CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $1.6 million sale of an 86-room La Quinta hotel located at 16211 E. Freeway in the eastern Houston suburb of Channelview. Skyler Cooper, Chris Gomes and Allan Miller of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company and procured the buyer, a partnership. Both parties requested confidentiality.
DUNWOODY, GA. — Transwestern Corporate Properties I has reached an agreement to purchase Park Center I, a 13-story office tower in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket. Situated on four acres adjacent to the Dunwoody MARTA station, the 602,000-square-foot asset is fully occupied by State Farm Auto Insurance. KDC developed Park Center I, the first office building delivered within State Farm’s three-building, 2.2 million-square-foot campus. Transwestern will purchase the asset for an undisclosed price in a sale-leaseback transaction with State Farm. Transwestern also recently acquired the 2.2 million-square-foot State Farm campus in Richardson, Texas, which was also developed recently by KDC.
STOCKBRIDGE, GA. — CBRE has brokered the $47 million sale of a multifamily portfolio in Stockbridge, about 20 miles south of Atlanta. The two adjacent properties, Carrington Ridge and The Retreat at Eagles Landing, total 490 units. Mesa Capital Partners purchased the communities from TIC Properties Management. Shea Campbell, Kevin Geiger and Ashish Cholia of CBRE’s Southeast Multifamily Group represented TIC Properties Management in the sale. Richard Jordan and Matt Forgione of CBRE’s Debt and Structured Finance team arranged acquisition financing on behalf of Mesa Capital Partners.
MEDLEY, FLA. — An affiliate of The Easton Group has purchased a newly built, 182,000-square-foot distribution center in Miami’s Medley submarket for $21.8 million. The affiliate, EWE Airport North Logistics Center LLC, purchased the asset from the developer, Ridge Development, in an all-cash transaction. The Easton Group is handling leasing and management for the property, which is situated on 10 acres at the corner of 87th Avenue and 90th Street, about six miles north of Miami International Airport.
CHANTILLY, VA. — Avison Young has arranged the $19.9 million sale of two flex buildings in Washington, D.C.’s Dulles South industrial submarket totaling 245,888 square feet. Beckham Gumbin Ventures purchased the buildings from CIM Group. Built in 1986, the assets are located within Sullyfield Business Park at 14320 and 14340 Sullyfield Circle in Chantilly, about 30 miles west of Washington, D.C. John Kevill, Chip Ryan, Bert Harrell and Jesse Martin of Avison Young represented CIM Group in the sale. Sullyfield Commerce Center I was 95 percent leased at the time of sale to seven tenants including Northrop Grumman, and Sullyfield Commerce Center II was 63 percent leased.
GEORGETOWN, KY. — Independence Realty Trust Inc. has purchased a 160-unit apartment community in Georgetown, a city near Lexington in Scott County. The Philadelphia-based REIT purchased the community from an undisclosed seller for $14.2 million using cash and its available line of credit. Built in 2001, the property features one-, two- and three-bedroom units averaging 1,206 square feet. The asset was about 99 percent occupied at the time of sale and had an average effective rent per occupied unit of $874 per month.
NEW YORK CITY — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the $72.9 million sale of a multifamily portfolio in New York City. The portfolio includes 17 buildings containing 194 residential units and five commercial spaces in central and northern Brooklyn. IPA’s Peter Von Der Ahe, Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, Daniel Greenblatt and Thomas Shihadeh represented the seller, a private investor, and procured the buyer, a real estate fund. Located in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods, the portfolio includes 167,668 square feet. The properties are located at 874 Bergen St., 942 Bergen St., 267 Clifton Place, 1400 Dean St., 135 Devoe St., 147 Grand St., 95 Kingston Ave., 403 Macon St., 244 New York Ave., 585 Park Place, 306 Prospect Place, 299 Putnam Ave., 303 Putnam Ave., 927 Putnam Ave., 931 Putnam Ave., 701 Saint Marks Ave. and 276 Throop Ave.
NEW YORK CITY — Zeev Douek of Q10 New York Realty Advisors, an affiliate of Houlihan-Parnes Realtors, has secured $29.3 million in financing for two apartment buildings in the Queens borough of New York City. The buildings include a total of 240 units with a unit mix of studios and one- and two-bedroom units. Both loans were placed with a New York-based bank. The five-year, fixed-rate loans provided for a cash-out refinancing of $6 million.
WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK — CBRE has arranged a 101,000-square-foot office lease for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. at 1 N. Lexington Ave. in White Plains. Sumitomo is a Japanese banking and financial services company headquartered in Tokyo. The company signed a 13-year lease at the office complex. CBRE’s William Cuddy Jr. and Jacqueline Novotny represented the landlord, Gateway One Group, in the transaction. Williams Peters, Derek Trulson, Robert Ageloff and Paul Tortora of Jones Lang LaSalle acted on behalf of Sumitomo.
VALHALLA, N.Y. — Reckson, a division of SL Green Realty Corp., has landed a pair of new offices leases at The Summit in Valhalla, a suburb of New York City. The first is an 11-year, 65,000-square-foot lease with Ascensia Diabetes Care US, a diabetes health management company, and the second is a 16,442-square-foot lease with Exelon Generation Co. an energy company. The Summit is a three-building, 700,000-square-foot office complex, which is now 93 percent occupied. Ascensia will occupy space on the top two floors of 100 Summit when it moves into the building in the fourth quarter of 2017. Exelon is expected to move in this summer and has committed to space on the first floor of 500 Summit. Steve Rotter and Conor Gill of Jones Lang LaSalle acted on behalf of Ascensia. Exelon did not have tenant representation. Reckson was represented in-house on both transactions. CBRE’s Brian Carcaterra and Jacqueline Novotny represented SL Green.