WICHITA, KAN. — BWE has arranged $13.2 million in financing for Iron Horse Building 1, a Class A industrial building totaling more than 200,000 square feet in Wichita. The property is located within the Iron Horse Manufacturing Park and is fully leased to AGCO Corp., an agricultural machinery and precision technology company. Dan Rosenberg, Tim Caffrey and Logan Petersmeyer of BWE arranged the loan on behalf of a Kansas City-based developer through a life insurance company.
NEW YORK CITY — M&T Realty Capital Corp. has provided a $204.9 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of a 584-unit apartment tower in the Long Island City area of Queens. The 26-story building at 46-10 Center Blvd. houses studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom residences and one ground-floor retail space totaling 7,733 square feet. Amenities at the property include a fitness center, multiple lounge areas, coworking space and a rooftop terrace. The building is LEED certified. Michael Casey of M&T Realty Capital originated the debt on behalf of the borrower, locally based investment and development firm TF Cornerstone. The loan features a 35-year amortization schedule and full-term, interest-only payments. According to Casey, the loan underwriting offered the borrower “a very competitive structure.” M&T Realty Capital Corp., a Fannie Mae DUS lender, is a wholly owned subsidiary of M&T Bank that provides financing for multifamily properties, commercial income properties and healthcare facilities. In addition to apartments, TF Cornerstone owns more than 1 million square feet of retail space throughout New York City and 2.5 million square feet of office properties in Washington, D.C., and New York City, including Carnegie Hall Tower. — Kristin Harlow and Taylor Williams
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. — Nuveen Green Capital has provided an $11.8 million C-PACE loan for the gut renovation of Tivoli Theatre, a historic theater in downtown Chattanooga. The 30-year C-PACE loan is being used as part of a $73.4 million construction financing package with Reinvestment Fund Inc. The financing is being used along with New Market Tax Credits and Historic Tax Credits to fund renovations and new developments, including building exteriors, roofing, windows, HVAC, lighting, plumbing, new elevators and a pit lift. Tivoli Theatre, along with an adjacent office building, will be reimagined as the new Tivoli Performing Arts Center and a new 250-seat cinema and performance art hall. The construction timeline was not released.
PHOENIX — Colliers has secured a $520 million refinancing for Grand Canyon University’s (GCU) real estate portfolio in Phoenix. Placed through the Industrial Development Authority of the County of Maricopa Education Bonds (Grand Canyon University Project Taxable Series 2024), the loan includes the refinancing of two bridge loans placed by Colliers in October. The loan, which also pays off the university’s credit line, is a 3a2 bond financing and was issued as a partial refinancing of bonds issued by the university in 2021. Robert Kline, Todd Noel and Mindy Korth of Colliers Mortgage Advisory in Phoenix arranged the refinancing. John Stevenson and Mark Somers of Goldman Sachs’ higher education group and the law firms of Ballard Spahr and Nixon Peabody were also involved in the transaction. “The scope of this refinancing is pretty significant in the higher education bond market and speaks to GCU’s outstanding financial performance and strong student outcomes in the six years since reverting to our historical tax-exempt Arizona nonprofit status,” says GCU President Brian Mueller.
SUN PRAIRIE, WIS. — BWE has arranged $36.1 million in permanent financing for Heyday Sun Prairie, a 170-unit build-to-rent community in the Madison suburb of Sun Prairie. Dan Rosenberg, Tim Caffrey and Logan Petersmeyer of BWE arranged the Fannie Mae loan, which features interest-only payments for the full term. A Chicago-based developer was the borrower. The financing will be utilized to pay off construction loans.
SWEETWATER, FLA. — Terra, a Miami-based developer, has obtained a $170 million construction loan to fund the development of Upland Park, a planned $1 billion mixed-use development in the west Miami suburb of Sweetwater. Terra is transforming Miami-Dade County’s Dolphin Park-and-Ride/Transit Terminal Facility into a multimodal hub that will feature a transit station, residences, retail space and commercial uses on a 47-acre site near Dolphin Mall. The local developer is teaming up with Miami-Dade County on Upland Park in a public-private partnership. SCALE Lending, Slate Property Group’s debt financing arm, was the lead lender on the construction loan. Terra will use the loan proceeds to fund Phase I of Upland Park, which will comprise 578 apartments. The first phase is slated to break ground in early 2025. Designed by PPK Architects, in collaboration with master plan architect Arquitectonica and urban planner Plusurbia Design, Upland Park will include more than 2,000 new mid-rise and garden-style apartments, about 282,000 square feet of shops and restaurants and approximately 414,000 square feet of commercial space. Upland Park is designed to increase public transit ridership while anchoring the new East-West Corridor of Miami-Dade County’s SMART public transportation plan. Potential transit riders will have direct access …
FRESNO, CALIF. — MonticelloAM has provided an $87.2 million bridge loan for an assisted living portfolio in Fresno. The portfolio totals 39 communities. Proceeds from the loan will be used to refinance the existing debt on the properties, and the undisclosed borrower plans to secure long-term financing.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — BHI, the U.S. division of Israel’s Bank Hapoalim, has provided a $38.7 million construction loan for One Jones Park, a 75-unit multifamily project that will be located at 387 Eighth St. in Jersey City. The nine-story building will house 25 one-bedroom units, 47 two-bedroom apartments and three three-bedroom residences with an average size of 1,238 square feet, as well as ground- and second-floor retail space. Amenities will include a fitness center, children’s playroom and an indoor and outdoor resident lounge. The borrower is New York City-based developer EPIRE.
AURORA, COLO. — Consolidated Investment Group has obtained $17.7 million in financing for Eastpark 70’s Buildings 5 and 6, a two-building Class A industrial portfolio in Aurora. Rob Bova and William Haass of JLL Capital Markets secured the fixed-rate, five-year loan for the borrower. Completed in 2022, the 235,987-square-foot portfolio consists of buildings located at 19822 E. 22nd Ave. and 19922 E. 22nd Ave. The facilities offer 32-foot clear heights, ample dock-high and drive-in loading and ESFR sprinkler systems. The properties are fully leased to three tenants.
RICHMOND, VA. — Newmark has arranged $600 million in construction financing for a data center project in Richmond. The borrower and developer is a partnership between local developer PowerHouse Data Centers, New York City-based Blue Owl Real Estate and Chirisa, a firm that invests in digital and telecommunications infrastructure and real estate. The square footage of the development was not announced, but the facility will have a critical capacity of 50 megawatts (MWs).According to recent data, PowerHouse is developing its hyperscale data centers at a ratio of 0.2 MW per square foot, giving the Richmond project an estimated square footage of 250,000 square feet of critical data center space. The project will be a build-to-suit for CoreWeave, a New Jersey-based company that provides cloud-based graphics processing infrastructure. Construction began earlier this year, and operations are expected to begin sometime in 2025. A syndicate of lenders led by European giant Societè Generale provided the debt, which was arranged by Newmark’s Jordan Roeschlaub, Jonathan Firestone, Clint Frease, Nick Scribani, Ben Kroll, John Caraviello and Brent Mayo. “This transaction reflects the continued appetite for innovative, large-scale digital infrastructure solutions in key markets,” says Roeschlaub. With more than 30 million square feet of physical …