TAMPA, FLA. — JLL has arranged the $31.8 million sale of Breckenridge Park, a 15-building industrial campus in eastern Tampa. The asset comprises 334,000 square feet and is situated at 5402-5460 Breckenridge Parkway, nine miles east of downtown Tampa. The buildings were developed between 1982 and 1998. Bret Felberg, Jeff Morris, John Dunphy and Peter Cecora of JLL represented the seller, MLG/PF Breckenridge Investment LLC, which is affiliated with MLG Capital. A joint venture partnership between The Arden Group and Avistone purchased the asset. Jillian Mariutti, Brian Gaswirth, Michael DiCosimo and Drew Jennewein, also with JLL, arranged a $26.3 million acquisition loan through BlackRock on behalf of the buyer. The joint venture will use a portion of the proceeds to implement a capital improvement plan.
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MURFREESBORO, TENN. — CBRE has provided a $12.3 million Freddie Mac loan for The Rutherford Assisted Living & The Rutherford Memory Care in the Nashville suburb of Murfreesboro. The seven-year, fixed-rate loan features 24 months of interest-only payments and includes cash-out proceeds. The property features 68 assisted living units and 26 memory care units across two buildings. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg of CBRE National Senior Housing originated the refinancing on behalf of a joint venture between Venue Capital LLC and Inspirit Senior Living, which acquired the asset in January 2018. Post-acquisition, the owners deployed more than $600,000 to renovate the property, driving occupancy from 73 percent to approximately 90 percent.
Millennium Partners Secures $775M Construction Financing for Mixed-Use Tower in Downtown Boston
by Katie Sloan
BOSTON — Millennium Partners Boston, a local arm of developer Millennium Partners, has secured $775 million in construction financing from Cale Street Investments for Winthrop Center, a $1.3 billion mixed-use development located in downtown Boston. Upon completion, the project is expected to feature 812,000 square feet of Class A office space; 572,000 square feet of residential space including 321 luxury residential units; and a 24,000-square-foot common area featuring a fitness center, game room, coffee bar, cafe and lounge space. “Securing the construction loan from Cale Street Investments — an unprecedented investment given the global pandemic — assures that Winthrop Center will remain on schedule for completion in 2022,” says Christopher Jeffries, founder of Millennium Partners. “From its inception, human-centric design, sustainability and flexible workspaces have formed the foundation of Winthrop Center. With innovation a core part of Boston’s DNA, the city is the perfect home for this building.” The project was designed by Handel Architects to provide ample access to natural light and elevated indoor air quality in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The development will seek LEED Gold certification for its residential units and LEED Platinum certification for its office space upon completion, which is slated for 2022. Founded …
By Taylor Williams As commercial property types go, self-storage is considered one of the toughest to sink in times of economic hardship. As Texas and the United States enter the eighth full month of the COVID-19 pandemic, this quality is beginning to show through. Natural disasters like floods and hurricanes tend to be windfalls for the asset class, as displacement from homes and damage to commercial properties raise short-term demand for self-storage. A pandemic does not have quite the same effect on the property type, especially when residential landlords in the United States are legally barred from evicting tenants. But for the major self-storage markets of Texas, COVID-19 has generated some positive results. COVID’s impact on self-storage is somewhat similar to Hurricane Harvey’s impact on the Houston multifamily market in 2017, which was also overbuilt and saw an overnight boost in occupancy as a result of the storm cutting into supply. In essence, COVID-19 has served as a mechanism to bring supply-demand balances closer to equilibrium. Because prior to the pandemic, the development pipelines in the major cities of Texas were peaking, creating oversupplied markets that were defined by sluggish rent growth, concessions and high levels of competitions for new …
DALLAS — The Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) industrial market posted a vacancy rate of 6.5 percent to close the third quarter while seeing its 11-year streak of positive quarterly absorption remain intact, according to a new report from Newmark Knight Frank (NKF). Though overall vacancy is up 30 basis points from a year ago, the metroplex absorbed approximately 3.6 million square feet of space in the most recent quarter, down just 7 percent from that period in 2019. This activity indicates that industrial users are still attracted to the market’s exceptional job and population growth despite the recession-inducing COVID-19 pandemic. While third-quarter net absorption was also down from the second quarter of this year, industrial users and owners transacted more leases (604) in that period, up from 486 deals during the previous quarter. Among the largest deals inked in the third quarter were Uline’s 1.1 million-square-foot lease in Las Colinas, Amazon’s 1 million-square-foot lease in southeast Dallas and HelloFresh’s 375,000-square-foot lease, also in Las Colinas. Year-to-date, the market has already absorbed more than 17 million square feet of industrial space. The report pegged the amount of industrial product under construction at roughly 28.3 million square feet, but with vacancy up 300 …
LCS Development Begins Construction of $75M Seniors Housing Expansion in Greensboro, North Carolina
by Alex Tostado
GREENSBORO, N.C. — LCS Development, an LCS company, has started construction of a $75 million expansion at WhiteStone, a seniors housing community in Greensboro. The project includes the addition of 67 independent living units, a building with 36 private suites for assisted living and memory care residents and an extensive renovation of the existing skilled nursing facility. The 100-year-old community is located on a 43-acre campus. Life Care Services, also an LCS company, operates the complex. Todd Shaw, director of development services at LCS Development, will serve as project manager for the expansion. Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets, underwrote the bond financing for the project. The project team includes SFCS Architects, Frank L. Blum Construction Co. as general contractor and Stimmel Associates as civil engineer and land planner. A timeline for completion was not disclosed.
DECATUR, GA. — Dermody Properties will develop LogistiCenter at Miller Road, a 154,440-square-foot industrial property in Decatur. Dermody expects to break ground by the end of this year and to deliver the asset in the third quarter of 2021. The facility will be divisible by 77,220 square feet and will offer build-to-suit office space, 35 dock-high doors, 32-foot clear heights, 145 car parking spaces, 23 trailer spaces and ESFR sprinklers. Dermody recently closed on the 11-acre plot, which is situated at 2800 Miller Road, 14 miles east of downtown Atlanta and one mile from Interstate 20. Austin Brannen and Matt Bentley of NAI Brannen Goddard will be the leasing brokers for the project. Jacob & Hefner Associates is engineering the site plans, and Ware Malcomb is the architect for the shell design.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the $66 million sale of CODA Apartments, a 296-unit multifamily community in Orlando. The four-story property features studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities include a business center, 24-hour fitness center, clubhouse, conference room, pool, sundeck and a game room. CODA Apartments is located at 13645 E. Colonial Drive, 13 miles east of downtown Orlando. Scott Ramey, Erik Bjornson and Patrick Dufour of NKF represented the sellers, Catalyst Multifamily Management and The Carlyle Group, in the transaction. Long Beach, Calif.-based RK Properties acquired the asset, which the sellers delivered in 2019.
MIAMI — Cresa has negotiated a 10,566-square-foot office sublease for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Pillsbury) in Miami’s Brickell City Centre. Pillsbury, which focuses on the technology and media, energy, financial services, and real estate and construction sectors, has occupied the space at 600 Brickell Ave. since 2017 and will now lease the space until at least 2025. The office space, which is located on the 31st floor, features private restrooms, a conference room, break room with kitchen and a large multipurpose interior with workstations. Bob Orban of Cresa represented the subtenant in the transaction. Nick Wigoda, Clay Sidner and Brandon Shores of Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) represented the tenant, Global Specialty Metals Inc., in the transaction. Brickell City Centre features a 500,000-square-foot, open-air shopping center; a 40,000-square-foot food hall; and five million square feet of office, residential and hotel space in Miami’s Brickell district.
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — A development team led by Houston-based Lionstone Investments will renovate Sugar Land Town Square, a 1.4 million-square-foot mixed-use destination located on the southwestern outskirts of Houston. Lionstone is partnering with Dallas-based creative real estate firm Rebees and Planned Community Developers on the project, which will upgrade landscaping and outdoor common areas to allow for social distancing and more public seating as part of Phase I. In addition, the team will add new signage and tenant storefronts and revamp the tenant roster to include local entrepreneurs with original shopping and dining concepts. Completion of the first phase of the project is scheduled for mid-2021.