GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has brokered the sale of Hillstone at Wolf Ranch, a 332-unit apartment community located in the northern Austin suburb of Georgetown. Built in 2018, the Class A property features one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, dog park, game room and walking/biking trails. Patton Jones of NKF represented the seller, Dallas-based Leon Capital Group, in the transaction. The buyer was Virginia-based Weinstein Properties, which will rebrand the community as Bexley Wolf Ranch.
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FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 126,100-square-foot industrial lease renewal at 500 Enterprise Drive in the northern Fort Worth suburb of Flower Mound. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 2003 and spans 462,200 square feet. Reed Parker of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, transportation and logistics firm BFS Services Inc., in the lease negotiations. Sarah Ozanne and Jeremy Kelly of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, New York-based Clarion Partners.
GARLAND, TEXAS — Texas Wholesale Computers, a supplier and distributor of finished computers, servers and accessories, has signed an 81,263-square-foot industrial lease at Miller Park North in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Garland. Josh Barnes and Ben Wallace of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Boston-based TA Realty, in the lease negotiations. Andy Goldston of Citadel Partners represented the tenant.
SPRING, TEXAS — Locally based investment firm The Welcome Group has acquired a 38,072-square-foot office and industrial complex at 2400 Spring Stuebner Road in the northern Houston suburb of Spring. The two-building property is situated on 11 acres and is leased to SES Foam, a provider of insulation products. The first building was built in 1984 and the second building was built in 1994.
SAN ANTONIO — Boston-based lender UC Funds has provided an $18.2 million loan for the adaptive reuse of The Travis Building, a high-rise office building in San Antonio that was originally built in 1920. The undisclosed borrower will convert the building in a mixed-use property with 63 Class A apartments and 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, COLO. — MIG Real Estate has acquired a one-acre development site in Denver for construction of The Clarkson, a 114-unit multifamily community located in Cherry Hills Village, a suburb of Denver. A private seller sold the site for $3.4 million. Slated to break ground in 2021, The Clarkson will feature 23 studios, eight junior one-bedroom, 56 one-bedroom and 27 two-bedroom layouts. The property’s 2,600 square feet of amenities will include a roof deck, courtyard with swimming pool, club room and gym. Additionally, the community will offer 160 parking spaces. The project team includes MIG Real Estate as developer, TCA Architects as design architect and Kimley-Horn Associates as civil engineering and landscape architect. Occupancy is scheduled for 2023. The transaction is the first acquisition for MIG’s Qualified Opportunity Zone Business Fund, which recently raised more than $100 million in equity to invest in Opportunity Zone development sites throughout the Western United States.
NKF Provides $208.1M in Freddie Mac Financing for Two Multifamily Communities in California
by Amy Works
ALAMEDA AND MONTEREY PARK, CALIF. — The Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) Multifamily Capital Markets team has arranged a total of $208.1 million in Freddie Mac loans to refinance two multifamily properties in California. The refinancing includes a $167.8 million loan for Summer House Apartments, a 615-unit property on Alameda Island, and a $40.3 million loan for Emerald Hills, a 184-unit complex located at 855 W. E1 Repetto Drive in Monterey Park. Emerald Hills features a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts, two swimming pools, laundry facilities and a fitness center. Mitch Clarfield, Stephen Gianoplus, Ramsey Daya and Josh Braceros of NKF arranged the refinancing for Summer House Apartments, while Clarfield and Ryan Greer, also of NKF, secured the 10-year refinancing of Emerald Hills on behalf of a Los Angeles-based private owner.
Bellwether Enterprise Closes $294.2M in Financing for 22 Manufactured Housing Communities Nationwide
by Amy Works
DENVER — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital has closed four transactions totaling $294.2 million in Fannie Mae loans for manufactured housing communities across the United States. MJ Vukovich of Bellwether’s Denver office, along with Ghazy Grijalva of the firm’s Chicago office, arranged the deals. In total the financing covers 5,554 pad sites across the five transactions. The deals include: A $28 million loan for two manufactured housing assets located in Montana on behalf of a Utah-based operator. A $23.2 million loan for a community located in Wyoming on behalf of an operator based in California and Colorado A $193.3 million loan for a portfolio of 13 properties located in the Rocky Mountain and Southern regions on behalf of a Colorado-based operator. A $46 million loan for five communities located in various states on behalf of a Utah-based operator. A $3.7 million Fannie Mae loan for a property located in North Carolina on behalf of a North Carolina-based operator. Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital is the commercial and multifamily mortgage banking subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment.
BOSTON — A partnership of Boston-based developer Cabot, Cabot & Forbes (CCF) and Georgia-based developer Peak Campus have completed The Overlook at St. Gabriel’s, a 555-unit multifamily community in the Brighton area of Boston. The luxury residential community is centered around the reimagined Church and St. Gabriel’s Monastery, which was originally built in 1909. The community consists of three residential buildings, more than 45,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenity space and seven acres of green space. The restored St. Gabriel’s church, now called Maker Hall, will be complete later this summer and will feature a fitness center, café, conference rooms and outdoor recreation space. Two residential buildings, Overlook Landmark and Overlook East, are complete. Construction is underway on The Overlook’s two additional apartment buildings, Overlook North and West, with Overlook North set to be delivered this fall and Overlook West set to be delivered early next year. This phase of the project will also include two pet spas, a pool and sundeck. Blue Vista Capital Management is a capital partner on the project. BH+A is the architect, and CUBE3 is the general contractor.
BUENA PARK, LA HABRA AND SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — Gantry has secured $19 million in financing for three multifamily communities in Southern California. The company arranged a $10.3 million loan for La Palma Apartments in Buena Park; $3.1 million in financing for La Habra Apartments in La Habra; and a $5.6 million loan for Lark Apartments in San Bernardino. The 10-year loans feature a 25-year amortization schedule. Jordan Simmonds of Gantry’s Newport Beach, California, office arranged the refinancing. The name of the borrower was not released.