ATLANTA — WeWork has signed three office leases in metro Atlanta totaling 150,000 square feet. In the first lease, WeWork will occupy 35,000 square feet and all three stories of office space within a mixed-use project located at 120 W. Trinity Place in downtown Decatur. The space will accommodate 540 members. Atlanta-based Cousins Properties is developing the project, which will include 18,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 329 residential units and a parking deck, in addition to WeWork’s office space. Construction is expected for the first half of 2020. WeWork’s second lease is in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter district in Sandy Springs. The coworking company will lease 70,000 square feet of office space at 1155 Perimeter Center W. WeWork will occupy three floors and will accommodate 1,200 members. The space is expected to open in early 2020. WeWork also signed a 45,000-square-foot lease spanning two floors along the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail near Ponce City Market. WeWork will occupy the space within the 725 Ponce project by the end of this year. Developer New City Properties plans to open 725 Ponce this fall. The project will comprise 370,000 square feet of office space and include an urban prototype Kroger …
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Knighthead Funding LLC, a Connecticut-based private lender, has provided a $37.7 million construction loan for the completion of a hotel conversion project in Cambridge, located across the Charles River from Boston. The project involves the conversion of a four-story multifamily building into a 67-room hotel that will house ground-floor retail space and features a rooftop lounge. Hay Creek will manage the new hotel, which is slated to open in the first quarter of 2020. Knighthead provided the 24-month loan to a local partnership operating as Sean Casey LLC.
BOSTON — Locally based developer Related Beal has opened a 65-room Whitney hotel located at the corner of Charles and Cambridge streets in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. The luxury boutique hotel also houses four premium suites and is attached to a new Mediterranean-style restaurant called Peregrine. Other amenities include a fitness studio, outdoor courtyard and rentable sailboats and bikes. Boston-based Hacin + Associates was the project architect, and Harrisburg, Pa.-based Hersha Hospitality Management will operate the property.
CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4 million sale of South Jersey Medical Center, a 33,426-square-foot medical office building located in Cherry Hill, located just outside Philadelphia in New Jersey. The property features 14 suites and 425 feet of frontage along State Route 70, which has a daily traffic count in excess of 53,000 cars. David Beyel, Lawrence Gariano and Michael Hinchman of Marcus & Millichap’s Philadelphia represented the undisclosed seller and procured the buyer, a Pennsylvania-based partnership that will upgrade the property’s common areas.
Northeast Private Client Group Negotiates $3.6M Sale of Two Multifamily Assets in Connecticut
by Alex Patton
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. — Northeast Private Client Group (NPCG) has negotiated the $3.6 million sale of a pair of multifamily assets in Bridgeport, located on Connecticut’s southern coast. The properties total 44 units. Brad Balletto, Rich Edwards and Jeff Wright of NPCG represented the seller, a local owner-operator, and procured the buyer, a Connecticut-based investor. The deal closed at a capitalization rate of roughly 7 percent.
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — The office investment market is back on track and buoyed by significant sources of capital for deal making, following some political and economic uncertainty over the past year, according to the June 2019 Office Investor Sentiment Report by Real Capital Markets (RCM). Among the key takeaways is that a majority of investors (87 percent) who participated in the survey view coworking as a moderate to high risk to investment values, with 37 percent of that group noting that the market could already be saturated. Overall, investors are looking more closely at the investment value of coworking space, given its rapid expansion and potential exposure to any market downturn. The report also notes that investors remain confident in the office market in general, especially given economic conditions and population growth. “Conventional wisdom and years of experience tell us that we may be long in the [economic] cycle,” says Tina Lichens, COO of Carlsbad, Calif.-based RCM. “At the same time, there is a broad sense of optimism, albeit somewhat cautious, that with the level of capital poised for investment, there are still allocations to be met and transactions to be completed.” Coworking risks, opportunities Coworking space has led all …
PEARLAND, TEXAS — California-based Drever Capital Management has broken ground on Larkspur at Shadow Creek, a 257-unit multifamily community in the southwestern Houston suburb of Pearland that will be marketed to seniors age 55 and above. The property will be situated on 12 acres and consist of a 215-unit primary apartment building with 18,000 square feet of amenity space, as well as 42 private cottages. The first units are expected to be complete in the second half of 2020. Drever also recently completed Larkspur at Twin Creeks, a 243-unit age-restricted community in metro Dallas, and is planning another age-restricted project in New Braunfels, a suburb of San Antonio.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Chicago-based NXT Capital has provided a $54.7 million loan for the refinancing of a 312,000-square-foot office building in Richardson, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. The Class A property is situated near Central Expressway and President George Bush Turnpike and offers amenities such as a fitness center, deli, bocce ball court and shuttle service to a nearby DART station. Greg Young of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital placed the loan on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
IRVING, TEXAS — Berkadia has provided a $48 million acquisition loan through Freddie Mac for The Brandt, a 504-unit multifamily community in Irving. The property offers a variety of one- and two-bedroom floor plans ranging from 632 square feet to 1,045 square feet. Amenities include three pools, a fitness center, a dog park and a clubhouse. Andy Hill and Tyler Nowlin of Berkadia arranged the financing on behalf of the borrower, Western Wealth Capital, which will implement a value-add program that will upgrade unit interiors. The adjustable-rate loan carried a seven-year term and three years of interest-only payments.
DALLAS — Metropolitan Capital Advisors Ltd. (MCA) has arranged an $8 million loan for the acquisition and redevelopment of a 50,675-square-foot former school campus in Dallas. The sponsor, Fort Worth-based investors/developers M2G Ventures and Todd Davenport, will convert the property into a mixed-use asset with office and retail space. Duke Dennis of MCA placed the loan through an undisclosed lender. Dennis also arranged $4.3 million in joint venture equity for the project.