TITUSVILLE, FLA. — Sean Glickman of Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT and Glickman Retail Group brokered the $16 million of Crossroads Marketplace, an 89,200-square-foot shopping center located at 3065 Columbia Blvd. in Titusville, a town in Central Florida. The asset was 95 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Marshalls, Petco, Parish Medical, AT&T, GNC and Dollar Tree. The asset is also shadow-anchored by a Super Target. The buyer is an international investment firm. Glickman represented the seller, a 106-year-old family-owned company that owns shopping centers in 12 states in the Southeast.
MIAMI — FA Commercial has brokered the sale of retail spaces at Millecento, a 42-story mixed-use tower located at 1100 S. Miami Ave. in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood. A group of unnamed investors based in South America purchased the ground-floor retail spaces, totaling 17,500 square feet, for $10.5 million. Fabio Faerman of FA Commercial represented the buyer in the transaction. Since the sale, Faerman has leased the retail spaces to tenants such as Freddo Gelateria, Pizza Tonda, Prime Cigar and Level 1 Restaurant & Lounge.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Index Living plans to develop two apartment communities on Greenwald Drive near the northeast corner of Osceola and John Young parkways near Kissimmee. The combined development cost for the two properties is $47 million. The two properties, known as Monterey Pointe and Sonoma Pointe, will span a combined 366 units that feature nine-foot ceilings, wood plank flooring, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, bedroom ceiling fans and energy and water conservation features. The properties’ community amenities will include community rooms, fitness centers, business centers and swimming pools with deck areas. Index Living, through its affiliate Index Investment Group and an unnamed developer based in Florida, plans to deliver Sonoma Pointe this September. No completion date has been announced for Monterey Pointe, which will be an independent living property for seniors over 55 years old.
DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA. — Dockerty Romer & Co. has arranged a $6.8 million acquisition loan for The Shoppes of Hillsboro, a 61,165-square-foot shopping center located along Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Beach, a town in Broward County. The shopping center was 99 percent leased at the time of financing to tenants including Optimum Bank, Gentle Dental and Bank United. Bob Dockerty of Dockerty Romer arranged the 10-year loan through a New York-based CMBS lender on behalf of the borrower, BREF Hillsboro LLC. The loan was structured at an interest rate fixed below 4 percent and with five years of interest-only payments.
WESTON, FLA. — CBRE has arranged a long-term 230,600-square-foot industrial lease in Weston. The tenant, Gold Coast Freightways, originally occupied half of the Class A distribution center but will now lease the entire facility. Tom O’Loughlin and Larry Genet of CBRE represented the landlord, Clarion Partners, in the lease transaction. Luis Marquez of the Casal Group represented Gold Coast Freightways, a less-than-truck-load carrier based in Miami.
ORLANDO, FLA. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured a $17 million acquisition loan for Falcon Trace Apartments, a 252-unit garden-style community in Orlando. The apartment complex was built in 1999. Jane Harrison of KeyBank’s commercial mortgage group secured the financing through Freddie Mac’s CME program.
DESTIN, FLA. — Atlanta-based Bull Realty has brokered the $3 million sale of a 2.2-acre lot at the corner of Emerald Coast Parkway (Highway 98) and Restaurant Row in Destin, a popular tourist destination located on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida’s panhandle. CM Destin LLC, a hotel group, purchased the site from Spa Destin LLC and is planning a Home2Suites by Hilton concept at the location. The buyer will be demolishing the existing 14,875-square-foot Whitney National Bank to make room for the new hotel. Bull Realty was the only broker involved in the marketing and sale of the land site. The developer will be Cohen Investments, a Memphis-based REIT specializing in hotel and commercial property development and management.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — NXT Capital has provided a $37.9 million first mortgage loan to refinance Crown Center Offices, a five-building, 350,000-square-foot office campus in Fort Lauderdale. The property is located within a mile of I-95 and three miles from the Florida Turnpike. Paul Ahmed of Walker & Dunlop arranged the loan through NXT Capital on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
MIAMI — NBA Hall of Fame member Alonzo Mourning, now head of AM Affordable Housing, has teamed up with Housing Trust Group to develop the 84-unit Phase I of Courtside Family Apartments, an affordable housing development in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. The partnership recently closed on the property’s financing. Courtside’s Phase II will include 120 seniors housing units and Phase III will comprise 80 rental units. The property will include a multi-purpose community room with gaming tables, a theater/media room, computer lab and fitness center, as well as an outdoor basketball court, covered picnic areas and gardens. Located at 1700 N.W. 4th Ave., the property is expected to create roughly 150 jobs during the 14-month construction process. Development costs are estimated at $22.8 million, and the partnership is financing the project through RBC Tax Credit equity estimated at $9 million raised from the purchase of Florida Housing Finance Corporation low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC); construction and permanent debt financed by Citi Community Capital totaling $3.3 million; $7.5 million from the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency; Miami-Dade County Surtax loan for approximately $1.8 million; and developer equity.
CLEARWATER AND TAMPA, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $21 million sale of two apartment communities in the Tampa Bay area. The buyer, Montreal-based Groupe Mach Inc., purchased the 200-unit Royal Breeze Apartments in Clearwater for $13.9 million and the 168-unit Lenox Place Apartments in Tampa for $7.1 million. Casey Babb, Luis Baez and Moe Derbala of Marcus & Millichap’s Tampa office represented the seller, Tampa-based Hachem Investments, in the transaction. Groupe Mach was represented internally.