FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 91,520-square-foot industrial lease in the northern Dallas metro of Farmers Branch. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 12301 Stemmons Freeway was built in 2015 and totals 360,360 square feet. Ally Tanghongs and George Tanghongs of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, E-Future Logistics Inc., in the lease negotiations. Steve Berger of CBRE represented the landlord, Prologis.
SHORT PUMP, VA. — Wafra Inc. has sold Short Pump Station, a 91,369-square-foot shopping center in Short Pump, located roughly 10 miles northwest of Richmond. Nuveen Real Estate acquired the property for nearly $55 million, making the center the investor’s second acquisition in the Richmond metro area. Situated on 147 acres, the retail development is anchored by Trader Joe’s. Other tenants at the property include Ulta Beauty and Petco. John Owendoff of Cushman & Wakefield, along with Catharine Spangler of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, represented Wafra in the transaction. The New York City-based investor has owned Short Pump Station since acquiring it from a joint venture affiliate of AmCap in 2021. Nuveen has retained Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer to lease and manage the shopping center.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Clear Investment Group has purchased Marbury Plaza, a 681-unit apartment community located in southeast Washington, D.C. The Chicago-based investment firm plans to rebrand the property to Langston Views and upgrade the amenity package to include a new fitness center, onsite convenience store and renovated pools and locker rooms. This is the fifth investment for the buyer’s Clear Opportunities Fund I. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
KENNESAW, GA. — JLL has negotiated the sale of Bixby Kennesaw, a 656-bed student housing community located near the Kennesaw State University campus in metro Atlanta. Completed in 2020, the property offers 179 units in a mix of studio through five-bedroom configurations. Shared amenities include a rooftop sky deck overlooking the university’s football stadium, resort-style swimming pool, fitness center and multiple study spaces. Teddy Leatherman, Scott Clifton, Kevin Kazlow and Jack Goldberger of JLL represented the seller, Alden Street Capital, in the disposition. The buyer and terms of the transaction were not released.
NEWPORT, KY. — Cronheim Hotel Capital has arranged an $18.2 million acquisition loan for Aloft Newport, a hotel in the Cincinnati suburb of Newport. Built in 2017, the hotel is situated adjacent to the Newport on the Levee, a mixed-use development now owned by Atlanta-based Jamestown. The Aloft Newport is located directly across the Ohio River from downtown Cincinnati via a pedestrian bridge. Cronheim Hotel Capital arranged the loan through a regional bank on behalf of the locally based borrower, Rolling Hills Hospitality. The new owner plans to invest in capital improvements to improve hotel room interiors after the acquisition closes.
DENVER — Trammell Crow Residential and Cigna have obtained $75 million in refinancing for One Seven at Belleview Station, a multifamily community in Denver. The refinancing will retire the original bank construction loan. Leon McBroom and Mark Erland of JLL Capital Market’s Debt Advisory team arranged the three-year, floating-rate loan through a national life insurance company for the borrowers. Located at 4882 S. Newport St., One Seven at Belleview Station offers 250 one-, two- and three-bedroom units with wood vinyl plank flooring, Bluetooth-enabled entry doors, roller shades, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops and private balconies. Community amenities include a rooftop pool deck, remote work center, clubroom, wellness center, bike storage, pet spa and theater rooms. The property also offers 7,062 square feet of fully leased retail space.
LOS ANGELES — Keystone Mortgage Corp. has arranged $73.1 million in fixed-rate permanent loans to refinance a portfolio of industrial properties totaling 1.1 million square feet in Southern California. Situated on a combined 52.9 acres, the portfolio features nine concrete tilt-up buildings. Nick Viscount of Keystone’s Orange County, Calif., production office secured the financing on behalf of the borrower, a private real estate investor. Keystone arranged the loans through a life insurance company lender, which provided the nonrecourse loans, each featuring a 10-year fixed-rate and full-term interest-only payments.
LAS VEGAS — Remington Nevada has completed the sale of Mountain’s Edge Marketplace, a neighborhood shopping center in Mountain’s Edge, a master-planned community in Las Vegas. An out-of-state investor acquired the asset for $50.3 million, or $37 per square foot. Roy Fritz and Preston Fetrow of CBRE’s National Retail Investment Partners-West represented the seller, a Las Vegas-based private investment firm. The purchase includes the assumption of a $33 million CMBS loan requiring the new borrower to engage a loan expeditor to facilitate the process. Situated on 14.7 acres at 7975 Blue Diamond Road, Mountain’s Edge Marketplace offers 115,037 square feet of retail space, which is 98 percent leased to 40 national and local retailers. Current tenants include Ross Dress for Less, Planet Fitness, Starbucks Coffee, Supercuts, The UPS Store, China A Go Go and T-Mobile. The property is shadow anchored by an Albertsons-occupied property, which was not included in the sale.
BUFORD, GA. — Marcus & Millichap’s Taylor McMinn Retail Group has brokered the sale of a newly built restaurant located at 4996 Lanier Parkway in Buford, a northeast suburb of Atlanta. Built in 2024, the 3,318-square-foot restaurant is ground-leased to Whataburger and sits on a nearly 1.5-acre site at the entrance of a 1.1 million-square-foot Amazon logistics center. The popular quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain has a 15-year ground lease in place at the restaurant with scheduled rent increases and extension options. Whataburger is based in Texas and only recently began opening restaurants in Georgia, the first of which opened in Kennesaw in 2022. Don McMinn of Taylor McMinn Retail Group represented the seller, an unnamed developer, in the 1031 transaction. The buyer and sales price were also not disclosed. “This is our third Whataburger closing in fourth-quarter 2024 and will be bring more to market in 2025,” says McMinn. “Whataburger continues to garner strong demand and attractive pricing from investors and is one of the more desirable QSR options in the market today.”
CALIFORNIA — Wilmington, N.C.-based Live Oak Bank has provided a $40 million loan to finance the ground-up construction of a new seniors housing community in California. Upon completion, the property will feature 140 assisted living and memory care units. Additional details about the property were not released. Live Oak Bank provided the financing, which features a five-year term and 42 months of interest-only payments, in conjunction with a $39.6 million C-PACE loan provided by Nuveen Green Capital. A joint venture between Harbert Seniors Housing Fund II and Harbert South Bay Partners was the borrower.