DALLAS — Café Victoria will join a 75-acre mixed-use development in downtown Dallas as its first coffee shop. Owned and operated by Victory Park resident Luciana Gómez, Café Victoria will serve coffee and pastries. The shop is scheduled to open in January 2016 and will be located on Victory Park Lane next to Buda Juice. Victory Park features more than 165,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space, including Buda Juice, Chad Rookstool Salon, Classic Pilates, Cook Hall, Hard Rock Café, The Hangar, Havana Social Club, House of Blues, Jimmy John’s, Kenichi, Medina Oven & Bar and Metro Tickets.
DUBLIN, OHIO — Crawford Hoying has started Phase I for the mixed-use Bridge Park development in Dublin, a suburb of Columbus. Hoying is the Ohio-based developer spearheading the $350 million project. The first of the three-phase development spans 30 acres and will include 269,000 square feet of restaurant, office, retail and personal services space, two 850-space parking garages, as well as 382 luxury apartment units and 42 condominiums. Phase I will also include more than $155 million in public improvements, of which the City of Dublin will contribute $43.1 million. Slated for a fall 2016 completion, Crawford Hoying is expected to release its first tenants for Phase I in the coming weeks. This fall, Phase II of the project is slated to break ground, with tenants and development anticipated to be coming online in early 2017. Plans for Phase II include a 150-key hotel, a 500-person event center, as well as significant additions of office, retail, and for-sale and rental residential units. Upon completion, the entire Bridge Park project will include more than 1.1 million square feet of residential space, 220,000 square feet of Class A Office, 120,000 square feet of service retail and 92,000 square feet of restaurants.
KEY WEST AND PORT ST. LUCIE, FLA. — NorthMarq Capital’s Boca Raton office has arranged the refinancings of The Westin Key West Resort in Key West and The Atlantic at Tradition Apartments in Port St. Lucie for a combined $74.6 million. Located at 245 Front St., The Westin Key West Resort’s amenities include a swimming pool, marina, two different spa facilities, beach access and a workout fitness studio. Bill Johnson of NorthMarq arranged the 20-year, $50 million loan through a life insurance company on behalf of the borrower. Located at 10297 S.W. Village Parkway, the 252-unit Atlantic at Tradition is in close proximity to the 150-acre Tradition Center of Innovation Research Park and a VA hospital currently under construction. The property’s amenity package includes a clubhouse, swimming pool, sundeck, theater, Jacuzzi, veranda, 24-hour fitness center, business center, tennis court, dog park and lakeside walking trail. Johnson arranged the 10-year, $24.6 million loan for the apartment community through a life insurance company on behalf of the borrower. The loan features two years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.
GREENWICH, CONN. — Allied Property Group has arranged the sale of a mixed-use building located at 125 Greenwich Ave. in Greenwich. JENN Realty sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for $13.5 million. The three-story building features 16,000 rentable square feet. Thomas Torelli of Allied Property Group represented the seller, while Goldschmidt Associates represented the buyer in the transaction.
COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS — Irving-based Realty Capital Management LLC has sold a 12,000-square-foot mixed-use building located at 16 Village Lane in Colleyville to SC 16 Village Lane Investment LLC. The building is part of a larger 26-acre mixed-use development known as The Village at Colleyville, which was developed by Realty Capital in 2002. The mixed-use building was fully leased to four retail tenants on the first floor and one office tenant on the second floor. The ground floor tenants include Posh Hair Studio, The Lash Lounge, The Lodge Barbershop and Posh Body. The sole second floor tenant is Ztar Mobile. Realty Capital had owned the building since 2004 when the property was originally delivered. Russ Webb and LeAnn Brown with Silver Oak Commercial Realty represented the seller in the transaction. Holt Lunsford and Matt Carthey with Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the buyer. The Village at Colleyville is located at Main Street and Highway 26 (Colleyville Boulevard).
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has brokered the sale of a mixed-use, elevator building, located at 49 Greene St. in SoHo. The six-story property sold for $31 million, or $1,240 per square foot. The 25,000-square-foot building features seven apartment units and a 5,500-square-foot vacant retail space. Peter Hauspurg of Eastern Consolidated represented the seller, Les Pieds Nickle’s Inc., while Deborah Gutoff of Eastern and Robert Dankner of Prime Manhattan Residential represented the buyer, EMP Capital, in the transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — GroundFloor Development and Prescott Group have announced plans for Saint Elmo, a mixed-use project set to open in Austin in the first quarter of 2018. Designed by Andersson-Wise Architects and located on South Congress near Ben White Boulevard, Saint Elmo will include 225,000 square feet of office space and a 40,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor marketplace. GroundFloor Development and Prescott Group are the master developers of the $120 million project. In November of last year, the Austin city council approved the rezoning request for the project. Construction is slated to begin in mid-2016. Andersson-Wise Architects is the lead architect of the project, KBGE’s Chad Kimbell is the civil engineer, David Hocker of Hocker Design is the landscape designer, Juice Consulting’s Heather Wagner Reed will oversee public relations and marketing, and Helms Workshop is the strategic brand design studio.
Chattanooga is situated at a U-turn of the Tennessee River amidst forests and mountains, hence the community’s nickname, Scenic City. Two of Chattanooga’s largest employers are Volkswagen, which has a plant here, and Amazon, which runs a distribution center in the city. Insurance firm Unum Group, a Fortune 500 Company founded in 1848, is headquartered here and is one of the larger occupiers of downtown office space. Long-known for its natural resources and as a tourism destination, Chattanooga is experiencing a real estate boom fueled by urbanization trends and its proximity to Atlanta (2 hours south) and Nashville (1.5 hours northwest), as well as its growing recognition as one of the South’s top tourism and entertainment venues. Key to the urban renewal is the conversion of dozens of properties — mostly from office uses to residential, retail or hotel uses. The combination of the Great Recession and a 2009 move by BlueCross BlueShield into a new $229 million downtown facility has led to the relatively high vacancy rate of 17.5 percent that persisted up until early 2014. Most of the 600,000 square feet of facilities vacated by BlueCross BlueShield were not suitable for multi-tenanted office use and the spaces would …
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a property located at 206-212 Wadsworth Ave. in Manhattan’s Washington Heights. Caerus Group acquired the property for $8 million in an all-cash transaction. The buyer plans to construct a new development on the site, which offers 97,422 square feet of buildable space. The previous owners, Wadsworth Avenue Baptist Church Inc., will occupy a condominium at the new development, which will replace the existing structure. Robert Shapiro of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction.
HOUSTON — Three new retailers have signed on at Caldwell Cos.’ mixed-use development, The Boardwalk at Towne Lake. Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co., a coffee shop and bakery, World of Beer, a tavern with a craft beer focus, and Massage Heights, a massage and skin therapy provider, are the latest tenants to sign leases at the Northwest Houston project. The Boardwalk at Towne Lake offers restaurant, retail and recreational spaces accessible by walking, driving and boating. The three new retailers join Texas Children’s Pediatrics, Copper Creek Orthodontics and restaurants Jaxton’s and Taisho at the site.