REMINGTON, VA. —Canada-based PointOne Development Corp. is underway on Remington Technology Park (RTP), a 234-acre data center campus in Remington, a city in northern Virginia. PointOne is investing $1.6 billion to develop the project, which will be supported by 300 megawatts of utility power and will have connectivity to terrestrial and undersea fiber-optic cables. Diode Ventures, in conjunction with Enfinite Capital, secured initial funding for RTP and will continue to provide financial modeling support and capital assembly for the balance of the project. Black & Veatch is providing design-build services. The Diode/Enfinite partnership will operate and maintain the campus upon completion. The project marks PointOne’s first investment in the U.S. data center market. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
FAIRFAX, VA. — Charlotte-based Grubb Properties has acquired Argon Plaza, a 275,000-square-foot office building in Fairfax, for $38.8 million. The property is located within the Fair Lakes master-planned community, roughly 19 miles west of Washington, D.C. The mixed-use development is home to a Hyatt Regency hotel and more than 1 million square feet of retail and restaurant space. C-III Asset Management sold Argon Plaza, and HFF and NAI Global arranged the transaction. Grubb Properties plans to make capital improvements to the building that will upgrade its tenant amenities. The property’s anchor tenant, a defense contractor specializing in military technology and intelligence, occupies more than half of the building and recently signed a five-year lease renewal.
SEVIERVILLE, TENN. — JMJ Development LLC will deliver Overlook at Allensville Square II, a 144-unit apartment community in eastern Tennessee’s Sevierville. Developers broke ground on the project in January, and expect to wrap up construction in July 2019. Total project costs for the development are projected to be $21.9 million. The three-story community includes a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units and features a clubhouse, resort-style pool with sundeck, playground, business center, car wash and a dog park.
DALLAS, N.C. —SunTrust Community Capital, a division of SunTrust Banks, has provided $11.4 million in financing for Long Creek Apartments II, an 80-unit affordable housing community in Dallas, roughly 25 miles west of Charlotte. SunTrust Community Capital invested $4.7 million of equity into the project and provided a $6.7 million construction loan. In addition, Centrant Community Capital provided a $4.4 million permanent loan, and the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency provided a $509,000 loan. Long Creek will feature onsite management, a business center, computer lab, clubhouse, playground, picnic area and community rooms. All of the units will be reserved for residents earning 60 percent or less of the area median income (AMI). Mills Construction Co., the project’s general contractor, plans to break ground on the community this month, and wrap up construction in May 2019.
COLLEGE PARK, MD. — Finmarc Management Inc. has acquired the Stone Mountain Industrial campus in College Park for $6.2 million. The three-building campus, located at 9207 51st Ave., is roughly nine miles north of Washington, D.C., and less than two miles from the University of Maryland. Stone Mountain Industrial campus comprises 115,000 square feet of industrial, manufacturing and office space. Christopher Kubler and Alan Coppola of NAI KLNB arranged the transaction on behalf of Finmarc. The name of the seller was not disclosed. The warehouse building at the property features 18-foot ceiling heights, and the manufacturing building offers 17-foot ceiling heights. Finmarc is considering multiple uses for the property, including maintaining its status as industrial or rezoning the site to support a townhouse development, according to a release. A small portion of the campus is already zoned for residential.
PITTSBURGH — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of the former 223-room Embassy Suites Pittsburgh Airport hotel in Coraopolis for $25 million. Coraopolis is located about five miles north of Pittsburgh International Airport. The hotel, which was built in 1990, closed in early 2018. Jerry Swon and Daniel Zagoria represented the seller, NHH CMS Pittsburgh LP, in the transaction. The buyer was a private developer. The Pittsburgh Post Gazettehas reported that the building will be repurposed into a 220-unit assisted living and memory care facility called Tapestry Senior Living at Moon Township. The property is located on a hilltop and is highly visible from the intersection of Coraopolis Heights Road and Cherrington Parkway.
MIDLAND AND ODESSA, TEXAS — Fort Worth-based investment firm Olympus Property has acquired two multifamily properties totaling 568 units in West Texas. The 300-unit Sundance Creek in Midland features one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, business center, tanning beds, outdoor kitchen and a game room. The 268-unit Sedona Ranch in Odessa also consists of one- and two-bedroom units and offers a similar package of amenities. The seller was San Antonio-based Koontz Corp., which developed the properties and completed them in 2015. Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, brokered the deal.
IRVING, TEXAS — Houston-based Hines has purchased DFW East Logistics Center, a three-building, 259,555-square-foot industrial property located near Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport in Irving. Completed in 2017, the Class A property is situated on 18 acres and was 15 percent leased at the time of sale. Jonathan Bryan and Randy Baird of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Hines has tapped Stream Realty Partners to handle the property’s leasing responsibilities.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Dallas-based Dalfen America Corp. has broken ground on a 115,176-square-foot industrial building located at 1581 Corporate Drive in the northern Dallas metro of McKinney. The building will be located near the intersection of U.S. Highways 75 and 380 and across the street from a Walmart Supercenter. Designed by Macgregor Associates Architects, the Class A property will feature 32-foot clear heights, 155 car parking spaces and 26 dock doors. Completion is slated for November. The property is being developed on a speculative basis and will be able to accommodate distribution, e-commerce or light manufacturing users.
DESOTO, TEXAS — Dallas-based JMJ Development has begun work on Bellwater Ridge Apartments, a 150-unit multifamily community that will be located in the southern Dallas metro of DeSoto. The property will feature open floor plans with nine-foot ceilings and upgraded kitchens in the unit interiors. Communal amenities will include a resort-style pool, clubhouse, fitness center and an outdoor pavilion and dining area. Completion is scheduled for the fall.