LOS ANGELES — Northmarq has secured $50.7 million in refinancing for a 10-property apartment portfolio in the Los Angeles/Hollywood areas. Panot Capital manages the buildings, which were built in the 1920s and offer a total of 482 units. Zalmi Klyne of Northmarq’s Los Angeles debt and equity team arranged the financing, which was structured with a seven-year term and four years of interest-only payments at a rate of 5.9 percent. The lender was Israel Discount Bank of New York.
GIG HARBOR, WASH. — Northmarq has arranged $35 million in refinancing for The Lodge at Mallard’s Landing, a seniors housing property in Gig Harbor, across the Puget Sound from Tacoma. The Lodge at Mallard’s Landing offers 147 private-pay independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Stuart Oswald of Northmarq’s Seattle office arranged the six-year, fixed-rate loan through a correspondent life insurance company. The financing features an earn-out component allowing the borrower to draw additional dollars as NOI improves. Built in two phases from 2010 to 2015, the development consists of a three-story main building with 98 independent living/assisted living units, 24 independent living cottages and a separate, secured, two-story memory care building with 25 units. Tacoma-based Senior Services of America manages the community and has for more than 10 years.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments and SSG Realty Corp. have arranged the sale of 325-331 Marine Avenue, a mixed-use property on Newport Beach’s Balboa Island. The asset traded for $4.4 million, equating to $1,193 per square foot for the building and $842 per square foot for the land. Jeff Conover, Shaun Riley, Scott DeYoung and Greg Lukosky of Faris Lee Investments, along with Greg Swedelson and Jon-Eric Greene with SSG Realty Corp., represented the undisclosed buyer and seller in the transaction. Situated on two separate parcels, the property offers storefront retail with two second-floor residential units. The asset is currently home to two street-level retail shops and two residential tenants.
ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Carr Properties has acquired a vacant office building located at 901 N. Pitt St. in the Old Town neighborhood of Alexandria with plans to convert the property into a 250,000-square-foot multifamily community. The site, which will be cleared to make way for the new development, is located roughly seven miles south of Washington, D.C., and 1.5 miles south of the former development site for Potomac Yards, a recently cancelled 9 million-square-foot mixed-use project. The community will rise eight stories and feature 234 units in a variety of configurations, ranging from studio apartments to three-bedroom units. An unspecified number of units will be dedicated to affordable housing. The development will also include below-grade parking, 15,800 square feet of outdoor space, a performing arts venue and 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Shared amenities are set to include an outdoor swimming pool and a resident lounge and amenity center. Carr Properties plans to break ground on the development this fall with completion slated for late 2026. The community will target LEED Silver certification. The development team for the project includes SK+I Architecture and interior design firm Edit Lab by Streetsense, which partnered with Carr on its previous Union …
HOUSTON — Seattle-based lender Avatar Financial Group has provided a $6.5 million bridge loan for the refinancing of Bellfort Plaza, a 168-unit apartment complex in southeast Houston. Built in 1961 and renovated in 2001, Bellfort Plaza offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units. The borrower, an entity doing business as HSR Bellfort Plaza Apartments LLC, acquired the property in 2003 and will use the proceeds to pay off a $6 million first mortgage loan and complete construction of 14 new units. Those new units are all preleased. A.J. Funaro of Brookview Financial arranged the debt.
PHILADELPHIA — Marquis Health Consulting Services has completed Phase I of a renovation project at Roosevelt Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood of Philadelphia. The 240-bed skilled nursing facility provides post-hospital care, short-term rehab and long-term residential care. A centerpiece of the renovation to date is the addition of a 3,600-square-foot rehab therapy gym and the incorporation of a spacious activities of daily living suite. Renovation highlights also include modernized dining area and lounges, as well as updates to resident rooms and nurses’ stations.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Albion Residential has secured a construction loan for the first of two residential towers at Albion Music Row, the company’s previously announced multifamily development in Nashville. The Chicago-based developer and Clark Construction recently broke ground on the first tower, a 29-story high-rise comprising 458 units. Matthew Schoenfeldt, Mary Dooley and Brian Dawson led the JLL team that secured the undisclosed amount of financing for the first tower through Pacific Life Insurance Co. The first high-rise will include micro, studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as 4,000 square feet of ground-level restaurant/brewery space. Amenities will include indoor and outdoor fitness studios, a rooftop pool and library, coworking space and a music lounge with a recording studio and podcast room. Albion Residential expects to deliver the first units in fall 2026. Upon completion, Albion Music Row will span two acres and comprise 850 apartments, as well as restaurants, shops and a public plaza on the ground level. The design-build team includes Chicago-based Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture and several Nashville-based companies: Barge Cauthen & Associates (civil engineer), Hodgson Douglas (landscape architect), SDL (structural engineer) and I.C. Thomasson (MEP engineer).
BAYONNE, N.J. — Locally based developer Vida Capital is nearing completion of Prospect Crossing, a 44-unit multifamily project in the Northern New Jersey community of Bayonne. The five-story building houses studio, one- and two-bedroom units that range in size from 459 to 1,210 square feet and are furnished with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and tile backsplashes. Amenities include a fitness center, lounge, clubrooms and coworking office space. Leasing will begin later this month.
PLAINFIELD, ILL. — Wingspan Development Group has sold Sixteen30, a 284-unit luxury multifamily property in Plainfield, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Continental Properties was the buyer. The sales price was roughly $78 million, according to CoStar. Located at 14750 Wallin Drive and opened in August 2021, Sixteen30 features eight garden-style buildings surrounding a 7,500-square-foot clubhouse and pool. Designed by Eleni Interiors, the clubhouse features a great room, coffee bar, fitness center, yoga studio, coworking space, demonstration kitchen, pet spa and package room. Units range from 600 to 1,500 square feet. Sixteen30 was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. The acquisition marks the 10th community in Illinois for Continental Properties.
BLAINE, MINN. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Berkshire Central, a 191-unit apartment complex in Blaine, a northern suburb of Minneapolis. The sales price was undisclosed. Built in 2017, the property features a range of studio, one- and two-bedroom units averaging 889 square feet. Amenities include a lounge, kitchen, garden, fitness center, yoga studio and pool. Keith Collins, Ted Abramson and Abe Appert of CBRE represented the seller, BMIRF Central LLC. Sentinel Management Co. was the buyer.