Property Type

CHICAGO — The Joseph J. Duffy Co. has broken ground on Brainerd Park Apartments, a $12 million affordable housing project in Chicago’s 21st ward. The 36-unit property is located at 8920 S. Loomis St. The two-story building features one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units. The property will serve families earning at or below 60 percent of the area median income. Chicago Housing Authority rental assistance will cover 25 percent of the units. Safeway Construction Co. Inc. is a partner in the construction of the building. Two nonprofit organizations, Full Circle Communities Inc. and Christian Community Health Center, are the co-owners and developers. Hooker DeJong Inc. is providing architectural services.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

GREEN BAY, WIS. — Peachtree Hotel Group has acquired the Hampton Inn Green Bay Downtown in Green Bay for an undisclosed price. The 135-room hotel is located at 201 Main St. near Lambeau Field, home of the National Football League’s Green Bay Packers. Amenities include an indoor pool, fitness center, business center and meeting space. The seller was not disclosed.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Apple Hospitality REIT Inc. has purchased a newly constructed, dual-branded Hilton Garden Inn and Home2 Suites by Hilton property in downtown Birmingham for $38.4 million. Located at 250 18th St. S., the new hotel has a combined total of 210 rooms. The property features two distinct lobbies and dining areas — each catering to the needs of the brands’ respective guests — and shares one registration desk, fitness center and an outdoor swimming pool. Following this acquisition, Apple Hospitality now owns 237 hotels located throughout 33 states.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

WINDSOR MILL, MD. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $4.7 million sale of a 94,851-square-foot retail property net-leased to Shoppers Food & Pharmacy in Windsor Mill, roughly 13 miles west of Baltimore. Preet Sabharwal and Michael Soleimani of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Jacqueline A. Mickiewicz Trust, in the transaction, and procured the buyer, a limited liability company. The property is located at 8212 Liberty Road at the corner of Liberty and Rolling roads.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

WOODSTOCK, GA. — Franklin Street has brokered the $4.1 million sale of The Shops at Eagle Pointe, a 26,960-square-foot retail center located in the Atlanta suburb of Woodstock. John Tennant and Bryan Belk of Franklin Street represented the seller, Indianapolis-based Alpha Opportunity Fund I LLC, in the transaction. D2D Holdings Inc. purchased the asset. At the time of sale, the property was leased to tenants including a gym, dry cleaner, doctor’s office and restaurants.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

OXFORD, MISS. — Texla Housing Partners has sold University Trails Oxford, a student housing community located near the University of Mississippi in Oxford. The buyer, Capstone Real Estate Investments LLC, plans to rebrand the community as Flatts at South Campus. The property contains 492 beds in a mix of two-, three- and four-bedroom units. Shared amenities include a resort-style pool, business center, fitness center, beach volleyball court, basketball court, computer lab and a 24-hour game room. Renovations planned by Capstone for the property include the conversion of units to feature community-wide bed-to-bath parity, and common area and unit upgrades.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

MCDONOUGH, GA. — Cushman & Wakefield has secured a 295,800-square-foot lease with TravelPro, a provider of travel goods, at 1500 Medline Place in McDonough, roughly 30 miles south of Atlanta. Ray Stache, Lisa Pittman and Greg Dikerson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Medline Industries, in the lease transaction. The lease marks TravelPro’s first location in the metro Atlanta market. Constructed in 2016, 1500 Medline Place was 100 percent leased in less than 12 months following completion. The facility features 37-foot ceilings, 77 dock doors, LED lighting and access to 13 UPS and FedEx centers.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

DALLAS — ORIX USA, a Dallas-based division of international financial services group ORIX Corp., has acquired Lancaster Pollard Holdings LLC. The acquisition price was more than $300 million, according to a report by Commercial Mortgage Alert. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Lancaster Pollard was the top HUD lender in the seniors housing sector for fiscal year 2016, which ended Sept. 30, 2016. The company closed 60 transactions totaling $554.4 million, accounting for 21 percent of total HUD volume in the sector. Lancaster Pollard is a new separate subsidiary of ORIX alongside RED Capital Group, which is also based in Columbus, and Boston Financial Investment Management. All three ORIX subsidiaries will continue to operate as separate companies with their current management. Moving forward under the ORIX Commercial Mortgage Servicing umbrella, Lancaster Pollard will focus on the financial, capital and advisory needs of senior living and healthcare clients, and RED will do the same in the affordable and market-rate multifamily sectors. Advisors for ORIX USA on the transaction included Beekman Advisors Inc. and Houlihan Lokey Inc. for financial services and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP for legal services. For Lancaster Pollard, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC served as financial advisor and Kramer Levin …

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

TYLER, TEXAS — McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. will build an expansion project for CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital, located at 800 E. Dawson St. in Tyler. The project will deliver two new trauma rooms, 48 ICU beds, an emergency room with 54 treatment beds and two helipads. It will also replace the existing parking garage with a 297,000-square-foot structure, construction of which began earlier this year and is expected to be complete by March 2018.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Tarrant County has purchased a 40,075-square-foot tract of land located at 401 E. Weatherford St. in downtown Fort Worth, on which it will build a multi-level parking garage with ground-floor office space. The site encompasses nearly one acre and is situated adjacent to Sundance Square. Eddie Liebman and Matthew Rosenfeld of Weitzman represented the seller in the transaction. Todd Burnette of JLL represented the county.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail