CHICO, CALIF. — Greystone has provided a $20.1 million Fannie Mae DUS loan for the acquisition of Cedar Village Apartments, an affordable multifamily property in Chico. Scott Wallace of Greystone originated the loan for the undisclosed borrower. Built in 1979, Cedar Village Apartments features 10 two-story buildings offering a total of 116 apartments in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Community amenities include a laundry room, playground and business center. Cedar Village Apartments is a section 8 HAP property. The loan carries a 15-year term at a fixed rate with a 35-year amortization schedule.
ATWATER, CALIF. — Phillips Edison & Co. has completed the disposition of Atwater Marketplace, a shopping center located at 1601-1853 Bellevue Road in Atwater. A Los Angeles-based private investor acquired the property for an undisclosed price. Kevin Fryman and Eric Wohl of Hanley Investment Group represented the seller, while Brett Visintainer of Visintainer Group of Fresno represented the buyer in the deal. The 96,224-square-foot Atwater Marketplace was 100 percent occupied at the time of sale. Current tenants include Save Mart, CVS/pharmacy, Ace Cash Express, Baskin Robbins, Chase, Chinese Kitchen, Freeway Insurance, GameStop, Great Clips, Merco Credit Union, Rebobank, RE/MAX, Roundtable Pizza and Sourdough & Co.
SALT LAKE CITY — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of a gas station and convenience store property located at 2680 S. 2000 E in Salt Lake City. A Texas-based private investor and developer sold the asset to a Utah-based private independent petroleum marketer for $3.1 million. Maverick, an independent fuel marketer, occupies the 3,024-square-foot property. Built in 1983 and renovated in 2018, the property features an eight-pump gas station and high-volume convenience store. Jack Cornell, Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group represented the seller in the deal.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Locally based developer Crescent Real Estate has broken ground on a new mixed-use project in Fort Worth’s Cultural District that is valued at $250 million, according to The Dallas Morning News. Current plans for the project, which was announced in February, call for 175 residential units, a 200-room boutique hotel and a 160,000-square-foot office building that will house the headquarters of tenants such as Goff Capital, Canyon Ranch and Contango Oil & Gas. Crescent Real Estate also plans to move its headquarters into the new office building. Construction is scheduled to be complete in mid-2023.
SAN ANTONIO — Valor Club USA, an organization dedicated to helping veterans and servicemen and women transition from military to civilian life, has opened an office in San Antonio. The group’s president, Michael McDowell, is overseeing construction of a 200-acre campus with recreational facilities, residential units, a hotel and commercial and retail space. In addition, the development will feature veteran support services and an entertainment district anchored by an indoor/outdoor performance and training center. Gensler designed the project.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — CBRE has negotiated the sale of Harris Ridge Business Center, a 387,838-square-foot industrial park in North Austin. Harris Ridge consists of five buildings that were constructed in phases between 2008 and 2021. The park was fully leased at the time of sale to a roster of 11 tenants with an average suite size of 32,392 square feet. Boston-based TA Realty purchased the property from Austin-based HPI Real Estate Services for an undisclosed price. Randy Baird, Jonathan Bryan, Ryan Thornton and Eliza Bachhuber of CBRE brokered the deal on behalf of HPI.
DALLAS — A fund backed by Dallas-based Nicholas Residential and Hughes Capital Partners have purchased Bellevue at The Bluffs, a 473-unit apartment community located in the Bluffview neighborhood of Dallas. Built in 2019 and formerly known as Aura Bluffview, the property features one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, resident clubhouse, business center and a lounge. Paul Harris, Eric Calub, Thad Wetterau and Gregory Smith of Berkadia represented the seller, Texas-based Trinsic Residential Group, in the transaction.
FORT WORTH AND DENTON, TEXAS — An affiliate of Livingston Street Capital has acquired a portfolio of two active adult communities totaling 402 units in North Texas. The properties include a 162-unit community in Fort Worth, which the firm has rebranded as The Spring at Silverton, and a 240-unit community in Denton, which the firm has rebranded as Sunstone Village. These assets bring Livingston’s active adult and independent living portfolio to nearly 600 units in the Dallas-Fort Worth market and more than 1,500 units nationally.
KNIGHTDALE, N.C. — Frampton Construction Co. LLC has broken ground on the final building within Eastgate 540, an industrial park in the Raleigh suburb of Knightdale. The facility is the seventh building in the park and the fourth built by Frampton. Eastgate 540’s final building will be a 204,000-square-foot industrial facility with features including 32-foot clear heights, 50 dock doors and two drive-in doors. The property will feature concrete tilt walls and a structural steel frame. Eastgate 540 is located beside Interstate 540 in Raleigh’s East Wake submarket and totals 1.2 million square feet. The developer, Trinity Capital Advisors, has sold three buildings at Eastgate 540, and there are agreements in place for the disposition of the four remaining buildings once construction and delivery near completion. Merriman Schmitt Architects completed the design for the buildings, and Advanced Civil Design Inc. provided civil engineering services. Construction for the final building is expected to finish in May 2022.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of two industrial buildings totaling 204,000 square feet that are located in the Northern New Jersey community of Bridgewater. Both buildings feature cross-dock configurations and clear heights of 23 feet and were fully leased at the time of sale. A Cushman & Wakefield team of Gary Gabriel, David Bernhaut, Kyle Schmidt and Seth Zuidema represented the seller, Camber Real Estate Partners, and procured the buyer, High Street Logistics Properties, in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed.