IRVING, TEXAS — Dougherty Mortgage LLC has secured a $1.7 million Fannie Mae loan for Stonehill Terrace Apartments, a 301-unit market rate multifamily apartment property located in Irving. Property features include a clubhouse, pool, playground and laundry facilities. Apartment amenities include a dishwasher, air conditioner, hardwood floors, large closets and a patio or balcony. Dougherty’s Minneapolis office arranged the 8.3-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule for the borrower, Urban Stonehill Apartments LP.
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TEMPE, ARIZ. — Ready Capital Structured Finance has provided $10.9 million to refinance a 212-unit apartment community in Tempe. The community is situated in the North Tempe/University submarket. In addition to refinancing the property, the funds will allow the undisclosed borrower to renovate the exterior and unit interiors as leases expire. The non-recourse, interest-only loan features a one-year term and two extension options. It includes a facility that can provide future funding for capital expenditures. Ready Capital closed the bridge loan with a flexible prepayment provision that will allow the loan to be eventually refinanced under HUD’s 223(f) program.
NAMPA, IDAHO — CareTrust REIT Inc. has made a $2.2 million preferred equity investment with Cascadia Healthcare LLC to fund the construction of a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in the Boise suburb of Nampa. The investment is the first of its kind between CareTrust and Cascadia, and includes a purchase option that will allow CareTrust to buy the facility once it is stabilized. Construction of the 52,000-square-foot began last week, for scheduled completion in mid-2017. CareTrust is a publicly traded healthcare REIT based in California. Cascadia is a skilled nursing operator based in Idaho.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Urban Investment Partners (UIP) has acquired a 10-story building at 2601 Virginia Ave. N.W. across from the Watergate mixed-use complex in Washington, D.C., for $36 million. The seller, George Washington University (GWU), formerly used the building as student housing for 17 years. GWU demolished the property’s interior about a year ago, planning to create new student and faculty housing, but decided to sell the property instead. Bobby Meehling, Andy Wimsatt, and Peter Larkin of CBRE represented GWU in the sale. UIP plans to develop Boathouse on the site, which will feature about 200 rental apartments within the existing 97,300-square-foot core and shell, as well as an additional 50 units in a new 40,000-square-foot addition on the building’s east side. UIP will also develop an 8,000- to 10,000-square-foot restaurant/coffee shop on the first floor, which will be a fully activated space for residents and neighbors. The building has underground parking for 200 vehicles, plus bike storage and care facilities with lockers. Boathouse will also feature a rooftop recreational area with river views and a deck, swimming pool, fire pits, gourmet kitchen, and 2,000-square-foot fitness center. Other amenities will include a bike share program, library, multimedia theater and a …
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — Abode Properties, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc., has purchased Metropolitan, a 260-unit luxury mid-rise apartment community situated along Arkansas River in Little Rock. As part of the transaction, Abode assumed an existing HUD loan on the property. Metropolitan’s amenities include two resort-style pools, courtyards, a recreation and billiards room, 24-hour fitness center, internet coffee café, garage parking and onsite security. Each unit boasts granite countertops, alarm systems, walk-in closets and full-size washer and dryers. The seller and sales price were undisclosed.
CHICAGO — JDL Development has opened 1000 South Clark, a 469-unit luxury apartment tower in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood. The 29-story building boasts 43,000 square feet of amenity space that includes a 20,000-square-foot outdoor terrace with grilling stations; an indoor/outdoor pool and rooftop running track; a 10,000-square-foot fitness center; basketball and racquetball courts; a virtual golf simulator and putting area; a library lounge and wine bar; chef’s demonstration kitchen; a game room and billiards lounge; neighborhood bar room with customizable beer taps; news room and media lounge; and a board room with business center. The property also includes a four-story parking garage with space for 327 vehicles and a landscaped outdoor dog park and Bark on Clark, a full-service, privately run pet care and boarding facility. Currently 60 percent leased, 1000 South Clark offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units that range from 512 to 2,730 square feet. Rents start at $1,895 and reach $7,000 per month. Additionally, the community features six three-bedroom rental townhomes, each with 3.5 baths and attached two-car garages.
MINNEAPOLIS — Dougherty Mortgage LLC has closed a $6.2 million Fannie Mae loan to refinance a 31-unit apartment property in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis. Elements of Linden Hills features tempered underground parking, a fitness center, bike storage and a pet wash room. Unit amenities include washers and dryers, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances and gas stovetops. The 12-year loan features four years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. Linden Hills Apartments LLC was the borrower.
RXR Realty Buys Long-Term Leasehold in Brooklyn for $28.7M to Develop Residential Building
by Amy Works
NEW YORK CITY — An affiliate of RXR Realty has acquired the long-term leasehold of 810 Fulton Street in Brooklyn from an affiliate of GFI Development Co. for $28.7 million. Located in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, the property includes approved plans for a 363-unit, 328,000-zoning-square-foot residential building. Totaling 393,000 gross square feet, the property will also feature below-grade parking and 33,235 square feet of retail space facing Vanderbilt Avenue, Fulton Street and Clermont Avenue. Initial site work for the project began in 2015. Broadway Construction Group, an affiliate of GFI Capital Resources Group, and RXR have entered into a construction management agreement for the construction of the property. Construction is expected to begin in earnest this fall, with leasing slated to start in 2018.
NEW YORK CITY — GFI Realty Services has arranged the sale of a four-story, walk-up apartment building, located at 2105 Foster Ave. in Brooklyn’s Flatbush section. An undisclosed buyer purchased the property for $6.5 million, or $311,900 per unit. The pre-war building totals 26,640 square feet and features 21 apartment units. Erik Yankelovich of GFI Realty represented the undisclosed seller and buyer in the deal.
Mid-America Apartment Communities to Acquire Post Properties in $4B Multifamily REIT Merger
by Nellie Day
MEMPHIS, TENN., AND ATLANTA — Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE: MAA) has agreed to acquire Post Properties (NYSE: PPS) in an all-stock deal that values Post, a developer and operator of upscale multifamily communities, at nearly $4 billion. The merger will create a Sunbelt-focused, publicly traded multifamily REIT. The acquisition brings together two multifamily portfolios totaling approximately 105,000 multifamily units in 317 properties. The combined company plans to focus on urban and suburban locations in large and secondary markets within the Sunbelt region, which stretches from coast to coast along the southern United States. The combined company’s 10 largest markets by unit count will be Atlanta; Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and Houston, Texas; Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C.; Orlando and Tampa, Fla.; and Washington, DC. Each share of Post common stock will be converted into 0.71 shares of newly issued MAA common stock, per the agreement. Former MAA equity holders will maintain about 67.7 percent of the combined company’s equity, while former Post equity holders will hold the remaining 32.3 percent on a pro-forma basis. The all-stock merger is intended to be a tax-deferred transaction. The combined company is expected to have a pro-forma equity market capitalization of about $12 billion, as …