MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $13 million sale of Sadigo Court South Beach, a historic 30-unit boutique “apartment hotel” building located at 334 20th St. in Miami Beach’s Collins Park neighborhood. Originally built in 1936 about two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean, Sadigo Court features five junior suites with kitchenettes and 25 fully furnished one-bedroom suites with full kitchens. The buyer, a private investor based in Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., has options to renovate and reposition the property as a 50-room hotel, as well as construct a new building on the south side of the property. Joseph Thomas of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office represented both the buyer and seller, a private investor based in Miami Beach, in the transaction.
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VERO BEACH, FLA. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided $12.1 million in FHA financing for Pemberly Palms Apartments, a 200-unit affordable housing community located in Vero Beach. Built in 1996, the 17-building complex was more than 95 percent occupied at the time of financing. Pemberly Palms operates under the Section 42 Low Income Housing Tax Credit and is sponsored by Harmony Housing, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides affordable rental housing throughout the U.S. John Gilmore IV and Jeff Rodman of KeyBank’s community development lending team arranged the financing, which was used to pay off an existing KeyBank bridge loan.
MIAMI — Meridian Capital has arranged an $11 million loan to refinance Village Portico, a 28,700-square-foot retail center located at 201-299 S.W. Eighth St. in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood. The property is anchored by a CVS/pharmacy, McDonald’s and Subway and is zoned for an additional 600,000 square feet of air rights. Eric Trombly of Meridian Capital’s Boca Raton, Fla., office arranged the seven-year loan through a regional balance sheet lender. The financing features a fixed interest rate and flexible prepayment terms.
MIAMI — CIM Group and Falcone Group will co-develop Seventh Street Apartments, a 450-unit apartment high-rise located along northeast 7th Street in downtown Miami. The tower will be part of the $2 billion Miami Worldcenter and feature 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurant space. The tower will connect Miami Worldcenter’s high-street retail promenade to the east with All Aboard Florida’s Central Station and MDM Group’s Marriott Marquis hotel and expo center to the west. The city of Miami has also approved an adjacent 413-unit apartment tower, bringing the total number of entitled units on the site to 863 apartment residences. Designed by Cohen & Friedman, Seventh Street Apartments will feature a pool deck, fitness center, covered parking garage and concierge services. Construction is set to begin in June and be completed in approximately two years.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Cite Partners has brokered the $10.7 million sale of Shader Industrial Park, a 300,000-square-foot industrial property in Orlando. The asset was 90 percent leased at the time of sale. Cite Partners represented the undisclosed buyer in the transaction. Cory Kroeger and Greg Rebman of KR Properties represented the seller, an unnamed entity that has owned Shader Industrial Park since 1983.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Passco Cos. LLC has purchased The Ivy, a 248-unit, Class A apartment community within the Florida Hospital Health Village in Orlando, for $53.5 million. The newly built property is located at 2650 Dade Ave. within walking distance of a SunRail station. Constructed in 2015 by Atlanta-based Wood Partners, The Ivy features multi-level pool decks with a resort-style swimming pool, fitness center and a yoga studio. Passco has retained Wood Partners to manage the property. Shelton Granade of CBRE represented Passco and the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Chris Black of KeyBank Real Estate Capital arranged a Fannie Mae loan to finance the acquisition.
WINDERMERE, FLA. — Orlando-based Roger B. Kennedy Construction has started construction on the upscale Venetian Isles Apartments & Townhomes located at 6506 San Francesco Way and 10006 St. Marks Blvd. in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando. The $42 million community will span 302 apartment residences in 19 buildings and 44 townhomes in nine buildings. The townhomes and apartments are scheduled for completion in June 2017 and December 2017, respectively. The design team includes Orlando-based developer UNICORP National Developments Inc. and Orlando-based architect Slocum Platts Architects.
ZOM, Northwestern Mutual to Break Ground on Waterfront Apartment Community in Metro Tampa
by John Nelson
ROCKY POINT, FLA. — ZOM Florida and Northwestern Mutual plan to break ground on SEAZEN, a 323-unit waterfront apartment community located near Tampa on the island of Rocky Point. Currently home to a Chart House restaurant, the site features 750 linear feet of direct waterfront on Tampa Bay. ZOM and Northwestern Mutual plan to begin construction in August and deliver the asset in summer 2018. The companies plan to begin pre-leasing SEAZEN in late 2017.
ATLANTA — Atlanta-based Bauman & Co. has purchased three medical office buildings in Orlando; Macon, Ga., and Chattanooga, Tenn., for a combined $25 million. The properties include the Lake Lurna Professional Center in downtown Orlando, the Coliseum Cancer Center in Macon that is being renamed the Coliseum Drive Physicians Building and the Spring Creek Medical Center in Chattanooga that is being renamed the Spring Creek Physicians Building. The Orlando and Macon buildings were fully leased at the time of sale and the Chattanooga property was 82 percent leased. Bauman & Co., Siemens Financial Services, Capital One Healthcare and a small group of private investors provided acquisition financing for the portfolio transaction.
Whitman Family Development Submits Plans for $400M Expansion of Bal Harbour Shops Near Miami Beach
by Katie Sloan
BAL HARBOUR, FLA. — Whitman Family Development has submitted updated plans for a $400 million expansion of Bal Harbour Shops, an upscale, 450,000-square-foot, open-air shopping center located in Bal Harbour Village near Miami Beach. Expansion plans include the addition of the first Barneys New York flagship store in the Southeastern U.S., as well as significant upgrades to longtime anchor tenants Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. The expansion will also include the addition of new luxury boutiques and restaurants, expanded vehicle entryways and exits with improved traffic signals, and wider sidewalks with increased landscaping and tree canopy around the shops on 96th Street and Collins Avenue. The new plans are the result of a Bal Harbour Village Council meeting on April 13 during which all council members expressed support for the expansion, but deadlocked 2-2 on the sale of the current Village Hall site that was central to the proposal. The revised plan reduces the proposed footprint by approximately 19 percent, according to reports by the Miami Herald, and will be built entirely on land already owned by Whitman Family Development. “The updated plan meets all of our goals, albeit in a different configuration,” says Matthew Whitman Lazenby, president and CEO of …