GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Frisco-based TIG Real Estate Services will develop Westinghouse Road Corporate Center, a mixed-use project that will span 16 acres in the northern Austin metro of Georgetown. The property will be located adjacent to a 432-unit townhome community and upon completion will feature office, retail, flex and medical office space. The project is expected to break ground before year’s end and to carry a construction period of six to seven months.
DENVER — Denver-based Continuum Partners has received $110 million in financing for A Block, a mixed-use development located in downtown Denver. The 310,055-square-foot project features the 200-key Kimpton Hotel Born, located at 1600 Wewatta St., and a 54,976-square-foot Class A office building with ground-level retail space and a 197-space parking garage, located at 1881 16th St. Completed in 2017, A Block has two separate components: the 12-story Hotel Born and the five-story office and retail portion. The hotel features 13,937 square feet of flexible meeting space, a fitness center, business center, ground-floor retail space and two food and beverage options, Citizen Rail Restaurant in the hotel lobby and Tavernetta. The fully occupied office building features 7,929 square feet of retail space leased to national tenants. Eric Tupler, Leon McBroom and Tyler Dumon of HFF arranged the floating-rate loan with a national bank. Loan proceeds will be used to retire the existing construction financing, which was placed by HFF in 2015.
ORMOND BEACH, FLA. — Lake Mary, Fla.-based DIX Developments has completed the sale of Halifax Town Center, a mixed-use development site located in Ormond Beach. Dixie 95 OBD, a company related to O2G Capital of Ontario, Canada, purchased the 53-acre site for an undisclosed price. Situated in the southeast quadrant of Interstate 95 and Old Dixie Highway, the fully developed site is ready for immediate construction with storm water retention, surfaced roadways and utilities. Halifax Town Center is part of the golf course community Halifax Plantation. The planned mixed-use development in Volusia County has gone through a transition in ownership in the past few years. John Kurtz of Stirling International Real Estate represented the seller in the deal.
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.
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.
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.
