GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Transwestern has negotiated an 84,633-square-foot industrial lease in Georgetown, a northern suburb of Austin. The tenant is 84 Lumber, which already operates a lumberyard in Georgetown and is the process of expanding. The space is located within Blue Springs Business Park, a three-building, 604,064-square-foot development. Nash Frisbie of Transwestern and Carter Thurmond of Endeavor Real Estate Group represented the landlord, Chicago-based Molto Properties, in the lease negotiations. The tenant was self-represented.
CHESAPEAKE, VA. — LS GreenLink USA Inc., a subsidiary of LS Cable & System Ltd., has closed on the purchase of 96.6 acres in the Hampton Roads city of Chesapeake. Situated along the Elizabeth River near the Port of Virginia, the site will house a new submarine power cable manufacturing facility spanning 750,000 square feet and a 660-foot VCV (vertical continuous vulcanization) tower that is expected to be the tallest structure in the state upon completion. LS GreenLink plans for the new facility to involve more than $681 million in investment and to be fully operational by early 2028. The company will manufacture insulated power cables at the facility that will be used to connect offshore wind farms, such as the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project underway off the coast of nearby Virginia Beach. Construction on the new manufacturing facility, which was announced last year, will take place this month. LS GreenLink plans to use roughly half of the newly acquired site for the manufacturing facility and VCV tower, reserving the remaining land for future phases of development. Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black PLC and JLL represented the seller, International Bio-Energy Virginia Real Estate LLC, in the land sale. K&L …
PLANO, TEXAS — Anderson Merchandisers, which provides both data analytics and supply chain solutions to the retail industry, has signed a 30,342-square-foot office headquarters lease in Plano. The company is relocating from Granite Park to the entire top floor of the 210,000-square-foot Apex at Legacy building. Conor McCarthy and Jayme Schutt of JLL represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. John Brownlee, Gini Rounsaville and Michael Williams, also with JLL, represented the landlord, a partnership between Monarch Alternative Capital and Tourmaline Capital Partners.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — Footwear and apparel retail giant Foot Locker Inc. has officially moved its corporate headquarters from New York City to the Tampa Bay city of St. Petersburg. The Feil Organization has signed the retailer to a 110,998-square-foot office lease at 570 Carillon Parkway, a Class A office building within Carillon Business Park. Feil recently renovated the office building’s lobby and common areas. Amenities at the five-story, 250,000-square-foot office building include a café and a fitness center. Lee Winter and Caleb Lewis of JLL represented Foot Locker in the lease negotiations. Barry Hanerfeld and Molly Molloy Catlett of CBRE represented Feil alongside in-house representative Andrew Wiener.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — A partnership between Chicago-based co-developers Ridgeline Development Partners and Deep Cove Partners plans to break ground this month on The Bend at Capitol District, a mixed-use development that will span nearly 550,000 square feet in Nashville. The nearly three-acre project is the second phase expansion of the TownePlace Suites at North Capitol development that was completed in 2020. The Bend will comprise an eight-story, 188-room Moxy Capitol District hotel; 17,000 square feet of shops and restaurants within an interconnected paseo; and a 10-story residential building that will house both The Delle at The Bend-Apartments by Marriott Bonvoy (128 extended stay units) and The Residences at The Bend (133 apartments). The Bend’s design-build team includes Nashville-based Smith Gee Studio (architect), New York-based S9 Architecture (architect), Skanska USA (general contractor), RaganSmith Associates (engineer), Power Management Corp. (engineer), JLL (project manager) and The Gettys Group (interior designer).
ORLANDO, FLA. — Miller Construction has broken ground on a new 112,000-square-foot warehouse at 5711 N. Pine Hills Road in Orlando. The $20.7 million project is dubbed First Pine Hills and will serve as a build-to-suit facility for Addison HVAC LLC. Miller Construction is the general contractor for the project, which First Industrial Realty Trust is developing. Other members of the design-build team include C4 (architect and MEP engineer), Mendieta Structural Consulting Inc. (structural engineer) and Oxbow Engineering (civil engineer). Situated west of I-4, the new facility will feature tilt-wall construction, structural steel and a TPO roof. The project is expected to deliver in the third quarter.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $13.4 million sale of Hurstbourne Heights, an 84-unit apartment community located at 7603 Downs Farm Way in Louisville. Situated on 6.8 acres in the city’s Highview neighborhood, Hurstbourne Heights was delivered in 2019 and features one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as a dog park and walking trail. The buyer, a South Carolina-based investor, assumed a HUD-insured loan as part of the transaction. Aaron Johnson and David Badgett of Marcus & Millichap’s Louisville office represented the seller, a locally based developer, and procured the buyer in the transaction. Both parties requested anonymity.
BUCKEYE AND YUMA, ARIZ., AND SANTA CLARITA, CALIF. — JLL and HJ Sims have arranged $239.7 million in tax-exempt and taxable bond financing for the Integrated Senior Foundation — Ativo Portfolio, a seniors housing portfolio in Arizona and California. The portfolio includes 430 independent living, assisting living and memory care units. There are two ground-up development communities and one acquisition — Ativo of Sundance in Buckeye, Ativo of Yuma in Yuma and Ativo of Santa Clarita within the Sand Canyon Plaza master-planned community in Santa Clarita. On behalf of Integrated Senior Foundation, JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team, in collaboration with the bond underwriting team of HJ Sims and JLL Securities, secured fixed-rate financing with a final maturity of 40 years. The financing consisted of $218.2 million of publicly offered tax-exempt senior series 2025A bonds, $5.9 million of taxable senior series 2025B bonds and $15.5 million of tax-exempt subordinate 2025C bonds. Slated for completion in 2027, Ativo of Sundance will feature 102 independent living units, 75 assisted living units and 30 memory care beds, while Ativo of Santa Clarita will feature 51 independent living units, 65 assisted living units and 28 memory care beds, with completion scheduled for later this year. Ativo …
LYNNWOOD, WASH. — Kōz Development and MSquared have opened Kōz on Alderwood Mall Blvd, a mixed-income, transit-oriented apartment community at 4301 Alderwood Mall Blvd. in Lynnwood. The $54 million project is located adjacent to the recently opened Lynnwood Transit Center, the northern terminus of the Sound Transit Link rail extension connecting Lynnwood to downtown Seattle. Kōz on Alderwood offers 199 studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. Half of the homes are affordable for households earning up to 80 percent of the area median income and the other half are market-rate units. Developed by Kōz Development, the project was financed with $35 million in debt from Coastal Community Bank, $13 million in equity from MSquared and $6 million in equity from Kōz Development investors. Kirtley Cole led construction of the community.
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CALIF. — West Harbor Capital has completed the disposition of an industrial property located at 705 Baldwin Park Blvd. in the City of Industry to Safco Capital Corp. for $38 million. Cenveo, the nation’s largest envelope manufacturer, fully occupies the 184,778-square-foot property that features loading doors, trailer parking and 4,000 amps of power. Barbara Perrier and Eric Cox of CBRE National Partners West, along with Paul Sablock of JLL, represented the seller in the transaction.