MORRISTOWN, N.J. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $30 million loan to refinance the DeMattheis Multifamily Portfolio, which includes eight apartment properties in New Jersey. Four properties are located in Morristown with the other four located in Highland Park, Woodbridge and Edison. In total, the portfolio includes 307 units. The borrower is a full-service real estate investment company. Gary Cohen of NorthMarq arranged the refinancing, which was structured with a 15-year term and a 30-year amortization schedule. The lender was a national life insurance company.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.6 million sale of The Shoppes on New Road, a recently completed 7,410-square-foot retail property in Parsippany, 28 miles west of Manhattan. The four-tenant retail center is located at 131 New Road and is 100 percent occupied. Alan Cafiero, Ben Sgambati, David Cafiero and John Moroz of Marcus & Millichap’s New Jersey office represented the buyer and seller in the transaction, both private investors.
ATLANTA — Charlotte-based Asana Partners has acquired Krog Street Market and Atlanta Stove Works, two mixed-use destinations in Atlanta’s Inman Park neighborhood that once housed Tyler Perry Studios. Paces Properties sold both assets to Asana for an undisclosed price. Situated across Krog Street from one another, the properties are adjacent to the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail, a former railway corridor-turned-multi-use trail. Krog Street Market houses a food hall and retail shops including Hop City, Bar Mercado, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, Superica, Ticonderoga Club, The Collective and The Merchant. Atlanta Stove Works houses creative office space for firms like Media Star Promotions, Trees Atlanta and Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, as well as three restaurants — Rathbuns, Bell Street Burrito and Krog Bar. Paces Properties opened Krog Street Market in 2014 in a former 1920s warehouse. The Atlanta-based company acquired Stove Works in 2012. Asana will invest capital to enhance the properties, building on their appeal as central gathering spaces along the BeltLine trail. King & Spalding served as legal adviser to Asana, and Eastdil Secured arranged the transaction on behalf of Paces Properties.
SUZHOU, CHINA — Designed by Chicago-based Goettsch Partners and developed by Tishman Speyer, a large mixed-use development known as The Summit has opened in Suzhou, China. The city is located in the southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China with a population of 4.3 million people. On the north parcel, a 16-story building features four floors of retail space and 12 floors of office space. On the south parcel, a 39-story building features four levels of retail space, 16 levels of office space and 17 levels of residential space. A bridge connects the two-building mixed-use complex, which spans 1.6 million square feet. The project is certified LEED Gold and features direct connection to mass transit. This is the 14th project that Goettsch Partners has completed in Suzhou.
ATLANTA — Atlanta-based Hospitality Ventures Management Group (HVMG), in conjunction with Investra Capital Group Ltd., has completed the acquisition of a 12-property hotel portfolio totaling 1,465 rooms. The purchase price was not disclosed. The portfolio comprises Marriott- and Hyatt-branded hotels across the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest. The Midwest properties include the 84-room Courtyard Grand Rapids Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich.; the 147-room Courtyard Detroit Southfield in Southfield, Mich.; the 86-room Fairfield Inn & Suites Indianapolis Airport in Indianapolis; the 95-room Residence Inn Indianapolis Airport in Indianapolis; and the 113-room Courtyard Cleveland Beachwood in Beachwood, Ohio. The portfolio also includes three properties in Georgia and four properties in Texas. HVMG will operate the entire portfolio. The seller was not disclosed.
ILLINOIS, KANSAS AND OHIO — Waypoint Residential has acquired three multifamily properties and one student housing property in the Midwest. Neither the purchase price nor the sellers were disclosed. The properties include the 196-unit Legacy at Poplar Creek in Schaumburg, Ill.; the 70-unit Two Itasca Place in Itasca, Ill.; the 184-unit The Attleigh in Columbus, Ohio; and the 500-bed Rockland West near the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Dan Price leads Waypoint’s acquisitions in the Midwest, while Mike Hung leads the company’s student housing acquisitions.
NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. — Sterling Computers has purchased an 82,829-square-foot office building in North Sioux City for $4.7 million. The property, which is connected to a 105,938-square-foot distribution center, is situated on 5.7 acres within the former Gateway Computer Campus. Chris Bogenrief of NAI United represented the seller, Keating Resources, in the transaction. Keating purchased the 750,000-square-foot, six-building campus in January and plans to sell all of the buildings to local companies.
JOLIET, ILL. — Meridian Design Build has completed construction of a 112,500-square-foot truck terminal for CenterPoint Properties in Joliet. The new facility is situated on a 46.4-acre site within the CenterPoint Business Center. The redevelopment project includes 17,930 square feet of office space, 169 loading positions and two drive-in doors. An adjacent 22,176-square-foot maintenance building features 17 fully equipped service bays. Cornerstone Architects provided architectural and structural design services, while Manhard Consulting completed civil engineering design.
IRVING, TEXAS — Liberty Property Trust will develop a 172,210-square-foot industrial facility within GSW North, an industrial park in Irving. The facility will be located near Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport and offer convenient access to State Highways 161, 360 and 183. Construction of the facility, which is slated to begin this month and wrap in December, marks Phase III of development. Cushman & Wakefield will handle leasing of the building, completion of which will bring the total size of the park to 709,000 square feet.
HOUSTON — Clay Development & Construction will build Offices @ North Post Oak, a seven-building, 150,000-square-foot office campus in Houston. The property will be situated on a 7.5-acre site between the Galleria/Post Oak area and the planned high-speed rail terminal at Northwest Mall. Building features will include 12,000-square-foot floor plates and 14-foot ceiling heights. Clay will break ground on the first two buildings during the third quarter, with a target completion date of first-quarter 2019. Frost Bank is providing construction financing for the project, which is being designed by Cisneros Design Studio.