Mixed-Use

DUNWOODY, GA. — The Dunwoody City Council has approved the rezoning of Phase IV of Park Center, a 17-acre, transit-oriented office campus in metro Atlanta. The master developer of the project is KDC, a Dallas-based corporate development and investment firm. The amended zoning will allow KDC to change its plans from a standalone fourth office tower to a two-tower project that will comprise 175 hotel rooms, 300 residential units, 22,000 square feet of retail space and 300,000 square feet of office space. The plan includes two towers on a common podium with a 20-story apartment tower and a combined office and hotel tower, where six floors of hotel rooms will sit atop 12 levels of office space. Phase IV represents the final phase of Park Center and will occupy the last undeveloped portion of the development, which was originally conceived as a 2.2 million-square-foot East Coast hub for State Farm Insurance. The project team includes local architecture firm Cooper Carry. The current campus contains three office towers developed over the past 10 years: the 600,000-square-foot Park Center One, which is directly connected to the Dunwoody MARTA Station; the 621,000-square-foot Park Center Two with more than 39,000 square feet of retail …

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HOMESTEAD, FLA. — The Estate Cos. (EIG) and Midtown Group have acquired a 20.8-acre development site located in Homestead, approximately 40 miles southwest of Miami, for $14 million. The companies received approval last September to develop Soleste Midtown, a mixed-use project, at the site. Upon completion, the development will comprise 354 residential units, as well as 43,000 square feet of commercial space. Residences will include apartments ranging from 676 to 1,131 square feet within six five-story buildings. Amenities will include a 7,000-square-foot clubhouse, swimming pool and playground. EIG will develop and own the residential portion, with Midtown Group developing and owning the commercial component of the property, which will feature six outparcels situated along a promenade. 

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Westside Real Estate Investors LLC, which is a partnership between Keystone Group and Larkspur Capital, has received approval from the Fort Worth Zoning Commission for a portion of a larger redevelopment project. The Dallas Business Journal and Fort Worth Report both state that the larger project is valued at $850 million. The latter publication reports that the ruling allows for 11.5 acres of the 35-acre site of the former Fort Worth Independent School District to be rezoned from industrial to mixed-use. The project was announced in January, and plans call for multifamily, hospitality, office, retail, restaurant and entertainment uses, as well as public green space. The DBJ reports that the combined footprint of these uses could be approximately 2 million square feet.

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NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based developer TF Cornerstone is nearing completion on 2-20 and 2-21 Malt Drive, a 1.4 million-square-foot apartment complex in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. At full build-out, the project will deliver 1,386 apartments across two buildings, as well as retail space and a public park. 2-20 and 2-21 Malt Drive are situated on Malt Drive, a new city street that was named as a nod to the site’s history as a sugar cane processing facility that later became a beer distribution center. The project is located within the 30-acre Hunter’s Point South mixed-use development. The South building at 2-20 Malt Drive will rise 33 stories and feature 575 units. The adjacent North building will comprise 811 apartments across two towers at 2-21 Malt Drive. Thirty percent of units at both buildings will be set aside as affordable housing, which will be leased at 130 percent of the area median income. The buildings were designed by SLCE Architects. Planned amenities include on-site parking, bicycle storage, co-working space, children’s playrooms, lounges, fitness centers, shared laundry rooms as well as in-unit washers & dryers, roof decks with BBQ grills, sundecks and courtyards. 2-20 Malt Drive will also …

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Atlanta-based Portman has announced it is nearing completion of Vera at Savona Mill, a 319-unit midrise apartment community in Charlotte’s West End. First units are set to deliver in July. Vera at Savona Mill will offer one-, two- and three-bedroom options, as well as studios, lofts and townhomes. Amenities will include a resort-style pool with cabanas, a pet spa and dog park, fitness center with a yoga studio, game room and a coworking lounge. Portman plans to launch preleasing later this month. The multifamily property is the latest component of a mixed-use, adaptive reuse of a 105-year-old former textile mill that also includes retail space, creative offices, a community plaza and the expansion of the Stewart Creek Greenway that is set to open soon. The second phase of residential at Savona Mill is anticipated to break ground next summer and include 279 multifamily units and 40 townhouses.

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FULTON, MD. — A joint venture between Greenebaum Enterprises and St. John Properties has broken ground on the final three commercial buildings at Maple Lawn, a 605-acre mixed-use development in Fulton, a city in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. The properties, all of which are being developed on a speculative basis, include two medical office buildings and an inline retail building cumulatively totaling 85,000 square feet. All three buildings are positioned along Maple Lawn’s northern entrance near Maple Lawn Boulevard and Johns Hopkins Road. Upon the expected delivery in late 2025, Maple Lawn will total 1.8 million square feet of Class A offices, industrial facilities, research-and-development space, medical offices, shops and restaurants, as well as 1,300 residences. Maple Lawn is home to a variety of businesses, including Cisco Systems, DataTribe, Johns Hopkins Medicine, KBR, Kennedy Krieger, New Day, Presidio, Raytheon and Window Nation. 

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CHICAGO — BWE has arranged a $17 million loan for the acquisition of 939 North Avenue, a Class A mixed-use property in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The asset features roughly 200,000 square feet of retail, fitness and medical office space as well as a 350-space parking garage. Daniel Rosenberg and Logan Petersmeyer of BWE arranged the loan on behalf of the borrowers, Farpoint Development and MCZ Development Group. A debt fund provided the loan, which features interest-only payments.

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STERLING HEIGHTS, MICH. — Lionheart Capital has unveiled plans for the $1 billion mixed-use redevelopment of Lakeside Mall in the Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights. The redevelopment process will begin with the demolition of the enclosed regional mall following its closure on July 1. The new development will be anchored by a mixed-use town center and central park featuring shops, offices, coffee houses, restaurants, an area for community gatherings and events, and a two-story community center with recreational amenities including swimming pools, fitness facilities and libraries.  The project is also set to include a hotel and residential space, details of which were not disclosed, as well as 30 acres of public space, parks and infrastructure. Plans include the addition of walking, biking and hiking trails that connect to local trail networks including the Iron Belle Trail, Freedom Trail and Dodge Park Trail.  Groundbreaking on the town center is scheduled for late 2025. The development team includes master architect CallisonRTKL, landscape designer SWA and civil engineer Giffels Webster. A completion timeline was not disclosed. Lakeside Mall originally opened in 1976. The site spans 110 acres and the existing buildings total 1.5 million square feet. Miami-based Lionheart Capital is an investment firm …

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FRISCO, TEXAS — Kansas City-based developer VanTrust Real Estate has unveiled plans for the next phase of Frisco Station, a 242-acre mixed-use development located on the northern outskirts of Dallas. Dubbed The Towers at Frisco Station, the next phase will consist of office, hotel, retail and restaurant uses that could total as much as 3 million square feet across five buildings. Entertainment concepts Pickle & Social and Fairway Social have already committed to the latest phase. Frisco Station, which was launched in 2015, currently features 700,000 square feet of Class A office space, 955 mid- and high-rise multifamily units and 450 hotel rooms, as well as a 30-acre park and trail system. Construction timelines for the latest phase are still being finalized.

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TAMPA, FLA. — Strategic Property Partners LLC has unveiled the next phase of Water Street Tampa, the company’s $3 billion mixed-use neighborhood underway in downtown Tampa. The next phase includes three separate buildings: a residential condominium building, a build-to-suit office complex and a hospitality/entertainment destination just north of Amalie Arena, home of the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning. The condo tower and office buildings will be situated on an extension of Water Street Tampa that is currently under construction on East Cumberland Avenue. The third property will feature a select-service hotel, parking garage and entertainment uses, including food-and-beverage options and a live music venue. Designed by Gensler Architects with Nichols Architects acting as architect of record, the condo tower will be the tallest building within Water Street Tampa, joining other multifamily properties Asher, Cora and Heron. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the office complex will feature ground-floor retail space and will join Thousand & One as the second office component. The road and utility infrastructure work for these additions has already begun and is expected to be completed by spring 2025. Last year, Jeff Vinik, owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning, sold his stake in Strategic Property Partners to his co-developer, …

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