EVANSVILLE, IND. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $12 million sale of Plaza East in Evansville in southwestern Indiana. The 192,377-square-foot shopping center is located at the intersection of Green River Road and Lloyd Expressway. At Home and Local Overstock Warehouse anchor the property. Other tenants include SkyZone, Tuesday Morning, CATO and Cici’s Pizza. Craig Fuller, Erin Patton and Scott Wiles of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a New York-based private investment fund. The team also procured the buyer, an out-of-state private investment group.
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CLEVELAND — KeyBank Community Development Lending & Investment has provided a $6 million construction loan for the acquisition and rehabilitation of the Stuyvesant Motor building in Cleveland. The borrower, Woda Cooper Communities, plans to transform the historic five-story building into Prospect Yard, a 42-unit affordable housing development. The property will serve persons earning at or below 60 percent of the area median income. Constructed in 1911, the building originally housed a production plant, service center, garage and storage for Stuyvesant Motor Co. Kelly Frank of KeyBank originated the loan. CREA, Woda Group and Ohio Housing Finance Agency provided additional funding for the project. Completion is slated for May 2019.
OMAHA, NEB. — Bellomy & Co. has arranged the sale of Cornerstone Storage in Omaha for an undisclosed price. Located at 6099 Irvington Road, the self-storage property includes 433 units within 83,950 net rentable square feet. The 13-story building sits on 7.9 acres. Bill Bellomy and Michael Johnson of Bellomy & Co. represented the Omaha-based sellers. The team also procured the buyer, StorageMart. This will be StorageMart’s fourth location in the area.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — Internet entertainment service Netflix has signed a lease to fully occupy EPIC, a 327,913-square-foot office building currently under construction in Hollywood. Hudson Pacific Properties Inc. (NYSE: HPP) is developing the project. Netflix will occupy the 13-story building upon completion in January 2020. The lease ends in 2031. Netflix has also signed a coterminous lease extension for 325,757 square feet at ICON and 91,953 square feet at CUE, both of which are Hudson Pacific assets located on the Sunset Bronson Studios lot across the street from EPIC. “Netflix is part of an elite class of high-growth, high-innovation companies leading the revolution in content production and distribution that is reshaping the Los Angeles studio and office markets,” says Victor Coleman, chairman and CEO of Hudson Pacific. “With its growing presence at ICON, CUE and now EPIC, we have created a customized, state-of-the-art, creative urban campus that holistically supports Netflix’s unique culture and business needs.” Designed by Gensler, EPIC is a vertically stacked and terraced building. The development will have floor-to-ceiling windows and operable glass doors with direct access to exterior terraces, fire pits, collaboration areas and a rooftop deck with catering pantry. The property will offer more than 25,000 …
Less than 100 miles along Interstate 35 separates downtown Austin from downtown San Antonio. But thanks to strong job and population growth throughout the region, that short stretch is becoming home to two industrial markets that occupy distinctively different, yet thriving, niches in the local economy. The CliffsNotes version of this story is that Austin is trending toward servicing smaller, local tenants with ties to the tech sector, while San Antonio is moving toward being a regional distribution market for larger, nationally known users. Both markets are tight: the vacancy rate for both Austin and San Antonio is between 5 and 6 percent and both are seeing very healthy tenant demand and absorption of many current and planned developments. But to understand how the markets have come to function so differently from one another, we must consider the key driving factors in each metro. Austin: Access & Availability Developing new industrial space in Austin — an industrial market with about 79 million square feet of product, according to JLL’s research — is rife with challenges. The entitlement and zoning processes are exceptionally time-consuming, and most infill land sites are priced at levels that make new construction economically implausible. But the …
BURLINGTON, VT. — RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE: RLJ) has sold the 309-room DoubleTree by Hilton Burlington Vermont in Burlington for $35 million. The sales price represents a 4.5 percent capitalization rate. The buyer was not disclosed. Located at 870 Williston Road, the property features a fitness room, indoor pool, business center and meeting rooms. The hotel is located nearby the University of Vermont and Champlain College.
GLENMOORE, PA. — FPA Multifamily LLC has acquired Stone Rise, a 216-unit apartment community in Glenmoore for $42.5 million. Glenmoore is approximately 41 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Located 900 Selwyn Place, the eight-building property is set on 21 acres and features a unit mix of one- and two-bedroom apartment homes. Mark Thomson, Ed Coco, Carl Fiebig and Fran Coyne of HFF represented the seller, a subsidiary of Preferred Apartment Communities Inc., in the transaction.
RAL Development Services Breaks Ground on 624,575 SF Mixed-Use Property in Philadelphia
by David Cohen
PHILADELPHIA — RAL Development Services has broken ground on 1300 Fairmount, a 14-story, 624,575-square-foot mixed-use property in Philadelphia. The project will include 478 apartment units as well as 58,759 square feet of retail space. Cope Linder Associates is serving as designer on 1300 Fairmont. RAL Development is the developer. Nobel Learning Communities Inc., a national network of 200 private schools throughout the country, has pre-leased 12,488 square feet at the property and plans to open a Chesterbrook Academy Preschool there. Supermarket chain Aldi has also pre-leased 25,427 square feet of space.
NEPTUNE, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $4.2 million sale of an 18,150-square-foot retail property in Neptune. Located at 36 State Route 35, the property is currently occupied by a Family Dollar and a Bubbakoo’s Burritos. Alan Cafiero, David Cafiero and Ben Sgambati of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a developer, in the transaction. The buyer was undisclosed.
CRANSTON, R.I. — Sweeney Real Estate has brokered the $1.7 million sale of a 25,548-square-foot industrial building in Cranston. Located at 25 Slater Road inside the Howard Industrial Park, the property sits on nearly two acres. Thomas O. Sweeney and Kevin Casey of Sweeney Real Estate represented the seller, Alves Properties LLC, in the transaction. The buyer was G3 Slater Road LLC.