DENVER — New York Life Real Estate Investors has originated a $51.8 million loan for the 306-unit Alta Cherry Hills apartment complex in Denver. The community is located at 3650 S. Broadway. The mortgage has a seven-year term. The funds were used to purchase the property. Michael Ortlip of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital acted as the mortgage broker. The borrower was Bell Partners. The seller was not disclosed
ESCONDIDO, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the $25 million sale of Gateway Center, an 89,625-square-foot shopping center located in Escondido. The property was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale by tenants including Michaels, Barnes & Noble, Fantastic Sam’s, Firehouse Subs, Dickies and H&R Block. Rick Chichester, Donald MacLellan, Patrick Toomey and Tom Chichester of Faris Lee represented the seller, a partnership led by GDA Real Estate Services. Gene Ventura and Jeff Conover, also of Faris Lee, represented the buyer, a private investor from San Diego County.
SAN DIEGO — Capstone Advisors has signed six leases for tenants at The Presidio, a recently renovated and repositioned retail center located in San Diego’s Linda Vista community. The new tenants include Rip Curl, Luv Bridal, Hopsy, Babe Kombucha, West Coast Veterinary Hospital and Sharetea. Located at 5261-5401 Linda Vista Road, The Presidio is located between Napa Street and the University of San Diego. Capstone completed extensive renovations on the property at the end of 2015. Capstone Advisors originally purchased the property in 2014. For the new lease transactions at The Presidio, Aaron Hill and Justin Wessel of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented Capstone Advisors. Luv Bridal and Sharetea represented themselves, Jones Lang Lasalle represented Rip Curl, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank represented Hopsy, Kidder Matthews represented Babe Kombucha and Strategic Real Estate Group represented West Coast Veterinary Hospital.
SAN DIEGO — Colliers International has arranged the $1.3 million sale of a 3,044-square-foot, two-unit retail condominium located in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood. Bill Shrader, David Maxwell and Joe Brady of Colliers International represented the San Diego-based seller, CR 5th & Nutmeg, and San Diego-based buyer The Cohen Family Trust. Shrader, Maxwell and Brady also secured Brooklyn Bicycles as the tenant for one of the units concurrently with the sale of the property. The shell-condition condominium is located at 2655 Fifth Ave. on the ground floor of Vue on 5th, a recently completed 45-unit residential building.
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Eden Multifamily has broken ground on NOMA North Miami Beach, an $87 million apartment community located at 2145 N.E. 164th St. in North Miami Beach. The 354-unit property will be situated on a 2.6-acre site near Biscayne Boulevard, Laurenzo’s Italian Market, Snake Creek Canal and the City of North Miami Beach greenway. The eight-story project is a joint venture between Eden Multifamily and Florida Value Partners. The joint venture will finance the development with debt from JPMorgan Chase and preferred equity from Related Real Estate Debt Strategies LLC. NOMA North Miami Beach will feature studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units, as well as an inner courtyard pool, community rooms, fitness center, cyber café, gathering areas and fiber-connected Wi-Fi throughout the community. NOMA will also include seven adjacent two- and three-bedroom townhomes along the greenway and commercial space along N.E. 164th Street. The project is the first component of a mixed-use development that will serve as the new urban town center for the eastern part of North Miami Beach. The design team includes general contractor Coastal Construction, architect MSA Architects, landscape architect Bruce Howard Associates and interior designer IDDI Design International. Eden Multifamily expects to deliver …
PALM HARBOR, FLA. — ARA Newmark has brokered the $82.4 million sale of Lansbrook Village, a 774-unit apartment community located in the Tampa suburb of Palm Harbor. The property features 152 individually owned units that weren’t part of the transaction. Pritzker Realty Group developed Lansbrook Village in three phases — Windsor in 1998, Cambridge in 2002 and Hampton in 2004. The development’s amenities include three swimming pools, two expansive clubhouses and gathering areas, a fitness center, business center, three new outdoor kitchens, two tennis courts, volleyball court, pet playground and a car-care station. Patrick Dufour, Scott Ramey and Ryan Crowley of ARA Newmark represented the sellers, Atlanta-based Carroll Organization and New York-based Bluerock Real Estate, in the transaction, which involved a loan assumption. Carroll Organization decided to buy back into the acquisition by replacing Bluerock as the equity. The company will continue to pursue buying Lansbrook Village’s individually owned units.
INDEPENDENCE, KY. — The Kroger Co. has acquired Park 536, a 674,500-square-foot industrial property located at 251 Mt. Zion Road in Independence, a town in Kentucky roughly 13 miles south of Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati. Kroger purchased the asset, which was built on a speculative basis, from VanTrust Real Estate for $33.8 million. Built in late 2016, Park 536 is situated on 45 acres and features 36-foot clear heights, 68 docks and 336 parking spaces. John Gartner III and Norm Khoury of Colliers International’s Cincinnati office represented VanTrust in the sale, and Brian Leonard of JLL represented Kroger, which plans to create nearly 100 new jobs at the facility and will move in upon building out the interior to its liking. The grocer will use Park 536 as a “replenishment center” for the company’s distribution centers in the eastern part of the United States.
MEMPHIS, TENN. — PEBB Enterprises has acquired Germantown Village Square, a 199,629-square-foot mixed-use development in Memphis. The Boca Raton, Fla.-based investor purchased the asset from Memphis-based Boyle Investment Co. for $28 million. The purchase of Germantown Village is PEBB’s largest acquisition to date by both dollar amount and square footage. Germantown Village Square features nearly 140,000 square feet of retail space leased to tenants such as T.J. Maxx, DSW and Petco, and more than 60,000 square feet of second-floor office space anchored by The West Clinic, a subsidiary of Baptist Memorial Health Services.
DEARBORN, MICH. — Ford Land Development Corp., the real estate arm of Ford Motor Co., has begun transformation of the Dearborn campus with the groundbreaking of Wagner Place, a development featuring office and retail space. The $60 million Ford investment will provide Ford employees and nearby residents with new retail and restaurant options, complemented by green space, outdoor seating and enhanced walkability. Ford is transforming about two blocks of largely vacant buildings into the 150,000-square-foot development. Wagner Place will feature two floors of workspace and a rooftop patio in addition to first-floor retail and restaurant space. Approximately 600 Ford global data insights and analytics employees will occupy the property. The development is part of the 10-year transformation of the company’s more than 60-year-old Dearborn facilities, which will relocate 30,000 employees from 70 buildings into primarily two sites: a product campus and a world headquarters campus. Wagner Place is scheduled for completion in mid-2018. With $3 million in support from the Michigan Strategic Fund, the city of Dearborn will construct a 373-spot public parking structure near the development at West Village Drive and Monroe Street for consumer and Ford employee parking. Dearborn is overseeing an $18 million investment for the west downtown area …
CHESTERFIELD, MO. — McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has completed construction of a new 106,000-square-foot outpatient services building on the west campus of St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield. The $40 million St. Luke’s Outpatient Center Building B adjoins the hospital’s Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Desloge Jr. Outpatient Center. The five-story structure provides additional space for new physician offices as well as the expansion of St. Luke’s physical therapy and cardiac rehabilitation services. Other St. Luke’s services that have relocated to the building include EEG/EMG; the nutrition wellness and diabetes center; the anticoagulation clinic; and wound care and hyperbaric medicine. BSA LifeStructures Inc. designed the building.