NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a five-story, mixed-use building located at 165 W. 23rd St. in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. The asset sold for $11.9 million, or $1,471 per square foot. The property features a two-story restaurant and four multifamily units consisting of one studio, two one-bedroom units and one two-bedroom apartment. The apartment units were delivered vacant to the buyer. Peter Von Der Ahe, Shlomo Manne, Joe Koicim and Sean Lefkovits of Marcus & Millichap’s Manhattan office represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. The names of both parties were not released.
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NEW YORK CITY — Savanna, a New York-based real estate private equity and asset management firm, has completed the sale of a retail and residential property located at 210 Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. An affiliate of Status Capital LLC acquired the three-story, 3,219-square-foot property for an undisclosed price. After purchasing the property in 2013, Savanna leased the ground-floor retail space to Juice Generation and converted the residential space into a luxury duplex townhome.
PHILADELPHIA — Colliers International’s Philadelphia Capital Markets Group has secured a $10.8 million construction loan for Green Street Townhomes, a for-sale townhome development in Philadelphia. The loan features an 80 percent loan-to-cost ratio, a 4.5 percent floating rate, 24 months of interest-only payments and a 12-month extension option. Kris Wood, John Banas and Alex Hails of Colliers arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
VALLEY, ALA. — Multi Housing Advisors (MHA) has brokered the $44 million sale of Apartments at the Venue, a 618-unit apartment property located at 100 Sydney St. in Valley, a town along the Alabama/Georgia border. The property is located roughly 10 minutes from the KIA Motors manufacturing plant in West Point, Ga. The community’s amenity package features three resort-style swimming pools with outdoor fireplaces and grilling areas, two clubhouses, laundry facilities and a fitness center. Atlanta-based Irinda Capital Management purchased the property from Haley Real Estate Group. Jimmy Adams and Robert Stickel of MHA represented the seller in the transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $14.4 million sale of Royal Isles, a 264-unit apartment community located at 803 Don Quixote Ave. in Orlando. The property has 80 one-bedroom/one-bath units, 132 two-bedroom/two-bath apartments and 52 three-bedroom/two bath units. Evan Kristol of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office and Still Hunter III of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a private investor from Beverly Hills, Calif., and the buyer, a Miami-based limited-liability company.
Miami’s multifamily market now ranks among the country’s strongest overall performers (if not the strongest). The city attracts, and benefits from, numerous tourists, investors, financial institutions, real estate funds, retailers and tourists from countries around the globe. The demand for condominiums and apartment buildings in Miami seems insatiable with the investors competing for increasingly scant deals. In practical terms, that means hotel and office developers often lose out across asset classes to the “ever-on-fire” multifamily sector. There is every indication in the first quarter of 2015 that Miami’s multifamily market’s upward trend will continue. Debt and equity continue to stream into the Miami-Dade County apartment and condominium sector from both local sources and out-of-area buyers attracted to solid asset performance and robust housing demand generators. Continued employment and population growth have bolstered housing demand as the overall Miami economy strengthened in 2014. The Miami metropolitan area added more than 30,000 jobs last year, and based on figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Miami-Dade County’s unemployment rate continued its downward trend to 5.4 percent in February 2015. According to the Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, South Florida’s population is expected to increase by approximately 29 percent between 2013 …
CHICAGO — U.S. Bank has provided a $73.5 million construction loan to the Onni Group, a Canadian-based firm that is developing The Hudson, a 25-story, 240-unit luxury apartment project located at 750 N. Hudson St. in downtown Chicago’s River North district. U.S. Bank served as lead left and administrative agent for the loan, with PNC Bank, N.A. as a participant. The Hudson will feature a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units, each of which will include a balcony or terrace, granite countertops, designer cabinets, a washer/dryer and more. Common amenities include a pool and hot tub, fitness business centers, resident lounges, an outdoor terrace and more. The Hudson will also include ground-floor retail space. Onni broke ground on the project this summer. The target date for completion is mid-2017.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — The Weitz Co. has been selected as the design-builder for a new student housing project at Texas A&M University in College Station. The project, known as the Park West, will accommodate 3,402 students in more than 1,300 units ranging from studios to four-bedroom units. The nearly 1.8 million square feet of building space will include amenities such as swimming pools, hot tubs, fire pits, grills, fitness centers, study and gathering spaces, and game rooms. The complex will also include retail and office space, as well as an eight-story parking garage. The development will be built on 48 acres of pasture located near the south side of campus off of George Bush Parkway. The apartments are expected to open before the 2017-18 school year. The project owner is nonprofit NCCD-College Station. Irving, Texas-based Servitas LLC is the developer and manager for Park West, and PGAL of Boca Raton, Fla., is Weitz’ design partner.
HOUSTON — Ziegler, a specialty investment bank, has arranged $109.4 million in fixed-rate bonds for The Buckingham, a 323-unit seniors housing complex. Nonprofit operator Senior Quality Lifestyles Corp. (SQLC) manages The Buckingham, which is located on a 23-acre plot in the Memorial/Tanglewood neighborhoods of Houston. The community includes 204 independent living apartments, 43 assisted living units, 16 memory support units and a health center with 60 nursing beds. The bonds will be used to expand The Buckingham to include a new tower featuring 106 additional independent living units, 27 additional assisted living units, 18 additional memory care units, 32 additional skilled nursing beds, an underground parking garage with 111 total spaces and an additional 292 surface level spaces. SQLC operates five communities in Texas totaling 1,586 units.
Colliers International Arranges $6.3M Refinance Loan for Pearl Street Lofts, Pearl Street Commons
by Amy Works
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Colliers International has arranged $6.3 million in refinancing for Pearl Street Lofts and Pearl Street Commons, a mixed-use complex located within Westminster Crossing in Providence. Colliers secured the five-year, fixed-rate loan through Boston Private for the borrower, Providence-based The Armory Revival Company. Loan proceeds will be used to refinance the existing debt on the properties, allowing once separate assets to be merged into a single economic unit. Pearl Street Lofts consists of 38 loft-style apartments totaling 44,241 square feet of residential space and 43,179 square feet of commercial/warehouse space. The 8,663-square-foot Pearl Street Commons consists of four commercial condominiums configured into five office suites. Jeffrey Black of Colliers represented the borrower in the financing.