HOUSTON — NAI Partners has arranged the sale of a 10,656-square-foot industrial building located at 6921 Homestead Road in Houston. Zane Carman and Clay Pritchett of NAI Partners represented the buyer, TNT Equipment Co., an Ohio-based provider of scaffolding and construction rental equipment, in the transaction. Zack Taylor and Lawton Anderson of Moody Rambin represented the undisclosed seller.
CIG Capital Provides $125M Construction Loan for Affordable Housing Community in West Point, Georgia
WEST POINT, GA. — CIG Capital has provided a $125 million construction loan for The Villages at West Point, a planned 624-unit affordable housing community in West Point. The Villages will sit on 70 acres within one mile from West Point Lake and Campground. CIG Capital provided the loan to the development team, which includes Utah-based American Development Corp., which specializes in developing multifamily charter schools. The Villages will offer onsite parking facilities for residents’ boats, recreational vehicles and camp trailers. The developers plan to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony in late August. West Point is situated near the Georgia-Alabama border along Interstate 85.
PLANTATION, FLA. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has negotiated the $53.5 million sale of a two-property, 398-unit multifamily portfolio in Plantation. The communities, Hamlet Plantation and The Continental Apartments, are located less than one mile from each other and six miles west of downtown Fort Lauderdale. Each property offers one- and two-bedroom floor plans, and each was recently renovated to include new roofs, paint and impact glass windows. Tal Frydman, Avery Klann, Hampton Beebe, Tyler Minix and Jonathan Senn of NKF represented the seller, Jenco Properties, in the transaction. Canadian investment firm Prism Multifamily Group acquired the assets.
ELKRIDGE, MD. — Merritt Properties has acquired The Lyndwood Executive Center, a two-building, 165,000-square-foot office campus in Elkridge. BentallGreenOak’s U.S. Core Fund sold the buildings for an undisclosed amount. The assets were 98 percent leased at the time of sale to 14 tenants. The Lyndwood Executive Center is located at 6085-6095 Marshalee Drive, 14 miles southwest of downtown Baltimore. Jonathan Carpenter and Graham Savage of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction.
BUFORD, GA. — Olympic Steel Inc. has opened a 120,000-square-foot metal processing facility in Buford. Olympic Steel will use the facility as its flat rolled fabrication hub. From the Buford facility, the metal will be moved to a property in Winder, Ga., where it will undergo first-stage metal processing and distribution. The Buford property is located at 3525 Gravel Springs Road, two miles from Interstate 85 and 37 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. Olympic Steel plans to host an opening event and offer tours of the new facility later this year.
RESTON, VA. — Phillips Realty Capital has arranged a $29 million acquisition loan for Reston Metro Center One, a 124,076-square-foot office building in Reston. The property is located at 12120 Sunrise Valley Drive, which is within walking distance of the planned Reston Town Center Silver Line Metrorail Station and 22 miles west of downtown Washington, D.C. The asset was built in 2000 and its amenities include a lounge area and a fitness center. The building was vacant at the time of sale. Malcolm Shaw, Steve Shaw, Harmon Handorf and Bill Wrench of Phillips Realty arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, HighBrook Investors. Rubenstein Mortgage Capital, the debt investment platform of Rubenstein Partners LP, provided the floating-rate loan. The seller was not disclosed.
WALNUT CREEK, CALIF. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of three boutique, value-add multifamily properties in Walnut Creek. Totaling 150 units, the portfolio sold to two individual buyers for a total combined price of $55.6 million, or $371,000 per unit. Raintree Partners acquired The Pines, a 120-unit asset, and the 20-unit City View, while a private investor purchased the 10-unit 1465 Mt. Pisgah Road property. Stanford Jones, Philip Saglimbeni, Salvatore Saglimbeni and Alex Tartaglia of IPA, along with Carlos Azucena of Marcus & Millichap, represented the undisclosed seller in the transactions.
LAS VEGAS — MDC, a full-service real estate company, has completed the development of a freestanding industrial building located in Las Vegas’ Southwest submarket. Located at 4525 Wagon Trail within an opportunity zone, the 25,880-square-foot property features 2,500 square feet of office space, 28-foot minimum warehouse clear heights, four dock-high loading doors, two grade-level loading doors and potential outside storage. Xavier Wasiak, Jason Simon and Rob Lujan of JLL are marketing the building for lease or sale.
COVINA, CALIF. — Southern California-based IRA Capital has purchased a medical office building located in Covina for an undisclosed price. The name of the seller was not released. Magan Medical occupies the 64,000-square-foot property, which houses more than 50 physician providers across 20 specialties, including oncology, neurology, dermatology, radiology and cardiology. OptumCare, a wholly owned subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare, recently acquired the tenant. As part of the integration into the OptumCare/UnitedHealth network, the building underwent extensive renovation and capital improvements.
RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CALIF. — DAUM Commercial Real Estate Services has directed the sale of two industrial facilities, totaling more than 85,000 square feet, located in the South Bay market of Rancho Dominguez, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County. First Industrial Realty Trust purchased the assets from a cosmetic products manufacturer for $14.3 million. The buyer plans to redevelop the two industrial warehouses into a 27,962-square-foot building with 15 docks on 3.9 acres of land. The redeveloped property, which will offer robust distribution capabilities, is slated for completion in third-quarter 2021. The warehouses are located at 19400 and 19302 S. Laurel Park Road. Natalie Lara, Jordan Lara and Andrew Lara of DAUM represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.