MILWAUKEE — Affiliates of Milwaukee-based Phoenix Investments have acquired a three-property industrial portfolio in Dresden, Church Hill and Kingsport, Tenn., spanning nearly 1.6 million square feet. Church Hill-based Frog Properties LLC sold the portfolio for an undisclosed price. The property located at 2073 Evergreen St. in Dresden features 30 truck doors, 20- to 35-foot clear heights and rail access with a 1,500-foot rail platform. Champion Homes anchors the 611,556-square-foot facility. The property in Church Hill spans 857,056 square feet. The asset is situated at 121 Kingsport Press Road and features a 300-foot rail spur with access to Norfolk Southern Rail. The Kingsport facility is located on six acres at 2497 Sherwood Road. The 130,751-square-foot property features 20-foot clear heights and 8- to 12-inch thick concrete flooring. Quebecor World, a Canadian-based publishing company, used to occupy the properties in Church Hill and Dresden. Michael Reid of Newmark Knight Frank represented both the buyer and seller, Frog Properties, in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed.
GAITHERSBURG, MD. — JLL has arranged the sale of Cadence at Crown, a 538-unit multifamily community in Gaithersburg. JRK Property Holdings acquired the asset for an undisclosed price. The property offers studio to three-bedroom floor plans averaging 863 square feet. Communal amenities include a pool, sundeck, 24-hour fitness center, internet café, conference room, gaming lounge, pet spa and electric car charging stations. The community is situated at 113 Ellington Blvd., 21 miles north of downtown Washington, D.C. Walter Coker, Brian Crivella and Robert Jenkins of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
UNION CITY, GA. — Crow Holdings Industrial (CHI) has sold South Fulton Logistics Center, a 234,000-square-foot industrial facility in Union City. CHI delivered the asset in April 2019. The facility features 32-foot clear heights and was 68 percent leased at the time of sale to Greenball Corp., a manufacturer and wholesaler of tires. South Fulton Logistics Center is situated at the intersection of Hunter and Mason roads, six miles west of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. TA Realty acquired the property for an undisclosed price.
GREER, S.C. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.4 million sale of Orangetheory Fitness Strip Center, an outparcel to Riverside Crossing Shopping Center, in Greer. The 6,500-square-foot outparcel is leased to Orangetheory Fitness, Greenfield’s Bagels & Deli and Stevenson Tax & Accounting. The sale is the final piece of the Riverside Crossing Shopping Center portfolio, which comprises a Lowe’s Foods grocery-anchored shopping center and two outparcels totaling 58,358 square feet. The asset is located at 870 E. Suber Road, 10 miles east of downtown Greenville. Zach Taylor and Don McMinn of Marcus & Millichap’s Taylor McMinn Group represented the seller, EA Riverside OP3 LLC, in the transaction. The buyer, VLH Hiawatha LLC, was completing a 1031 exchange. “When evaluating the sale, we concluded the best way to maximize proceeds was to sell the center as three separate offerings to three separate investors,” says Taylor. “By taking this parcelization approach, we achieved a blended cap rate that was 25 basis points lower and netted the seller an additional $600,000 in value.” The three parcels sold for a total of $17.4 million.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — Rockwood Capital has completed the sale of MetroPointe Apartments, a multifamily property located in Tempe. Cortland acquired the asset for $96.7 million, or $233,133 per unit. Built in 2009, the property features 415 apartments in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts, two swimming pools and a spa. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
PHOENIX — Ryan Cos. has broken ground on Clarendale Arcadia, an independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Phoenix. The project is a joint venture between Harrison Street, LCS and Ryan. The partnership entered into a long-term ground lease with the landowner, LAKO. Located on six acres, the 347,346-square-foot community will feature 140 independent living apartments, 68 assisted living apartments and 40 memory care apartments. Independent living residences will range from 696 square feet to 1,692 square feet, and assisted living residences will range from 439 square feet to 1,315 square feet. Fifth Third Bank N.A. acted as administrative agent and lead arranger alongside Regions Bank as syndication agent to finance the project. The amount of the financing was not disclosed. Craig Coppola of The Coppola Cheney Group at Lee & Associates worked on behalf of the land lessor and Ryan Cos. to negotiate this transaction. According to a market study conducted by Moore Diversified Services, senior living is undersupplied in this area, and the nearby communities that exist were built, on average, in 1990. ORB Architecture LLC is the project architect. Thoma-Holec Design is the interior designer. Phase I is scheduled for completion in summer 2022, followed …
GLENDALE, CALIF. — R.D. Olson Development and R.D. Olson Construction have completed Glendale Marriott Residence Inn, a five-story, mission-style hotel located at 199 N. Louise St. in Glendale. The 190,000-square-foot hotel offers 120 studios with king beds, 12 corner suites, six two-bedroom suites and seven Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant rooms, all with full kitchens. Hotel amenities include a fitness center; courtyard deck with pool and spa; large meeting room; complimentary Wi-Fi; 24-hour market; indoor and outdoor seating areas; and two levels of underground parking. Additionally, the hotel is located near Griffith Park, Hollywood, Dodger Stadium and other Los Angeles-area attractions. Project partners include WATG and SANDdesign.
FONTANA, CALIF. — Progressive Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of Foothill Village, a retail center located at 14755 Foothill Blvd. in Fontana. A Los Angeles-based private investor sold the property to a Los Angeles-based investor for $5.3 million in an all-cash transaction. Built in 2006, Foothill Village features 24,985 square feet of retail space. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to 13 tenants. Greg Bedell and Albert Lopez of Progressive Real Estate Partners represented the seller, while Bedell also represented the buyer in the transaction.
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — A joint venture between real estate services firm BRES and New York-based investment firm Advalurem Group has received a $60.5 million Freddie Mac loan for the refinancing of Bella Madera, a 612-unit apartment community in the northern Dallas suburb of Lewisville. Bella Madera features one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, two dog parks, a volleyball court and a tanning studio. The Class A property was 97 percent occupied at the time of the loan closing. The loan was structured with a 10-year term and a sub-3 percent fixed interest rate. The lender was not disclosed.
HARLINGEN, TEXAS — Coldwell Banker Commercial has arranged the sale of the former Sears department store at the Valle Vista Mall, a 739,000-square-foot retail property located in the Rio Grande Valley city of Harlingen. Sears, which had been one of the mall’s anchor tenants without owning the space since its construction in 1984, vacated the 90,000-square-foot space in 2018 as part of a larger series of store closures. New York-based Valle Vista Mall Holdings LLC sold the asset to ZE Valle Vista Realty LLC for an undisclosed price. The new ownership will redevelop the space but did not release specific plans.