LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — A partnership between Cleveland-based private equity firm Citymark Capital and Dallas-based operator CAF Capital Partners has acquired Villas of Vista Ridge, a 323-unit multifamily community in the Dallas metro of Lewisville. The property is located at 351 State Highway 121 Bypass near a variety of entertainment and retail centers. Amenities include a pool and a fitness center. The name of the seller was not disclosed.
DALLAS — National Apartment Advisors (NAA) has arranged the sale of Mountain Valley Apartments, a 312-unit multifamily community located at 5875 Mountain Valley Lane in southwest Dallas. The property, which is situated on 17.3 acres and offers amenities such as a playground, clothing care center and a basketball court, was 93 percent occupied at the time of sale. Sam Pettigrew of NAA represented the buyer, California-based NVTX1 Apartments LLC, in the transaction. Mountain Valley 2002 LP sold the asset for an undisclosed price.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Retail Solutions has secured a retail lease in Austin on behalf of Enterprise Rent A Car. Enterprise will occupy 49,246 square feet on a pad site located at 5350 State Highway 290. Barret Espe of Retail Solutions represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. The name and representative of the landlord were not disclosed.
PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS — Colliers International has negotiated the sale of an 8,000-square-foot retail property located at 5255 Twin City Highway in the Gulf Coast city of Port Arthur. The asset is triple-net-leased asset to home furnishings retailer Aaron’s. Riley Sharman of Colliers represented the seller, The Benjamin Revocable Trust, based in Nevada, in the transaction. The name of the buyer, a private investor, was not released.
NEW YORK CITY — Fortis Property Group has received a $297 million construction loan to develop River Park, a three-building mixed-use project in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. The 325,000-square-foot project will feature 172 luxury condominium units, 66,900 square feet of community space and 328 parking spaces. Fortis acquired 18 buildings on three adjacent sites that formerly housed the Long Island College Hospital (LICH) medical campus. The company purchased LICH in 2015 for $240 million from the State University of New York. Fortis financed the first phase of the acquisition with a $107.25 million bridge loan from Madison Realty Capital (MRC). The new loan proceeds from MRC will be used to retire the previous bridge loan and complete construction of the three luxury residential condominium buildings. This includes a waterfront tower at 350 Hicks St. (“1 River Park”); a high-rise condominium tower at 95 Pacific St. (“2 River Park”); and a contextual condominium building at 349 Henry St./112 Pacific St. (“5 River Park”). River Park 1, 2 and 5 will anchor the new Brooklyn Waterfront District. Rogers Partners is designing the properties. Brooklyn-based Fortis Property Group is a real estate investment, operations and development company. It has acquired, developed …
Eastern Pennsylvania’s industrial markets continue to thrive due to low vacancy rates, increased barriers to entry, demand by occupiers and the institutional capital community’s ever-increasing appetite for industrial product. While the specific submarkets have unique nuances associated with the local economic drivers, highway networks, taxation, and labor base, the overall demand by tenants and the capital community alike is driven by elementary economic rules of supply versus demand met by supply chain demand drivers. In a world that is buying a higher percentage of its goods online each and every year, this geography offers the unique ability to reach almost half of the U.S. population within a one-day truck drive and better one-day or two-day delivery service from the two major providers, UPS and FedEx. This thriving market is technically four distinct submarkets inclusive of the Lehigh Valley, Northeastern, Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania. For those less familiar with the nomenclature of this geography, it’s easiest to think of the Lehigh Valley as the general vicinity of Easton through Bethlehem and Allentown and along I-78 past Hamburg. Central Pennsylvania is the region inclusive of Harrisburg, York, Carlisle, Chambersburg, Greencastle and Lancaster. Northeastern Pennsylvania is the combination of the MSAs including Pottsville, …
SAN DIEGO — Anchor Health Properties has obtained a $68 million loan to purchase a San Diego medical office building portfolio. The portfolio contains a total of 206,000 square feet in the La Jolla/UTC submarket. The acquisition includes the two-building Chancellor Park Medical Campus, which is situated near the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center and Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. The properties were built in 1988 as traditional office buildings before they were converted into medical uses. The properties are 94 percent occupied. UC San Diego Health currently leases 44 percent of the buildings, which form the largest outpatient medical campus in UTC and one of the larger outpatient medical campuses in Southern California. The funding will also support future tenant improvements and leasing commissions for the properties. Capital One provided the funds.
ANTIOCH, CALIF. — Westcore Properties has purchased Antioch Distribution Center, a 665,775-square-foot manufacturing/distribution project in Antioch, for $32.4 million. The two-building center is located at 2200 to 2300 and 2110 Wilbur St. Westcore represented itself, while Steve Hermann, Scott Bertrand and Brooks Pedder of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, The Covington Group, in this transaction.
SAN DIEGO — Berkadia has secured $29 million in financing for Pinnacle Medical Office in San Diego. The office is located at 10670-10672 Wexford St. in the Scripps Ranch submarket. The property provides services like primary care, wellness exams, treadmill stress testing, annual physicals, sports and camp physicals, full laboratory testing, vaccinations and pre-operative clearance. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan features interest-only payments for the full term and features a 4.3 percent interest rate through Wells Fargo. The borrower was LP Scripps Lot 1 LLC.
SCOTTSDALE AND TEMPE, ARIZ. — TA Realty has purchased a 266,607-square-foot industrial portfolio near Phoenix for $24.5 million. The portfolio is situated in Scottsdale and Tempe. The properties include four industrial/flex assets at 9160 S. McKemy St. and 9185 and 9245 S. Farmer Ave. in Tempe, and 7400 E. Tierra Buena Lane in Scottsdale. The portfolio is more than 96 percent leased to 12 tenants across industries like IT services, transportation, automotive and home improvement. JLL’s Capital Markets team represented the seller, The Hewson Company, in this transaction.
