AUSTIN, TEXAS — Locally based student housing developer Aspen Heights Partners will redevelop the site of the former Health-South rehabilitation facility in downtown Austin into a mixed-use destination. Current plans for the site, which is located at the corner of 12th and Red River streets, call for a 36-story residential tower that will consist of 160 condos and 348 apartments, a 15-story office building, more than 25,000 square feet of retail space and a half-acre park. More than 25 percent of the multifamily units will be designated as affordable housing, and the project will also feature a rooftop café and 6,000 square feet of outdoor event space. A construction timeline is still being finalized. The groundbreaking is slated for 2023, with completion scheduled for 2026.
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Palomar Group Arranges Sale of Delchamps Plaza Retail Center in Columbus, Mississippi
by John Nelson
COLUMBUS, MISS. — The Palomar Group has brokered the $1.7 million sale of Delchamps Plaza, an 18,870-square-foot retail center in Columbus. The buyer was an undisclosed regional shopping center owner, and the seller was an investment group based in New York. The Palomar Group represented the seller, and the buyer did not have representation. Located at 1801 Highway 45 N, Delchamps Plaza was 100 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Pizza Hut, Weight Watchers and Sally Beauty. Kroger shadow anchors Delchamps Plaza. The Palomar Group is an investment sales firm based in Augusta, Ga.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — New York City-based real estate giant Tishman Speyer has entered the Austin market with the acquisition of The Foundry, a 240,000-square-foot office complex located on the city’s east side. Tishman Speyer’s acquisition of Foundry I, which opened in 2019, was completed on February 3. The purchase of Foundry II will close when Austin-based developer Cielo Property Group delivers the building in May 2021. Sixth River Architects and Michael Hsu Office of Architecture designed the first and second buildings, respectively. Amenities include bike storage, outdoor terraces on every floor and underground parking. Mike McDonald and Katy Jane Jenevein of Cushman & Wakefield represented Cielo, which will continue to manage the buildings, in the transaction. Tishman Speyer has tapped CBRE to lease The Foundry.
ALLEN, TEXAS — Locally based developer JaRyCo will build FarmWORKs One, a 102,000-square-foot office building that will be part of Phase I of The Farm, a 135-acre mixed-use project in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Allen. The building will offer various features that promote health and wellness, such as outdoor workspaces with Wi-Fi connectivity on every floor, oversized elevators, additional restrooms on every level and high-efficiency air filtration systems. JaRyCo is the master developer of The Farm, which upon completion will consist of 1.6 million square feet of office space, 142,000 square feet of retail space, a 150-key hotel, 60,000 square feet of restaurant space, townhomes and 2,400 urban residential units. Construction on FarmWORKs One will begin this year and is scheduled to be complete in summer 2022. Avison Young will handle leasing of the building.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Newmark has negotiated a 257,500-square-foot industrial lease extension at 4900 Alliance Gateway in Fort Worth. Louis Pascuzzi, Jim Cooksey, Trace Elrod, Chris Mason, John Beach, Reggie Beavan III, Andy Iversen, David Creiner, Brad Mason and Jack Brewer of Newmark represented the tenant, Ed Tucker Distributor Inc., in the lease negotiations.
BATAVIA, ILL. — Aldi, a discount grocer based in Essen, Germany, is continuing its nationwide expansion with 100 new stores to open this year. The grocer plans to grow its footprint in select markets in Arizona, California, Florida and the Northeast U.S. Aldi also plans to add curbside pickup service to 500 additional stores this year, bringing its total number of stores with curbside options to 1,200. Nearly all U.S. Aldi locations offer delivery services through its partnership with Instacart. Additionally, today marks the groundbreaking of Aldi’s 564,000-square-foot distribution center in Loxley, Ala. The facility will be the sixth in Aldi’s industrial network in the United States and will service more than 100 stores in Alabama, south Georgia, Mississippi, the Florida Panhandle and Louisiana. Set to open in 2022, the distribution center will create 200 jobs in the area and will help Aldi open as many as 35 new stores in the Gulf Coast region by the end of 2022. The grocer is opening two new stores in Tallahassee, Fla., this year. Aldi has 2,000 stores in 37 states across the United States. By the end of 2021, the grocer will be in 38 states as Aldi currently does not have …
CINCINNATI — TradeLane Properties has acquired Capital Center Industrial Park, a 14-building portfolio of light industrial assets in Cincinnati. The purchase price was $51.3 million. Spanning 896,523 square feet, the industrial park is 93.5 percent leased to 65 tenants. Mostly completed in the 1970s, the buildings have received substantial capital improvements over time. John Huguenard, Kurt Sarbaugh and Mark Volkman of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller, Dalfen Industrial. Erin Casey and Drew Wall of Colliers International have been selected as the listing agents for the properties.
PHOENIX — Salt Lake City-based Millburn & Co. has purchased Heritage at Deer Valley, a multifamily community located at 3010 W. Yorkshire Drive in Phoenix. West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Priderock Capital Partners sold the asset for $178.5 million. Built in two phases in 1996 and 2000, Heritage at Deer Valley features 832 apartments in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Community amenities includes three resort-style pools, two spas, two sand volleyball courts, a 24-hour fitness center, dance studio, resident clubhouse, two outdoor playgrounds, a dog park, putting green and several barbecue and picnic areas. Tyler Anderson, Sean Cunningham, Asher Gunter and Matt Pesch of CBRE’s Phoenix Multifamily Institutional Properties represented the seller in the deal.
Avison Young Capital Markets Negotiates $57M Sale-Leaseback of Wellness Campus Near Vail, Colorado
by Amy Works
EDWARDS, COLO. — Avison Young Capital Markets has arranged the sale-leaseback of All Points North Lodge, a comprehensive wellness and treatment campus in Edwards, approximately 20 minutes west of Vail. WC Acquisition Holdings LLC acquired the asset from All Points North Lodge (APN Lodge) for $57 million. The seller will lease back the building as part of a long-term deal. Opened in March 2020, the 77,000-square-foot facility offers addiction and mental health treatments, trauma therapy, crisis management, coaching and personal development workshops, concierge medicine, athletic performance programs and advanced practices and activities. The patient-centered facility recently underwent a $20 million improvements program. Jonathan Hipp, Richard Murphy, Stan Wyrwicz and Rich Egitto of Avison Young Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal.
DENVER — PCCP has provided a $30.2 million loan to Colorado-based McWhinney for the acquisition of Hotel Indigo Denver Downtown, a full-service hotel located at 1801 Wewatta St. in Denver. Built in 2017 as part of the Union Tower West Development, the hotel features 180 guest rooms, 1,400 square feet of meeting space, a fitness center, business center and small pantry shop. Additionally, the hotel includes an 85-seat restaurant that the new ownership will re-concept to cater to both hotel visitors and local customers.