Mixed-Use

OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — The Opus Group and OPRE have broken ground on Edison District, a 125,000-square-foot mixed-use project in Overland Park. The five-story building is slated for completion in fall 2019. The property will feature office space in addition to a first-floor food hall and bar area. Coworking spaces will occupy the second floor and speculative office space will take up the remaining floors. Edison District will also include an outdoor event plaza. Tim Barton is the developer, with Opus Development Co. providing development support services. Opus Design Build is the builder and Opus AE Group is the interior designer, architect and structural engineer of record. AREA Real Estate Advisors will market the speculative office space for lease.

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HOUSTON —A subsidiary of Chilean real estate firm Red Megacentro will develop Megacenter Willowbrook, a project that will convert a former Walmart Supercenter building in the Willowbrook area of northwest Houston into a 235,627-square-foot mixed-use property. Preliminary plans call for industrial, self-storage, retail and office space. Phase I will deliver a 113,940-square-foot gym, 47,319 square feet of flex space and a 6,810-square-foot auto center. The final project completion date is slated for November 2019. Michael Johnson and Stuart Hepler of HFF arranged floating-rate financing for the project through Icon Bank.

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NEW YORK CITY — RD Management and partner Yassky Properties have acquired a 6,316-square-foot mixed-use building located at 55 5th Ave. in Brooklyn for $4.1 million. The seller was Burke Leighton Asset Management. The four-story building was built in 1920 and includes six apartments and a 1,390-square-foot, ground-level retail space that is currently vacant. Yassky will manage the property.

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AURORA, COLO. — HFF has arranged $118.5 million in financing for The Forum Fitzsimons, a mixed-use residential and retail property located in Aurora, a suburb of Denver. The borrower is a joint venture between Catalina Development Co., The Pollin Group and Sightway Capital. Chris McColpin and Josh Simon of HFF arranged the five-year, floating-rate loan through a specialty finance company. Loan proceeds were used to replace the existing construction financing, which HFF arranged on behalf of the development team in 2015. Located at 13650 E. Colfax Ave., the four-story property features 397 apartments and 28,640 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Additionally, the property offers more than 15,000 square feet of amenities, including two resort-style pools and spas with outdoor fireplaces and grills; clubrooms with a theater and game room; a fitness facility with specialized yoga and cycling rooms; an internet café and business center; a dog washing facility and two bark parks; a bike shop; storage facilities; and a six-story gated parking structure.

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ST. LOUIS — S.M. Wilson has begun construction of Phase I of the City Foundry STL mixed-use project in St. Louis. Plans call for the construction and renovation of six buildings, improvements to the 10-acre site and the construction of more than 60 tenant spaces. The $185 million Phase I includes 122,000 square feet of restaurant and entertainment space, 105,000 square feet of retail space and 110,000 square feet of office space. Steve Smith and London-based Caparo are the developers. Lawrence Group is the architect. Tenants are expected to begin opening at the property in mid-2019. The tenants disclosed by the developer include Alamo Drafthouse Theaters, Punch Bowl Social and McNellies Group. The project is the adaptive reuse of the former Century Electric Foundry complex.

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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co. has acquired 33 acres in Virginia Beach for the development of Burton Crossing, a 250,000-square-foot mixed-use project. The development will be located along Interstate 64 at the intersection of Northampton and Premium Outlets boulevards, adjacent to the recently opened Norfolk Premium Outlets and near a future IKEA store that is scheduled to open in spring 2019. S.L. Nusbaum’s sponsored entity, Northampton Development LLC, acquired the land from the Economic Development Authority of the City of Norfolk for an undisclosed price. Burton Crossing will feature retail, restaurants, office space and a lakefront public park. A construction timeline for the project was not disclosed.

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NEW YORK CITY — Besen & Associates has brokered the $7.8 million sale of 84 Second Avenue, a 4,812-square-foot, four-story, mixed-use building in Manhattan. The property is located in Manhattan’s East Village and consists of four apartments and two retail units. Amit Doshi, Ron Cohen, Shallini Mehra and Shlomo Gelernter of Besen represented the seller, who was undisclosed, in the transaction. The buyer was also undisclosed.

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LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. — A joint venture between George Berkow Inc., Novare Group and Batson-Cook Development Co. (BCDC) has broken ground on SouthLawn, a $200 million mixed-use project in Lawrenceville, roughly 32 miles northeast of Atlanta. The project will include more than 600 multifamily units, 15,000 square feet of retail space and a town green near the city’s downtown square. SouthLawn will create a walkable environment by connecting City Hall and the police station with Lawrenceville Lawn, a city park. The residential component, led by George Berkow, will include three- and four-story apartments and townhomes, as well as single-family detached homes. The apartment component will include two offerings: SouthLawn Luxury Apartment Residences, which will feature an elevated pool area overlooking the entire development, and Conclave, which will feature larger residences, a private pool, club and a fitness center. Citizens Bank is providing financing for the project, along with ELV Associates, BCDC and Novare Group. Phillips Partnership is the architect, Kimley-Horn is the civil engineer and Fortune-Johnson is the general contractor. A construction timeline for the development was not disclosed.

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ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLA. — Aztec Group Inc. has arranged a series of five loans totaling $14.7 million for the acquisition of approximately 100 acres located in Royal Palm Beach. Howard Taft and Charles Penan of Aztec Group arranged the loans through Lion Financial on behalf of the borrower, Tuttle Land Development. The acquisition completes the land assemblage necessary for the development of Tuttle Royale, a 200-acre mixed-use community that will be located at the intersection of Southern Boulevard and State Road 441. Prior to the acquisition, Tuttle owned 150 acres of land, which it acquired over the past two years. The proposed community would feature 1,100 multifamily units, medical offices, a 1,500-student charter school, village park, 400,000-square-foot lifestyle and activity center with high-end restaurants, a 100-room hotel, preschool, fitness center and retail space. A construction timeline for the project was not disclosed.

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DENVER — A joint venture between RedPeak Properties and Allstate Investments has sold 1600 Glenarm Place, a mixed-use, high-rise property located on the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. Northland Investment Corp. acquired the property, along with a 0.77-acre land parcel at 14th Street and Glenarm Place, for an undisclosed price. Constructed in 1967 as an office tower known as the Security Life Building, the property was converted into a multifamily property in 2006 by RedPeak Properties. The 31-story building features 333 apartments in studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and penthouse layouts, and 29,000 square feet of commercial space, including frontage along Denver’s 16th Street pedestrian mall. On-site amenities include an outdoor terrace with barbecue grills and fireplace, fitness center, demonstration kitchen, cyber lounge, conference room, movie theater, game room, resident library, reading room, valet parking, 24-hour concierge service and room service from Earl’s Restaurant on the property’s ground floor. Jordan Robbins, Jeff Haag and Anna Stevens of HFF represented the seller in the transaction.

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