ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLA. — CBRE has arranged the $28.6 million sale of Buckingham Plaza, a 91,000-square-foot retail power center in Royal Palm Beach in suburban Palm Beach County. The property was 100 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as T.J. Maxx, Michaels, Shoe Carnival and Tuesday Morning. The shopping center has cross connectivity with the Shoppes at Isla Verde. An affiliate of San Francisco-based Stockbridge Capital Group purchased Buckingham Plaza from an affiliate of Boca Raton-based PEBB Enterprises. Casey Rosen and Dennis Carson of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction.
TAMPA, FLA. — Atlanta-based Carter has begun construction on Nine15, a 23-story apartment tower located on North Franklin Street in Tampa. The project will feature 362 apartment residences and 8,000 square feet of street-level retail space. Community amenities will include a fitness center, eight-story parking garage and an amenity deck including a pool, garden area and clubroom. The design team includes DPR Construction and RJT+R Architecture. Carter expects to deliver the high-rise project in the fall of 2017.
OCOEE, FLA. — Doster Construction has broken ground on Arbours at Crown Point, a new 240-unit apartment complex in Ocoee, roughly 12 miles west of Orlando. The property will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom units in 10 buildings. Arbour Valley Development LLC is the developer of the project, which is slated to deliver in the first quarter of 2017. Doster delivered more than 1,000 multifamily units in 2015 and has another project in the works in Florida — Crossings at Milestone in Pensacola.
MIAMI — The Related Group and Dezer Development have closed on a $114.7 million construction loan for Hyde Midtown Suites & Residences, a hotel and condominium development that will be located on Midtown Avenue and 34th Street in Miami. Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies provided the construction loan to Related and Dezer. The two companies collaborated with sbe on the project, which will feature 60 designer hotel rooms, 410 luxury condominiums and 19,500 square feet of retail, dining and entertainment space, including the Hyde Piano Bar Lounge. Hyde Midtown will feature a pool terrace on the seventh floor, private screening theater, game room, bocce and tennis courts and VIP access to Hyde Beach at the SLS Hotel South Beach. The design team includes Arquitectonica and David Rockwell, who will design the lobby and hotel rooms. Related and Dezer broke ground on the mixed-use tower in September 2015 with a completion date set for 2018. The condo portion is more than 70 percent under contract.
MIAMI — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a 560,000-square-foot, build-to-suit lease for Telemundo’s new broadcast center and studios in Miami. The new two-building campus will be located at the corner of Northwest 25th Street and Northwest 117th Place within Prologis Beacon Lakes, a 478-acre business park. The primary 476,000-square-foot facility will house more than 100,000 square feet of executive offices, as well broadcast and entertainment studios, a network operations center, set design operations and post-production facilities. A second, 87,000 square-foot building will be used for storage. Telemundo, which was purchased by NBCUniversal in 2010, is expected to occupy the campus in early 2018. Brian Smith, Mike Davis and Audley Bosch of Cushman & Wakefield represented NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises in the lease deal. Telemundo will consolidate approximately 1,300 jobs currently housed at various facilities throughout Miami-Dade County. As part of the deal, Prologis sold the land for the project to SunTrust Bank, which is serving as the landlord to NBCUniversal Telemundo.
MIAMI — On behalf of owners TIAA-CREF and Allianz Real Estate of America, The Hogan Group has broken ground on 800 Waterford, a 250,000-square-foot spec office building situated within Waterford at Blue Lagoon in Miami. The 1.4 million-square-foot, Class A office park is adjacent to Miami International Airport and State Road 836. The existing buildings are 97 percent leased to tenants such as Airbus, Caterpillar, FedEx, Sony, Estee Lauder and Baxter Healthcare. Allianz entered a joint venture with TIAA-CREF in 2015 upon purchase of a 49 percent stake in the Waterford complex. The Hogan Group expects to deliver the office building in mid-2017.
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $17.9 million sale of U.S. 1 A/C Self Storage, a 74,679-square-foot self storage facility located at 3101 S. Federal Highway in Boynton Beach. The sale price of $240 per square foot is one of the highest prices per square foot ever recorded for a Florida self storage property, according to Marcus & Millichap. U.S. 1 A/C Self Storage was built on less than two acres in 2004 with 957 climate-controlled units. At the time of the sale, there were 838 climate-controlled units and 101 wine storage units. The units range in size from 4 to 400 square feet. Michael Mele and Luke Elliott of Marcus & Millichap’s Tampa office represented the sellers, local private investors. Mele and Elliott also procured the buyer, Strategic Storage Trust II Inc., a public non-traded REIT.
LAKELAND, FLA. — Seefried Industrial Properties has broken ground on a Class A, 275,226-square-foot spec industrial facility at Bridgewater Commerce Center in Lakeland. The property’s owner, USAA Real Estate Co., has tapped Clay Witherspoon of Avison Young’s Tampa office to lease the project, which is situated at the southwest quadrant of I-4 and Highway 33. Upon completion in the fourth quarter of 2016, the facility will feature 36-foot clear heights. Bridgewater Commerce Center’s existing tenants include JC Penney, Havertys, HD Supply, Empire, Southeastern Paper Group and TA Chen International Inc.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — Colliers International has arranged the $16.1 million sale of Shoppes at the Royale, a 46,020-square-foot shopping center located at 1400-1500 66th St. North in St. Petersburg’s Tyrone neighborhood. Built in 2008, the property is fully leased to tenants such as Pei Wei Asian Diner, Massage Envy, Orangetheory Fitness and Verizon Wireless. In 2012, Atlanta-based Halpern Enterprises purchased the shopping center out of foreclosure at 52 percent occupancy. Halpern Enterprises sold the property to Sarall II LLC, a private investor that owns shopping centers in Sarasota and Fort Myers. Michael Milano, Ronald Schultz and Ben McLeish of Colliers International’s Tampa Bay office represented Halpern in the transaction. McLeish previously leased the property on behalf of Halpern.
ORLANDO, FLA. — NXT Capital has provided a $15.1 million acquisition loan for the Reserve at Maitland, a three-building, Class B office property in Orlando totaling 197,000 square feet. The property is situated on the south side of Maitland Center, just north of Orlando’s central business district, with access to I-4.