WOODBRIDGE, N.J. — Prism Capital Partners has signed a definitive agreement to purchase a five-acre land parcel at the corner of Rahway Avenue and Green Street in Woodbridge for an undisclosed price. The company plans to develop a 180-unit multifamily project at the site, which is across from New Jersey Transit’s Woodbridge Station. Prism purchased a controlling interest in the site from the Lucas family and is currently finalizing plans for township approval. Prism plans to start construction of the property in late 2015.
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ROME, N.Y. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has brokered the sale of Bloomfield Garden Apartments in Rome. Located at 319 E. Bloomfield St., the 160-unit garden-style apartment complex sold for $3.8 million. Ed Graf of Houlihan-Parnes Realtors, along with Steve Tierney of Woods, Oviatt, Gilman LLP, handled the transaction. The names of the buyer and seller were not released.
CLEARWATER, FLA. — Tampa-based Blue Rock Partners LLC and Denver-based Goff Capital Partners have purchased Cameron Lakes Apartments, a 207-unit apartment community located at 2550 Stag Run Blvd. in Clearwater, for $19.3 million. Grandbridge Real Estate Capital provided acquisition financing on behalf of the buyers. In addition to rebranding the asset as The Park at Gibraltar, Blue Rock and Goff Capital plan to invest $1 million to upgrade the property’s common areas and add a washer and dryer to every unit. John Selby of CBRE brokered the transaction.
SAN FRANCISCO – The 85-unit Village at Park View Apartments in the San Francisco submarket of Antioch has sold to an unnamed buyer for $12.4 million. The community is located at 2800 Gentrytown Drive. It was built in 1980. Michael Henshaw of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer. The unnamed seller was represented by Adam Levin and Nathan Gustavson of the same firm.
LONG BEACH, CALIF. – The 20-unit San Antonio Apartments in Long Beach has sold to Rio Company for $2.9 million. The community is located at 1090 E. San Antonio Drive in the Bixby Knolls area. It was built in 1948. Robert Stepp and Michael Toveg of Stepp Commercial represented both the buyer and seller, Alray Trust, in this transaction.
LOS ANGELES – A 71-unit apartment building in Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile neighborhood has sold to a private investor for $23.5 million. The community is located at 5700 West Olympic Blvd., just west of La Brea Avenue. It was built in 1972. The seller, an affiliate of Hillstreet Realty, was represented by Richard Ringer of Marcus & Millichap’s West Los Angeles office.
CHICAGO — Interra Realty has arranged the $2.2 million sale of three multifamily properties in Chicago. The properties include an eight-unit, walk-up property located at 5417-19 S. Drexel in Hyde Park, which sold for $1.06 million; a four-unit apartment building located at 1900 W. Oakdale in the Lake View neighborhood, which sold for $750,000; and a vacant 12-unit building located at 4034-42 W. Palmer in the Hermosa neighborhood, which sold for $430,000. Brad Feldman of Interra Realty represented the undisclosed buyers and sellers in all three deals.
TYLER, TEXAS — Capital One Bank has provided a $15.5 million loan to finance the acquisition of Meadow Lake, a continuing care retirement community in Tyler. The borrower, a partnership between Evergreen Senior Living Properties LLC, its management affiliates ESLP Management LLC, and RSF Partners, acquired the property through a bankruptcy auction. Located on 95 acres, Meadow Lake opened in 2011 and includes 117 independent living units, 20 assisted living units, 34 memory care units and 30 skilled nursing beds. The facility also includes 20 fully improved lots for the addition of independent living cottages as well as undeveloped land that could accommodate an additional 88 cottages.
BOWIE, MD. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Meridian at Bowie, a 384-unit multifamily community in Bowie, a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. Friedkin Realty Group purchased the apartment community from an undisclosed seller for $71.8 million. Bill Roohan, Mike Muldowney, Andy Boyer, Brian Margerum, Michael Rudolph, Jonathan Greenberg and Martha Hastings of CBRE’s multifamily investment properties team in Washington, D.C., represented the seller in the transaction.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — Passco Cos. LLC has purchased the 308-unit Azure Luxury Apartments, a Class A apartment community located at 540 Trinity Lane in St. Petersburg, a city within the Tampa Bay area. The newly constructed apartment community was 94 percent occupied at the time of sale. The property comprises one-, two- and three-bedroom units with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and kitchen islands, plank wood flooring, washers and dryers, nine-foot ceilings and private patios and balconies. Azure’s amenity package includes a resort-style pool, fitness center, garages, sports lounge, dog park, outdoor fire pits, car washing stations and electric car charging stations. The seller was undisclosed.