NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of an apartment building located at W. 204th and W. 207th streets in Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood. The 49-unit property sold for $15.8 million, or $375 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. The six-story, 42,108-square-foot building consists of 44 rent-stabilized units, three free-market apartments, one rent-controlled unit and one superintendent’s unit. Robert Shapiro of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction.
CHICAGO — The restoration and conversion of the Old Colony office building, located at 37 W. Van Buren St. in Chicago, into luxury student apartments is nearly complete. The building, renamed The Arc at Old Colony, is in the last stages of its $58 million update by CA Ventures LLC and MCJ Development. The building was originally constructed in 1894 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. This qualifies the building for a $10 million federal historic landmark tax credit, which is being guided by MacRostie Historic Advisors. McHugh Construction has completed the renovation and conversion of interior offices to 137 apartment units, which are 75 percent leased. The vintage 17-story building, originally designed by famed architects Holabird and Roche, was among the tallest buildings in Chicago at the time of its construction in 1894. The Old Colony Building was one of the first of its kind to employ a unique structural portal wind-bracing system, allowing for open floor plates and thinner masonry exterior cladding. The structure’s innovative design, dating back to the Columbian Exposition of 1893, reflects the evolving structural steel technology of the era. The building’s most distinctive features are the round oriel corner bays, oversized windows and upper level terra …
DETROIT — Triton Properties has sold The Van Dyke Manor for $1.9 million to Paul Zulewski of 1000 Van Dyke Investments LLC. Commercial Property Advisors was the listing broker for the seller. The Van Dyke Manor features 38 units, which sold for $50,000 per unit.
MUNCIE, IND. — Dean Weidner, founder of Weidner Property Apartment Homes, donates $1 million to Ball State University, which recently unveiled its Weidner Center for Residential Property in Muncie. The donation will expand the university’s residential property management (RPM) program that began in 1999 and was the country’s second university-based RPM program. The newly renovated Applied Technology Building features interview rooms, a resource desk and a lobby with video monitors for marketing purposes.
SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — Reliant Management Group LLC has purchased Northgate Care Center, a 52-bed skilled nursing facility in San Rafael near San Francisco, from Meridian Foresight Management for $4.5 million. The sale price translates to about $87,000 per bed. Reliant, an owner/operator based in Baton Rouge, La., that was already operating the facility, made the acquisition as part of a lease-purchase agreement. A group of Los Angeles investors looking to expand their California skilled nursing portfolio owns Reliant. Meridian is looking to divest the majority of its skilled nursing portfolio. Shep Roylance of JCH Consulting Group brokered the transaction, representing both the buyer and seller.
SEATTLE — Living Care Lifestyles, an operator with 10 communities in Hawaii, California, Oregon, Texas and Washington, plans to open a new memory care community in Seattle in early 2017. Quail Park of West Seattle will feature 45 units, all memory care, in a 20,000-square-foot, three-story facility situated on a half-acre site. According to the operator, the community will be the first memory-care-only facility in West Seattle. Morningside Development Group is developing the property, which John Lape Architecture designed.
LOS ANGELES — Construction is now complete on Phase II of Playa Del Oro, a 260-unit addition to the existing 405-unit residential and mixed-use complex in Los Angeles. The community is located at the corner of Manchester Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard in the Westchester district. The original structure was built in 2009. The new addition is a concrete, podium-style structure with 235 units above the podium slab, along with 25 units situated at street level, which also contains 5,000 square feet of retail space. Phase II also adds a variety of lifestyle amenities to the complex, including a lounge, fitness on demand, a video game lounge and resident café. It also received a new landscaped courtyard with water features and outdoor living areas. Decron Properties developed the property, which Bernards build and Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh designed.
DALLAS — HFF has secured financing commitments for The Village Apartments, an apartment complex in Dallas totaling 7,000 units. The financing included a single-sponsor securitization and a floating-rate credit facility. Freddie Mac provided all financing commitments, and the loans will be serviced by HFF through its Freddie Mac Program Plus seller/servicer program. HFF worked on behalf of a joint venture between Lincoln Property Co., Invesco Real Estate (acting on behalf of an institutional client) and Crow Holdings. Financing proceeds were used to retire an existing Freddie Mac loan facility and to provide additional capital for future development. The Village is located at the intersection of Caruth Haven and Greenville Avenue, eight miles northeast of downtown Dallas.
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS — Dougherty Mortgage LLC has closed a $3.7 million Fannie Mae loan for the acquisition of Bent Tree Apartments, a 112-unit multifamily property located in San Angelo. Dougherty’s Minneapolis office arranged the seven-year term, 30-year amortization loan on behalf of the borrower, SA Bent Tree Apartments LP.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — SWBC Real Estate has sold the Overlook Ranch apartment complex. SWBC Real Estate developed the property in a partnership with American National Insurance Co. CAF Capital Partners purchased the property in an off-market transaction for an undisclosed amount. Completed in July 2015, Overlook Ranch is located in the AllianceTexas corridor of north Fort Worth. The Class A complex consists of 318 garden-style units comprising one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans. Overlook Ranch’s amenities include a Texas ranch-themed clubhouse with a fitness center, resort-style pool, game room and a business center.