PHOENIX AND SURPRISE, ARIZ. — Taylor Street Advisors has arranged the sales of three multifamily properties located in Phoenix and Surprise for a total of $14.2 million. Brian Tranetzki and Anton Laakso of Taylor Street Advisors represented the buyer, an out-of-state investor, and the undisclosed seller in the deals. The transactions include: The $5.4 million, or $200,000 per unit, acquisition of Encanto Oasis, a 26-unit property located at 1840 W. Thomas Road in Phoenix. The buyer plans to add in-unit washers/dryers and private patios to each unit and convert the laundry facilities and gym space into two additional residential units. The $3.8 million, or $209,722 per unit, purchase of The Madison, an 18-unit community located at 5624-5646 N. Sixth St. in Phoenix. The $5 million, $147,059 per unit, acquisition of Thompson Ranch, a 34-unit townhome property located at 15427 N. Jerry St. in Surprise.
RALSTON, NEB. — CBRE has provided $4.9 million in long-term agency financing for Orleans Square Apartments, an 83-unit multifamily community in the Omaha suburb of Ralston. Josh Larsen of CBRE originated the financing through Freddie Mac’s Small Balance Loan program on behalf of the borrower, Thrive Street Living. The 10-year loan features a fixed interest rate of 3.26 percent and amortizes over 30 years.
VALPARAISO, IND. — Mauser Packaging has signed a 25,110-square-foot industrial lease at 2650 Barley Road in Valparaiso, a city in Northwest Indiana. Barley Properties owns the newly constructed building, which spans 65,592 square feet. Holladay Properties and Holladay Construction Group provided development and construction services for the project. The two firms have also been tapped to market the property for lease. Mauser specializes in manufacturing packaging products from recycled content as well as reconditioning, reuse, recycling and professional disposal.
DES MOINES, IOWA — The Boulder Group, a net-lease investment brokerage firm, has brokered the sale of a restaurant property occupied by Fazoli’s in Des Moines for $1.2 million. The 3,350-square-foot building is located at 3600 Merle Hay Road. Randy Blankstein and John Feeney of Boulder represented the seller, an undisclosed investment firm based in Texas, in the transaction. A Midwest-based investor was the buyer. Fazoli’s, an American fast-casual restaurant chain, has more than 10 years remaining on its lease.
By Lupita Gutierrez-Garza, principal, and Christian Gutierrez, senior associate, Southern Commercial Real Estate Group The impacts of COVID-19 on the retail sector in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) have mirrored those of the rest of the country. However, the way the region responded was different from the way it addressed past crises, such as natural disasters, and even very different from past responses to local problems like peso devaluations and drug cartel activity along the border. The response was multifaceted and included many trial-and-error situations. But through sheer determination and quick thinking by local leadership, regional landlords and tenants managed to mitigate all the uncertainty to not only survive, but to thrive. What made a difference in the region was the behind-the-scenes build-up of its economic infrastructure that has slowly been chipping away at the inequities the region has endured for years. Infrastructure build-up has been ongoing for over a decade and has come in many forms, including education and medical, industrial and logistics, aerospace technology and wind energy. All of these sectors managed well during the peak of the pandemic and continued to expand at phenomenal paces. Their growth has piqued a lot of outside interest and investment …
Baltimore’s industrial market has been flourishing for years, but current trends suggest it may be poised to become one of the hottest markets in the United States over the next few years. Supporting these dynamics will be continued growth in e-commerce, a new emphasis by manufacturers and retailers on expanding their “safety stock” in warehouses and increasing land constraints in the Mid-Atlantic. The confluence of these trends is expected to drive average Baltimore industrial rents at one of the fastest clips of any market in the United States over the next two years. In 2021, the Baltimore industrial market recorded its most active first quarter of gross leasing in over a decade. Net absorption of 1.3 million square feet sparked the year with a strong start as the region’s industrial vacancy rate continued to hover near its lowest level in more than a decade. Vacancy in Baltimore industrial properties has been stable since 2018, despite approximately 12 million square feet of new warehouses constructed in that time span. Several important trends are driving the record-breaking market conditions and are expected to facilitate growth into the foreseeable future. The first trend is a sharply recovering economy in 2021 that may perform …
WALTHAM, MASS. — Boston Properties Inc. (NYSE: BXP) has acquired two life sciences buildings totaling 153,000 square feet in the western Boston suburb of Waltham for $100 million in cash. The seller was an affiliate of Los Angeles-based investment firm Montana Avenue Capital Partners LLC. The buildings, located at 153 and 211 Second Ave., were fully leased to an undisclosed pharmaceutical company at the time of sale. The assets are located adjacent to Boston Properties’ 272,000-square-foot building at 200 West St., a portion of which was recently converted into lab space. That property is 100 percent leased to Translate Bio. Following this transaction, Boston Properties now owns approximately 4.9 million square feet of lab and Class A office properties in the Waltham/Lexington area. The submarket has emerged as a major hub of life sciences construction, with companies such as Greatland Realty Partners, The Davis Cos. and Boston Development Group announcing or breaking ground on new projects in the last few months. Boston Properties holds more than 3 million square feet of life sciences space throughout the greater Boston and Los Angeles areas and has about 1 million square feet of life sciences projects in its development pipeline. “The adjacency to …
DENVER, COLO. — Broe Real Estate Group has unveiled plans for 200 Clayton, a Class A commercial office property in Denver. Construction is slated to start in August of this year and finish in 2023. The 200 Clayton project is an eight-story, Class A office building located in the Cherry Creek North shopping district and will have 76,000 square feet of office and retail space. The building is the first phase of the Clayton Street redevelopment. Broe Real Estate Group had to push the project when the pandemic hit last year, according to BusinessDen.com. OmniTRAX, The Broe Group’s transportation affiliate, will anchor the project and occupy the second and third floors, totaling about 20,000 square feet. Leasing negotiations are currently underway for prospective tenants on floors four through eight. The Broe Real Estate Group has made other investments in Denver, such as 1801 Skyline Apartments, which is a 12-story, 144-unit apartment building, and 216/252 Clayton Street, which is a 19,000-square-foot Class A mixed-use building. 216 Clayton Street is currently the headquarters of The Broe Group. After the completion of 200 Clayton, the firm plans to demolish the parking garage and 252 Clayton Street building to develop a seven-story office building …
CELEBRATION, FLA. — Woodland Hills, Calif.-based CGI+ Real Estate Investment Strategies has sold Astoria at Celebration, a 306-unit luxury multifamily community in Celebration. Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Versity Investments LLC acquired the property for $74.5 million. Originally completed in 2016, Astoria at Celebration, which was then known as Sola at Celebration, had to be vacated in 2017 due to construction issues. Then, CGI+ acquired the vacant community in 2019 for $43 million. Mario Lopez of CGI+ and Ryan Bitzer of Turning Leaf Construction made renovations in order to bring the property up to code. During this time, CGI+ worked with Epoch Property Management to rebrand the community as Astoria at Celebration. At the time of the sale, the property was 99 percent leased. Astoria at Celebration features a mix of luxury one-, two- and three-bedroom units located in six four-story, Art Deco-inspired residential buildings around a centralized clubhouse and pool area. The property unit size ranges from 741 square feet to 1,371 square feet. The apartments feature nine-foot ceilings, kitchens with stainless steel appliances, 42-inch espresso cabinets, granite countertops, full-size washers and dryers and walk-in closets. Community amenities include a saltwater pool, private pool cabanas, 24-hour fitness studio, a clubhouse with …
LOUDOUN AND PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA. — Yondr Group, in partnership with JK Land Holdings LLC, have acquired 270 acres of land in Loudoun and Prince William counties for the development of data centers. The price and seller were not disclosed. The data centers’ new sites are close to Northern Virginia’s major fiber path and power transmission lines, and the sites are expected to support the delivery of 500 megawatts of critical IT capacity. Yondr aims to have its first capacity ready for service in late 2022. Yondr also is currently building data center projects in London, England; Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany; Jakarta, Indonesia; and multiple cities in India. The company wants to develop data centers across five continents by 2024.