NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the $15.3 million sale of a five-building multifamily portfolio in the Hollis neighborhood of Queens. The portfolio consists of five two-story apartment complexes with 100 apartments and 37 parking spots. The addresses are: 196-03, 196-07 and 196-11 Jamaica Ave. and 91-15 and 91-21 196th St. The portfolio totals 45,000 square feet and the buildings were built in 1950. Black Spruce Management, a Manhattan-based real estate investment/management company, was the seller. A private investor was the buyer. Rosewood’s Aaron Jungreis brokered the deal.
BATH, PA. — Colliers International’s Allentown office has brokered the $1.7 million sale of a 39,064-square-foot industrial building on 6.3 acres located at 7 Allen St. in Bath. The buyer, Wade Property Holding Bath LLC, will use the facility as a furniture shipment location. Kelly Berfield and Ryan Dietrick of Colliers International represented the seller, Penn Bath Properties, in the transaction.
RALEIGH, N.C. — VitalSource Technologies, an education and technology firm, has expanded its footprint at 227 Fayetteville in downtown Raleigh. VitalSource, which moved into the mixed-use office building in 2015, will occupy an additional 11,163 square feet, resulting in a total of 33,151 square feet on three full floors. Other tenants at the office building include RATIO Architects, Cohera Medical, Indy Week and a newly announced, 26,000-square-foot YMCA. The owner of 227 Fayetteville, LRC Properties, recently completed a $14.5 million renovation of the 10-story building. Robin Roseberry Anders of NAI Carolantic represented the landlord in the lease deal.
PHILADELPHIA — PennFIRST is completing the planning and design process for the University of Pennsylvania’s new $1.5 billion hospital. The “Pavilion” will be situated on Penn Medicine’s West Philadelphia campus where it will create a new public square and a focal point for all surrounding buildings to anchor the health system. An official groundbreaking took place on Wednesday, May 3. The Pavilion will house inpatient care for the Abramson Cancer Center, heart and vascular medicine and surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, and a new emergency department. The project is slated for completion in 2021. Located on the former site of Penn Tower, the Pavilion will be home to about 500 new private patient rooms and 47 operating/interventional rooms in a 1.5 million-square-foot, 16-story facility. The Pavilion will be linked to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the adjacent Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine as well as the train station via a network of public bridges and walkways. Long-term flexibility was incorporated into the design so that patient rooms can be adapted and changed over time with minimal impact to the building fabric. The patient rooms will be equipped with in-room technologies to strengthen communication between patients, families and care …
When Ross Perot Jr. broke ground on the world’s first industrial airport in north Fort Worth in 1988, even he didn’t realize what a big deal it would become. Named “Alliance” in recognition of the collaboration between Perot’s Hillwood, the city of Fort Worth and the Federal Aviation Administration, the project kicked off a development spree that now spans 18,000 acres. With the airport, a major intermodal yard, two Class I rail lines and a number of interconnecting highways, Alliance has had a profound impact on establishing the industrial real estate market in Fort Worth’s northern sector. The development is still going strong, but other firms such as Trammell Crow Co., IDI and Stream Realty Partners have joined the party with surrounding projects that build on Hillwood’s foundation. The latter recently completed work on a new 538,000-square-foot Northlake headquarters for Farmer Brothers Coffee, which includes a 125,000-square-foot roasting plant and 258,000-square-foot distribution center. Industrial development remains brisk in other areas of Fort Worth, too, most notably in Railhead Industrial Park, Mercantile Center and Carter Industrial Park, where Hunt Southwest is underway with a 657,000-square-foot spec project. This project follows a 301,500-square-foot facility the developer opened at the Riverbend West development …
ATLANTA — Cousins Properties and Gables Residential have sold Emory Point I and II, a mixed-use property in Atlanta’s Druid Hills area comprising the 750-unit Gables Emory Point and 125,000 square feet of retail space. Blackstone purchased the development for a gross price of $199 million. The project was owned through a 75/25 joint venture between Cousins and Gables Residential, and Cousins’ portion of the sales proceeds, before transaction costs and debt payments, was approximately $150 million. Tenants at Emory Point include American Threads, Fab’rik, Francesca’s, Lizard Thicket, Loft, Fresh to Order, Marlow’s Tavern, Tin Lizzy’s, CVS/pharmacy, Earth Fare, Orangetheory Fitness, Empower Yoga and Pink Barre. Paul Berry, John Whitlow, Chris Decoufle and Kevin Hurley of CBRE represented Cousins Properties and Gables Residential in the transaction. CBRE’s Robert Kadoori secured acquisition funding on behalf of Blackstone. Atlanta-based Cousins plans to sell another $150 million to $175 million worth of assets for the remainder of 2017.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Trammell Crow Co. and joint venture partner PGIM Real Estate have begun construction on Phase II of 35-Eagle, a 106-acre industrial park located near Alliance Airport in north Fort Worth. Phase II will deliver three new buildings: a 1.1 million-square-foot cross-dock warehouse; a 312,654-square-foot rear-load warehouse; and a 233,961-square-foot cross-dock warehouse. Completion of all three buildings is scheduled for the fourth quarter. Phase I of the project delivered two Class A buildings totaling roughly 1.6 million square feet in the fourth quarter of 2016. Those properties are now 90 percent occupied.
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — SWBC Real Estate LLC has broken ground on Central Park at Craig Ranch, a 276-unit multifamily complex situated on 4.5 acres within the 2,200-acre, master-planned community of Craig Ranch in McKinney. Amenities will include a clubhouse with a business center, 24-hour fitness center, a resort-style pool and an attached parking garage. The project is expected to be complete by December 2018, with the first units becoming available by April 2018.
DENTON, TEXAS — Andy B’s Entertainment and Bowling Centers, a Missouri-based company that provides food, drink and games, has entered into an agreement to purchase land in north Texas on which to build a new 45,000-square-foot location. The new establishment will be located within Rayzor Ranch Town Center, a 600,000-square-foot retail development located at 2750 W. University Drive in Denton. Construction on the property, which will be the company’s fourth location under the Andy B’s brand and its 11th overall, is slated to begin late this year.
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Salt Lick BBQ will open a new location in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro of Grapevine in 2018. The new restaurant, which is situated on a 10-acre tract, will feature 10,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor dining space, as well as a specialty wine and beer bar. A general contractor has not yet been assigned to the project, construction of which is scheduled to begin this fall.