PLANO, TEXAS — Provident Realty Advisors will develop The Legacy at Spring Creek, a 37-acre mixed-use project located at the corner of Dallas North Tollway and Spring Creek Parkway in Plano. Designed by O’Brien Architects, the project will feature up to 100,000 square feet of retail space, three eight- to 10-story office buildings and a 200-room hotel. Construction is slated to begin in January 2018. Cushman & Wakefield will handle leasing of the property.
CHICAGO — Structured Development has acquired a 40,000-square-foot loft office building in Chicago’s Lincoln Park for an undisclosed price. The property is located at 855 W. Blackhawk St., adjacent to another property that Structured Development purchased in 2015. Together, the sites will be redeveloped as The Shops at Big Deahl, a 200,000-square-foot mixed-use property. Demolition of the building located at 1450 N. Dayton St. is underway, with construction of The Shops slated to begin in early 2018. Callison RTKL is the project architect.
PHILADELPHIA — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $44.7 million CMBS first mortgage loan for Rodin Place, a mixed-use building, and an adjacent retail property located in Philadelphia. Totaling 241,884 square feet, the assets include a single-story retail building, leased by Target, and one six-story office and retail building. John Christen of Key’s Commercial Mortgage Group arranged the financing with a 10-year term, five-year interest-only period and 30-year amortization schedule. Loan proceeds were used to refinance existing debt.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — CBRE has arranged the sale of McKinley Towne Centre and The Offices at Liberty Square in Ann Arbor for an undisclosed price. McKinley Towne Centre is a 130,824-square-foot mixed-use building located at 401 E. Liberty St. The Offices at Liberty Square is a 59,381-square-foot office building located at 500 E. Washington St. The portfolio was nearly 99 percent occupied at the time of sale. Tenants include supply chain software company LLamasoft, TD Ameritrade, the University of Michigan, Bar Louie, AT&T and FedEx. Ann Arbor-based commercial real estate firm McKinley sold the assets to Hillside Investments. Anne Galbraith Kohn of CBRE represented McKinley in the transaction.
ATLANTA — Selig Development, an affiliate of Atlanta-based Selig Enterprises Inc., has unveiled plans for The Works at Chattahoochee, an 80-acre, mixed-use development located on Chattahoochee Industrial Avenue in Atlanta’s West Midtown district. The project will cost approximately $1 billion, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Upon completion, the multi-phased development will span more than 1.5 million square feet and more than 40 structures, including 500,000 square feet of retail, 600,000 square feet of office space, 500 residences, a 200-room boutique hotel and 13 acres of green space. Phase I of the project is slated for delivery in 2018 and will include a mix of dining, office, residential, entertainment and public green space, in addition to 200,000 square feet of adaptive reuse within three warehouses. Subsequent phases will be delivered in the next five to 10 years.
DANIA BEACH, FLA. — Kimco Realty Corp. (NYSE: KIM) has broken ground on the Phase I retail portion of Dania Pointe, a mixed-use project in Dania Beach, a beachside suburb of Fort Lauderdale in Broward County. Total project costs are estimated at $1 billion, according to local media reports. Slated to open in time for the 2018 holiday season, the $109 million Phase I comprises 300,000 square feet of retail space, which is approximately 80 percent preleased to tenants such as T.J. Maxx, Hobby Lobby, BrandsMart and Ulta Beauty. Upon completion, Dania Pointe will be a 1 million-square-foot, open-air lifestyle community incorporating over 100 retail tenants and restaurants. Future phases will include up to 500,000 square feet of Class A office space, 1,000 luxury apartment and condominium units and two hotels. Dania Pointe is located near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and adjacent to Oakwood Plaza, which Kimco also owns. Hoar Construction and locally based developer Salzman Real Estate Advisors also make up the project team. New York-based Kimco is a real estate investment trust focused on owning and operating open-air shopping centers. As of June of this year, the company’s portfolio spanned 510 shopping centers and 84 million square …
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — Stratus Properties Inc. (NASDAQ: STRS) will develop Jones Crossing, a 258,000-square-foot mixed-use project situated on a 72-acre tract in College Station. The retail component of the project will be anchored by a 106,000-square-foot H-E-B. The company expects to break ground during the third quarter and open the H-E-B store in mid-2018.
NEW YORK CITY — Cleeman Realty Group has brokered two separate transactions in Brooklyn totaling $6.1 million. In the first deal, an undisclosed buyer acquired a three-story, 3,440-square-foot residential walk-up building in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene area for $2.5 million. The building features eight rental units, four of which are vacant. Zach Hering of Cleeman Realty represented the buyer and undisclosed seller in the transaction. In the second deal, an undisclosed seller sold a vacant mixed-use building located on St. Felix Street in Brooklyn for $3.5 million. The 4,600-square-foot property features five residential units and two floors of community space. The building has been vacant since it was built in 2007. Michael Cleeman of Cleeman Realty represented the seller, while Hering represented the undisclosed buyer in the deal.
DALLAS — High Street Residential has opened M-Line Tower, a 20-story, mixed-use development located at 3200 McKinney Ave. in Dallas. The property’s 261 apartment homes are a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom units ranging in size from 581 to 2,511 square feet. M-Line Tower offers 11,636 square feet of ground-floor restaurant space leased to Café Express and Blue Sushi Sake Grill. Community amenities include a multi-level fitness center, resident sky lounge, pool, business center and personal study areas.
GAINESVILLE, FLA. — Peachtree Hotel Group (PHG), in a joint venture with Celebration Pointe Holdings (CPH), has broken ground on a 140-room Hotel Indigo in Gainesville. Situated between S.W. 49th and S.W. 50th Terraces, the six-story hotel will be one of the anchor tenants of Celebration Pointe, a 150-acre mixed-use development, located along Interstate 75 and Archer Road. Hotel Indigo Gainesville will feature a neighborhood bar with seasonal and locally sourced food. Atlanta-based PHG will operate the property, which is slated to open in August 2018. In addition to the hotel, Celebration Pointe will feature 300,000 square feet of Class A office space; 400,000 square feet of retail, restaurants and entertainment, including Bass Pro Shops and a Regal RPX theater; and approximately 900 residential units.
