CHICAGO — Becovic has acquired The Juneway Gardens in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood for $7.2 million. Located on Juneway Terrace, the 61-unit apartment building was constructed in 1922. The seller, a local apartment owner, had owned the three-story property for more than 30 years. Becovic Realty, the brokerage arm of Becovic, brokered the sale.
WARRENSVILLE, OHIO — A Costa Rica-based private investor has purchased a facility occupied by car sales company Carvana in Warrensville, about 15 miles southeast of Cleveland. The sales price was $6.7 million. Located at 4070 Interchange Corporate Center Road, the 8,408-square-foot property was constructed in 2017. Michael Shover and Matthew Gorman of CBRE represented the buyer. There were 17 years remaining on Carvana’s lease at the time of sale. The seller was undisclosed.
HOUSTON — A partnership between Houston-based Better World Holdings and New York-based Crown Capital Ventures has acquired Skylar Pointe Apartments, a 449-unit community in Houston’s Clear Lake area, for $49.1 million. Built in 1979, Skylar Pointe comprises 162 one-bedroom units, 255 two-bedroom apartments and 32 three-bedroom residences. Amenities include two pools, a spa, playground and onsite laundry facilities. The new ownership will invest about $4.6 million in capital improvements to the property, including $2.9 million to unit interior and $1.7 million in to building exteriors and amenity spaces.
SACHSE, TEXAS — Los Angeles-based advisory firm Nova Capital has arranged construction debt and equity for the development of Miles One 90, a 389-unit multifamily project in Sachse, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. Nova Capital placed a $42 million loan with Bank OZK and an undisclosed amount of joint venture equity with an institutional investor. Miles One 90 will comprise four four-story residential buildings and amenities such as multiple pools and fitness centers, a game room, coffee bar, remote work lounge and an outdoor kitchen. Construction is scheduled to begin in January and to be complete in 2023. The borrower was Anthem Development, a division of Beck Ventures Co.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Levin Johnston, a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of Constellation Ranch Apartments, a 324-unit multifamily community in Fort Worth that was built in 2005. Units come in one-, two- and three-bedroom formats and feature washers and dryers, built-in computer niches and walk-in closets. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center, movie theater, dog park and Amazon package lockers. Adam Levin, Robert Johnston and Eymon Binesh of Levin Johnston represented the seller and the buyer, a California-based private investor, in the transaction. Both parties requested anonymity.
NEW YORK CITY — Taconic Partners and National Real Estate Advisors (NREA) will develop a 33-story multifamily building at 312 W. 43rd St. in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. Designed by Handel Architects, the project will consist of 330 rental units, 40,000 square feet of retail space and 30,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenity space. The amenity package will include a pool, rooftop terrace, workspaces and private gardens. Avison Young arranged $204 million in construction financing through The Union Labor Life Insurance Co. for the project, completion of which is slated for mid-2024.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $55.5 million sale of the 531-room Martinique New York hotel, located at the corner of Broadway and 32nd Street in Manhattan. Eric Anton and Nelson Lee led a Marcus & Millichap team that represented the seller, New York-based Herald Hotel Associates LP, in the transaction. The buyer was Oklahoma City-based Burnett Equities. Marcus & Millichap also represented the new ownership in negotiations for several retail leases that were recently signed at the property.
YONKERS, N.Y. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $160 million loan for the refinancing of Sawyer Place, a 438-unit multifamily property located outside of New York City in Yonkers. Built in 2020, the two-building complex features 31,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, a 553-space parking garage and amenities such as a landscaped terrace, fitness center and an indoor theater. Aaron Appel, Jonathan Schwartz, Keith Kurland, Adam Schwartz, Michael Ianno and Sean Bastian of Walker & Dunlop arranged the floating-rate, nonrecourse financing, which retires the original construction loan, through Mesa West Capital. The borrower was locally based development and investment firm RXR Realty.
ALTOONA, PA. — Axiom Realty has acquired Orchard Plaza, an 82,438-square-foot shopping center in Altoona, located east of Pittsburgh in Blair County. Built in 1986, the center was 81 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Big Lots, The American Red Cross and CosmoProf. MSC Retail represented the seller, Cincinnati-based shopping center REIT Phillips Edison, in the transaction.
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — New Jersey-based brokerage firm R.J. Brunelli & Co. has negotiated the $4.9 million sale of a 25,000-square-foot retail property in East Brunswick, located in Middlesex County. A Jersey Strong health club occupies the freestanding building. R.J. Brunelli represented the seller, WOW Plaza III LLC, in the transaction. Ellen Quentzel of Jordan Baris Inc. Realtors represented the buyer, New York-based KHC Development Inc.
