ZACHARY, LA. — Dougherty Mortgage LLC has provided a $20.8 million refinancing loan for Audubon Park Apartment Homes, a 178-unit community in Zachary. The HUD 223(a)(7) loan features a 40-year term. The borrower is Audubon Park Apartment Homes LLC, an affiliate of Atlanta-based Audubon Communities. Communal amenities at Audubon Park include bike racks, a fitness center, swimming pool, car wash area, playground, grilling area and a poolside lounge.
BURLESON, TEXAS — Dougherty Mortgage has arranged a $29.7 HUD construction loan for The Waverly Apartments, a 192-unit multifamily project in Burleson, a southern suburb of Fort Worth. The community will offer a clubhouse, pool with cabanas, outdoor kitchen areas, a business center, fitness center, children’s play area, dog park and a car wash area. Completion is slated for spring 2021. Dougherty arranged the loan, which carried a 40-year term and amortization schedule, on behalf of borrower Burleson Commons LLC.
CHICAGO — JLL has secured a $9.4 million loan for the refinancing of The Armoury, a 46,040-square-foot industrial facility repurposed as an entertainment trampoline park and athletic training facility in Chicago. The property is fully leased to Altitude Trampoline Park and Performance Training Systems. Christopher Carroll, Jason Bond and Lucas Borges of JLL arranged the fixed-rate loan with a financial holding company. A partnership between Clear Height Properties and Diamond Realty Holdings was the borrower.
ST. PAUL, MINN. — NorthMarq has arranged a $2 million Freddie Mac loan for the refinancing of 623 Lofts in St. Paul. The 17-unit multifamily property is situated near three colleges and nine miles from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Michael Padilla of NorthMarq arranged the 10-year loan, which features a 30-year amortization schedule.
OAK FOREST, ILL. — American Street Capital (ASC) has arranged $9.6 million in permanent debt for the refinancing of a 149-unit multifamily portfolio in Oak Forest, a suburb of Chicago. The portfolio comprises three separate properties, each with one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Igor Zhizhin of ASC arranged three nonrecourse loans with a correspondent agency lender. The borrower was not disclosed.
CULVER CITY, CALIF. — Ready Capital has provided a $18.1 million loan for the refinancing, repositioning and lease-up of a vacant creative office portfolio in Culver City. The loan will be used to reposition the 38,000-square-foot property from traditional office to modern, creative-type finishes and simultaneously provide a facility for tenant lease-up. The name of the borrower was not released. Ready Capital closed the non-recourse, interest-only, floating-rate loan that features a 36-month term, two extension options and flexible prepayment. Additionally, the loan is inclusive of a facility to provide future funding for the capital expenditures, tenant leasing costs and interest and operating reserves.
DALLAS — JLL has arranged an undisclosed amount of permanent financing for 3000 and 3100 Olympus Boulevard, two office buildings totaling 467,366 square feet in Dallas. Allianz Real Estate of America provided the 15-year, fixed-rate loan, proceeds of which will be used to retire construction debt following the stabilization of the buildings. Trey Morsbach and Jim Curtin of JLL placed the debt on behalf of the borrower, locally based developer Billingsley Co.
WASHNIGTON, D.C. — JLL has arranged a $181.5 million refinancing loan for Portals III, a 510,157-square-foot office building in southwest Washington, D.C. ACORE Capital provided the loan, which will be used to refinance existing debt, lease up the asset and fund capital improvements throughout the property. Portals III marks the third phase of the Portals mixed-use development, which comprises more than 1.5 million square feet of office space, more than 370 residential units, a 400-room Mandarin Oriental hotel and retail space. Andrew Weir, Cary Abod, Rob Carey, Drake Greer and Jay Graham of JLL represented the borrower, Washington, D.C-based Franklin L. Haney Co., in the loan transaction.
IRVINE, CALIF. — Irvine-based Talonvest Capital Inc. has secured two refinancing loans totaling $123.3 million on behalf of Metro Self Storage. Lake Forest, Ill.-based Metro Self Storage will use the loan proceeds to refinance existing debt on eight properties in Georgia, 12 properties in Florida and two properties in Illinois. The portfolio totals more than 1.5 million square feet of rentable space. The two non-recourse loans feature a fixed 3.2 percent interest rate and 10 years of interest-only payments. An undisclosed national bank provided the funds.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Berkadia has arranged $425 million loan for Fairmont Austin, a 1,048-room hotel located near the Austin Convention Center in the city’s downtown area. Bank of America Merrill Lynch provided the two-year adjustable rate loan, which will be used to refinance existing construction debt, on behalf of the borrower, Manchester Financial Group. Andy Coleman of Berkadia handled the debt placement. The 37-story hotel, which opened last year, includes nearly 140,000 square feet of meeting and event space.
