HOUSTON — Jamie Mullin of LMI Capital has placed permanent financing for the acquisition and refinance of two garden-style apartment complexes in the Houston area. In the first transaction, Mullin placed a $20 million, 10-year loan for a 1,000-unit asset located in south Houston. The loan was a refinance providing cash out proceeds to the borrower, and featured a fixed interest rate and a flexible prepayment structure. Working on behalf of the borrower in the second transaction, Mullin originated a $5 million, five-year loan for a 150-unit asset in Texas City. The acquisition financing included a fixed interest rate of 4.3 percent and proceeds of 75 percent of the purchase price.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Pioneer Realty Capital LLC, a Texas-based commercial mortgage lender, has closed a $2.5 million refinance loan for Carrier X 303, a 43,351-square-foot retail center in Grand Prairie. Pioneer Realty Capital structured the long-term loan with a fixed 3.6 percent interest rate. The Pioneer Realty Capital team worked with both the property owner and the capital partner.
ST. CHARLES, ILL. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $21.9 million Fannie Mae loan to refinance a 228-unit apartment property in St. Charles, approximately 40 miles west of Chicago. Prairie Point was built in two phases in 1972 and 1976. Prairie Point features amenities such as a clubhouse, fitness center, pool with sundeck and playground. Located at 1820 Wessel Court, the property offers one- and two-bedroom units. Todd Linehan of KeyBank arranged the loan for the undisclosed borrower.
MIAMI — Canyon Partners Real Estate LLC has provided a $24.3 million construction loan for Design 41, a seven-story, 46,000-square-foot mixed-use building in Miami’s Design District. Designed by Enrique Norten of Ten Arquitectos, the project will feature ground-floor retail, parking on the second and third floors, showroom space, offices with 14-foot ceilings and a rooftop restaurant. Canyon provided the loan to the developer, Design District Development Partners (DDDP). Construction of Design 41 is 70 percent completed, and DDDP plans to deliver the project in December.
GRASS VALLEY, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the refinancing of Hilltop Commons, an 84-unit independent living community in the Sacramento suburb of Grass Valley. The total value of the loan was not disclosed. Sacramento-based Ray Stone Inc. operates the community and is the borrower. The fixed-rate loan was secured through Fannie Mae. Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing and Kevin Randles of CBRE’s Debt and Structured Finance office in Sacramento arranged the financing.
SEATTLE — Ziegler, a specialty investment bank, has closed $57.5 million in bonds for Bayview Manor Homes, the nonprofit operator of Bayview, a continuing care retirement community in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. The CCRC was built in 1961 and is just blocks from Key Arena, McCaw Hall and the Space Needle. It features 124 independent living apartments, 45 assisted living apartments and 50 skilled nursing beds, as well as an intergenerational childcare center. The unrated, fixed-rate bonds will be used for adding new independent living units, as well as a new, two-story assisted living and memory care building, among other capital improvements.
WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Q10 Professional Mortgage of North Carolina LLC has originated an $8.2 million loan for Market at Wake Forest, a 116,341-square-foot retail center located in Wake Forest. Food Lion anchors the property. Spencer Wilson of Q10 Professional Mortgage originated the non-recourse, permanent loan through an unnamed CMBS lender.
NEW YORK CITY — Ready Capital Structured Finance has arranged $5.5 million in acquisition, renovation and stabilization financing for two mixed-use multifamily and retail properties located at 644 Manhattan Ave. and 730 Manhattan Ave. in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. Upon acquisition, the borrower plans to renovate both buildings, extend the ground-floor retail to cater to national tenants, restaurants or boutique stores, and complete the residential lease-up of both properties. Ready Capital closed the non-recourse, interest-only loan that features flexible pre-payment options with a two-year term as well as a one-year extension option, inclusive of a facility to provide for interest and carry reserves and future funding of capital expenditures, tenant improvements and leasing commissions.
LIVERMORE, CALIF. — RedMill Capital has secured a $38.6 million construction loan that will allow it to break ground this fall on The Shoppes at Livermore, a mixed-use retail development in Livermore, approximately 40 miles east of San Francisco. American National Insurance Co. was the lender. Slated for completion in 2017, the development will feature 120,000 square feet. Terms of the financing were not disclosed.
LOS ANGELES — Thorofare Capital has arranged a $23 million, floating-rate commercial mortgage for a retail property located in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. The borrower was not disclosed. The property offers 50,000 square feet of retail space. Kevin Miller and Felix Gutnikov of Thorofare Capital secured the financing.