MIAMI — Melo Group has started construction of Downtown 1st, a transit-oriented multifamily development at 22 SW 1st St. in Miami’s central business district (CBD). The 57-story tower will include 560 market-rate apartments, 10,000 square feet of office space and 3,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Completion is slated for 2022. Downtown 1st will include one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Units will feature glass balconies with bay and city views. Building amenities will include two swimming pools, a fitness center, business center, social room/game room, 24-hour concierge/security and a multi-level garage with valet service. The site for Downtown 1st is in close proximity to Miami-Dade County’s Government Center, the Main Public Library, the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, Miami-Dade College’s Wolfson Campus, the New World School of the Arts and Brightline’s MiamiCentral Melo is also building Downtown 5th, twin 52-story apartment towers in Miami’s CBD. Pre-leasing is underway for the 1,042 units, which are slated for completion this summer. The firm is planning a third multifamily project nearby dubbed Downtown 6th that will total roughly 800 units. All told, Melo Group is expected to deliver nearly 2,500 residential units to Miami’s CBD over the next two years. “We’re bullish on downtown Miami’s CBD,” says Carlos Melo, co-principal of …
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Many in commercial real estate expected a tsunami of COVID-related distressed properties in 2020 and 2021. So far, the wave hasn’t materialized, says Jay Olshonsky, president and CEO of NAI Global. Businesses have been sustained by exogenous factors that may or may not keep them from foreclosure or receivership in the long term. In many cases, lender forbearances or flexible plans have simply extended the window in which distressed properties may eventually revert to receivership. Olshonsky spoke to REBusinessOnline about receivership activity and what the industry expects over the next 12 months. Delays: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis, Plus Current Factors As court-appointed receivers, NAI’s representatives act as the owner and operator of properties in foreclosure on behalf of the court. A receivership needs to have the capability to lease the property, pay taxes and handle accounting — basically, taking over all aspects of managing a property and keeping it functioning, Olshonsky says. Much of how NAI Global has chosen to approach the current receivership landscape originated in the lessons of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. During the early stages of the pandemic, NAI knew there would be fallout that would force some businesses into foreclosure, servicing, note sales or similar …
MADISON, ALA. — Novare Group and Batson-Cook Development Co. (BCDC) plan to develop a new apartment community in Madison. Synovus Bank provided construction financing to the co-developers, and Marble Capital provided equity for the 290-unit, mid-rise community. The Synovus loan was not disclosed but reportedly totaled $31.5 million. The unnamed project will include three, four-story residential buildings with two ground-floor retail spaces totaling 5,000 square feet. Each building will have conditioned corridors and elevators, and there will be 483 surface parking spaces and 25 detached garages. The property will offer studios, one- and two-bedroom units. Community amenities will include a resort-style swimming pool, private coworking lounge with private rooms and a conference room, fitness center with a yoga and spin room, dog park, clubroom with demo kitchen and fireplace and direct access to the Singing River Trail, a 70-mile-long Northern Alabama trail system. The project will also include eight live/work units. Located at 375 Lime Quarry Road, the community will be adjacent to Town Madison, a 563-acre mixed-use urban, walkable community. Niles Bolton Associates is the architect, Walter Schoel Engineering Co. is the civil engineer and Doster Construction Co. is the general contractor. Construction will commence in April, with the …
MERIDIAN, IDAHO — Wood Investments Cos. has purchased CentrePoint Marketplace, a community shopping center located on 19.3 acres at 3319 N. Eagle Road in Meridian. Built in 2007, the 197,288-square-foot property was fully occupied at the time of sale. Tenants include Kohl’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Walgreens, Qdoba Mexican Eats, Panera Bread, Wingers Restaurant & Alehouse, Downeast Home, Hobby Lobby, Moxie Java and 360 Wireless. Chad Moore of Salt Lake City-based Mountain West Commercial Real Estate represented the buyer. The seller was Centrepoint Marketplace LLC, a Utah limited liability company.
Link Senior Development, Insight Senior Living Start Construction of Ativo Senior Living of Prescott Valley, Arizona
by Amy Works
PRESCOTT VALLEY, ARIZ. — Link Senior Development and Insight Senior Living have started construction of Ativo Senior Living of Prescott Valley. Located near Bob Edwards Park, the 5.3-acre campus consists of 130 residences across more than 117,000 square feet. The community will include a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care units ranging from studio apartments to two-bedroom cottages. The community is scheduled to open in summer 2022. Link Senior Development leads the project as the developer. Ankrom Moisan is serving as the architect on the project, Seabold Construction as the general contractor and Insight Senior Living as the management company.
CLERMONT, FLA. — Penler, an Atlanta-based multifamily real estate investment and development firm, has broken ground on a 288-unit apartment community in Clermont, which is a western suburb of Orlando. Penler expects the project to be open for residents in the spring of 2022. Located directly behind the Publix at East Town Center on West Colonial Drive, the unnamed apartment community will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans within two-story buildings. The garden-style apartments will allow residents to enter their units directly from the outside without passing through hallways or common stairwells, which is meant to limit exposure to contagions, according to Penler. Outdoor amenities will include a lawn, pool deck, grilling area, dog park and a pond facing the South Lake Trail. The nine-mile trail connects to the 22-mile West Orange Trail. The community will also have a 6,000-square-foot clubhouse with a fitness center, resident lounge, leasing center and a bike shop with storage. Interiors will feature open floor plans, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, vinyl plank flooring, high-end lighting and washers and dryers. Average rents are projected to be $1,568 per month, with one-bedroom units starting at $1,367, two-bedrooms at $1,593 and three-bedrooms starting at $1,931.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Walker Real Estate and Chalk Hill Ventures have completed construction of an active adult community in Georgetown, a northern suburb of Austin. Located on a 12-acre site near Rabbit Hill, NorthStar Georgetown includes 298,800 square feet of active adult living comprising 210 apartments. Roscoe Property Management is the operator. Other project partners include Pi Architects, Square One Consultants, Pat Berry Design and Skybeck Construction.
PORTLAND, ORE. — San Diego-based Pathfinder Partners has completed the acquisition of FortyOne 11 Apartments, a multifamily property in northeast Portland. An undisclosed seller sold the property for $27.4 million. FortyOne 11 features 112 apartments and was 76 percent occupied at the time of sale. The investment was made from Pathfinder Partners Opportunity Fund VIII, which was raised in 2020 to make opportunistic multifamily investments. Pathfinder Fund VIII also invests in Seattle, Sacramento, Southern California, Phoenix and Denver.
PHOENIX — Wadsworth Development Group has acquired a 10-acre land parcel located at the southwest corner of 15th Avenue and Pinnacle Peak Road in the Deer Valley submarket of Phoenix. An undisclosed seller sold the property for $6.1 million. Wadsworth plans to develop a speculative industrial project offering 136,000 square feet spread across three buildings. Slated for completion this August, the facilities will feature 28-foot to 32-foot clear heights, grade-level loading, 227/480-volt power and above-market parking ratio. Robert Lundstedt, Skip Corley and Chase Heinemann of DAUM Commercial represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.
SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS — Chicago-based American Bear Logistics Corp. has signed a 19,451-square-foot industrial lease at 419 Bank St. in Southlake. The global logistics firm will occupy space within Southlake Business Park, a three-building, 12.6-acre development located less than five miles from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Noah Dodge and Joe Santaularia of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services, along with Nick Krejci of Darwin Realty, represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Hogan Harrison, Matt Carthey and George Jennings of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, an entity doing business as Southlake Industrial LP.