CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Armada Hoffler Properties, a publicly traded REIT based in Virginia Beach, Va., has entered into a joint venture with Southern Apartment Group to develop and own a new $45 million apartment community in Midtown Charlotte. The eight-story project will feature 225 apartment residences and a 350-space parking structure. Armada Hoffler and Southern Apartment Group plan to break ground on the property in the fourth quarter for a targeted completion date in mid-2018.
CLEVELAND — KeyBank has structured and arranged a $39.9 million Fannie Mae master credit facility for Harmony Housing, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that focuses on preserving affordable housing rental properties. Harmony Housing will use the facility for a five-property affordable housing portfolio in Florida and Wisconsin. The properties include Centre Court Apartments in Bradenton, Fla.; Villas at Cove Crossing in Lantana, Fla.; The Overlook at Monroe in Sanford, Fla.; Foxbrook Senior Apartments in Brookfield, Wis.; and Prairie Ridge Senior Apartments in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. The facility structure allows Harmony Housing to add properties to the facility, accounting for future acquisitions, and to refinance assets in its existing portfolio.
SEASIDE, CALIF. — The University Corp. at Monterey Bay — an auxiliary corporation of California State University, Monterey Bay — has acquired a 579-bed student housing community located adjacent to the university’s campus in Seaside for $68.5 million. AMCAL Equities LLC sold the project, called The Promontory. The university had a 20-year master lease on the community with an option to purchase after the first 12 months, which it chose to exercise. Community amenities at the property include an internet café, basketball half-court, community clubroom, 24-hour study areas, bicycle storage, fitness center and outdoor grills and seating areas.
SAN ANTONIO — On behalf of Calton Investments Inc., JLL has brokered the sale of the Cordoba Apartments in San Antonio. Brugge Properties purchased the 260-unit property. Scott LaMontagne, Moses Siller and Zar Haro led the JLL team in the deal. Cordoba Apartments offers access to I-10 and Loop 410 and features a swimming pool, on-site clothing care facilities and a tennis court. The 149,264 -square-foot, garden-style community consists of 24 two- and three-story residential buildings across nearly eight acres.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Terwilliger Pappas Multifamily Partners has broken ground on Solis Berewick, a 275-unit apartment community in Berewick, a mixed-use development in southwest Charlotte’s Steele Creek area. The new multifamily community will be built adjacent to the Berewick Town Center’s village green close to the Harris Teeter slated to open in October. Amenities will include a clubhouse, poolside pavilion with a firepit, fitness center and a pet park. Each of Solis Berewick’s four buildings will include elevators. Terwilliger Pappas is partnering with Cigna Realty Investors on the development, and Citizens Bank is providing construction financing. The development team includes architect Cline Design Associates, interior designer Rule Joy Trammell Rubio, landscape architect and civil engineer LandDesign and general contractor Fortune Johnson. Solis Berewick will deliver its first homes and amenities for occupancy by mid-2017 with the entire community slated for completion by early 2018.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC, the commercial and multifamily mortgage banking subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment Inc., has closed a $19.9 million loan for the refinancing of Retreat at Hunt Hill, a multifamily complex located in downtown Asheville. The newly completed, Class A apartment complex contains 180 units. Vic Agusta and Jim Barber of Bellwether Enterprise arranged the loan through Aegon on behalf of the borrower, Hunt Hill Apartments LLC. Retreat at Hunt Hill is the borrower’s third apartment community in the metro Asheville area. Bellwether Enterprise closed 34 deals totaling $267 million in loans during August alone.
MCMINNVILLE, ORE. — National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) has purchased the entire portfolio of FirCrest Community Living for $36.6 million. The transaction included three seniors housing communities, all located in McMinnville, approximately 35 miles southwest of Portland. The three facilities are located within four miles of each other and feature a total of 134 units and 181 beds. The facilities were constructed in 2008, 2014 and 2015, and offer memory care, assisted living and independent living care services. Evans Senior Investments represented the seller the transaction, which included FirCrest Community, Maple Valley and Cherrywood Memory Care. The purchase price equates to $272,388 per unit. NHI immediately leased all three communities to Chancellor Health Care. The lease term is for 15 years with an annual lease rate of 7.5 percent plus annual fixed escalators. With the three new communities, NHI now leases seven seniors housing communities to Chancellor. NHI, a publicly traded healthcare REIT based in Tennessee, funded the acquisition with its revolving credit facility.
CINCINNATI — KeyBank has provided a $3.9 million construction loan for the Sheakley Center for Youth in Cincinnati. The property will consist of a shelter unit and a housing unit. The shelter unit will contain 27,708 square feet of commercial space, including a day shelter, a 28-bed night shelter and street outreach offices and social services rooms, while the housing unit will include 39 studio and one-bedroom apartments. Greg Kiger of KeyBank’s Community Development Lending and Investment team arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
LEXINGTON, KY. — National developer Miller-Valentine Group has begun construction on WaterStone at Hamburg, a 264-unit apartment community in Lexington. Located near the intersection of Man O’ War and Polo Club boulevards, the upscale apartment community will be situated adjacent to Hamburg Place, the largest shopping and dining area in central Kentucky spanning more than 2 million square feet of retail space. The first units are expected to deliver during the first quarter of 2017. Rents start at $990 per month for a one-bedroom apartment, $1,175 for a two-bedroom apartment and $1,365 for a three-bedroom apartment. Units at WaterStone at Hamburg will feature wood-plank flooring, private balconies and patios, laundry rooms, under mount sinks, dark wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops and freestanding kitchen islands. Community amenities will include a heated saltwater pool, colonnade and porch lounge areas and an entertainment area including a bar, TV, grills, fire pit and two courtyards with additional grilling stations. A 5,500-square-foot clubhouse will feature a large reception room with a fireplace, coffee bar, TV lounge/media room, billiards room, kitchen area with two large islands for entertaining and a fitness center including a private yoga room. The community will also feature a private …
WOODBRIDGE, VA. — Federal Capital Partners (FCP) has purchased Windsor at Potomac Vista, a three-story, garden-style apartment community located on Kristin Court in Woodbridge, about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. FCP purchased the property from an undisclosed seller for $60.5 million utilizing a Fannie Mae loan provided by Wells Fargo. Built in 1987, Windsor at Potomac Vista includes a clubhouse with a fitness center and resort-style pool overlooking the Potomac River, as well as a cyber café and two playgrounds. Apartment interiors feature full-size washers and dryers, laminate hardwood floors, new cabinets and countertops, walk-in closets and breakfast bars. Walter Coker and Brian Crivella of HFF represented the seller in the transaction.