AURORA, ILL. — Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has negotiated the $5.8 million sale of a 23,000-square-foot shopping center located at 405 N. Eola Road in Aurora. The center consists of 13 suites and is home to local, regional and national tenants. Brett Berlin of Quantum brokered the transaction. A local investor sold the property to an owner, developer and manager focused on acquiring neighborhood strip centers.
YPSILANTI, MICH. — SpurLine Holdings and Midloch Investment Partners have acquired a 45,000-square-foot store formerly occupied by JoAnn Fabrics in Ypsilanti for $5.1 million. Following a gut renovation, the property will be occupied by VASA Fitness. The asset is part of a shopping center anchored by Meijer and Target. Cory Gross of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyers. Completion and occupancy are targeted for May 2027. The transaction represents the second joint investment between SpurLine and Midloch. In May 2025, the firms acquired a vacant, former Safeway grocery store in Longmont, Colo. That space also became occupied by VASA Fitness.
PHILADELPHIA — Alterra IOS, a Philadelphia-based owner-operator of industrial outdoor storage (IOS) properties, has received two loans totaling $400 million for the refinancing of a national portfolio of 99 such properties. Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and KeyBank (NYSE: KEY) provided the debt with commitments of $225 million and $175 million, respectively. Collectively, the portfolio totals 551 usable acres and nearly 2.1 million square feet of accompanying warehouse facilities. Each site is located in a “major” U.S. industrial and logistics corridor in core markets across California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas. Specific breakdowns of locations across these states were not disclosed. The financing was executed utilizing an equity pledge framework as opposed to traditional asset-level mortgages. According to Alterra, this structure enables more streamlined, efficient execution and portfolio-level underwriting by allowing the borrower to “reduce legal and administrative burden(s) by eliminating property-level title work across a multi-state portfolio.” “Structures like this are becoming more relevant as institutional capital seeks efficient ways to access fragmented sectors at scale,” says Kate Mooney, senior associate, capital markets at Alterra. “As IOS portfolios have grown and matured, lenders have developed greater comfort underwriting diversified portfolios rather than individual assets. Equity pledge facilities reflect …
Hurricane Helene was not a modest disruption. It was a disaster of historic scale. The North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management estimated total damage and recovery needs at $59.6 billion as of Dec. 2024, including damage to more than 73,000 homes, more than 100 confirmed deaths in North Carolina and a federal disaster declaration covering 39 counties. As a broker in Western North Carolina (WNC), I am often asked why the commercial real estate market has remained as strong as it has. The answer is not that the market avoided pain. It did not. The answer is that a tightly supplied market behaves very differently from a soft market after a disaster. In WNC, Hurricane Helene did not expose oversupply. It exposed scarcity. Before Helene, the Asheville-area commercial market already had very little slack. In NAI Beverly-Hanks’ second-quarter 2024 Asheville MSA commercial market report, CoStar Group-derived vacancy stood at 5.3 percent for industrial, 2.8 percent for office and 1.6 percent for retail. Earlier 2024 reporting from the same source showed similarly constrained conditions, reinforcing the same point: this was already a tight market before the storm arrived. A familiar recovery pattern That pre-storm scarcity shaped the recovery pattern. …
HOUSTON — Developer Raven Capital has completed FORME, a 33-story multifamily high-rise located at 5501 La Branch St. in Houston’s Museum District. Designed by LJC Design & Engineering and operated by Sentral, FORME features 475 units, including 55 boutique hotel suites. Residences range from 500-square-foot studios to 1,400-square-foot three-bedroom apartments, all of which are equipped with walk-in closets and smart-home technology. The property also features a pool and hot tub, 20,000 square feet of fitness and recovery areas and 20,000 square feet of coworking space with reservable offices and quiet zones. The 12th floor is occupied by The Branch on La Branch, a cocktail lounge and raw bar. Rents start at $1,750 per month for a studio apartment.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Self-storage brokerage firm Versal has arranged the sale of Action Storage U-Haul, a 279-unit facility in Corpus Christi. The property spans 51,164 net rentable square feet. Bill Bellomy, Michael Johnson, Logan Foster, Hugh Horne and Kirk Silas of Versal represented the seller, a locally based entity doing business as Mission Lake Estates Inc., in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, Dallas-based Hinze Capital.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — NWA Recycling has signed a 17,896-square-foot industrial lease in southeast Fort Worth. The space is located along Fairlane Avenue, although the address was not disclosed. Walker Floyd and Patrick Kelley of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Finn Wilson of LanCarte Commercial represented the landlord, Faropoint.
NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between Apex Building Group and L+M Development Partners has received $217 million in construction financing for a new affordable housing project in Brooklyn. The project represents Phase III of a larger, 27-acre project known as Alafia, which is a redevelopment of the former site of the Brooklyn Developmental Center. Phase III will comprise 273 units that will be reserved for households earning 70 percent or less of the area median income. Phase III will also involve construction of a one-acre public park with a fitness loop, children’s play area and residential courtyards. Redstone Bank provided a construction loan as part of the financing package, which also includes federal and state tax credit equity, among other subsidies. Phase III construction is expected to be complete in 2029.
MIAMI — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $111 million construction loan for the development of Sense22, a 328-unit multifamily project located in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. Max La Cava and Pier Barinci of JLL secured the three-year loan through S3 Capital on behalf of the borrower, HA Emprendimientos, a real estate development and construction company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. JLL also previously secured the land and predevelopment loan for the property in 2025. The project is slated for completion in 2028. Sense22 will comprise 36 stories and will offer a mix of studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments. Amenities will include a resort-style swimming pool deck, a furnished rooftop terrace with outdoor grilling areas, spa, a fitness center and coworking spaces, along with 372 parking spaces.
ORLANDO AND DAVENPORT, FLA. — Berkadia has secured a combined $85.4 million for the refinancing of two Orlando-area multifamily communities. Matt Robbins, Mitch Sinberg, Brad Williamson, Scott Wadler and Hugo Hernandez of Berkadia arranged the financing through Walton Street Capital on behalf of the borrower, Boston-based Taurus Investment Holdings. The first property, known as The Summit at MetroWest, is located at 6500 Metrowest Blvd., and features 280 multifamily apartments with a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans. Amenities include a swimming pool, game room, sun deck, golf course, a grilling and picnic area and a dog park, according to Apartments.com. The second property, named The Legends at ChampionsGate, is situated at 8101 Champions Circle in Davenport and comprises 252 apartments in one- to four-bedroom configurations. Amenities include a clubhouse, business center, swimming pool, fitness center, playground, sun deck, cabana and grills.
