide mortgage banking firm.

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HOUSTON — Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) has opened a 1,101-unit self-storage facility at 2055 Hayes Road in West Houston. The site previously housed a self-storage property that was demolished to make way for the new 125,000-square-foot facility. Triad Construction Inc. served as the general contractor for the three-story project, which was completed in less than 10 months.

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ROYAL OAK, MICH. — Baker College is building a new campus in Royal Oak, a northern suburb of Detroit. The 86,000-square-foot, seven-story campus will be situated at 420 S. Lafayette Ave. Construction recently began on the $51 million project, which is slated for completion in time for the 2022 academic year. The campus will accommodate approximately 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students. It will include classrooms, laboratories, study areas, gathering spaces and onsite parking. Edge Design Associates and Colasanti Construction Services Inc. make up the project team. Students at the Royal Oak campus will have the opportunity to pursue degrees in business, information technology, nursing, education, occupational therapy, physical therapy, criminal justice, psychology or liberal arts. Baker College, a private nonprofit college, currently maintains campuses in Auburn Hills, Cadillac, Jackson, Muskegon and Owosso, as well as its Culinary Institute of Michigan locations in Port Huron and Muskegon and its Auto Diesel Institute in Owosso. Baker College’s online program offers more than 40 academic options for students globally.

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BURLESON, TEXAS — Los Angeles-based Broadshore Capital Partners has provided a $31.2 million construction loan for Sovereign at Burleson, a 217-unit multifamily project that will be located on the southern outskirts of Fort Worth. Units will come in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, and amenities will include a pool with an aqua lounge, a gaming lawn, resident clubhouse and a bike shop. Chris Miller of Broadshore originated the debt, with JLL’s Greg Nalbandian acting as loan arranger. The borrower was New York City-based Sovereign Properties.

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TEXAS CITY, TEXAS — Oldham Goodwin Group LLC, a real estate development and management firm based in Central Texas, has completed Phase II of Catalon at Lago Mar, a project that added 170 apartments to the supply of Texas City, located southeast of Houston. Units feature stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and full-size washers and dryers. Amenities include a pool, outdoor fitness area, dog wash station and auto detailing station. Construction of Phase II began in August 2019. Rents start at roughly $1,000 per month for a one-bedroom unit, according to Apartments.com.

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ST. LOUIS — Midas Construction is building an AC Hotel in the Central West End of St. Louis. The seven-story, 192-room hotel is located at 215 York Ave. Construction costs total $26.4 million. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter of this year. Project developers include Concord Hospitality, Koplar Properties and Homebase Partners. The hotel is being built on a site formerly occupied by the KPLR television station, which was demolished in December 2019. Midas is optimizing its construction process by using building information modeling and fabricating some components offsite. The project team includes ENGWorks, HDA Architects, Alper Audi, DeLuca Plumbing, McClure Engineering, Eisen Group and DLR Group. This is the first hotel project in the Central West End in nearly 20 years, according to Midas.

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NEW YORK CITY — Tishman Speyer has topped out The Spiral, a 2.8 million-square-foot office tower located within Manhattan’s Hudson Yards mixed-use development. The 1,031-foot, 65-story building encompasses an entire city block between West 34th to West 35th streets and from 10th Avenue to the four-acre Bella Abzug Park. The Spiral, which was designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and is expected to open in 2022, is the future site of the global headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which will occupy 746,000 square feet. Law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is also relocating its headquarters to The Spiral with a footprint of 531,000 square feet, while asset management firm AllianceBernstein has also committed to 166,000 square feet, bringing the building’s preleased occupancy rate to 51 percent. Tenants on every floor will have access to outdoor space as part of a series of spiraling landscaped terraces and hanging gardens that wrap around the façade of the tower. The building will also house 25,000 square feet of retail space.

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NEW YORK CITY — Locally based real estate private equity firm Madison Realty Capital has broken ground on a 478-unit multifamily project in the Woodside area of Queens. Roughly 30 percent (143 residences) of the units in the building, which will also include 15,000 square feet of retail space, will be designated as affordable housing. Residential amenities will include a fitness center with a separate yoga room, a media lounge, laundry room, storage room, parking lot, bike storage, tenant lounge, rooftop terrace with a recreation kitchen and onsite parking. As part of the larger project, Madison Realty Capital is also developing a 78,000-square-foot public elementary school in partnership with the New York City School Construction Authority and Department of Education. The school will serve about 475 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. A tentative completion date was not released.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Citimark has acquired the former headquarters of hhgregg Inc. and announced plans to redevelop the 27-acre property on the far north side of Indianapolis. Citimark hasn’t unveiled full plans yet, but says it is considering single or multi-tenant flex, industrial and last-mile uses while preserving the flexibility for some retail out-lots. Appliance, electronics and furniture retailer hhgregg declared bankruptcy and liquidated all its assets in 2017, including closing its 220 stores and laying off more than 5,000 workers. The 400,000-square-foot headquarters, which featured office, industrial and showroom buildings, has sat vacant since then. The property’s unique shell design, with an open-air courtyard that can accommodate 200 cars, may have slowed the sale process. In January of 2019, national car dealer Napleton Auto Group kicked the tires on the property as a potential Kia dealership, before backing out later in the month, according to the Indiana Business Journal. Local contractor Deem LLC considered purchasing the property, but pulled out of the deal in November 2020, reported the Journal. Ultimately, Citimark emerged as the buyer in late December, paying $14 million for the asset. Alex Cantu with Colliers Indianapolis assisted Citimark with the purchase. Colliers Indianapolis brokers Jimmy Cohoat and …

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SAN FRANCISCO — Presidio Bay Ventures has received on $120 million in construction financing for the development of Ventana Residences, an apartment community located at 99 Ocean Ave. in San Francisco’s Outer Mission and Excelsior District. The project is a joint venture between Presidio Bay and American Realty Advisors. TDA Investment Group (TDA) and the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (AFL-CIO HIT) provided the construction financing. Ventana Residences will offer 193 family-friendly apartments, with 48 designated as below-market-rate units, in a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Community amenities will include a fitness center, co-working spaces, on-site childcare facilities, a two-level roof deck and a large-format, public-facing art program. Additionally, the project’s design incorporates sustainable elements including rooftop solar photovoltaic panels, all-electric appliances and individual utility submetering. Utilizing 100 percent union labor, the development of Ventana Residences will create more than 500 prevailing wage jobs and provide 25 percent on-site affordable housing, making the project the largest San Francisco community to be built under the city’s HOME-SF affordable housing development program.

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