FAYETTEVILLE, GA. — Caddis has broken ground on Heartis Fayetteville, a 168-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Fayetteville, approximately 20 miles south of Atlanta. The community will comprise three buildings totaling 157,029 square feet that will house 80 independent living units, 56 assisted living apartments and 32 memory care units. This is the first entry into Georgia for Caddis, a healthcare real estate firm based in Dallas, though the company is also planning another Heartis-branded community in nearby Suwanee. Portland, Ore.-based Frontier Management will operate Heartis Fayetteville upon completion, which Caddis expects to be in late 2017. Chicago-based investment firm Singerman Real Estate is a joint venture development partner on the project. The Atlanta office of Choate Construction will be the general contractor.
HAMMOND, LA. — The Home Depot has closed on its purchase of 9.7 acres of land for a new 106,000-square-foot store and 28,000-square-foot garden center as part of the redevelopment of Hammond Square, a 850,000-square-foot shopping center in Hammond developed and managed by Stirling Properties. Hammond Square is situated on nearly 100 acres at the corner of I-12 and US Highway 51 Business. Existing tenants include Target, AMC Theatres, Dillard’s, JC Penney, Academy Sports + Outdoors and Sears. The Home Depot is set to begin construction on the new store before the end of the year and open in 2017.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Big V Capital LLC has acquired Haywood Plaza, a 93,357-square-foot shopping center located in Greenville, for an undisclosed price. The property is located across from Haywood Mall, one of the three largest malls in South Carolina. The Local Cue, Bargain Hunt and Portofino’s restaurant anchor the center, which is also home to tenants including Asian Supermarket, Alpine Ski Center, Clothes Mentor, Sally Beauty, Tony’s Pizza and Reed’s Uniforms. The seller in the transaction was undisclosed.
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. — Blackstone Mortgage Trust has provided a nearly $200 million loan for the acquisition of the historic Falchi Building in Long Island City, Queens. Savanna, a New York City-based real estate investment manager, purchased the mixed-use building from Jamestown LP. The five-story, 711,194-square-foot building occupies a full city block bounded by 47th and 48th avenues. Originally constructed in 1922, the building at one time served as a warehouse and distribution facility for Gimbels department store. The Gimbels chain of stores closed in 1987. Falchi is currently 90 percent leased to tenants such as City of New York, Uber, Lyft, Spaces (Regus), Juice Press and Doughnut Planet. Savanna will implement a $35 million capital improvement plan at Falchi. The improvements will focus on building amenities and infrastructure work for the office tenants, such as upgrading building systems, modernizing elevators, renovating common corridors and bathrooms and developing new ground-floor retail. Mitch Arkin, Joe Grotto Jr., Haley Fisher, Dan D’Agnes and Kelli Berke of Cushman & Wakefield will work closely with Savanna to lease the property’s office space. David Tricarico, also of Cushman & Wakefield, will handle retail leasing. Eastdil Secured brokered the sale and arranged acquisition financing. Savanna …
VOORHEES TOWNSHIP AND MATAWAN, NEW JERSEY — CBRE has brokered the sale of two freestanding retail properties located in New Jersey for a combined total of $25.5 million in two separate transactions. In the first deal, an institutional buyer acquired a 168,599-square-foot Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, located at 144 NJ-73 in Voorhees Township, from a regional developer. Matthew Gorman and Michael Shover of CBRE represented both parties in the transaction. In the second deal, a regional developer sold a newly constructed 12,705-square-foot Walgreens, located at 339 Matawan Road in Matawan, to an undisclosed buyer. Gorman and Shover represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between CIM Group, Kushner and LIVWRK has acquired a land parcel at 85 Jay St. in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood from Watchtower Real Estate for an undisclosed price. The partnership plans to develop a mixed-use project on the parcel, which is currently a 135,000-square-foot parking lot. Additional details of the development have not been released. In August, the joint venture acquired a 739,000-square-foot property at 25-30 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn.
BEAR, DEL. — Delle Donne & Associates has received a $35 million loan for the refinancing of Governor’s Square Shopping Center, a fully leased retail property located at 401 Governor’s Place in Bear, a suburb of Wilmington, Del. Loan proceeds will be used to retire existing debt. The 294,213-square-foot, two-building property is occupied by ShopRite, Kmart, American Signature Furniture, Rite Aid, Sneaker Villa H&R Block, Karate for Kids, RadioShack, Bear Chiropractic, Subway and GameStop. The center also includes three pad sites leased to Wells Fargo, Taco Bell and McDonald’s. Ryan Ade of HFF secured the financing for the borrower.
EAST HARTFORD, CONN. — Sentry Commercial has arranged the sale of an industrial facility located on four acres at 225 Prospect St. in East Hartford. Teds Fourth LLC acquired the 155,890-square-foot facility from The Mooney Family LLC for $1.2 million. Sentry Commercial was the sole broker in the transaction.
NEWTON, CONN. — RHYS represented Market Hospitality Group in the signing of a new lease at Village Lexington Gardens, located at 32 Church Hill Road in Newtown. The 3,500-square-foot space will be occupied by 5th Market Place Kitchen & Bar, a New American-style restaurant. The new restaurant is slated to open in July 2017. Ryan Stranko and Tyler Lyman of RHYS represented the tenant, while Doug Rose of Coldwell Banker Scalzo Group represented the landlord, Mesa General Contractors, in the deal.
DENVER — Castle Lanterra has acquired the 369-unit Alexan Sloan’s Lake apartment community in Denver for $102.8 million. The community is located at 1550 Raleigh St. Alexan Sloan’s Lake features 9,000 square feet of first-floor retail. The property is part of a 19-acre mixed-use redevelopment of the former Saint Anthony Hospital campus. The development will eventually contain up to 150,000 square feet of retail and office space. Jeff Hawks, Terrance Hunt, Doug Andrews, Shane Ozment and Chris Cowan of ARA Newmark represented the seller, a joint venture between Trammell Crow Residential and an institutional investor.