NASHVILLE, TENN. — Crescent Communities has selected Doster Construction Co. to build Crescent Bellevue Apartments, a 377-unit, garden-style multifamily community in Nashville. The property will be situated on an 87-acre lot that was once home to Bellevue Center Mall. The community will feature 18 two- and three-story wood-framed apartment buildings with a leasing office, clubhouse and amenities housed in one of the buildings. Preston Partnership is Crescent Bellevue Apartments’ architect of record. The multifamily community will be delivered in the winter of 2017.
BOSTON — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a mixed-use property located at 46-50 Blue Hill Ave. in Boston. A private investor sold the property to an undisclosed private investor for $1.6 million. The property features six apartments and three retail spaces. Evan Griffith of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
MURFREESBORO, TENN. — National Health Investors Inc. (NYSE: NHI), a Murfreesboro-based REIT, has exercised an $87.5 million purchase option on five assisted living and memory care communities currently owned and operated by Bickford Senior Living. The acquisitions include a 56-unit community in Crystal Lake, Iowa; a 76-unit community in St. Charles, Mo.; a 56-unit community in Oswego, Ill.; a 40-unit community in Omaha, Neb.; and a 49-unit community in West Des Moines, Iowa. The properties total 277 units with an average occupancy of 92 percent and an average age of 12 years. NHI has committed $2.4 million for capital improvements and expansions on the existing facilities. Bickford will continue to operate the communities under a 15-year lease with two five-year renewal options and a 3 percent annual lease escalator. The acquisition was funded with available cash and borrowings on the company’s revolving credit facility. “We are very pleased to exercise our purchase option on these high-quality, high-performing facilities and to expand our existing relationship with Bickford Senior Living,” says Eric Mendelsohn, president and CEO of NHI. National Health Investors specializes in sale-leaseback, joint venture, mortgage and mezzanine financing of need-driven and discretionary senior housing and medical investments. NHI’s stock price …
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a three-building multifamily portfolio located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The assets sold for $12.3 million, or $514,000 for unit. Located at 293 Stuyvesant Ave., 3 MacDonough St. and 5 MacDonough St., the portfolio totals 29,872 square feet and features 24 multifamily units. Shaun Riney, Peter Von Der Ahe, Joe Koicim and Thomas Shihadeh of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller and procured the undisclosed buyer.
ORLANDO, FLA. — CBRE has brokered the $17.6 million sale of Cadence Crossing, a 184-unit apartment community located at 6203 Curry Ford Road in Orlando’s Airport submarket. Capital Vision Management purchased the recently renovated property from Aspen Square. Built in 1973, the apartment community features a clubhouse, tennis court, picnic areas, playground, fitness center and a business center. The property was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. Shelton Granade, Luke Wickham and Justin Basquill of CBRE represented Aspen Square in the transaction.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Colliers International has brokered the $17 million sale of Villas at Dames Point, a 180-unit apartment complex located at 8291 Dames Point Crossing Blvd. in Jacksonville. VMHF Jacksonville LLC, an entity controlled by Washington, D.C.-based The Republic Family of Cos., purchased the asset from Dames Point Partners LLC. Built in 2007, the gated complex features four floor plans ranging in size from 844 to 1,151 square feet. The community was 93 percent occupied at the time of sale. Bradley Coe and Douglas Blair of Colliers International’s Northeast Florida office brokered the transaction.
OXFORD, MISS. — Capstone Real Estate Investments LLC has acquired Old Taylor Place Apartments, a 224-bed student housing community located 0.3 miles away from the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford. The newly renovated property consists of 112 two-bedroom units and features community amenities including a fully equipped fitness center, swimming pool, outdoor lounge and grilling pavilion and an outdoor gaming area with basketball and volleyball courts, shuffleboard and horseshoes. Over the coming weeks, Capstone intends to convert the property from an apartment complex into a condominium community. Old Taylor Place was acquired in an off-market transaction for an undisclosed price.
LIBERTY, MO. — Developers have broken ground on Norterre, a master-planned seniors housing community in the Kansas City suburb of Liberty. Development costs are estimated at $66 million for the first phase, which will include a health center, café, single-family homes for seniors and short-stay rehabilitation. Norterre will be built on a 17-acre site adjacent to Liberty Hospital. A 50,000-square-foot healthy living center will act as the center of the community. The seniors housing portions of the community will be based on the household model where up to 20 seniors share a set of amenities. When complete, the community will feature 60 assisted living units, 20 assisted living units and 60 skilled nursing beds. The first phase is expected to open in spring or summer 2017.
PARK FOREST AND UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. — Cohen Financial has arranged three acquisition loans totaling $35.9 million for multifamily properties in the suburbs of Chicago. The Ferndale Realty Group LLC is the borrower. In the first deal, Dan Rosenberg of Cohen Financial secured a $4.7 million loan for Governors House Apartments, a 96-unit property in University Park. Rosenberg also arranged an $11.4 million loan for the 220-unit Central Park Apartments and a $19.8 million loan for Autumn Ridge Apartments, a 384-unit property. Both Central Park Apartments and Autumn Ridge Apartments are located in Park Forest. All three fixed-rate loans featured a 10-year term with 30-year amortization schedule and were financed through Morgan Stanley’s CMBS program.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. — Investor WNC has completed the conversion of a 106-year-old warehouse building to a 44-unit affordable housing community in Minneapolis. WNC provided nearly $4 million in low-income housing tax credit equity and historic tax credit equity to fund the adaptive reuse project. The Cameron Apartments, located at 756 N. Fourth St., features 23 studio units, 17 one-bedroom units and four two-bedroom units. The four-story building was originally constructed in 1910. Amenities at the apartment property include a fitness center, picnic and grilling area, laundry facility and bike storage. Unit amenities include appliances, secure intercom entry and a patio or balcony. SR Development LLC is the project developer.