SEATTLE — Kennedy Wilson and an equity partner have acquired the 204-unit Equinox apartment community in Seattle for $90 million. The Class A community is located at 1520 Eastlake Ave. E. Equinox was built in 2009, near the South Lake Union submarket. The community is within walking distance to Facebook, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Amazon’s headquarters and the future 607,000-square-foot Google campus.
YAPHANK, N.Y. — A joint venture between Chelsea Senior Living and AVR Realty plans to develop a $27 million, 118-bed assisted living facility in the Long Island town of Yaphank. The joint venture is seeking governmental approval from the Yaphank Town Planning Board and economic incentives from the Town of Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency to build the community. If approved and built, it will be located within The Boulevard, a 322-acre mixed-use development. Phase I of The Boulevard is already approved, and includes a 240-unit multifamily community. Plans call for two buildings totaling 99,492 square feet, including a 77-bed building for special needs and memory care, and a 41-bed supportive care building. The developers purchased the site from Rose-Breslin Associates LLC and aim to begin construction in 2017. Based in Farnwood, N.J., Chelsea Senior Living owns and operates 13 seniors housing communities in New York and New Jersey.
ELIZABETH, N.J. — Cronheim Mortgage has closed $24.7 million in permanent bank financing upon the completion and stabilization of an apartment building located in Elizabeth. The six-story building features 100 rental units, grade-level retail, indoor parking and immediate access to the Elizabeth Transit Rail Station. The name of the borrower was not released.
CHICAGO — Essex Realty Group has brokered the sale of an apartment building located at 53 W. Burton Place in Chicago’s Gold Coast. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property for $2 million. The six-unit building features four one-bedroom/one-bath units, one two-bedroom/one-bath unit and one three-bedroom/one-bath unit. Doug Fisher of Essex represented the undisclosed seller, while Jordan Gottlieb, also of Essex, represented the buyer.
GLENDALE AND CHANDLER, ARIZ. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $116.4 million to refinance four multifamily properties in Arizona. The four properties were financed in two separate loans. The first loan was for Tela Verde and Tuscany Palms in Glendale. The assets contain a total of 778 units. The properties in the second loan include Alante at the Islands and Laguna Village in Chandler. These assets contain a total of 780 units. Meridian originally financed these four properties as part of a seven-property portfolio acquisition loan on behalf of PB Bell Companies in July 2014. The firm sold the other three properties while repositioning the four assets included in this refinancing. Meridian’s Seth Grossman, Sarah Kuebler and Ryan Gandell arranged the two fixed-rate, non-recourse financing packages.
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. — Exchange Services has acquired The Lodge, a 252-unit luxury apartment community in Flagstaff, for $43.6 million. The community is located on Lake Mary Road just south of the I-17/I-40 freeway interchange. The Lodge was built in 2004. Exchange Services acted as an intermediary for SK5-ELA LLC (Keller Investment Properties LLC). David Fogler and Steven Nicoluzakis of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Clear Sky Lodge LP, in this transaction. The company is a partnership between Clear Sky Capital and Narland Properties.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $42.8 million sale of Phase I of Crest at Millenia, a newly built, 252-unit apartment community located at 5100 Millenia Waters Drive in Orlando. Built in 2016 on a 12.8-acre site in Orlando’s Millenia submarket, Crest at Millenia’s amenities include gated access, a resort-style salt water pool with private cabanas, grilling courtyard, hammock grove, dog park, game room with billiard tables, bocce ball court, 24-hour fitness center, resident hub, extra storage and 358 parking spaces. The property’s units average 957 square feet and feature hardwood-style flooring, granite countertops in the kitchens and baths, stainless steel appliances, 42-inch designer custom cabinets, crown molding, ceramic tile floors in the bathrooms, USB charging stations and washers and dryers in all units. Jay Ballard and Ken Delvillar of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Miami-based Lennar Multifamily Communities, in the transaction. The buyer, Atlanta-based Centennial Holding Co., purchased the asset for roughly $170,000 per unit. The 272-unit Phase II of Crest at Millenia will be located on an adjacent 13.5-acre site and is expected to come on line later this year.
KISSIMMEE, FLA. — CBRE has brokered the $32.6 million sale of the Valencian Apartments, a 366-unit apartment community located in 1400 W. Donegan Ave. in Kissimmee, a suburb of Orlando. The Michaelson Group purchased the property from Insula Capital. Shelton Granade, Luke Wickham and Justin Basquill of CBRE represented Insula Capital in the transaction. Valencian Apartments features one-, two- and three-bedroom residences with screened-in patios and modern kitchens. The two-story community recently underwent a $2.8 million renovation to the exterior and in-unit amenities, including upgrades to the façade, clubhouse and the three resort-style pools.
PRINCETON, TEXAS — Pioneer Realty Capital LLC, a Texas-based lender, has arranged a $7.2 million refinancing for Villa Asuncion Independent and Assisted Living Center in the Dallas suburb of Princeton. The 176-bed community opened in 1998. Pioneer Realty Capital used the government-backed SBA 504 refinance program to secure long-term financing. The new loan reduces the interest rate from 7.2 percent to a blended rate of 4.25 percent. The undisclosed owners plan to use the extra funds to expand the business.
NEW ORLEANS — The 14th annual National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) Student Housing Conference & Exposition was held Sept. 28-30 at the New Orleans Marriott in Louisiana, with over 700 leaders from all facets of the sector convening to network, discuss and dine over a range of industry topics. The outlook throughout the conference was overwhelmingly bright. Each panel and session showed the sector to be robust, with reports of rising rental rates, a record year in asset sales in the sector, and increasing investor interest and capital entering the student housing market. The conference began on Wednesday, Sept. 28, with opening remarks by NMHC president Doug Bibby, followed by a panel titled “Keeping Count: The Public Company Perspective.” Led by CEO of Peak Campus Bob Clark, the panel went in-depth with the CEOs of the two public REITs in the industry — Bill Bayless, president and CEO of American Campus Communities (ACC), and Randy Churchey, chairman and CEO of Education Realty Trust (EdR). Clark began the panel with a variety of statistics on the sector today, as reported by Axiometrics. New supply deliveries for the last five years have been 61,000-beds in 2013; 62,000-beds in 2014; 47,000-beds in 2015; 48,000-beds in 2016; and 36,000 …
