EDMOND, OKLA. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged $13.1 million in joint venture equity financing for a multifamily project in Edmond, located just north of Oklahoma City. Oaks at Covell will comprise 102 townhomes in two-, three- and four-bedroom floor plans that will be located along I-35. Justin Shuart and Travis Headapohl of IPA worked on behalf of ACRE Development Partners to arrange the financing with an undisclosed partner.
LOWELL, MASS. — MassHousing has provided $94 million in financing for Westminster Village Arms, a 432-unit affordable housing complex located north of Boston in Lowell. The property comprises 36 three-story buildings and a maintenance building that were constructed in 1970 and last renovated in 2012. Units come in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans and are reserved for households earning 60 percent or less of the area median income. Amenities include a pool, basketball court, playground, business center, community room with a kitchen and onsite laundry facilities. The borrower, Related Affordable, will use the proceeds to retire existing debt, preserve the property’s affordability status and fund approximately $20 million in renovations.
OAKLAND COUNTY, MICH. — District Capital has arranged a $10 million loan for the refinancing of a 62,000-square-foot retail center in Oakland County within the Detroit metro area. Justin Hollis of District Capital arranged the loan through a life insurance lender. The interest rate was locked at application.
LOS ANGELES — Northmarq has secured $50.7 million in refinancing for a 10-property apartment portfolio in the Los Angeles/Hollywood areas. Panot Capital manages the buildings, which were built in the 1920s and offer a total of 482 units. Zalmi Klyne of Northmarq’s Los Angeles debt and equity team arranged the financing, which was structured with a seven-year term and four years of interest-only payments at a rate of 5.9 percent. The lender was Israel Discount Bank of New York.
GIG HARBOR, WASH. — Northmarq has arranged $35 million in refinancing for The Lodge at Mallard’s Landing, a seniors housing property in Gig Harbor, across the Puget Sound from Tacoma. The Lodge at Mallard’s Landing offers 147 private-pay independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Stuart Oswald of Northmarq’s Seattle office arranged the six-year, fixed-rate loan through a correspondent life insurance company. The financing features an earn-out component allowing the borrower to draw additional dollars as NOI improves. Built in two phases from 2010 to 2015, the development consists of a three-story main building with 98 independent living/assisted living units, 24 independent living cottages and a separate, secured, two-story memory care building with 25 units. Tacoma-based Senior Services of America manages the community and has for more than 10 years.
DALLAS — JLL has arranged a $290 million construction loan for Parkside Uptown, a 500,000-square-foot office tower that will be located at the corner of North Harwood Street and Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Dallas. Bank of America has preleased roughly half the space at the 30-story building, which is slated for a 2027 delivery. Trey Morsbach, Jim Curtin, Michael Cosby and Greg Napper of JLL arranged the four-year, floating-rate loan through Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The borrower is a partnership led by Pacific Elm Properties that also includes local developer KDC. New York-based architect Kohn Pedersen Fox designed Parkside Uptown.
HOUSTON — Seattle-based lender Avatar Financial Group has provided a $6.5 million bridge loan for the refinancing of Bellfort Plaza, a 168-unit apartment complex in southeast Houston. Built in 1961 and renovated in 2001, Bellfort Plaza offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units. The borrower, an entity doing business as HSR Bellfort Plaza Apartments LLC, acquired the property in 2003 and will use the proceeds to pay off a $6 million first mortgage loan and complete construction of 14 new units. Those new units are all preleased. A.J. Funaro of Brookview Financial arranged the debt.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Albion Residential has secured a construction loan for the first of two residential towers at Albion Music Row, the company’s previously announced multifamily development in Nashville. The Chicago-based developer and Clark Construction recently broke ground on the first tower, a 29-story high-rise comprising 458 units. Matthew Schoenfeldt, Mary Dooley and Brian Dawson led the JLL team that secured the undisclosed amount of financing for the first tower through Pacific Life Insurance Co. The first high-rise will include micro, studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as 4,000 square feet of ground-level restaurant/brewery space. Amenities will include indoor and outdoor fitness studios, a rooftop pool and library, coworking space and a music lounge with a recording studio and podcast room. Albion Residential expects to deliver the first units in fall 2026. Upon completion, Albion Music Row will span two acres and comprise 850 apartments, as well as restaurants, shops and a public plaza on the ground level. The design-build team includes Chicago-based Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture and several Nashville-based companies: Barge Cauthen & Associates (civil engineer), Hodgson Douglas (landscape architect), SDL (structural engineer) and I.C. Thomasson (MEP engineer).
MAPLEWOOD, MINN. — Colliers Mortgage has provided a $20.9 million HUD loan for the construction of The American Cooperative on Lake Phalen in Maplewood, an eastern suburb of the Twin Cities. The 56-unit cooperative is designed for residents age 62 and older. The property will be built on the north shore of Lake Phalen between Keller and Phalen regional parks and golf courses. Units will range from 1,200 to 1,900 square feet, and amenities will include a fitness center, rooftop deck, shared garden space, clubroom, underground heated parking and storage units. The loan features a 40-year term and amortization.
KISSIMMEE, FLA. — JLL has arranged a $43 million loan for Solamar Apartment Homes, a 210-unit build-to-rent residential community in Kissimmee, about 22 miles south of Orlando. Max La Cava, Melissa Quinn, Kenny Cutler, Josh Odessky and Pier Barinci of JLL arranged the construction take-out bridge loan on behalf of the borrower, TRUSOT Development. JLL arranged the original $35 million construction loan in 2021. Solamar Apartment Homes was completed in phases, with the final phase delivered in 2023. According to Apartments.com, the property features two- to three-bedroom homes ranging in size from 973 to 1,317 square feet.
