NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of two multifamily buildings located at 234 E. 95th St. and 446 E. 88th St. in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. A local investor acquired the properties, which total 40 apartment units. The property located at 234 E. 95th St. features 20 one-bedroom units and sold for nearly $670 per square foot. The 8,200-square-foot building also features additional 7,508 square feet of air rights. The 9,000-square-foot property, located at 446 E. 88th St., features 20 one-bedroom, rent-stabilized units and 1,988 square feet of additional air rights. The property sold for $760 per square foot. Guthrie Garvin, Thomas Gammino and Michael Gembecki of Cushman & Wakefield. The buyer, a local investor, was self-represented in the transaction.
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT. — Nedde Real Estate has brokered the lease of 5,808 square feet office at 1891 Williston Road in South Burlington. The tenant, Ideas Well Done, will move into the space in early December. Fernando Cresta and Doug Nedde of Nedde Real Estate co-own the property. Meg McGovern of Donahue & Associates represented the tenant in the lease.
NORCROSS, GA. — A joint venture between PointOne Holdings and Biscayne Atlantic has sold Steeple Chase Apartments, a 306-unit, garden-style multifamily community in Norcross, for $26 million. The joint venture originally purchased the property in March 2013 for $13.3 million. During the joint venture’s ownership, the companies invested roughly $1.8 million in capital improvements at Steeple Chase to upgrade interiors, improve the infrastructure and enhance curb appeal. During that time occupancy increased from 92 percent to 97 percent and average effective rental rates increased by 29 percent from $673 to $868 monthly. Monthly net operating income jumped 75 percent during that time frame from $82,100 to $143,900. The name of the buyer was undisclosed.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Atlanta-based Columbia Property Trust Inc. has executed more than 100,000 square feet of leases this year at 80 M Street, a 285,000-square-foot office building in Washington, D.C., that the company has owned since 2004. The Class A office building is located in the Capitol Riverfront submarket and is within walking distance of the Washington Nationals’ ballpark and the Navy Yard/Ballpark Metrorail station. The leases include a 15-year deal with WeWork, a shared office space provider, for 68,673 square feet; a 24,224-square-foot renewal with Gryphon Technologies, a military engineering company; and a new 14,990-square-foot lease with General Dynamics Information Technology, a defense services provider. Columbia Property Trust is also investing $3 million in renovations at the office building that will add a new entrance, collaborative main lobby, outdoor terrace and tenant lounge. The investment will also include renovations of the building’s elevators, fitness facility and restrooms. WeWork will occupy portions of the first, second and third floors and will feature a dedicated entrance within the main lobby. The company is expected to open its offices in the third quarter of 2017.
GLEN ALLEN, VA. — BH Properties has sold the Owens & Minor office building to Real Estate Value Advisors for $8.3 million. The 62,941-square-foot property is located at 4800 Cox Road in Glen Allen, a suburb of Richmond. The building was 98 percent leased at the time of sale to three tenants: The Winebow Group, Covington Travel and Free Agents Marketing. Eric Robison, Mark Douglas and Mac Wilson of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer brokered the transaction.
TRUSSVILLE, ALA. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has arranged the $4.5 million sale of Sunrise Ridge, a 45-unit assisted living community in the Birmingham suburb of Trussville. Atlas Senior Living, based in Birmingham, bought the property from a local partnership. The community was built in 2009 and features additional land for expansion. Bradley Clousing of SLIB arranged the transaction.
LAHAINA, HAWAII — A joint venture between funds managed by Ares Management LP (NYSE: ARES), SMW Hospitality LLC and Trinity Investments LLC has acquired The Ritz-Carlton Kapalua in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The JV acquired the property from a partnership between Woodridge Capital Partners LLC and Colony Capital Inc. The price was not disclosed. The Ritz-Carlton Kapalua is an oceanfront property located on 49 acres of Maui’s northwest shore. The hotel is part of the 23,000-acre master planned Kapalua resort, home to the Kapalua Wine and Food Festival and the PGA Tour’s Tournament of Champions. The resort is renowned for its golf courses, tennis facilities, beaches, restaurants and shops. The Ritz-Carlton Kapalua features 297 guestrooms, as well as 107 condos within a dedicated wing of the hotel. Known as The Residences, the one- and two-bedroom condos were recently renovated. The joint venture plans to renovate the hotel’s common areas and guest rooms following the acquisition. The hotel’s amenities include a 17,500-square-foot spa with 15 treatment rooms, three-tiered swimming pool, fitness center, 4,844-square-foot retail arcade, access to two championship golf courses (The Bay Course and The Plantation Course) and instruction at Kapalua Golf Academy. In addition, guests can …
Orlando likely resides in the minds of children and children at heart as “The Happiest Place on Earth,” and those involved in its industrial market today couldn’t agree more. Over the past five years, the Central Florida industrial market has been transformed from its prior position as a spoke in the wheel of distribution to the hub. To service consumers located in the country’s third most populous state, companies are locating large distribution centers in Central Florida (hub) with smaller distribution centers in Tampa, South Florida and Jacksonville (spokes). From a distribution standpoint, Central Florida has become the statewide distribution center for Florida. Warehouse is the New Retail The world of e-commerce began with the birth of the internet in the early 90s, made a big milestone with the first secure online transaction in 1994, and today Amazon is no longer first thought of as a rainforest in South America. In fact, Amazon is so prolific that recent reports from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimate that Amazon Prime now reaches nearly half of U.S. households. That translates to 54 million people, just in the United States, who have paid $99 for an annual membership that enables each consumer access to …
BUENA PARK, CALIF. — M+D Properties will open the 400,000-square-foot retail and entertainment component of The Source, a 600,000-square-foot mixed-use development located in Buena Park, early next year. CGV Cinemas anchors the retail component of the development, which will feature tenants including OOAK Kitchen, Samgeori Butchers Pork Charcuterie, Olympus Screen Golf & Bar, Copley and HoneyMee. Upon completion, the property will also feature a 60,000-square-foot, Class A office building and a four-star Hilton Hotel. JLL’s Jay Nugent and Naomi Rizkowsky have been retained to handle leasing for the office component.
REDDING, CALIF. — Ray Stone Inc. has acquired River Oaks Retirement Community, a 102-unit independent living community in Redding, approximately 160 miles north of Sacramento. The price was not disclosed. Ray Stone will rebrand the community as River Commons and add it to the Ray Stone Senior Living Portfolio. River Commons was built in 1986 by the Rogers family, which operated the community until the sale. The community featured a stabilized occupancy over 94 percent. The bulk of the apartments have been renovated within two years. Ray Stone, a Sacramento-based investment and management firm, plans to implement $400,000 in aesthetic upgrades during the first two years of ownership. Jason Punzell of Senior Living Investment Brokerage represented the seller, Hartnell Associates, in the transaction.