BEACHWOOD, OHIO — Beachwood-based DDR Corp. and an affiliate of Madison International Realty have closed the $1.05 billion recapitalization of a joint venture with 52 shopping centers previously owned by DDR and various partners through the DDR Domestic Retail Fund I. Madison International Real Estate Liquidity Fund VI, an investment fund managed by Madison International Realty, acquired 80 percent of the common equity of the joint venture and an affiliate of DDR retained 20 percent. The portfolio, totaling 7 million square feet, consists primarily of grocery-anchored shopping centers located predominantly in Florida and the Southeastern U.S., and was originally formed in 2007. Three properties previously held by the partnership have been excluded from the recapitalization and are being held in a separate joint venture with the previous partners of DDR Domestic Retail Fund I, including DDR. The recapitalization includes the repayment of all outstanding mortgage debt previously held by the partnership with a new $707 million mortgage loan secured by the 52 assets. DDR will continue to provide leasing and management services.
WESLEY CHAPEL, FLA. — ARA Newmark has brokered the $52.5 million sale of Enclave at Wesley Chapel, a 312-unit apartment community in the Tampa Bay town of Wesley Chapel. Patrick Dufour, Scott Ramey and Ryan Crowley of ARA Newmark represented the seller, Chicago-based Sherman Residential, in the transaction. Denver-based Valhalla Holdings purchased the asset as part of a 1031 exchange. Matt Williams of NGKF Capital Markets secured a $28.9 million Freddie Mac loan on behalf of Valhalla Holdings. The seven-year features a fixed interest rate. Community amenities at Enclave at Wesley Chapel include a resort-style pool, fitness center, dog park and a business center.
BRADENTON, FLA. — Inland Private Capital Corp. has sold the 272-unit Lost Creek Resorts at Lakewood Ranch Apartments in the Tampa Bay area. Inland sold the asset through an asset management subsidiary via a 1031 investment program for $50.5 million. Located at 11140 Lost Creek Terrace Lakewood Ranch in Bradenton, the nine-building property features 92 one-bedroom units, 124 two-bedroom units and 56 three-bedroom units. Built in 2012, the community was fully occupied as of May 31, 2017. The buyer was undisclosed.
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. AND HILTON HEAD, S.C. — A partnership between Sutton Properties, Margaritaville Holdings and Minto Communities plans to develop two Latitude Margaritaville projects in Daytona Beach and Hilton Head. Both developments will feature Margaritaville restaurants, an island-inspired food and beverage concept that launched in 1987 in Key West, Fla. The Daytona Beach community is currently under construction with 3,000 residences, and a future proposed expansion of up to 7,000 homes catering to residents 55 years and up. Sutton Properties is preleasing a total of 200,000 square feet of retail space at the entrance to Latitude Margaritaville on LPGA Blvd, just west of Interstate 95. The first phase will include a supermarket, along with retailers and restaurants. At the Hilton Head development, Margaritaville Holdings and Minto have broken ground on more than 3,000 homes on 2,739 acres. Sutton Properties acquired 72 acres for a three-phase, mixed-use development. Phase I will be located on Highway 278 at the community entrance located in Hardeeville, between I-95 and Hilton Head Island. Phase I will include a supermarket and other retail and restaurant tenants, and Phase II includes a hotel opportunity, followed by a mixed-use town center. The first homes at both developments …
GAINESVILLE, FLA. — The Preiss Company has acquired Cabana Beach Gainesville, a 1,488-bed student housing community located near the University of Florida in Gainesville. The property offers fully furnished units with bed-to-bath parity. Community amenities include a swimming pool, sand volleyball court, computer lab and study rooms. The new ownership, which also recently purchased the Cabana Beach San Marcos student housing community near Texas State University, intends to begin renovations on both properties’ units and common areas. The terms of the transaction and the seller were undisclosed.
MAULDIN, S.C. AND JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — CCP Commercial Real Estate has purchased two office buildings in suburban Greenville and Jacksonville for a combined $39.2 million. CCP bought a 106,649-square-foot, single-story office asset near Greenville at 750 Brookfield Parkway in Mauldin for nearly $16.7 million. The Virginia Beach, Va.-based investor also acquired a five-story, 219,000-square-foot asset at 8800 Baymeadows Way West in Jacksonville for roughly $22.5 million. The Mauldin building was 92 percent leased at the time of sale, and the Jacksonville property was 81 percent leased. The identity of the seller(s) was not released.
LYNN HAVEN, FLA. — CBRE Capital Markets has secured $36.7 million in financing for Arbor Trace, a 336-unit apartment community located in Lynn Haven, a town in the Florida Panhandle near the Gulf of Mexico. The loan involved a refinance of the community’s existing 168 units and a construction take-out loan for the newly built Phase II, which spans 168 units. Glenn Housman of CBRE’s debt and structured finance team in Orlando arranged the 10-year, floating-rate, Fannie Mae loan with two years of interest-only payments.
JUPITER, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $26.8 million sale of Riverwalk Pointe at Mangrove Bay, a 104-unit, age-restricted apartment community in Jupiter, located on the east coast north of Palm Beach. Mangrove Bay Housing LLC, a joint venture between Eastwind Development and Index Apartments LLC, sold the asset to Pleasant Valley Market Place, an out-of-state investor using a 1031 exchange. The two-building community was built in 2014 and was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. Rents at the property average $1.76 per square foot. Robert Given, Calum Weaver, Zachary Sackley and Troy Ballard of Cushman & Wakefield negotiated the transaction.
TAMPA, FLA. — City Office REIT has begun the multimillion-dollar renovation of Park Tower, a 475,000-square-foot office building in downtown Tampa. The overhaul will include a new façade, upgraded entrance and facelift to the building’s amenities. Gensler is the designer for the renovations, which will include a new lobby café with seating, tenant lounge on the sixth floor, new fitness center with yoga room and bike stations, shared tenant conference room, new concierge desk and renovated parking garage with LED lighting. City Office REIT expects to wrap up the renovations in the first quarter of 2018. The REIT purchased Park Tower in November 2016 in a joint venture with Feldman Equities LLC and Tower Realty Partners for $79.8 million.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — A joint venture between Rockefeller Group and Stiles has sold Amaray Las Olas, a newly built, 30-story apartment tower located at 215 S.E. 8th Ave. in downtown Fort Lauderdale. An entity known as Amaray Las Olas by Windsor, which is managed by Boston-based GID Investment Advisers, purchased the asset for $133.6 million, according to the South Florida Business Journal. The outlet also reported that TH Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of TIAA, provided a $65 million loan to the buyer. Rockefeller and Stiles completed the 254-unit tower in 2016, marking the first joint venture project between the two firms. The property comprises studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom residences with balconies and high-quality finishes. Community amenities include an elevated pool surrounded by private cabanas, an entertainment pavilion and deck, fitness center, saunas and massage/treatment room, clubroom, beverage lounge, conference and business center, bike storage, outdoor lanai with fire pit, dog spa and a park. Robert Given, Zach Sackley, Troy Ballard and Neal Victor of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. Robert Kaplan, Chris Lentz and Mark Rutherford of Cushman & Wakefield placed the debt for the buyer.