OKLAHOMA CITY — Locally based developer The Medallion Group has broken ground on The Stacks, a 34,000-square-foot retail project in Oklahoma City. The site is located just east of Garth Brooks Boulevard on NW 10th Street. Tenants that have already committed to the development include Mediterranean restaurant Cava, fast-casual eatery Pickleman’s and locally based food-and-beverage concept The Surf Bar. Additional retail and medical users will be announced later this year. The Stacks is scheduled to open in the first half of 2024.
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TULSA, OKLA. — An affiliate of Dallas-based SkyWalker Property Partners has sold a 20,160-square-foot industrial flex facility in Tulsa. The building at 3717 S. Sheridan Road sits on 1.7 acres and was vacant at the time of sale. Michael Schnake and Ward Seibert of Oil Capital Commercial Real Estate Services represented SkyWalker in the transaction. The buyer, local sign maker manufacturer Gravley Holdings LLC, was self-represented.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A joint venture between Cleveland-based developer The NRP Group, asset management firm Rockwood Capital and locally based firm G&S Investors has broken ground on a 401-unit multifamily project in Jersey City. The site is located at 190 Chapel Ave. in the Port Liberté area. Units will come in one-, two- and three-bedroom formats. Amenities will include a pool, pet play and wash area, outdoor grilling and dining stations, rooftop deck with a lounge area, game room, communal kitchen, conference room and a commuter lounge. Citizens Bank and Fifth Third Bank provided senior construction loans for the project, which is slated for a summer 2025 completion.
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — JLL has negotiated the sale of Riverhead Centre, a 395,000-square-foot retail power center in Long Island’s Suffolk County. Grocer ShopRite and The Home Depot anchor the center, which was originally built on 50 acres in 2003 and was 99 percent leased at the time of sale. Other tenants include Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy, Petco, Michaels, Designer Shoe Warehouse, Famous Footwear, Barnes & Noble, Ashley Home Store and IHOP. Jose Cruz, Kevin O’Hearn, J.B. Bruno and Mark Belenky of JLL represented the seller, an entity advised by PNC Realty Investors, in the transaction. The buyer was New York City-based Prestige Properties & Development Co. Inc.
OGUNQUIT, MAINE — Regional hospitality owner-operator Giri Hotels has acquired Anchorage by the Sea, a 249-room waterfront resort in Ogunquit, located in southern coastal Maine. The property offers amenities such as indoor and outdoor pools, reception and meeting rooms, outdoor lounges and gathering spaces and an onsite restaurant and bar. Wason Associates Hospitality Real Estate represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4.3 million sale of an 8,892-square-foot retail property at 4225 White Plains Road in The Bronx. Formerly occupied by Dollar Tree, the building was vacant at the time of sale. Scott Plasky, Alexander Arustamian and Billy Stephan IV of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, New York-based E&G Realty Group, in the transaction. The buyer was KSR Acquisitions Corp. John Horowitz of Marcus & Millichap assisted in closing the deal as the broker of record.
NEW YORK CITY — Ship Essential has signed a 20,070-square-foot industrial lease in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. The e-commerce fulfillment firm will occupy space on the fifth floor of Liberty Bklyn, a 1.3 million-square-foot waterfront industrial and office campus. David Junik, Steven Nadel, Marc Caso and Nechama Liberow of Pinnacle Realty represented the landlord, Madison Capital, in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant was not disclosed.
MIAMI — Genting Group has agreed to sell a 15.5-acre development site in Downtown Miami for $1.2 billion. The property is the largest undeveloped waterfront property in Miami’s urban core, according to the seller. SmartCity Miami — an investment group led by locally based Terra and the company’s CEO David Martin — will acquire the property in a transaction expected to close later this year. The site offers 800 feet of direct frontage along Biscayne Bay, adjacent to Miami’s Museum Park and roughly midway between Miami Beach and Miami International Airport. A mixed-use property is planned for the site, details of which were not disclosed. Michael Fay, John Crotty, David Duckworth and Brian de la Fé of Avison Young brokered the sale, and a team led by Suzanne Amaducci at law firm Bilzin Sumberg provided counsel to Genting. Ricardo Fraga of Greenberg Traurig and Laura Gangemi of Gangemi Law Group represented SmartCity in the transaction. “The scale and location of this site offers the opportunity to do something spectacular — something that all of Miami can take pride in — and we will deliver nothing short of that,” says Martin. “For now, our team is focused on understanding the full potential of …
By Eric Rose and Erick Tjarks, Cresa The Omaha office market proved to be somewhat insular from the effects of the many factors the real estate industry has experienced since 2020 (COVID-19, the hybrid work-from-home model, discussions of impending recession to name a few). Although down year-over-year, which given the recent interest rate hikes is expected, market sales volume remains above-average over the surveyed period going back to 2007. Though, this transaction volume dropped precipitously in the second half of 2022 and has continued to be slow in early 2023. However, the local market has seen pockets of increased activity, as Northwest Omaha saw heightened transactional volume, with Midtown Omaha, downtown Council Bluffs and suburban West Dodge following suit. As showcased above, market cap rates have largely accounted for interest rate hikes and are currently stable but subject to future interest rate increases. These statistics all point to a stable market, with fundamental performance on solid footing. However, it should be noted that, according to CoStar, 2022 is only the second year on record when demolitions outpaced gross deliveries, with only 93,000 square feet of net deliveries Omaha ranked in the bottom 10 of the top 60 office markets …
On the April 12 episode of “The Most Insightful Hour in CRE” webcast, Willy Walker, CEO of Walker & Dunlop, spoke to renowned economist Dr. Peter Linneman, founding principal of Linneman Associates, about pressing issues facing the economy, pandemic repercussions, market predictions and much more. The discussion began by diving into the economy and real estate market in its current state of flux, with many challenges facing both investors and developers. Walker outlines the unease created by the recent Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank crises. “One of the data points announced by the Fed is that since the crisis, bank lending in the United States has gone down by $110 billion over the two weeks since the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Banks borrowed $160 billion in the two-week window prior. There’s a big drive toward liquidity; and yet there’s no new liquidity going out into the market.” “There’s 4.4 trillion dollars of commercial real estate (CRE) loans outstanding across all lending sources — CMBS, life insurance companies, banks, etc.,” continues Walker. “About half of that is non-multifamily properties. Banks hold about 40 percent of total outstanding loans on commercial properties.” If banks were to pull back from holding 40 percent …