Mixed-Use

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LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — Bright Realty has held a topping out ceremony for its upcoming multifamily project known as Discovery at The Realm. The first of Discovery at The Realm’s 423 apartment units are on track to deliver in April. The topping out party celebrated the completion of the three apartment buildings’ major structural and environmental construction, which includes a lake with promenade pedestrian access. Members of Bright Realty development, leasing and marketing teams, general contractor Andres Construction, project architects from Charlotte, N.C.’s LandDesign, local officials and Bright Realty’s business partners attended the celebration. Bright Realty begins pre-leasing activities for Discovery at The Realm later this month as interior finish work begins. Located south of Windhaven Parkway at Castle Hills Drive in Lewisville, Discovery at The Realm’s first phase features three podium-style buildings on 20.4 acres. All Phase I units should be delivered by October. Total project costs are $75 million. Discovery at The Realm is the first project in The Realm at Castle Hills, a mixed-use project to be built along State Highway 121 frontage. At completion, Discovery at The Realm will include more than 4,000 apartment units, with another 800 units planned within other parts of The Realm at …

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Crescent Stonewall Station Uptown Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Crescent Communities has broken ground on a transit-oriented development at Lynx Light Rail’s Stonewall Station that will be anchored by Uptown Charlotte’s first Whole Foods Market. The mixed-use development will feature the 47,000-square-foot Whole Foods store, 459 luxury apartment residences and a parking deck. Expected to open in 2017, the development will span 5.4 acres and feature a public plaza that will offer food carts and gathering spaces for social events. Community amenities will include a heated, invisible-edge saltwater pool, fitness center, sky lounge, picnic areas and a rooftop dog park. Unit interiors will feature granite or quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, faux-wood flooring, designer lighting fixtures and USB outlets for connectivity. Crescent Stonewall Station’s financing includes an equity investment by Crescent Communities and the Melissaris family, as well as construction debt provided by JP Morgan Chase and Emigrant Realty Finance. The design team includes architect The Preston Partnership, interior designer Vignette Interior Design, civil engineer and landscape architect LandDesign and general contractor Whiting-Turner.

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NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has arranged the sale of a mixed-use building located at 128-130 Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn’s Kensington neighborhood. Sugar Hill Capital Partners acquired the two-story, eight-unit building for $2.2 million, or approximately $316 per square foot. The property features five ground-floor commercial units and three three-bedroom units on the upper level. Additionally, the property features approximately 4,800 buildable square feet as of right. Adam Hess, Sam Shalumov, Eddie Setton and Kirill Galperin of TerraCRG were the sole brokers in the transaction.

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NEW YORK CITY — Manhattan-based George Comfort & Sons Inc. has partnered with ASB Capital Management to acquire a 48,000-square-foot mixed-use building at 7 W. 18th St. in Manhattan’s Flatiron District for an undisclosed price. The fully occupied nine-story building is tenanted by homenature, a home furnishing retailer, on the ground floor and a variety of office tenants on the upper floors. The name of the seller was not released.

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BOSTON — Fantini & Gorga has arranged three loans totaling $12.3 million in permanent financing for three properties in Boston. The properties include a mixed-use property at 174 Newbury St. and two multifamily assets located at 471 and 475 Commonwealth Ave. within Kenmore Square. The Newbury Street property features four stores with a lower level retail space occupied by Ben & Jerry’s and Vans, and five apartment units on the upper levels with direct access to the sidewalk. 471 Commonwealth is a four-story building with 10 apartment units and 475 Commonwealth is a seven-story property with 42 apartments and one office suite. Derek Coulombe, Tim O’Donnell and Chris Miller of Fantini & Gorga arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.

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NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sales of two properties in Brooklyn totaling $7.6 million. In the first transaction, a private investor acquired an 80-foot by 90-foot development site located at 242-248 Newkirk Ave. in Brooklyn. The site, which offers 30,497 buildable square feet, sold for $4 million. The site has approved plans for a seven-story, 45-unit apartment building. Derek Bestreich, Steve Reynolds and Thomas Reynolds of Marcus & Milichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer in the transaction. In the second deal, a private investor purchased an eight-unit apartment property, located at 592 Vanderbilt Ave. in Brooklyn, for $3.6 million. Bestreich, Lucien Sproviero and Adam Lobel of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and the buyer in the sale.

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Apeiron at the Jockey Club Miami

MIAMI — Silver Arch Capital Partners, a private lender based in Hackensack, N.J., has closed a $21 million loan for Apeiron at the Jockey Club in Miami. Once the site of the popular Jockey Club in the 1960s, the new hotel and residential development will span 1 million square feet at 111 Biscayne Blvd. David Larson of NGKF Capital Markets arranged the 2-year loan through Silver Arch Capital on behalf of Apeiron Miami LLC, a partnership headed by Ritz-Carlton Group co-founder Horst Schulze, former chairman of HBA International Michael Bedner and former vice president of Related International Muayad Abbas. The partnership will use the loan for engineering, architecture and planning purposes for the development, which will be built in two phases. Phase I is a 41-story tower that will feature 120 residential condominium units, 90 hotel rooms, a restaurant, fitness center and amenities. Phase I will also comprise a 417-space, two-story parking garage and the reconstruction of a 38-slip marina. Phase II will be a 120-unit residential condominium building and a 346-space parking structure.

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NEW YORK CITY — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and The Durst Organization have announced that One World Trade Center is ending the year by reaching a major milestone of leasing 2 million square feet of Class A office space. The 1,776-foot tall tower reached this milestone with the signing of two new leases for pre-built space on the property’s 84th floor: a 12,000-square-foot transaction with SHVO, an international developer of luxury residential, hospitality and mixed-use projects; and a 10,000-square-foot lease with Juno Lab, a sharing economy venture. One World Trade Center now includes a roster of 24 tenants in a variety of business sectors, including media, technology, financial services and advertising. The landlord, The Durst Organization, was represented in-house by Karen Kuznick, along with Tara Stacom, Justin Royce, Barry Zeller, Connor Daugstrup and Peter Trivelas of Cushman & Wakefield. Elliott Warren of the Kaufman Organization represented Juno Lab in the transaction, while SHVO was represented in-house.

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NEW YORK CITY — Equicap has arranged $5 million in permanent financing for a mixed-use property located in the Chinatown section of New York City. The 20-unit property features four retail units and 16 apartments. The borrower, a large not-for-profit, plans to renovate and re-tenant the retail portion of the property. Daniel Hilpert of Equicap negotiated the five-year loan at a 3.25 percent interest rate.

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MARIETTA, GA. — Atlanta United has selected Atlanta-based tvsdesign to design its new $50 million training facility in Marietta, a northern suburb of Atlanta. The project will be situated on a 33-acre site off Franklin Road and will feature six soccer fields and a 28,000-square-foot facility that will house the first team and academy players, along with the team’s executive and operations staff. The project is slated to bring roughly 80 high-paying jobs to the area by 2017, when the club will kick off its inaugural season at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium under construction in downtown Atlanta. Atlanta United, Major League Soccer’s 22nd franchise, plans to hold open training sessions and tournaments at the new complex. The club is owned by Arthur Blank and led by president Darren Eales.

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