HARTFORD, CONN. — RBH Group has acquired a long-vacant commercial building, located at 370 Asylum St. in Hartford, for $20 million. RBH Group plans to redevelop the building into Teachers Corner Hartford, a mixed-use space. The development will feature market-rate and affordable residential units, space for educational opportunities and cultural performances, as well as restaurant and retail components. Laurie Grasso and Douglas Hoffmann of Hunton & Williams advised in the acquisition. Teachers Corner Hartford represents the first transaction in RBH Group’s national rollout of its Teachers Village concept following the first Teachers Village project in Newark, N.J., a $150 million, 23-acre mixed-use community. Teachers Corner Hartford is a realization of RBH Group’s continued joint venture with the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group and its partnering with Hartford’s Community Solutions and The Prudential Social Investment Group, with funding provided by the City of Hartford and various Connecticut state agencies.
CASTLE ROCK, COLO. — Development firm P3 Advisors has acquired a 65-acre tract of land in Castle Rock, roughly midway between Denver and Colorado Springs, for the development of Miller’s Landing, a mixed-use project that is expected to generate between $350 million and $500 million in private investment. Miller’s Landing will feature a full-service resort and conference center, retail pad sites, office space and restaurants. Developers estimate that the property will span approximately 900,000 square feet upon completion. The property will also include an undetermined amount of public parking space. The hotel will offer 250 rooms, while the retail and office components could total as much as 250,000 square feet and 480,000 square feet, respectively, according to the Denver Post. Under the terms of the development agreement, the amount of retail development will be limited to 100,000 square feet until the hotel is complete and operating. The full 250,000 square feet of retail space may not be developed until 150,000 square feet of office space has been built. The development site, located at the northwest corner of Interstate 25 and Plum Creek Parkway, is a former landfill situated within Philip S. Miller Park, a 300-acre swath that attracts about 1.5 …
BOCA RATON, FLA. — Penn-Florida Cos. has received $398 million in project financing for the second phase of Via Mizner, a five-star resort in downtown Boca Raton. Lotus Capital Partners arranged the majority of the financing, which Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies provided. The U.S. Immigration Fund provided the balance of the financing, which was approximately $80 million. Via Mizner’s second phase of construction includes the Mandarin Oriental Boca Raton, additional retail suites at The Shoppes at Via Mizner and Via Mizner Golf & City Club. The 164-room luxury hotel will feature two rooftop pools, spa services, an athletic club and dining venues. The Shoppes at Via Mizner will offer a mix of brand names, artisan boutiques, dining and nightlife. Via Mizner Golf & City Club will include two venues — a golf club featuring a new Jack Nicklaus Signature Championship golf course and a downtown city club, which will offer member access to the hotel amenities. Completion is slated for early 2020. The Residences at Mandarin Oriental Boca Raton will feature 85 homes with ocean and golf course views. Owners will receive access to all the amenities of Mandarin Oriental. The first residential rental tower, 101 Via Mizner Luxury Apartments, is already complete. …
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of a mixed-use property located at 321 W. 11th St. in Manhattan’s West Village. A local private investor acquired the property from a limited liability company for $11.6 million. The 10,400-square-foot property features two retail units, 10 studio apartments and eight one-bedroom apartments. Matt Fotis and Sam Hoefle of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
CARY, N.C. — Columbia Development has unveiled the name of the new mixed-use development in Cary’s Eastern Gateway. The project will be named Fenton, after the town’s namesake Samuel Fenton Cary. The Wegmans-anchored community will feature 2.5 million square feet of Class A office space, street-level retail, restaurants, hotel and multifamily residences. Wakefield Beasley & Associates is Fenton’s principal architect, and McAdams and Glenda S. Toppe & Associates are providing planning services. McAdams is also the project’s landscape architect. Ron Pfhol and Dotan Zuckerman of Columbia, S.C.-based Columbia Development will handle the project’s retail leasing assignment. Fenton will feature a mix of national, regional and local retailers including a boutique movie theater, chef-driven restaurant concepts and wellness offerings including yoga, Pilates, indoor cycling and health spas. William Allen of Trinity Partners will oversee the office leasing portion.
ATLANTA — Banyan Street Capital has unveiled plans to revitalize Peachtree Center, a mixed-use development in downtown Atlanta, with new restaurants, retail and entertainment tenants. The project will transform Peachtree Center’s three-story retail center and outdoor courtyard, rebranding the new space as “The Hub.” Atlanta-based developer and architect John Portman Jr. originally designed Peachtree Center, which comprises six buildings centrally located over the MARTA Peachtree Center Station. The development is home to 6,000 office tenants and connected to 4,000 hotel rooms via sidewalks and sky bridges. The Beck Group, an Atlanta-based construction firm, will modernize the 1960s-era development by redesigning the courtyard to better accommodate pedestrian foot traffic, upgrading all finishes and furnishings, updating lighting to brighten the space and modernizing entrances with backlit glass panels and steel canopies. Along with the renovations, The Hub will feature a new lineup of restaurants, shops, entertainment experiences and boutique services such as fitness and grocery. Amy Fingerhut of CBRE is overseeing the project’s retail leasing assignment. The project is slated for completion in spring 2019.
NEW YORK CITY — Metropolitan Avenue Associates has purchased a six-story mixed-used building located at 524 Metropolitan Ave. in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. Pinny and Moishe Loketch of the Loketch Group sold the property for $11.3 million. The 12,160-square-foot building features 20 apartment units and two commercial spaces, which are leased to Yola’s Café. At the time of sale, the building was fully occupied. Brendan Maddigan, Ethan Stanton and Michael Gignate of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Co-developers Madison Marquette and PN Hoffman will open The Wharf on Oct. 12 in Washington, D.C. Phase I of the $2.3 billion project will deliver two office buildings, two apartment towers, two luxury condominium buildings and three hotels, as well as restaurants and retail space. The Wharf is a mixed-use waterfront community that stretches across 24 acres of land and more than 50 acres of water. The development features 3.5 million square feet of new residential, office, hotel, retail, marina and public uses including waterfront parks, promenades, piers and docks. Madison Marquette and PN Hoffman broke ground on the project in March 2014. Phase II construction will begin in the coming months, with delivery scheduled for 2021. Four entertainment piers extend into the Potomac River, one of which will be used as an ice rink in the winter. The Transit Pier will accommodate water taxis. Anthem, a 6,000-seat concert hall, will open with a launch concert by the Foo Fighters. David Rockwell designed the interiors of the venue. Washington, D.C.-based Madison Marquette is a private real estate investment manager, developer, operator and service provider. PN Hoffman is a real estate developer also based in D.C. — Kristin …
NEW YORK CITY — The Greater Jamaica Development Corp. has selected a joint venture between BRP Cos. and Wharton Properties to purchase and develop a site located at 90-02 168th St. in the Queens’ neighborhood of Jamaica. The open-air parking lot will become an approximately 500,000-square-foot development with more than 300 mixed-income residential units and more than 70,000 square feet of retail space. Construction is slated to begin in the second half of 2018.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Stiles has signed Publix to anchor Point Hope Commons, a 90,000-square-foot shopping center located within Cainhoy Plantation, a mixed-use community under development in Charleston. Point Hope Commons will be designed with a low country architectural theme and feature spaces for gathering and dining, with direct frontage along Clements Ferry Road. Stiles’ development team based in the company’s Charlotte office is managing the Point Hope Commons portion of the project, and Eric Meyer and Fritz Meyer of Meyer Kapp & Associates are providing property leasing representation. DI Development Co. is managing Cainhoy Plantation, which is being developed by combination of Guggenheim corporate and family interests. Upon completion, Cainhoy Plantation will include up to 9,000 single-family residences, a 264-unit apartment community and over 500 acres of retail, restaurant and office space.