ATLANTA — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has closed two acquisition loans and two refinance loans for four multifamily properties in metro Atlanta totaling roughly $44.4 million. The acquisition financing includes a $17.8 million loan for Sweetwater Creek Apartments in Lithia Springs and a $9.2 million loan for Mableton Reserve in Mableton. Alan Tapie and Thomas Wiedeman of Grandbridge originated the acquisition loans through Freddie Mac. Both loans were structured with 10-year terms and 30-year amortization schedules. The refinancing loans totaled $17.5 million and were secured by Marquis Parc in Clarkston and Marquis Forest in Decatur. Grandbridge placed the permanent loans through an unnamed CMBS lender.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Red Capital Partners has provided a $36.5 million balance sheet acquisition loan to Investment360 for the purchase of James Square Health and Rehabilitation Centre in Syracuse. Excelerate Healthcare will operate the 440-bed skilled nursing facility as part of a long-term lease agreement with Investment360. Kathryn Burton Gray and James Scribner of Red Capital Partners arranged the financing for the borrower.
JERSEY CITY, N.J., MILLERSVILLE, PA., AND CULLOWHEE, N.C. —Formerly known as Ambling University Development Group, RISE: A Real Estate Company has started construction on three student housing projects in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The company broke ground on a 425-bed residence hall at New Jersey City University in Jersey City; a 599-bed student housing community at Millersville University in Millersville; and a 421-bed mixed-use residence hall at Western Carolina University (WCU) in Cullowhee. The on-campus residence hall in Jersey City will feature music practice rooms, lounges, a fitness center, private courtyard, automated convenience store, game room and technology-enhanced classrooms. The Millersville property is the third phase of a multi-phase project to replace all on-campus housing with modern, suite-style units. The mixed-use project at WCU consists of three buildings, with 421 beds and 11,945 square feet of retail, connected by two towers in core location of campus.
NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has arranged the sale of a development site located at 29-31 Lexington Ave. in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood. Tomer Erlich, a local developer, purchased the site for $2.7 million, or $315 per buildable square foot. Plans call for a four-story, 10-unit building on the site with 11,308 gross square feet. Ofer Cohen, Melissa Warren, Dan Marks, Peter Matheos, Michael Hernandez and David Algarin of TerraCRG represented the buyer and undisclosed seller in the transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Howard Michaels of Carlton Strategic Ventures and Avery Modlin of The Modlin Group have negotiated the sale of Dobie Center to Fowler Property Acquisitions LLC. Located in Austin, Dobie Center is the largest privately owned student dormitory at the University of Texas at Austin. The property consists of a 27-story glass and steel residential tower, a 90,000-square-foot retail mall and a six-story, 250,000-square-foot, above-grade parking garage. Brian Kelly of HFF was the broker on the transaction. The Carlton Group’s general counsel Daniel Bildner closed the transaction along with Larry Haber of Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson LLP. Dobie Center is located next to the University of Texas at Austin campus, opposite the soon-to-be-completed 458,000-square-foot McComb’s Business School.
TAMPA, FLA. — Enriched Community Development LLC (ECD), a Tampa-based seniors housing developer, plans to break ground on an 80-unit assisted living and memory care facility in the Fishhawk area of southeast Tampa. The new community will be called Twin Creeks and will include 58 assisted living units and 22 memory care units in 62,000 square feet. ECD expects to break ground before the fourth quarter of 2015. Construction is expected to take approximately 11 months.
EUGENE, ORE. — Lancaster Pollard has provided $6.7 million in financing for Benicia Senior Living to fund the acquisition and rehabilitation of River Grove, a 60-unit assisted living and memory care community in Eugene. The funding will be used to renovate three of the community’s four buildings and build a commercial kitchen to serve the campus. Once renovations are complete, the entire campus will be dedicated to memory care. The financing structure, which included senior and mezzanine loans, allowed for the borrower to avoid raising substantial amounts of equity otherwise required for conventional financing. The financing carries five-year terms. Doug Korey, president of Lancaster Pollard, led the financing.
ST. PAUL, MINN — Oak Grove Capital has closed on 12 loans totaling $70.3 million since late May. The properties ranged from affordable and market-rate housing to senior living communities. The most significant closing for the St. Paul-based firm —an $18.2 million FHA loan modification for TowerLight Senior Living — occurred June 30. The 113-unit senior community complex is located in St. Louis Park, Minn. The loan modification was facilitated by Ken Dayton of Oak Grove Capital. Amenities at TowerLight include an intergenerational child and elderly care program, fitness center, beauty salon, library and game room, gourmet kitchen, reflection room, clubroom, theater and an arts and craft room.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Cocke Finkelstein has acquired Ramblewood Apartments in Grand Rapids for $100.4 million. The 1,170-unit complex was built in phases from 1972 to 1985 and sits on two campuses that stretch across 188 tree-covered acres. The property offers wooded grounds and a pond, a community center with year-round indoor pool, a business office center, a 55,000-square-foot tennis and health club facility, and a number of other amenities. The property was 98 percent occupied upon acquisition. CFLane, the apartment management subsidiary of CFI, will manage the community. Berkadia arranged the transaction for the undisclosed seller.
DENTON, TEXAS — Brian Gramlich of BMC Capital’s Dallas office has arranged a $2.6 million acquisition loan for a 55-unit multifamily property located in Denton. The loan featured an 80 percent loan-to-value ratio, a seven-year term, 4.75 percent interest rate and a 30-year amortization schedule. The loan was arranged through one of BMC Capital’s correspondent banking relationships.