ATLANTA — The Trillist Cos. has opened YOO on the Park, a 25-story multifamily community near Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. The first residents are moving into the property, which features one- and two-bedroom apartments, as well as studio and penthouse units. YOO on the Park is Trillist’s first YOO-designed property completed in the United States. The community features a pet spa, social programs for residents, bike storage, personal equipment lockers, 24-hour fitness center, outdoor exercise terrace, yoga studio, saline pool and lounge, outdoor kitchen, deck with life-sized chess set, library, conference room, juice bar, billiards lounge, golf simulator, gaming theater, on-site dry cleaning and laundry service and in-home package and dry cleaning delivery services.
Multifamily
Franklin Street Arranges Sale, Secures Financing for Apartment Complex in Broward County
by John Nelson
SUNRISE, FLA. — Franklin Street has arranged the sale of and secured financing for Sunset Apartments, a 54-unit multifamily community located at 2340-2350 N.W. 72nd Ave. in Sunrise, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. Tony Gannacone, Greg Matus and Dan Dratch of Franklin Street represented the Canada-based seller, RonJack Properties LP, in the transaction, and procured the unspecified buyer. The 10-year, nonrecourse acquisition loan features a fixed 3.5 percent interest rate. Franklin Street’s Evan Seacat and Ryan Cassidy provided insurance services for the asset.
ST. LOUIS — Dougherty Mortgage LLC has arranged a $5.2 million HUD loan for the refinancing of the Downtowner Apartments in St. Louis. Originally constructed as a hotel in 1963, the 95-unit affordable housing property was renovated and converted into apartment units in 2007. In addition to the rental units, there is approximately 5,652 square feet of retail and restaurant space on the first floor. Dougherty’s Minneapolis office arranged the loan, which includes a 35-year amortization schedule. Washington Avenue Apartments LP was the borrower.
Tumbling rents, landlord concessions and weakening levels of absorption have defined Houston’s multifamily market for much of the duration of the oil bust that spanned from late 2014 to mid-2016, but the multifamily market is now on the mend, says a third-party multifamily data analyst. Bruce McClenny, president of Apartment Data Services, which tracks the vital signs of nearly 3,000 multifamily properties nationwide, believes Houston’s multifamily market is about nine months past the rock-bottom point. As the opening speaker at the Interface Houston Multifamily Conference before 170 industry professionals on Tuesday, March 28, McLenny explained why he believes that a turnaround, albeit a slow one, has already begun. “The first six months of 2016 was the bottom, economically,” McLenny said during the conference, which was held March 28 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston’s Galleria neighborhood. “Things have gotten better from that moment on. There’s absorption out there. Through the first two months of this year, we had more than 1,900 units absorbed.” In 2016, submarkets on the city’s south and east sides — Pearland West, Baytown, Pasadena, Galveston — fared markedly better than submarkets in other parts of town, according to McLenny. All four of these submarkets attained positive …
IRVINE, Calif. — HCP (NYSE: HCP) has completed its previously announced sale of 64 Brookdale Senior Living-operated multifamily communities for $1.1 billion. The deal was announced in November 2016. Affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII LP purchased the portfolio, with Brookdale staying on as operator. Specific names and locations of the properties were not disclosed. The properties total 5,967 units, which equates to a sale price of $189,000 per unit. Occupancy for the portfolio was 85.2 percent at the time the sale was announced. KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare platform provided a $703 million financing package for the buyers. Charlie Shoop of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Commercial Mortgage Group led the financing team for a Fannie Mae credit facility, which accounts for the bulk of the financing. Peter Trazzera of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Healthcare Group led the financing team for KeyBank’s balance sheet financing that made up the rest of the loans. At the time the sale was announced, HCP also noted its plans to terminate leases on 25 Brookdale properties totaling 2,031 units over the next year. HCP also plans to transfer eight expiring Brookdale triple-net leases to a RIDEA structure, through a joint venture where Brookdale acquires 10 percent interest in the properties. …
PHOENIX — Sagewood, a luxury continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in North Phoenix, has broken ground on The Estates, a new neighborhood at the community. The expansion will include 24 new standalone homes as well as a 44-unit assisted living building, a 13,000-square-foot events center, a reconfiguration of the main entrance and new parking areas. Development partners on the project include Life Care Services, Westminster Capital and the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. Sagewood currently features 292 units spanning the continuum of care, along with two clubhouses and on-site Acacia Health Center that recently doubled in size.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. — Life Care Services, as development and marketing consultant, has unveiled plans for Villaggio at San Luis Obispo, a luxury life plan community in San Luis Obispo, located in the Central Coast area between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. The entrance-fee community will feature the full continuum of care on site. When completed, the property will total 350 units. Robert Richmond, an architect, is the founder and executive director of design and development on the project. The property will feature streetscapes and a central plaza with an open-air design, including restaurants, gathering places and many other amenities. California-based RRM Design Group is the design architect. Developers are planning to seek LEED certification for the project. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2019.
DENVER — Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors LLC has arranged the $1.9 million sale of a 12-unit housing community located one block from the University of Denver campus. Jeff Johnson and Matt Ritter of Pinnacle represented the undisclosed seller, and Peter Sengelmann and Jeff Johnson of Pinnacle represented the undisclosed buyer in the transaction.
DALTON, GA. — Greystone Brown Real Estate Advisors has brokered the $6.1 million sale of Chalet Valley, a 140-unit, Class B multifamily community located at 1809 Shadow Lane in Dalton, a city about 90 miles northwest of Atlanta. Dalton Valley LLC acquired the property from Augsburg Investments LLC, a Georgia-based holding company. Taylor Brown, Walter Miller, Chandler Brown and Bo Brown of Greystone Brown represented the seller in the transaction. The property consists of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, and includes a pool, laundry services and a pet park.
Syracuse, N.Y. — Aptitude Development, a new partnership between BLVD Equities, Rosen Property Group and Westerleigh Property Group, is set to break ground on a 287-bed mixed-use development near Syracuse University in New York. The property will feature 20,000 square feet of retail space and community amenities including a fitness center and study rooms.