NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has brokered the sale of a four-building retail portfolio in the Homecrest neighborhood of Brooklyn. Embkay by Select LLC sold the contiguous buildings to 325 Realty Inc. for $12.1 million. The 19,300-square-foot portfolio comprises 1805-1811, 1815 and 1817 Avenue U and 2073-2075 E. 18th St. Michael Guttman of Rosewood Realty represented the seller, while Guttman and Jacob Setton, also of Rosewood Realty, represented the buyer in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Union Funding has arranged a $10.3 million acquisition loan on behalf of ABJ Properties for its $16 million purchase of a multifamily portfolio in Harlem. The six-building portfolio comprises 82 apartments and six retail spaces. The properties are located at 53-55 W. 130th St., 165 W. 122nd St., 56 W. 127th St., 2401 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., and 342 and 346 Lenox Ave. Meir Kessner and Ira Zlotowitz of Eastern Union Funding secured the loan, which was provided by Customers Bank.
NEW YORK CITY — Barone Management, as developer, has opened a Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites, located at 538 W. 58th St. in New York City. Designed by Gene Kaufman Architect, the 85,000-square-foot hotel features 226 rooms in two seemingly separate structures — an 18-story tower and an adjoining 10-story building, which are recessed from the street at different depths. The hotel features a below-grade ground floor and lobby, an office center, fitness center, breakfast bar and a sunken entryway with a 2,300-square-foot landscaped plaza.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Karlin Real Estate has signed Trusource Labs, a technical support services company, to a long-term lease for 32,500 square feet at Parmer 3.2. The 192,500-square-foot, Class A office building is located within Parmer, a 300-acre technology and life science park in north-central Austin. The lease at Parmer 3.2 allows Trusource Labs to consolidate 250 employees working from the offices of two of its local clients. The company will continue to maintain its south Austin corporate headquarters. Trusource will occupy the property next February. Mark Emerick and John Barksdale of CBRE’s Austin office represented Karlin in the lease transaction. Jesse Weber of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Austin office represented Trusource.
McKINNEY, TEXAS —Service First Mortgage, a full-service mortgage lending company, has leased 25,000 square feet of office space in McKinney Corporate Center I, a Class A office building located at 6800 Weiskopf Ave. in McKinney. The deal will relocate the company’s corporate headquarters from Richardson. Cushman & Wakefield’s Craig Wilson, Dan Harris and Randy Cooper arranged the lease. Located within the 2,200-acre Craig Ranch community between the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Highway 75, the office complex provides access to the cities of Plano, Allen and Frisco. Craig Ranch is also within a 30-minute drive of DFW International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
DALLAS — Byrne Investment Co. brokered the sale of a medical office building to a partnership controlled by Roger Gault of Gault Co. and Robert Gunby of RTG Capital LLC. The property is located at 4844 Greenville Ave. in Dallas. The 4,000-square-foot building is under a long-term lease by urgent care clinic MedSpring. The building sits on a 9,500-square-foot site located between Lovers Lane and University Avenue.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Oak Hill Centre, a 43,261-square-foot retail center in Austin. Michael Buckner and Richard Mireles of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a Texas-based limited partnership, and procured the buyer, another Texas-based limited partnership. Built in 1984, Oak Hill Centre is located at the intersection of William Cannon Drive and Highway 290. At the time of the sale, the property was 96.5 percent occupied.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Grubb Properties plans to build a multifamily community within Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, a master-planned research, education and mixed-use development located near Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. The property will feature 340 apartment units, roughly 5,000 square feet of ground-level retail space and a parking deck with more than 850 parking spaces. The apartments and retail will wrap around the parking deck, which will be shared by residents, employees and visitors. The property will be situated between North Patterson Avenue and Chestnut Street adjacent to Wake Forest Biotech Place. The city of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County are providing property tax reimbursements for the development of the parking deck. Part of Grubb’s Link Apartments brand, the community will feature a street-level cycle center, dog park with dog wash, entertainment space overlooking nearby Bailey Park, courtyard with a saltwater pool, fire pits, grilling stations and a fitness center. The residences will range between studio units and two-bedroom apartments. Grubb Properties expects to break ground in early 2017.
ARLINGTON, VA. — Carr Properties has begun construction on a 175,000-square-foot, eight-story trophy office building located at 2311 Wilson Blvd. in Arlington’s Clarendon-Court House neighborhood. The LEED Gold-certified building will be anchored by OPower’s corporate headquarters. The project will feature a two-story glass lobby, conference facility, childcare center with an outdoor play area, health club, 5,900-square-foot rooftop terrace with a bocce court, urban park, bicycle center and on-site retail space. The office building will also be situated one block from the Metro’s Orange and Silver transit lines. The design team includes architect MTFA Architecture and general contractor Clark Construction. Carr Properties plans to deliver the asset by the end of 2017.
GREENVILLE, N.C. AND MEMPHIS, TENN. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged $49.8 million in non-recourse financing for two student housing communities in North Carolina and Tennessee. The financing includes a $21.7 million construction loan and $5.5 million mezzanine loan for Gather Uptown, a 405-bed student housing community underway near East Carolina University in Greenville. Steve Whitehead of NorthMarq Capital’s Dallas office and Rob Hervey of the firm’s Los Angeles office arranged both loans through an unnamed life insurance company. Both interest-only loans have three-year terms. Whitehead and Hervey also arranged the $22.6 million refinancing of Gather on Southern, a 435-bed student housing property located across the street from the University of Memphis campus. The community was fully occupied at the time of financing. The five-year loan features one year of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. Whitehead and Hervey arranged the loan through an unnamed life insurance company, and the unnamed borrower will use the financing to take out an existing construction loan.
