WISCONSIN — Four Corner Property Trust (FCPT) has acquired a property leased to Midwest Orthopedic Network in Wisconsin for $4.3 million. The tenant has roughly four years remaining on its lease, which features annual rent increases of 2.5 percent. The sales price represents a cap rate of 8.1 percent. Midwest Orthopedic Network operates roughly 30 locations in Wisconsin.
PLYMOUTH, IND. — Friedman Real Estate has brokered the sale of Plymouth Plaza in Plymouth, a city in northern Indiana. The sales price was undisclosed. The new owner plans to repurpose the 60,000-square-foot retail center into a mixed-use development featuring both retail and self-storage space. Steven Silverman and Ryan Wilner of Friedman represented both parties in the sale.
AKRON, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of Premier Storage of Akron, a self-storage facility in Akron, for an undisclosed price. Built in 1995, the property features 148 non-climate-controlled units and totals 21,200 net rentable square feet. Nathan Coe, Brett Hatcher and Gabriel Coe of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company. Buyer information was not provided.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Hoar Construction has broken ground on Icon, a 30-story student housing tower in the West Campus neighborhood by the University of Texas at Austin. The MDL Group is the developer for the project, which is slated for completion in summer 2025. Icon will house 555 beds across 216 units ranging from one- to five-bedroom layouts. Amenities will include a rooftop pool, fitness center, game and lounge rooms, podcast studio and student workspaces. The project will also feature four levels of below-ground parking. Once completed, Icon will be one of the tallest buildings in the surrounding area, according to the general contractor. The project marks the first partnership between Hoar and MDL Group, a New York-based developer, owner and operator of student housing communities. The project team also includes Rhode Partners as architect, DCI Engineers as structural engineer and Blum Engineering as the MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) engineer. The student housing sector is outperforming other real estate verticals during challenging economic conditions, according to the latest national student housing report from Yardi Matrix. Rents increased 7 percent year-over-year in March to an average of $829 per bedroom, a record high. UT Austin has the highest bed count …
GLEN ALLEN, VA. — A joint venture between Middleburg Communities and The Resmark Cos. plans to develop The Brook, a 310-unit apartment development located on a 13.5-acre site at 9002 Brook Road in Glen Allen, a suburb of Richmond. The co-developers expect to begin construction this month, with the community scheduled to open in late 2024. The Brook will comprise five four-story apartment buildings totaling 274 units, as well as six six-unit townhome buildings. Apartments will come in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, and townhomes will come in two- and three-bedroom layouts. The Brook’s amenities will include an outdoor swimming pool, fitness center and yoga studio, grilling stations, dog park, pet spa and electric vehicle charging stations. Truist Bank provided an undisclosed amount of construction financing for the project.
FRANKLIN, TENN. — McHugh Construction has delivered the Inn and Spa at Southall, a 325-acre luxury farm resort in the south Nashville suburb of Franklin. The approximately 95,000-square-foot property features 62 guest rooms, an executive boardroom, 15,000-square-foot spa, an all-day restaurant and bar and a 3,700-square-foot signature restaurant called January that serves fare grown onsite. Many guestrooms include wood-burning fireplaces, exposed wood beams and large windows. McHugh used cross-laminated timber and heavy timber for all four buildings in the project. Paul Mishkin, a Chicago investor, is the founder of Southall.
KISSIMMEE, FLA. — SRS Real Estate Partners’ Investment Properties Group has brokered the $28.4 million sale of WaterStar Orlando, a 79,680-square-foot shopping center under construction near Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom Lodge. Orlando-based Equinox Development Properties is developing the center, which is located on a 7.7-acre site at 7991 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway in Kissimmee. Set to open in the next few months, WaterStar Orlando will be anchored by Marshalls, Burlington and pOpshelf, and will also house Noire Nail Bar and Keke’s Breakfast Café. Equinox sold the shopping center to a South Florida-based entity doing business as Orlando 22 LLC. Kyle Stonis, Pierce Mayson and Kevin Yaryan of SRS represented the seller in the transaction, and John Ellis of Newmark represented the buyer. WaterStar Orlando is part of a mixed-use development that will also include Madison WaterStar Orlando, a 516-unit apartment development that is also under construction.
AUBURNDALE, FLA. — JLL has arranged the sale of Building 100, a 464,000-square-foot, cross-dock distribution facility located at Pace Logistics Center in Auburndale. The seller, Intersect Development Group, delivered the property earlier this year. The buyer and sales price were not disclosed. Luis Castillo, Britton Burdette, Cody Brais and Taylor Osborne of JLL represented the seller in the transaction. Paul Spellman, Taylor Allison and Emma Buch of JLL arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer. Located on a 30-acre site at 1234 Pace Road, Building 100 features 40-foot clear heights, a 60-foot speed bay, dock levelers and a 185- to 190-foot truck court.
TAMPA, FLA. — Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, a law firm based in Birmingham, Ala., has leased space on the 10th and 11th floors of Thousand & One, a trophy office tower within the $3.5 billion Water Street Tampa development. Master developer Strategic Property Partners LLC is the landlord of the office tower. The law firm will move into its 37,000-square-foot space from its current regional office on North Tampa Street in downtown Tampa before the end of the year. PEI Global Partners has also recently leased space at Thousand & One, which also houses Citadel, ReliaQuest, Sila Realty Trust, Northern Trust Corp., Weatherford Capital, Synovus Financial Corp., RSM, Suffolk Construction, USA Rare Earth and Walker & Dunlop, among other tenants. Thousand & One features a rooftop terrace, private landscaped terraces, open-air conference room, employee fitness center and town hall meeting space. On the ground level, the building features a landscaped plaza with public art and water features and several ground-floor retailers, including Naked Farmer, CAVA and the recently opened Boulon Brasserie.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — KeyBank Community Development Lending & Investment has provided $82 million in acquisition and rehabilitation financing for Woodway Square Apartments, a 240-unit affordable housing complex in Austin. The 12-building, garden-style complex offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units that are reserved for households earning 60 percent or less of the area median income. Amenities include a pool, playground and a community room. The borrower is Minnesota-based owner-operator Dominium. The financing includes an $18 million bridge loan to facilitate the purchase, $40 million in construction-to-permanent financing and $24 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) equity.