ST. PAUL, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $666,667 sale of a 17-unit apartment property located in St. Paul. Maryland Avenue Apartments is located at 1952 & 1956 Maryland Ave. East. The property features courtyard-style private entryways to one- and two-bedroom units. The property was 94 percent occupied at the time of sale. Dan Linnell of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a partnership, as well as the buyer, a private investor.
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BOSTON AND SOMERVILLE, MASS. — CBRE/New England’s Capital Markets team has brokered the sale of The Brickview Portfolio, a two-property, 74-unit multifamily portfolio. The portfolio includes 121-123 Highland Avenue, a 35-unit apartment community in Somerville, and 4-8-12 Elko Street, a 39-unit community in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood. The Second Avenue Group LLC, an affiliate of True North Capital Partners, purchased the properties for $16.85 million. The seller was Prospectus Apartments LLC, an affiliate of Prospectus LLC. The Somerville property features an apartment mix of four studios, 22 one-bedroom units and nine two-bedroom apartments with an average unit size of 646 square feet. The Brighton property was originally built in the 1920s and offers 23 one-bedroom and 16 two-bedroom units with an average unit size of 655 square feet. Simon Bulter and Biria St. John represented both parties in the transaction.
DALLAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Community Cliff Apartments, a 46-unit multifamily property in Dallas. Constructed in 1986, the garden-style complex is located at 3810 Bonnie View Road, in proximity to I-45. The community includes one- and two-bedroom units with an average of 623 square feet, as well as a laundry facility and courtyard. Mark Allen and John Barker of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. Allen and Barker also secured the buyer, a limited liability company.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — The Opus Group will begin development on a 13-story student housing complex near the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor this month. ArborBLU will include a total of 123 one-, two- and three-bedroom units. The luxury apartment complex will be built directly above family-owned pizzeria Pizza House, which is located at 624 Church St. in the South University district. ArborBLU will feature a fitness studio, study space, a rooftop patio and a clubroom with stadium views. The apartments will also offer in-house tanning, free 24-hour delivery from Pizza House, bike storage and Wi-Fi. The project will be built to meet LEED Silver certification. ArborBLU is scheduled for completion in fall 2015. Opus Development Company LLC is the developer for the project. Opus Design Build LLC is the design builder, J. Bradley Moore & Associates is the design architect and Opus AE Group LLC will serve as the architect.
CHICAGO —Essex Realty Group has brokered the $4.1 million sale of a 52-unit apartment building in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. The property is located at 2420 N. Kedzie Blvd. The building features studio and one-bedroom units. Jim Darrow and Jordan Gottlieb of Essex Realty were the brokers in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — An undisclosed investor has acquired a six-story multifamily property in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section for $15.4 million. Located at 410 Eastern Parkway, the 72-unit, 58,200-square-foot building was constructed in 1928. The building remains fully occupied by the previous owner, Bernard Miller of EPark LLC. Alex Freund of Eastern Union Funding brokered a $9.4 million acquisition loan from Customers Bank on behalf of the buyer. The loan features a 3.38 percent interest rate on a five-year term without recourse.
NEW YORK CITY — The residential division of Thor Equities and Rockwood Capital have acquired an apartment building at 838 West End Ave. in New York’s Upper West Side. Built in 1913, the 108,000-square-foot property features 70 units and a lobby with 20-foot ceilings. Steven Vegh of Westwood Realty Associates brokered the transaction. A private family sold the property for an undisclosed price.
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. – A joint venture between the Pauls Corporation and Mount Kellett Capital Management has received a $121-million loan to develop Indigo, a 470-unit apartment building in Redwood City. The mid-rise community will be located at 525 Middlefield Road, just north of Palo Alto in Silicon Valley. Indigo will be situated mid-peninsula, allowing easy access to both San Francisco and Santa Clara counties. Construction is scheduled to commence this month. The non-recourse loan was arranged by CBRE’s Brady O’Donnell, Andrew Behrens, Jesse Weber and Mike Bryant. The four-year, floating-rate loan was secured through Wells Fargo.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – Advenir has acquired the 292-unit Spring Canyon apartment complex in Colorado Springs for $40.5 million. The complex is located at 4510 Spring Canyon Heightsalong the Garden of the Gods employment corridor. Major employers in that corridor include Agilent Technologies, Verizon, LSI and Premiere Global Services. Spring Canyon also enjoys close proximity to the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and University Village. The community was 98 percent occupied at the time of closing. It was built in 1997. Kevin McKenna, Doug Andrews and Jeff Hawks represented the seller, Hamilton Zanze, in this transaction.
WOODSTOCK, GA. — The LaSalle Group has opened Autumn Leaves of Towne Lake, a 28,000-square-foot, $9.8 million memory care facility at 1962 Eagle Drive in Woodstock, about 30 miles north of Atlanta. The facility will serve residents with Alzheimer’s, dementia and memory impairment. Each unit will feature the Vigil System, a motion sensor program. This project is the first freestanding memory care facility in Woodstock, according to Susan Tidwell of Autumn Leaves of Towne Lake.