NEW YORK CITY — Brokerage firm TerraCRG has negotiated the $3.7 million sale of a 6,684-square-foot industrial building in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. ABC Collision, an auto repair shop that has operated in the area for more than 20 years, purchased the property from Advanced JAF Holding LLC. Brokers involved in the deal included Dan Marks, Daniel Lebor and Adam Tannenbaum of TerraCRG, as well as Jakub Nowak and Jake Torre of Marcus & Millichap and Thomas Cordasco.
SAN DIEGO — Regent Properties has acquired a portfolio of four office buildings in downtown San Diego for $420 million. The acquisition marks Regent’s first investment via its Regent Opportunity Fund V. The high-rise properties include 1 Columbia Place, 701 B Street, 2 Columbia Place and 707 Broadway. Totaling 1.5 million square feet, the buildings represent approximately 16 percent of all Class A and B office inventory in downtown San Diego, according to Regent. The transaction, which equates to $281 per square foot, also includes a parking garage. Privately owned real estate investment adviser Emmes was the seller, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. “With this investment, Regent is continuing its push to acquire high-quality office projects across the Sunbelt,” says Eric Fleiss, CEO of Regent. “We are seeking to purchase over $2 billion of assets over the next 24 months.” Prior to the sale, the seller extensively renovated the portfolio’s common areas, including upgrading the lobbies and outdoor amenities. Regent plans to augment these renovations with additional “hospitality-oriented improvements,” such as new fitness centers, conference centers, eateries and community gathering places like outdoor terraces and wine lounges. “To successfully attract and retain tenants today, we need to give them …
By Nico Vilgiate, Executive Vice President, Colliers Greater Los Angeles has one of the largest office development pipelines in the nation, which includes new construction and some sizeable adaptive reuse projects. There is currently more than 6 million square feet in this pipeline with nearly 2.7 million square feet scheduled to deliver this year. This will increase overall vacancy throughout 2021. The most significant developments are occurring in Downtown and West Los Angeles, which contain more than 55 percent of all new office construction. One of the most prominent projects is One Westside, a shopping mall conversion that will contain 584,000 square feet of creative office space in West Los Angeles. Google will be moving into the building upon completion. The greater Los Angeles overall vacancy rate of 18.3 percent is 50 basis points higher than the previous peak in 2013 when it reached 17.8 percent. Sublease availability has increased over the past four quarters due to the work-from-home mandate. However, there has been an increase in the overall average asking rate in the past few quarters. The rate has increased by 4.4 percent year-over-year to about $3.54 per square foot, per month. Asking rate rental growth during this period was strongest …
MAITLAND, FLA. — Fundrise has acquired Lake Shadow Apartments, a 300-unit, Class A multifamily property in metro Orlando. Bainbridge Cos. sold the community to Fundrise for $83.1 million. Located on a 16-acre site at 2200 Flagler Promenade Way in Maitland, the property will be renamed Luna at Lake Shadow. The 330,000-square-foot community features one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Regions Bank provided an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing to Fundrise, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate investment platform. Bainbridge Cos. LLC is a Wellington, Fla.-based owner, developer and manager of multifamily apartment communities in the Eastern United States and Texas.
OPELIKA, ALA. — W. P. Carey Inc., a New York City-based net lease REIT, has purchased an industrial property located at 3101 Anderson Road in Opelika for $49 million. W. P. Carey purchased the 703,000-square-foot, Class A logistics facility in a sale-leaseback transaction with JOANN, a sewing and fabrics retailer based in Hudson, Ohio. The property is triple-net-leased to JOANN for a period of 20 years, with fixed annual rent escalations. The cross-dock facility features up to 40-foot clear heights and is on a site that allows for future expansion. The property is located along Interstate 85. Built in 2005, it supplies products to more than one-third of JOANN’s nearly 900 retail locations nationwide.
ATLANTA — Lincoln Property Co. has broken ground on the next phases of Echo Street West, a 19-acre mixed-use property located at intersection of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway and Northside Drive in Atlanta. The multi-phase project includes 300,000 square feet of creative office space, 50,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 292 multifamily units, an events venue, artist colony and 3.4 acres of outdoor entertainment and green space. Future phases will bring additional office, retail, residential and hotel components to the site. The total Phase I development is expected to cost $265 million. Echo Street West will have several new community amenities, including the now-open event venue Guardian Works, the soon-to-open artist colony Guardian Studios and CoLab, a neighborhood creative office and venue space led by Joan Vernon, community organizer and director of Neighborhood Engagement at Westside Future Fund. Guardian Studios is an adaptive reuse of an early 1900s-era warehouse at Echo Street West. The first phase will feature 14 rentable art studios ranging in size from 200 to 500 square feet, a 3,000-square-foot open gallery space and outdoor wall murals. The second phase will add another 26 studios, bringing the total creative community to over 40 artists. Black …
PORT ST. LUCIE, FLA. — Watermark Residential, a wholly owned affiliate of Thompson Thrift, will develop Boardwalk at Tradition, a 214-unit build-to-rent multifamily community in Port St. Lucie. Watermark acquired 17.5 acres of land to develop the property, which will be a residential community featuring one- and two-story paired villa-style homes. The project is slated for completion in December 2022. Boardwalk at Tradition will be located at the southeast corner of SW Stockton Place and SW Community Boulevard. The property will offer a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts that average 1,100 square feet. Community amenities will include gourmet bar-kitchens with quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, full-size washers and dryers, private backyard patios, resort style pool, professionally design and appointed clubhouses, a pickleball court, fire pits, outdoor kitchens, several dog parks and a 24-hour fitness center. Boardwalk at Tradition is part of the 8,200-acre master planned Tradition community, which has $365 million in new development in the works. The apartment community is situated close to Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital and sits one mile west of Interstate 95.
PHENIX CITY, ALA. — Trillium Capital Resources has arranged $14 million in refinancing for The Gardens Apartments and Post Ridge Apartments, which are both multifamily communities located in Phenix City. The Gardens Apartments has 190 units and Post Ridge Apartments has 152 units. Located at 501 16th Ave. N., Post Ridge includes one-, two- and three-bedroom units. HUD’s A7 refinance program allowed Trillium to procure a fixed interest rate of 2.75 percent for The Gardens. The 25-year loan reduces the undisclosed borrower’s mortgage insurance premium (MIP) from 0.60 percent to 0.25 percent.
SAN ANTONIO — A partnership between Chicago-based investment firm Pearlmark and Austin-based Old Three Hundred Capital LLC (OTH) has purchased Park West and Parliament Bend, two adjacent multifamily properties in San Antonio totaling 560 units. According to Apartments.com, Park West features studio, one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, volleyball court, playground and a dog park. Parliament Bend offers one- and two-bedroom units as well as fitness and business centers, outdoor grilling and picnic areas, a dog park and onsite laundry facilities. The new ownership will implement a value-add program.
FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS — Locally based firm Darwin German Real Estate Investments has sold Villa Creek, a 161-unit apartment complex in the northern Dallas metro of Farmers Branch. According to Apartments.com, the property was built in 1965 and features one- and two-bedroom units. Darwin German originally purchased the asset in 2016 in an off-market deal. Chris Deuillet and William Hubbard of CBRE represented the buyer, Dallas-based Blue Ocean Capital LLC, in the transaction. William Givens and Robert Siddall, also with CBRE, arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the new ownership.