SAN ANTONIO — Venterra Realty has received a seven-year, fixed-rate loan through Freddie Mac’s CME Program for French Place Apartments, a garden-style apartment community located in San Antonio. Cortney Cole of HFF arranged the financing for the borrower. Located at 109 W. French Place, the property features 84 units in a mix of one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Community amenities include a swimming pool, barbecue grills, courtyards, a laundry facility and parking. At the time of financing, the property was 97 percent occupied.
DENVER — Focus Property Group has received $69 million in financing to develop a 12-story Hilton Garden Inn in Denver. The hotel is situated at 20th Street and Chestnut Place. It sits adjacent to Denver’s Union Station. The Hilton Garden Inn is being built around the historic Denver Hose Company No. 1 building, which will be restored and incorporated into the hotel. The 42-month, fixed- and floating-rate structured financing included $18 million in mezzanine debt as well as $8 million in preferred equity. Bank of the Ozarks served as the senior lender, Artemis Real Estate Partners served as the mezzanine lender and EverWest Real Estate Partners served as the preferred equity lender. Marc Sallette, David Treadwell, Mike Cantwell and Olga Lepow of CBRE Hotels’ Debt & Structured Finance secured the financing.
CITRUS HEIGHTS, CALIF. — Newmark has secured $5.7 million in acquisition financing for a retail property located in Citrus Heights. Smart & Final, which opened in May 2016, occupies the 28,243-square-foot property. Mitch Zeemont and Darija Walker of Newmark arranged the non-recourse, 20-year loan that features a 20-year amortization schedule. The name of the borrower was not released.
DENVER — Pauls has received a $73 million loan to refinance a 14-building industrial portfolio in Aurora. The portfolio totals 1.9 million square feet of Class A distribution warehouse space. Properties included in the portfolio feature clear heights between 22’ to 32’ and buildings sizes ranging from 72,000 square feet to 347,840 square feet. All buildings were constructed between 1996 and 2015. The buildings are leased to 40 tenants, including Whole Foods Market, VWR International, Simmons Company and MSI International. They are situated on a total of 111.7 acres in the East I-70/Montbello industrial submarket in northeast Denver. The two 10-year, fixed-rate, full-term, interest-only loans were placed with Nationwide Life Insurance Co. The funds were used to refinance an existing life company loan and a construction loan. HFF’s Kristian Lichtenfels and Eric Tupler arranged the loans.
SAN FRANCISCO — Mesa West Capital has provided $16 million in financing for a 12,281-square-foot Disney Store in San Francisco. The two-story building is located at 39 Stockton St., one and a half blocks south of Union Square. John Churchward of HFF placed the floating-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, Vanbarton Group.
WALTHAM, MASS. — Colliers International Boston has arranged the $9 million sale of a two-building office and flex portfolio on behalf of Schernecker Property Services. Boston-based btcRE acquired the portfolio, which includes a 40,000-square-foot office and warehouse building at 179 Bear Hill Road and an 18,000-square-foot flex building at 283 Second Ave. in Waltham. MSPCA, a local non-profit that protects animals, fully occupies the property on Second Avenue. Doug Jacoby, Scott Dragos, Tony Hayes, Tim Mulhall and Dan Hines of Colliers represented the seller in the transaction. Additionally, Tom Welsh, Adam Coppola and John Poole, also of Colliers, arranged $9 million in acquisition and bridge financing for a Massachusetts-based loan fund on behalf of the buyer.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — New York Life Real Estate Investors, on behalf of Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund Inc., has originated a $146.6 million loan for an office building located at 3 Second St. in Jersey City. The floating-rate loan has an initial term of three years with two one-year extensions.
EL PASO, TEXAS — Hunt Mortgage Partners has provided $5.2 million in financing for the acquisition and rehabilitation of Father Carlos Pinto Memorial Apartments in downtown El Paso. The Freddie Mac tax-exempt loan features an 18-year term, two years of interest-only payments and a 35-year amortization schedule. Paisano Housing Redevelopment Corp. will use the financing to purchase and renovate the 113-unit property, which is restricted to residents age 62 or old. After the $6.5 million renovation, the property will offer one- and two-bedroom units for seniors.
NEWARK, N.J. — Cohen Financial has closed a $42 million loan for the refinancing of Centre Market Building in downtown Newark. Built in the 1960s, the building features 393,343 square feet of office space. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and U.S. Social Security Administration occupy 90 percent of the building. Dan Rosenberg and Matt Terpstra of Cohen Financial secured the fixed-rate, 10-year CMBS loan for the borrower, an affiliate of Kaufman Jacobs.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $2.6 million construction loan for a retail property located at 316-332 Tarrytown Road in White Plains. Harbor Freight Tools will be the sole tenant at the 15,000-square-foot property. Robert Ranieri of NorthMarq secured the one-year interest-only loan for the undisclosed borrower.