WICHITA, KAN. — Bellwether Enterprise has arranged a $7.2 million CMBS loan for the acquisition of two manufactured housing communities in Wichita. River Oaks features 275 mobile homes while Lamplighter includes 225 mobile homes. Amenities include basketball courts, storage facilities and swimming pools. MJ Vukovich of Bellwether arranged the loan for the borrower, Park Street Partners. Benefit Street Partners was the lender.
Multifamily
SAFETY HARBOR AND TAMPA, FLA. — Berkadia has arranged the $47.5 million sale of two multifamily properties in the Tampa Bay region: Twenty 35 in Safety Harbor and The Park at Windsor in Tampa. Jason Stanton, Cole Whitaker, Mary Beale and Greg Rainey of Berkadia arranged both transactions. Blue Roc Premier Properties LLC acquired Twenty 35 from Nashville-based Covenant Capital Group LLC for $21 million. The property features one- and two-bedroom units with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances and walk-in closets. Community amenities include a fitness center, picnic area, courtyard and gated entry. Redwood Capital Group acquired The Park at Windsor from Blue Roc Premier Properties LLC for $26.5 million. The property features balconies or patios for each unit, a fitness center, pool, barbeque area and a laundry center.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Miami-based Lloyd Jones Capital has acquired Deerwood Park, a 282-unit apartment community in Jacksonville. The Florida Times-Union reports the asset sold for $40.9 million. The property is located within Deerwood Office Park on Touchton Road, home to 5.2 million square feet of office space. Constructed in 2002, Deerwood Park offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Community amenities include attached garages, a resort-style pool, outdoor kitchen with gas grills and a dog park. Finlay Management, the operations group at Lloyd Jones Capital, will manage the property.
FREDERICK, MD. — HHHunt has broken ground on Spring Arbor of Frederick, a 109-bed assisted living and memory care community in Frederick, approximately 50 miles west of Baltimore. Development costs for the project are estimated at $32.3 million. When completed, the 110,000-square-foot community will sit on a 10-acre site along the Monocacy River and near the Monocacy National Battlefield. The community will be HHHunt’s third in Maryland and is scheduled for completion in early 2019. SunTrust Bank provided a $50 million credit facility for the project. Blacksburg, Va.-based HHHunt is a real estate developer and owner with a portfolio of 24 Spring Arbor-branded seniors housing communities in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
FRESNO, CALIF. — JRK Property Holdings has purchased a 614-unit apartment portfolio in Fresno for $98.7 million. The portfolio includes the 218-unit Crown Point and the 200-unit Cascades. Both properties are situated within the Dominion neighborhood. Each property features a mix of one- and two-bedroom floor plans with wood-burning fireplaces, and units come with either garages or covered parking. Mark Leary and Nate Oleson of ARA Newmark represented the seller, Demmon Partners, in this transaction.
Grandbridge Provides $44M Permanent Loan for Crowne at Timberline Apartments in Fort Collins
by Nellie Day
FORT COLLINS, COLO. — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has provided $44 million in first-mortgage financing for the 310-unit Crowne at Timberline apartments in Fort Collins. The Class A community is located at 2001 Rosen Drive. Crowne at Timberline offers a view of the Rockies Mountains Front Range. Amenities include a media room, exercise room, business center, swimming pool, waterscape area, and outdoor lounge area with fire pit and TVs. The 10-year, permanent, fixed-rate loan features a 30-year amortization schedule with an initial period of interest-only payments. Proceeds from the loan will be used to pay off the construction loan. The property opened in late 2016. William Silsbee originated the transaction for an undisclosed repeat customer.
NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the sale of two adjacent five-story apartment buildings on Honeywell Avenue in the West Farms neighborhood in the Bronx. The Fruchthandler real estate family’s FBE Limited bought the two buildings, located at 2103-2117 Honeywell Ave., for $44.4 million. Built in 1979 and totaling 181,093 square feet, the property features 197 apartments and 46 indoor parking spots. Aaron Jungreis of Rosewood Realty represented the seller, Rajmattie Persuad, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of an apartment building located at 41 Jefferson St. in Brooklyn’s Bushwick section. A private investor sold the 21-unit property for $7.5 million. Shaun Riley, Tom Shihadeh and Andrew Reiter of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction.
MELBOURNE, FLA. — Phillips Realty Capital has arranged a $19.2 million loan for the acquisition and renovation of Landmark at Waverly Place, a 208-unit apartment community in Melbourne, roughly 70 miles southeast of Orlando. Adam Bieber of Phillips Realty Capital arranged the loan through Ares Management on behalf of the borrower, BG Capital Management. Landmark at Waverly Place features a resort-style pool, clubhouse, fitness center, poolside kitchens and a dog park. Constructed in 1987, the property offers one- to three-bedroom floor plans. BG Capital Management will upgrade 88 of the units over the next two years.
DECATUR, GA. — New York City-based The Praedium Group has acquired Reserve Decatur, a 298-unit multifamily community in Decatur, roughly eight miles east of downtown Atlanta. Atlantic Realty Partners developed the property. The sales price was not disclosed. Constructed in 2016, Reserve Decatur includes one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging in size from 620 to 1,555 square feet. Unit interiors feature quartz countertops, nine-foot ceilings, built-in Bluetooth sound systems and green features including low flow plumbing fixtures and energy efficient windows. Community amenities include a clubhouse, cyber café, swimming pool with outdoor kitchen and cabana, rooftop entertainment lounge, dog park and a dog spa.