CORSICANA, TEXAS — Karr Self-Storage, a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of Mini-West Storage, a 735-unit facility located in Corsicana, about 60 miles south of Dallas. Built in stages between 1986 and 2016, the property comprises 192 climate-controlled units and 543 non-climate-controlled, drive-up units totaling 81,050 net rentable square feet. Additional features include property-wide surveillance cameras, perimeter fencing and lighting and the capacity for future expansion. Brandon Karr and Danny Cunningham of Karr Self-Storage represented the seller, a private investor, and procured the buyer, a Colorado-based owner-operator. The sale included two adjacent parcels, one of which houses a self-service car wash. The sales price was not disclosed.
ROWLETT, TEXAS — Southeastern Business Intermediaries (SBI), an Atlanta-based self-storage brokerage firm, has negotiated the sale of Long Horn Self Storage, a 345-unit facility located in the eastern Dallas suburb of Rowlett. The sales price was approximately $3.5 million. SBI represented the buyer, a national self-storage investment and management firm, in the transaction. Craig Rice of CSD Realty Co. represented the undisclosed seller.
HOUSTON — Minneapolis-based NorthMarq Capital has arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for The Park at Clear Lake, a 342-unit apartment community in Houston. Units at the property, which was built in 1973, feature walk-in closets, dishwashers and laundry facilities. Amenities include a pool, fitness center and outdoor grilling areas. Warren Hitchcock of NorthMarq arranged the funds through an undisclosed balance sheet lender. The borrower was also undisclosed, but the property’s website redirects to Madera Residential’s homepage.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — AQUILA Commercial will redevelop Airport Center, an 86,099-square-foot office building located at 6505 Airport Blvd. in Austin. Located adjacent to the Austin Community College Highland Campus redevelopment project, the site will later house a mixed-use development that will include 326 apartments. Runa Workshop is the architect for the project, construction of which is scheduled to begin in July and wrap up by year’s end. The property will be rebranded Highland Tech Center.
FITCHBURG, WIS. — Hunt Capital Partners, in collaboration with Plesko Properties LLC, has arranged federal and state low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) equity financing for the construction of Fitchburg Senior Apartments. Located in the Madison suburb of Fitchburg, the community will feature 160 affordable housing units for seniors who are age 55 and older. Units will be restricted to households who earn up to 80 percent of the area median income. The development team broke ground on Fitchburg Senior Apartments in March. The four-story community will provide 80 one-bedroom units and 80 two-bedroom units upon completion, which is slated for July 2020. The total development cost for Fitchburg Senior Apartments is $34.4 million. The development team was awarded $15 million in federal and state LIHTCs. Hunt Capital Partners facilitated the federal tax credits through its multi-investor fund, Hunt Capital Partners Tax Credit Fund 27. Advantage Capital purchased the state LIHTC credits through Fund 27 as well. The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) provided $23 million in taxable and tax-exempt construction and permanent financing and $1.5 million in soft financing. Plesko Properties, the project developer, selected Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP as the project consultant. Stevens Construction Corp. is …
BENTON, ILL. — Barber Murphy has brokered the sale of a 397,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Benton for an undisclosed price. The property is situated on 39 acres at 451 E. Illinois Ave. Marine Acquisitions Inc. sold the plant to Mincon Rockdrills USA Inc. Barber Murphy represented both parties in the sale.
VERNON HILLS, ILL. — Principle Construction Corp. has completed a 15,091-square-foot tenant improvement for Wonderlic at 544 Lakeview Parkway in Vernon Hills. The company, which produces cognitive ability tests, is moving across the street. The scope of the office project enables Wonderlic to have storage space for its printed materials as well as to properly recycle all used paper. Interform Architecture & Design served as the project architect.
FOREST LAKE, MINN. — KW Commercial has arranged the sale of A-1 Mini Storage in Forest Lake for $2.7 million. The self-storage facility is located northeast of the Twin Cities metro area. Built in 1997, the 38,450-square-foot property was expanded in 2007 and 2008. It now spans 10 buildings. Tom Flannigan, Alex Ihrke and Corly Wilkerson of KW Commercial represented the undisclosed seller. The buyer has the opportunity to add an onsite office and utilize the 15.5-acre site for additional mini-storage buildings, according to the brokers.
ARLINGTON, VA. — Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. (NYSE: PK) has entered into an agreement to acquire Chesapeake Lodging Trust (NYSE: CHSP) in a stock-and-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.7 billion. Both companies are Virginia-based hotel REITs, with Park headquartered in Tysons and Chesapeake headquartered in Arlington, just seven miles apart in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. The deal, which is expected to close during the late third or early fourth quarter of this year, would create a company with an estimated enterprise value of $12 billion. Upon closing, Park stockholders will own roughly 84 percent of the new company, and Chesapeake shareholders will own roughly 16 percent. Park’s current portfolio includes 52 hospitality properties totaling more than 30,000 rooms, mostly located in the U.S. with a handful in South America and the U.K. The company, which spun off from Hilton in 2017, focuses on high-end hotels. Chesapeake’s current portfolio includes 20 properties totaling 6,288 rooms in eight states and Washington, D.C. The company also focuses on “upper-upscale” hotels. Park has secured $1.1 billion in financing from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Proceeds will be used to fund the cash component of the deal, as well as to cover some …
The Las Vegas Valley’s multifamily market is at an interesting crossroads, according to panelists at InterFace Las Vegas Multifamily. Hosted by InterFace Conference Group and Western Real Estate Business, the half-day conference was held April 24 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas. The metro area’s population is growing at a rapid pace, with a net migration of 45,000 new residents in 2018, according to research from Marcus & Millichap. This is the largest annual total for Las Vegas since 2007, right before everything went south for the Southwest. “We started to recover later,” said Stephen Miller, professor and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), who gave the conference’s special lunch presentation. “The recession here was deeper than the national average. It has been a slow slog, but in the last couple of years we’ve been growing more rapidly than any other state in the union in terms of employment.” He’s not wrong. Companies have already added 33,000 new positions to the Las Vegas Valley in 2019. This is a 3.2 percent gain that exceeds the previous five-year average, noted Marcus & Millichap. Most of these jobs were …