HIGHLAND PARK, MINN. — Upland Real Estate Group Inc. has arranged the sale of a single-tenant property net leased to Caribou Coffee in Highland Park for $1.2 million. The 1,544-square-foot building is located at the intersection of Fairview and Randolph avenues. Caribou Coffee, founded in Edina, Minn., has just over five years remaining on its lease. Upland represented the 1031 exchange buyer, the Rush family. The seller was not disclosed.
IRVINE, CALIF. — The Bascom Group LLC, an Irvine, Calif.-based private equity firm, has refinanced an 11-property multifamily portfolio. Bascom received individual loans for each asset totaling $235 million. Bascom worked with several capital market partners and lenders to complete the refinancing. Comerica Bank provided five loans while Silvergate Bank provided two of the loans. TCF Bank, New York Life, Citizens Business Bank and Texas Capital Bank each funded one loan as well. Brian Eisendrath and Annie Rice from CBRE, Charles Halladay and Jamie Kline from JLL and Tom Sherlock and Erich Pryor from Talonvest arranged the debt financing The portfolio includes six properties that are located in California and two that are located in Las Vegas. The other three properties are located in Colorado, Arizona and Texas. All of the properties are part of Bascom’s third fully discretionary fund, Bascom Value Added Apartment Investors III LLC The transaction yielded more than $39 million in additional loan proceeds for Bascom Group, enabling the firm to reduce its debt service requirement by 16 percent. Most of the loans were structured with interest-only terms for 24 to 36 months and rates between 180 and 200 basis points over LIBOR. “Our lending partners …
Charlotte has been in expansion mode for several years, due to population growth, excellent logistics infrastructure, low operating costs and low unionization rates. At the mid-point of 2019, the market continues to expand at a healthy rate and is growing outward into Cabarrus, York and Gaston counties. This expansion follows a strong 12-month period ending first-quarter 2019 when nearly 6 million square feet of new product was delivered. Now encompassing 322 million square feet of space, Charlotte is the second largest industrial market in the Southeast. Charlotte’s accessible location and low cost of doing business is attracting many e-commerce and logistics providers, as well as more traditional industrial businesses looking to expand or realign their space requirements. One common theme is consolidation of business units, which has been a significant benefit to the Charlotte market. Among the examples are J.J. Haines & Co. consolidating its Carolina warehousing operations from several Carolinas locations into a 500,000-square-foot distribution center in Cabarrus County and Staples consolidating from multiple Charlotte facilities into a 600,000-square-foot logistics center in south Charlotte. Driven by available land and access to key transportation routes, a look at the market’s growth patterns shows that development and leasing are extending up …
STARKVILLE, MISS. — A public-private partnership between Mississippi State University (MSU) and Greystar has opened College View, 650-bed residential development on the university’s campus in Starkville. The mixed-use property features 46,000 square feet of retail space and a 7,000-square-foot addition to the MSU Child Development and Family Studies Center. Communal amenities include a fitness center, computer lab, study rooms, swimming pool, community lounge, volleyball court and fire pits. Greystar financed, built and will manage the community utilizing a 40-year lease of MSU land. The lease agreement features a 10-year renewal option.
TAMPA, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $59 million sale of Mezzo of Tampa Palms, a 340-unit multifamily community in Tampa. The property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans spread across 20 three-story buildings. The average unit in the community is 1,193 square feet with an average market rent of $1,313. The property was above 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. Communal amenities include a 7,000-square-foot clubhouse, a fitness center with Fitness On Demand, business center, Wi-Fi in community areas, two swimming pools, poolside outdoor kitchen with a fire pit, gated access with virtual guards, dog park, tennis court, playground, barbecue and picnic area, walking/jogging trails and a sun deck. Luis Elorza, Brad Capas, Zachary Sackley, Robert Given and Michael Mulkern of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Boston-based Preston-Giuliano Capital Partners, in the transaction. Boston-based Taurus Investment Holdings acquired the property.
ATLANTA — Delaware North will open Good Game, a 7,500-square-foot dining and entertainment concept that offers Topgolf’s Swing Suite virtual simulator bays. Good Game will house seven bays, accommodating up to eight people in each bay. The Topgolf Swing Suite bays also offer a variety of virtual games, including the Topgolf target game, Zombie Dodgeball, Hockey Shots, Baseball Pitching and Carnival Classic. Delaware North, which has been the exclusive food and beverage service provider for Battery landlord Braves Development Co. and SunTrust Park since 2016, also operates the Terrapin Taproom, H&F Burger and Coca-Cola Roxy Theater within the mixed-use village.
CHICAGO — JLL has negotiated the sale of five Courtyard by Marriott hotels totaling 731 rooms. The portfolio includes Courtyard New Carrollton in Landover, Md.; Courtyard Fairfax Fair Oaks in Fairfax, Va.; Courtyard Baltimore Hunt Valley in Hunt Valley, Md.; and Courtyard San Antonio Airport and Courtyard San Antonio Medical Center in San Antonio. JLL represented the seller, Colony Capital Inc., in the transaction. The buyer was a partnership between Flynn Properties Inc. and EMA Lodging Group Inc. The sales price was not disclosed.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Census Bureau reports that retail sales in July were up 0.9 percent from June and 5.6 percent year-over-year. The numbers exclude restaurants, gas stations and automobile sales but include e-commerce sales. July’s results build on gains of 0.6 percent month-over-month and 2.2 percent year-over-year seen in June. Specifics from key retail sectors during July include: Online and other non-store sales were up 19.3 percent year-over-year and up 2.8 percent month-over-month seasonally adjusted, likely boosted by Amazon’s Prime Day promotion, which the company said had more sales than its 2018 Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined; Health and personal care stores were up 6.1 percent year-over-year but down 0.2 percent month-over-month seasonally adjusted; Grocery and beverage stores were up 4 percent year-over-year and up 0.6 percent month-over-month seasonally adjusted; and General merchandise stores were up 2.1 percent year-over-year and up 0.6 percent month-over-month seasonally adjusted.
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — Wood Partners has completed the sale of Alta San Marcos, an apartment complex located in Chandler. JLL Income Property Trust acquired the property for $71.7 million or $262,821 per unit. The buyer plans to rebrand the property as Summit at San Marcos. Located within walking distance of downtown Chandler, the multifamily property features 273 apartments with nine-plus feet ceilings and an average unit size of 940 square feet. Community amenities include a clubhouse and leasing office with a 13-foot theater-style television, plush seating, a demonstration kitchen and fitness center. The community was completed in 2018. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
SAN FRANCISCO — Stockbridge Capital Group has purchased a portfolio of 26 institutional-quality logistics and e-commerce properties spanning nine U.S. markets, with a heavy focus on the West Coast. PGIM Real Estate Finance provided $350 million in financing for the acquisition. The 6.4 million-square-foot portfolio includes a complement of bulk distribution facilities and light industrial properties. The bulk distribution facilities are relatively new and are as large as 1.1 million square feet, while the light industrial properties are smaller and generally geared toward local last-mile distribution tenants. Approximately 60 percent of the portfolio’s net operating income is generated from assets in California markets: Inland Empire, East Bay, San Diego and Central Valley. PGIM Real Estate Finance served as the lender with Jaime Zadra and Elizabeth Velazquez pf PGIM Real Estate Finance arranged the acquisition financing through two seve-year fixed-rate loans. Kristin Renaudin, Nicole Stagnaro and Kristin Paul led the Stockbridge transaction team. Debra Bonebrake of JLL will serve as property manager.
