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BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $25.8 million sale of The Park at Forestdale, a 486-unit multifamily asset in Birmingham. The property sold for $52,984 per unit. Josh Jacobs of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an affiliate of Birmingham-based Four Four Capital. Jacobs also procured the buyer, a partnership between Arch Co. and Drake Real Estate Partners. Built between 1968 and 1980, the Park at Forestdale is located 5.7 miles from downtown Birmingham and 6.2 miles from The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Community amenities include a fitness center, pool and a playground. The property features studios and one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

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ATLANTA — City of Refuge, an Atlanta-based nonprofit, will partner with Pencor Construction for a 31-unit affordable housing project in Atlanta’s Westside known as The 345. Pencor will be the general contractor for the project. North American Properties (NAP), a mixed-used developer based in Cincinnati, will be the project manager. The 345 formerly was formerly a motel known as The Danzig Motel, which was one of the only African-American-owned motels in Atlanta. The motel had been abandoned for over 20 years, until City of Refuge bought it in 2017. City of Refuge is currently in the permitting process with the City of Atlanta. This spring, the nonprofit plans to break ground on the $2 million renovation. The 345 will be a community to primarily serve African-American men from the Atlanta Westside. City of Refuge wants to focus primarily on Westside neighborhood residents, especially those from the Westlake and Bankhead areas who are defined as low-income individuals by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The three-floor housing community will be separated by groups. Floor one will be dedicated to veterans and citizens returning from incarceration; floor two will house men overcoming addiction and those with manageable mental health challenges; …

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NASHVILLE, TENN. — Jim Jacobs, a private developer based in Nashville, is nearing completion of Muse, a short-term rental condominium building in downtown Nashville. Jacobs created Muse Nashville LLC to purchase the site of the building in 2019, according to the Nashville Post. The company also secured a $15.5 million to finance the project. In addition to 55 condos, of which three quarters are presold, Muse will offer a lobby designed by ES|DG, cardio fitness center, a luggage drop, onsite management, security and more than 5,000 square feet of Class A retail and restaurant space. The property will also have a SkyLounge with indoor and outdoor panoramic views of Nashville’s skyline. The apartment building is the only new construction condominium in downtown Nashville that allows short-term rental options, according to Jacobs. Construction began in spring 2020 and will wrap up by October of this year. The Muse is located at 65 Lindsley Ave. Muse’s project team comprises locally based firms including Centric Architecture, Catalyst Design Group and Cherry & Associates, a commercial estate services company where Jacobs serves as a principal.

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KATY, TEXAS — JLL has negotiated the sale of an 805,601-square-foot industrial facility situated on 54.1 acres at 22525 Clay Road in Katy, a western suburb of Houston. The newly built facility was constructed as a build-to-suit for an e-commerce tenant, which the Houston Chronicle reports is Amazon. Building features include 40-foot clear heights, 190-foot truck court depths and an ESFR sprinkler system. Trent Agnew, Rusty Tamlyn, Charles Strauss, Tom Weber and Jack Britton of JLL represented the seller, an undisclosed publicly traded REIT, in the transaction. An affiliate of Chicago-based Walton Street Capital purchased the asset for an undisclosed price. Colby Mueck, Michael Johnson and Molly Leinsdorf of JLL placed floating-rate acquisition financing through Wells Fargo on behalf of the buyer.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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