SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio City Council has approved the sale of 10 acres on San Antonio’s east side for the development of Echo East, a $65 million mixed-use project. The council also awarded a $450,000 grant for the project, which will be developed by Michigan-based Foremost Development Co. According to San Antonio Express-News, the project will include roughly 500 residential units and 25,000 square feet of retail space. A timetable for construction has not yet been established.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Unicorp National Developments Inc. has unveiled plans for O-Town West, a $1 billion mixed-use development located at the corner of Palm Parkway and Daryl Carter Parkway in Orlando. The development will feature retail, restaurants, upscale apartments, a 600-car garage and a water show in the style of The Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas. The retail portion of the 82-acre development will be housed in two segments: the Village at O-Town West and the Boardwalk at O-Town West, according to reports by Orlando Weekly. The Village will feature retailers offering everyday necessities, including a national grocery store. The Boardwalk will offer new-to-market restaurants and retail. A 15,000-unit multifamily community is also planned for the development, alongside 300 to 400 homes, all of which will overlook a recreational lagoon by Miami-based Crystal Lagoons. Groundbreaking is slated for early 2019, with a grand opening projected for summer 2020, Orlando Weekly reports. Unicorp has developed over $2.5 billion worth of commercial and residential real estate, with a focus on retail, mixed-use centers, multifamily and master-planned communities. The company recently developed I-Drive 360 in Orlando, a mixed-use development featuring an observation wheel known as the Coca-Cola Orlando Eye. A $100 million Phase II is currently …
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — Concord Capital New York has purchased Playtogs Shopping Plaza, a mixed-use shopping plaza situated on 18 acres at 130-138, 144-146 and 156 Dolson Ave. Concord Capital plans to renovate the existing structure, rename the property Middletown Plaza and Playtogs Corporate Center and lease the mall. The property is a 203,000-square-foot four-building community retail center with more than 40 retail spaces. At the time of sale, the property was 40 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including Family Dollar, TD Bank, Rent-A-Center, Mavis Discount Tire, Carvel and Middletown Cinemas.
CALGARY, ALBERTA AND SAN DIEGO — Brookfield Residential Properties Inc., the residential development arm of private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management, has closed on its acquisition of OliverMcMillan, a San Diego-based developer of large-scale mixed-use properties. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but on a conference call Wednesday (Feb. 7), Brookfield Residential chairman and CEO Alan Norris stated that the acquisition encompasses “certain assets” of OliverMcMillan. According to a release from Brookfield Residential, OliverMcMillan will continue to design and build mixed-use developments and will also continue to manage its existing real estate assets. “We simply could not have found a better long-term home,” says Dene Oliver, CEO of OliverMcMillan, in a prepared statement about the merger with Brookfield Residential. OliverMcMillan has several mixed-use projects under development across the country, including the second phases of River Oaks District in Houston and Buckhead Atlanta in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. As part of the merger, Brookfield Residential is acquiring the future pipeline of these two projects but not the operations of the existing assets, according to a source familiar with the acquisition. The second phase of Buckhead Atlanta includes 315,000 square feet of office space, according to the OliverMcMillan website. The project’s first …
NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital has provided $45.5 million in financing to a New York-based developer to complete the construction of 22 Bond Street, a mixed-use condominium development in the Noho neighborhood of Manhattan. The 11-story, 34,035-square-foot development features a 4,245-square-foot commercial condominium on the cellar and grade levels and six residential condominiums on the upper floors. The residential condominiums are three-bedroom, 3.5-bath duplex units with private elevator access and terraces. On-site amenities include an outdoor garden, storage and a resident lounge. Completion is slated for spring 2018.
NEW YORK CITY — The Vorea Group has purchased a development site, located at 45-57 Davis St. in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, for $21.6 million. Stephen Preuss of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, 45-57 Realty Corp., in the transaction. The site comprises three contiguous tax lots and offers 108,000 buildable square feet within multiple zoning districts, allowing for mixed-use, residential and commercial development.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Encore Capital Management has unveiled the first retailers to join the 200,000-square-foot SunsetWalk at Margaritaville Resort Orlando. SunsetWalk will anchor the $750 million, 300-acre Margaritaville Resort development. At full build-out, the project will feature a 187-room Margaritaville hotel, 900 resort rental homes, 300 timeshare units and a 12-acre waterpark. The project is currently under construction near U.S. Highway 192 and State Road 429, across the street from Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The largest tenant to join SunsetWalk is Studio Movie Grill, a 40,000-square-foot theater that will feature 12 screens and more than 1,000 recliners. GameTime will also join the development, opening a 24,000-square-foot entertainment center that will include a restaurant, sports bar, video arcade games, prize machines and more than 60 TVs. Country band Rascal Flatts will open a themed restaurant at the development that will feature a full-service bar, live entertainment and retail space. In addition, Rock & Brews — a restaurant associated with musicians Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley — will join SunsetWalk. Other confirmed tenants at the development include Skechers, Bahama Bucks, Avalon Day Spa, Café Rio, Cold Stone Creamery, Paradise Spirits and Wine and BugerFi. The first phase of SunsetWalk is expected to open in November.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Cielo Property Group has broken ground on The Foundry, a mixed-use project in east Austin that will comprise 76,000 square feet of office space and 17 condo units, 11 of which are already under contract. DPR Construction, the general contractor for the project, has preleased 30,000 square feet at the three-story office property. Independent Bank provided the construction loan for the development, which is scheduled to open in March 2019. Sixthriver Architects designed the office building. CBRE will handle leasing of the property.
NEW YORK CITY — Oxford Properties Group and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) have closed on the $700 million acquisition of a 3.25-acre development site in the Hudson Square district of Manhattan’s Midtown South submarket. The historic St. John’s Terminal site, which will be redeveloped into a mixed-use project, is situated south of West Houston Street and features 600 feet of frontage along the Hudson River. The northern portion of the site was not included in the transaction and will be developed separately. The joint venture between Toronto-based Oxford and CPPIB purchased the site from Westbrook Partners and Atlas Capital Group. Oxford owns a 52.5 percent interest in this joint venture and will manage the future development, details of which will be announced in the second half of the year. CPPIB owns the remaining 47.5 percent interest in the site. The parcel includes an existing 1.3 million-square-foot structure that was built in 1934 as the rail freight terminus to New York Central Railroad’s West Side Line. In December 2016, the New York City Council approved the air rights rezoning of the site to develop up 1.7 million square feet of mixed-use space. Cushman and Wakefield’s New York Capital Markets …
NEW YORK CITY — Alpha Realty arranged the sale of a mixed-use building located at 133 W. Third St. in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. An undisclosed buyer acquired the 6,200-square-foot property for $8.8 million, or $1,437 per square foot. The building features seven apartments and one retail space. Scott Schwartz of Alpha Realty represented the buyer, while Michael Coratolo of Coratolo Associates and Jim Mann of Friedman Roth represented the seller in the deal.
