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.
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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.
NEW YORK CITY — Lalezarian Properties has topped out 515 West 36th Street, a mixed-use tower located on Manhattan’s West Side. Designed by Ismael Leyva Architects, the 38-story, 248,000-square-foot tower will feature 13,000 square feet of commercial retail space on the cellar level, groundfloor and third floor; parking on the second floor; a community facility on the fourth through seventh floors; and residential space, totaling 251 units, on the remaining floors. Completion is tentatively slated for spring 2018.
NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Investment Sales has brokered the sale of a mixed-use property located at 240 E. 28th St. in Manhattan’s Kips Bay neighborhood. A.D. Real Estate Investors sold the property to a private buyer, managed by Sal Notaro, for $19 million. Built in 1920, the six-story building features 28 residential units and two ground-floor retail spaces. The property recently underwent a more than $1 million renovation program, which upgraded the lobby, interior hallways, laundry facilities and façade. Adam Sprung of Meridian represented the buyer and seller in the deal. Meridian Investment Sales is the commercial property sales division of Meridian Capital Group.
Urstadt Biddle Properties Acquires Equity Interest in 75,400 SF Mixed-Use Property in New Jersey
by Amy Works
DUMONT, N.J. — Urstadt Biddle Properties (UBP) has purchased an equity interest in a new entity that owns Washington Commons Shopping Center, retail center that includes a residential component in Dumont. The two-building property features a freestanding 44,300-square-foot Stop & Shop and a three-story building that is occupied by retail tenants Valley Medical Group, Great Clips, Pet Valu, Blimpie and that includes 26 residential apartments. The residential unit mix consists of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts. At the time of acquisition, the property was 100 percent leased. The transaction was structured as a DownREIT partnership whereby the seller, a regional real estate developer, received a combination of cash and operating partnership units in a new entity formed to purchase the property. UBP is the managing member of the newly formed entity and will manage and lease the property. UBP’s initial equity in the DownREIT was approximately $3.9 million, which represents an approximate 31.4 percent equity interest.