TYSONS, VA. — Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. has sold three assets for a total of $166 million, or $151,000 per room. The sold hotels include the 507-room Hilton Atlanta Airport; the 317-room Hilton New Orleans Airport; and the 274-room Embassy Suites Parsippany in Parsippany, N.J. The three properties had a combined $109 million RevPAR in 2018, which was 37 percent less than Tysons-based Park Hotels’ 2018 portfolio average. The buyer(s) was not disclosed.
AUSTELL, GA. — Castle Lanterra Properties (CLP) has acquired Premier Apartments, a 280-unit multifamily community in Austell. Built in 1972, Premier Apartments offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans across 24 buildings. Communal amenities include tennis courts, a community lake, swimming pool and playgrounds. Premier Apartments is situated on 24 acres at 7200 Premier Lane, 11 miles west of downtown Atlanta. The seller and sales prices were not disclosed.
PHILADELPHIA — An affiliate Philadelphia-based Equus Capital Partners has acquired a five-property industrial portfolio and 500 acres of developable land in Virginia’s Hampton Roads region. The five buildings total nearly 1.8 million square feet. Three of the buildings, 1006, 1010 and 1020 CenterPoint Drive in Suffolk, were developed between 2011 and 2017 as build-to-suits. The buildings are fully leased and the original tenants remain. The portfolio also includes 3516 S. Military Highway in Suffolk, which was built in 2007, and 375 Kenyon Road in Chesapeake, which was built in 2008. A third-party logistics provider occupies the buildings, both of which service the Port of Virginia. The 500 acres of land is located near CenterPoint Drive and can support up to 5 million square feet of industrial space. A sales price and seller(s) were not disclosed.
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University and McKinney have renewed their respective leases totaling 179,000 square feet within the American Tobacco Campus (ATC) mixed-use project in Durham. Duke has been at the campus since 2004 and its new lease will go through April 2030. The school will house some or all of its IT, financial services, university counsel, corporate education, alumni affairs and other resources at ATC, occupying 136,000 square feet of office space. McKinney, an advertising agency based in Durham, has also been at ATC since 2004. It will occupy 43,000 square feet of office space through 2031. D3 Development developed ATC in phases from 2004 to 2006. The campus comprises 720,000 square feet of office space, 80 residential units and two parking decks, as well as the former Lucky Strike tobacco plant, Diamond View, DPAC and the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
BOSTON — HFF has arranged a $111.5 million loan for the refinancing of 80 Guest Street, a 245,720-square-foot office building located in the Allston/Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Designed by Elkus Manfredi, the property was the second building to be completed in the Boston Landing mixed-use development, which houses 1.9 million square feet of retail, office, residential and hotel space, including the world headquarters of New Balance. The property, which also features lab space and a 55,000-square-foot ice rink complex, is fully leased to four office tenants, including the Boston Bruins, as well as three ground-floor restaurant tenants. John Fowler, Riaz Cassum, Sam Campbell and Henry Schaffer of HFF arranged the fixed-rate loan through MetLife on behalf of the borrower, NB Development Group.
SPRINGETTSBURY TOWNSHIP, PA. — A partnership between affiliates of locally based developer Endurance Real Estate Group LLC and asset manager DWS Group will develop a 352,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Springettsbury Township, located in York County. Construction began recently with the demolition of the existing structures on the 28.1-acre, rail-served site, which is located less than half a mile from I-83. Delivery is slated for the first quarter of 2020. Building features will include 36-foot clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system, a 185-foot truck court and ample space for automobile and trailer parking.
NEW YORK CITY — Berkadia has provided a $104.2 million HUD loan for the refinancing of Workmen’s Circle Multicare Center, a skilled nursing facility in The Bronx. In addition to skilled nursing care, the property offers mental health services, palliative care and social services. Gemma Geldmacher and Richard Price of Berkadia negotiated the transaction through HUD’s 232/223(f) program, which specifically targets residential care facilities. The loan, which was provided for Woodbury, New York-based Cassena Care, was structured with a fixed interest rate and a 20-year, fully amortizing schedule.
WARD HILL, MASS. — Cedar’s Foods, a supplier of Mediterranean foods, will soon open a $100 million, 125,000-square-foot production facility in Ward Hill, located near the New Hampshire border. The facility has been under construction for the past year and is scheduled to open in August in a move that will bring 125 new jobs to the area. Cedar’s also operates two other production facilities in the area totaling 174,000 square feet, as well as a 75,000-square-foot dry storage facility. With the completion of this project, the company’s regional footprint will total roughly 375,000 square feet.
HOUSTON — Locally based retail developer Levcor Inc. has received a loan for the refinancing of the Marq*E Entertainment Center, a Houston venue that houses an array of restaurants bars and entertainment concepts, including Dave & Buster’s and Edwards Cinema. Levcor purchased the center, which was originally developed in 2003 and 94 percent occupied at the time of sale, in 2014. Jimmy Board, Tom Melody, Tom Fish and Wes Wallace of JLL handled the debt placement on behalf of Levcor. LoanCore provided the nonrecourse, floating-rate loan, a portion of which will be used to fund property improvements.
DALLAS — Berkadia has negotiated the sale of the 160-room Doubletree Dallas-Farmers Branch hotel. The property, which offers amenities such as a pool, fitness center and a business center, recently underwent an $8 million renovation program. The buyer was an undisclosed 1031 exchange investor. This was the first sale from the 15-property portfolio Berkadia exclusively listed throughout the West and Southwest. The entire portfolio could fetch a sales price of $375 million.