MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates has brokered the acquisition of two office buildings located at 150 and 200 Donald Lynch Blvd. in Marlborough. The Minardi Limited Partnership purchased the two buildings from Pondview JV Owner LLC for $13.1 million. Super Stars Learning Center occupies the 9,257-square-foot building at 150 Donald Lynch Blvd., while Brookfield Power, Western Digital and ReWalk Robotics, among others, occupy the three-story 116,762-square-foot building at 200 Donald Lynch Blvd. At the time of sale, the property at 200 Donald Lynch Blvd. was 95 percent occupied. William Kelleher IV and James Cozza of Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates represented the buyer, while Newmark Knight Frank represented the seller in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Ready Capital Structured Finance has arranged $6 million in financing for the acquisition, renovation and stabilization of a mixed-use property in SoHo. The financing is a non-recourse senior floating-rate bridge loan. The property features 7,500 square feet of retail, office and multifamily space.
SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has opened the first location of Amazon Go, an 1,800-square-foot mini grocery store in Seattle that allows customers to shop without waiting in checkout lines. The store was open exclusively to Amazon employees for the past year. The store is located at 2131 7th Ave. near the corner of Blanchard Street, less than a mile from Pike Place Market and the e-commerce giant’s headquarters. It offers ready-to-eat meals and snacks prepared by Amazon chefs, as well as grocery staples and artisanal baked goods. The offerings also include chef-designed meal kits. Shoppers must have an Amazon account and the Amazon Go app, the latter of which enables entry into the store. Once inside, customers shop as they normally would and then simply leave. While there are no cashiers, there are employees working in the store who prepare food and check IDs on purchases of alcoholic beverages. The store employs inventory-tracking technologies featuring cameras and motion sensors that automatically detect items being removed or returned to shelves. Shortly after shoppers depart, they receive a digital receipt and charges to their Amazon account. “Amazon has generally been regarded as a threat to conventional retail,” says Kenneth Katz, …
It’s impossible to ignore the ongoing boom of new commercial real estate development in downtown Charlotte. Get a glimpse of the skyline from the Interstate 277 loop and you can see the already-present structures standing tall among the handful of cranes and half-completed construction filling in the gaps. More than a dozen projects are currently underway in Center City, with more expected during the next 12 to 18 months. New and Improved Recently opened towers, like 300 South Tryon and 615 South College, have attracted major corporate relocations to downtown CBD, including Regions Bank and Sitehands. Ally Bank just announced its 400,000-square foot move to Ally Charlotte Center, and Crescent Communities just kicked off development of a new tower in the burgeoning Stonewall corridor for a 2020 completion date. Companies seeking the top-of-market space in the city’s newest downtown office developments want to have a presence in the heart of Charlotte’s energy. There, they can recruit elite talent and build their brand. Of course, that presence comes with the highest rental rates and parking costs, in addition to elevated tenant-buildout budgets in a market where construction costs continue to rise. At the other end of the spectrum, some are finding …
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Chicago-based investment bank Ziegler has secured $94.7 million in bond financing for Longhorn Village, a 310-unit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Austin. The alumni association of the University of Texas sponsors the nonprofit community, which is situated on 55 acres and features 214 entrance-fee independent living units, 20 assisted living suites, 16 memory support suites and 60 skilled nursing beds. Proceeds from the bonds will advance refund $85.1 million of Longhorn Village’s 2012 bonds, as well as fund $2 million for routine capital expenditures and a debt service reserve fund.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Bay Area Mini Storage, a 635-unit self-storage facility located at 2301 Rodd Field Road in Corpus Christi. The property features 95,479 square feet of net rentable space and visibility from State Highway 357, and has undergone three expansions since its original construction in 2003. Jon Danklefs and Michael Mele of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, and procured the buyer, a private investor. Both parties requested anonymity.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Inland Real Estate Acquisitions LLC has purchased the Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma, a 33,500-square-foot medical office building located at 100 SE 59th St. near downtown Oklahoma City. The inpatient, acute care hospital offers 12 beds and seven operating rooms equipped to handle laser procedures, pain management and short-term hospitalization. Mark Cosenza and David Neboyskey of Inland secured the acquisition on behalf of an Inland affiliate. Mark West, Coler Yoakam, Anthony Frogameni and Michael George of HFF represented the seller, Atlanta-based Pro Realty LLC.
WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS — National Health Investors Inc., a publicly traded seniors housing and healthcare REIT, has acquired a 121-bed skilled nursing facility in the southern Dallas metro of Waxahachie for $14.4 million. NHI will lease the facility, which opened in late 2016, to The Ensign Group, which operates 16 skilled nursing facilities in Texas. The acquisition was funded by NHI’s revolving credit facility.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Equitable Commercial Realty (ECR) has negotiated a 12,780-square-foot office lease at 800 Brazos St. in Austin. Jason Steinberg and Matt Levin of ECR represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. Will Douglas and Todd Gilfillan of CBRE represented the tenant, Concierge Auctions LLC, a New York-based auction house.
PHOENIX — Ziegler has closed $70.2 million in bond financing for The Beatitudes Campus, a nonprofit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in north central Phoenix. The Beatitudes Campus sits on 27 acres and features 188 entrance-fee independent living apartments, 11 entrance-fee independent living patio homes, 259 rental independent living apartments, 92 traditional assisted living units, 29 early-stage memory care beds and 72 skilled nursing beds. The bonds will refund $64.6 million in outstanding bonds from 2006, finance $6.3 million in pre-development costs for master-planned renovations and fund a debt service reserve fund.