MIAMI — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a mixed-use building located at 3138 Commodore Plaza in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood. A partnership between Terra and Banyan Street Capital purchased the property for $7.2 million, or $232 per square foot. Hollywood, Fla.-based MG|3 Development sold the property. Developed in 1986, the 31,000-square-foot, multi-tenant property features ground-floor retail space and three floors of offices, as well as on-site structured parking. Vacant at the time of sale, the property most recently housed the Academy of Arts & Minds charter school. Miquel Alcivar, Dominic Montazemi, Scott O’Donnell, Greg Miller and Jason Hochman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
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DENVER — HFF has arranged $50 million in financing for 210 St. Paul, the first phase of The St. Paul Collection, a mixed-use residential and retail property in Denver’s Cherry Creek North neighborhood. The borrower is BMC Investments. Brock Yaffe of HFF secured the 11-year, non-recourse, full-term, interest-only, fixed-rate loan through Freddie Mac’s Lease-Up Loan Program. The loan will replace existing construction financing and will be serviced by HFF, a Freddie Mac Multifamily Approved Seller/Servicer for Conventional Loans. Located at the intersection of St. Paul Street and Second Avenue, The St. Paul Collection is a two-phase development. Completed in June, 210 St. Paul features 81 residences in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans, as well as penthouses, ranging in size from 770 square feet to 2,800 square feet. Additionally, the property includes 11,000 square feet of retail space leased to CB2. The second phase, which is not part of this financing, will bring an additional 84 residential units and 44,000 square feet of retail space. Designed by 4240 Architecture, the property features condo-quality finishes and modern open layouts with oversized living spaces, gourmet kitchens, full bathroom suites with heated floors, built-in closet systems, in-house automation, custom hardwood flooring, …
PRINCETON, TEXAS — Developer International Capital LLC will build Princeton Crossroads, a 297-acre mixed-use project that will be located in Princeton, a city northeast of Dallas in Collin County. Preliminary plans for the project include 166 townhomes and a grocery-anchored retail center. Princeton Crossroads is also fully entitled for 624 multifamily units. The groundbreaking is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 12. Dallas-based Range Realty Advisors is marketing the project.
RICHMOND HEIGHTS, OHIO — DealPoint Merrill has acquired the former Sears store at Richmond Town Square Mall in Richmond Heights, about 13 miles northeast of Cleveland. The 248,000-square-foot Sears store has been vacant since March 2017. DealPoint Merrill plans to redevelop the store into a $70 million project featuring a 375-unit luxury apartment property, a 98-key hotel and 8,000 square feet of restaurant space. Joseph Khouri of CBRE brokered the sale of the Sears store. Sears was the seller. DealPoint Merrill previously purchased the former Macy’s store at the mall with plans to transform it into a self-storage property.
BOCA RATON, FLA. — A trio of developers — Giles Capital Group, Rosemurgy Properties, Schmier Property Group — in partnership with Wheelock Street Capital have broken ground on Uptown Boca, a $200 million mixed-use project in South Florida. The development, which will be located at the corner of Glades Road and 95th Avenue South in Boca Raton, will feature 150,591 square feet of retail space. Lucky’s Market and Silverspot Cinema will anchor the project. In addition, Uptown Boca will offer 456 Class A apartments. Additional tenants will include Bolay, a healthy restaurant concept, and Chick-fil-A. Marc Wiener Architecture, a local firm, provided design services for the retail portion of the project. Roxanne Register and Nicole Fontaine of the Boca Raton office of Katz & Associates are the leasing agents for the retail portion of the project. Retailers are expected to open their doors in summer 2019, and multifamily units are projected to be available for occupancy by early 2020. “With no new significant development in over two decades, this type of lifestyle component is long overdue in West Boca,” says Alexander Rosemurgy, CEO of Rosemurgy Properties. “It will truly create the complete shop-dine-live experience that this area deserves.” — Taylor …
MAITLAND, FLA. — Coral Gables, Fla.-based The Allen Morris Co. has completed the development of Maitland City Centre, a $68 million mixed-use property located at 190 Independence Lane in Maitland, a northern suburb of Orlando. Encompassing a full, three-acre city block, the six-story development features 220 one- and two-bedroom rental apartments, 24 live/work units (one-bedroom with an office suite) and 35,000 square feet of commercial space with high visibility. On-site amenities include a rooftop pool deck and lounge, business center and co-working space, individual furnished offices for lease, pet wash and grooming facility, private rooftop dog park, fitness center, group fitness room and courtyard yoga lawn and a private courtyard with grilling stations and outdoor living room. Additional amenities include a clubhouse, lounge and game room, mail room café, high-speed Wi-Fi internet throughout the amenity space, access-controlled covered parking and designated Uber and Lyft pick-up stations. The project team includes LAMM & Co., Millenia Partners and ACi Architecture.
RAL Development Services Breaks Ground on 624,575 SF Mixed-Use Property in Philadelphia
by David Cohen
PHILADELPHIA — RAL Development Services has broken ground on 1300 Fairmount, a 14-story, 624,575-square-foot mixed-use property in Philadelphia. The project will include 478 apartment units as well as 58,759 square feet of retail space. Cope Linder Associates is serving as designer on 1300 Fairmont. RAL Development is the developer. Nobel Learning Communities Inc., a national network of 200 private schools throughout the country, has pre-leased 12,488 square feet at the property and plans to open a Chesterbrook Academy Preschool there. Supermarket chain Aldi has also pre-leased 25,427 square feet of space.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Austin-based CSW Development has broken ground on Wolf Crossing, a 250,000-square-foot mixed-use center located at the junction of Interstate 35 and State Highway 29 in Georgetown, a northern suburb of Austin. Situated on 42 acres, the center will house a grocery store, several restaurants, neighborhood-service retailers, medical facilities and a hotel. Openings are slated for fall 2019. JLL is handling leasing and marketing of the center, prospective tenants of which include Verizon, P. Terry’s, Jason’s Deli and Salons by JC.
CRESTWOOD, MO. — Architectural firm Remiger Design has unveiled a master plan for the redevelopment of the former Crestwood Mall in suburban St. Louis. Remiger is working with Chris Cedergreen, a commercial real estate design advisor. Plans call for more than 794,000 square feet of retail, office and residential space. The retail portion will feature 160,000 square feet, including a pharmacy, four outlots and a cinema. The office portion will include 240,000 square feet of office and medical space. The residential component will feature a four-story building with amenities such as a fitness room, pool and outdoor meeting area. Plans call for nearly 3,000 parking spaces. Known as Crestwood City Center, the development will connect to Grant’s Trail, a greenway. Crestwood Mall, which once housed more than 100 retailers in 1 million square feet, closed in September 2013. Owner UrbanStreet Group has completed the environmental remediation and demolition of the mall. Walpert Properties Inc. is the project developer. HBD is the general contractor. Pam Hinds and Christopher Zoellner of Balke Brown Transwestern will market the office and retail portions for lease. The target date for completion of the office portion is January 2020.
ASHWAUBENON, WIS. — The real estate development arm of the Green Bay Packers, Titletown Development LLC, has unveiled plans for Phase II of Titletown, the mixed-use development located directly west of the professional football team’s Lambeau Field. Phase II plans call for approximately 220 residential units and a 130,000-square-foot office building. Up to 150 apartment units will be built along Brookwood Drive. The remaining residences will be townhomes available for ownership. The office building will be constructed along Lombardi Avenue and Marlee Lane. Wisconsin-based Commercial Horizons will serve as an investor and designer for the building. Construction is expected to begin in spring 2019 with completion slated for summer 2020. GK Titletown Developers LLC, a joint venture between Glimcher Capital Group and Kaufman Development, is serving as a co-developer for the residential portion. Project architects include NBBJ, Humphreys & Partners Architects, KTGY Architecture + Planning and Performa. The Green Bay Packers have won more championships — 13 to be exact — than any other team in National Football League history, including four Super Bowls.