DULUTH, MINN. — Dougherty Mortgage LLC has provided a $1.8 million HUD-insured loan for the refinancing of Lakeland Shores Apartments in Duluth, which is located along Lake Superior. The 46-unit community is restricted to disabled persons and residents age 62 and above. The property was originally constructed in 1987 and expanded in 2004. Units will be renovated as part of the refinancing, which features a 35-year term. St. Francis of Assisi Inc. was the borrower. Ecumen manages the property.
BOGOTA, N.J. — A subsidiary of New Jersey-based PCD Capital LLC and New York-based Saber Real Estate Advisors LLC will develop a 421-unit multifamily project in Bogota, located across the Hudson River from Harlem. The property will be situated on 13 acres and feature an 8,000-square-foot clubhouse with a fitness center and media room, as well as outdoor amenities such as a pool, dog park and outdoor grilling area. The building will also house 8,000 square feet of retail space. M&T Bank and BBVA USA provided a $60 million construction loan for the project. John Alascio and Sridhar Vankayala of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the financing. A construction timeline has yet to be established.
NEW YORK CITY — Local hotel developer Sam Chang has broken ground on a 200-room hotel that will be located at 223 W. 46th St. near Times Square in Manhattan. Designed by Gene Kaufman Architects, the hotel will span 70,000 square feet and rise 21 stories. Amenities will include a fitness center and a ground-floor restaurant with outdoor seating. Completion of the property, which has yet to be named and branded, is scheduled for September 2021.
STAMFORD, CONN. — A joint venture between The Melohn Group and Drake Street Partners has acquired 181 Harbor Drive, a 91,040-square-foot office building in Stamford, for $33.5 million. The newly renovated building houses the headquarters of apparel retailer Vineyard Vines and is part of the 17-acre Shippan Landing waterfront office campus. Amenities at the campus include a beer garden, fitness center and a cafeteria, as well as volleyball, basketball and bocce courts. The seller was a partnership between Rubenstein Partners LP and George Comfort & Sons. Jeffrey Dunne, Steven Bardsley and Travis Langer of CBRE represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Colliers International has brokered the $3.5 million sale of a multi-tenant office building located at 140 Littleton Road in Parsippany, located west of Newark. Constructed in the mid-1980s, the building spans 30,459 square feet and is leased to companies in the finance, technology and medical sectors. Jacklene Chesler, Matthew Brown, Frank Summers of Colliers represented the buyer and the seller, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction. The property was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale.
PORTLAND, MAINE — Cardente Real Estate has negotiated the sale of Brighton Avenue Plaza, a 24,150-square-foot retail center located at 1041 Brighton Ave. in Portland, for approximately $3 million. Greg Perry of Cardente represented the buyer, All-American Family LLC, in the transaction. Charles Day of Porta & Co. represented the seller, 1041 Brighton Ave. LLC. The property was built in 1988.
PARSIPPANY, N.J., AND SAN FRANCISCO — One of the recently fallen retail giants is poised to make a return less than two years after its demise. Tru Kids Brands, the Parsippany-based parent company of Toys ‘R’ Us, and b8ta, a San Francisco-based experiential retail firm, have announced plans to bring back Toys ‘R’ Us stores to the United States. The retailer announced in March 2018 that it was declaring bankruptcy and would start an “orderly wind down” and close its 735 remaining stores. Now, 16 months later, the Tru Kids-b8ta joint venture is hoping to bring the 71-year-old brand back with more small-format, experience-based retail spaces. Plans call for the first two stores — located in The Galleria in Houston and Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey — to open before the holiday season. “With a 70-year heritage, the Toys ‘R’ Us brand is beloved by kids and families around the world, and continues to play a leading role in the hearts and minds of today’s consumers,” says Richard Barry, CEO of Tru Kids Brands and interim co-CEO of the new Toys ‘R’ Us joint venture. “We have an incredible opportunity to entirely reimagine the Toys ‘R’ Us …
Houston’s multifamily market has endured battles from all fronts in recent years: the oil slump, hurricanes, flooding, overbuilding in select submarkets, sluggish rent growth of late and lavish concessions to new renters that have been mainstays during this period. But the market now appears to be moving in the right direction with a sense of normalcy. From late 2014, when the oil downturn began, through the price bottoming in early 2016, Houston’s energy economy consistently made headlines across the nation’s publications. Each article claimed that at lower oil prices, the city’s over-reliance on energy would shut off job creation and growth. Yet this period also provided an opportunity to illuminate the incredible diversity within the greater Houston economy. Up until the oil downturn, the city’s diversity had been theoretical and unproven; now, along with the city’s resilience, it is indelible. Expanded activity at Port Houston, particularly in terms of manufacturing, in addition to plastics and petrochemicals, has propelled Houston’s job growth. The same applies to the market’s emerging role as a logistics hub and the expansion of the Texas Medical Center and regional healthcare providers, as well as strong growth in financial services and construction sectors. All told, the metro …
The population in the Greater Portland metro grew by more than 80,000 between 2016 and 2019, while the total number of all housing units permitted was 31,538, according to the Census Bureau. This ongoing housing shortage both inside and outside Portland city limits is expected to keep property values and rents growing as demand continues to outpace supply for the foreseeable future. Since 2015, there has been an increase in the vacancy rate as thousands of new apartments have been added and absorbed. Rent and other concessions that grew during 2018 have decreased in close-in Portland, East Vancouver and Oregon City. They have increased, however, in neighborhoods where new units were delivered. After experiencing flat rents two years ago, rent increases averaged 3.7 percent between April 2018 and 2019, according to the Multifamily NW Apartment Report. Portland saw an overall transaction volume increase with a total of 38 institutional transactions in 2018. Properties valued at less than $10 million experienced only a slight increase in transactions between 2017 and 2018. Oregon also became the first to adopt statewide rent control on Feb. 28, 2019. Rent increases are capped at 7 percent plus inflation annually. No-cause evictions are limited. The Portland …
ATLANTA — Jamestown has acquired The Shops Buckhead Atlanta, a 355,646-square-foot retail and office property in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. Situated along Peachtree Road and bounded by Pharr Road and Buckhead Avenue, The Shops Buckhead Atlanta is home to international retail brands such as Hermès and Tom Ford, as well as restaurants, entertainment and fitness tenants. The office space is fully leased to two tenants, Spanx’s global headquarters and No18, the first U.S. coworking location. Additionally, the property includes two prime development sites totaling 2.7 acres. OliverMcMillan developed the upscale, six-block property in 2014. In 2018, Brookfield Residential purchased OliverMcMillan and certain assets in its portfolio, which did not include Shops Buckhead Atlanta. Richard Reid, Trey Morsbach, Barry Brown, Jim Hamilton and Mike Allison of JLL represented the seller, an institutional joint venture, in the transaction. Atlanta-based Jamestown, which developed Ponce City Market and Manhattan’s Chelsea Market, will host a series of town hall meetings in the coming weeks that will be open to the community.
