CLEVELAND, TENN. — Avison Young has brokered the sale of an 851,370-square-foot distribution facility located at 1520 Lauderdale Memorial Highway in Cleveland that is fully leased to General Electric (GE). New York-based Lexington Realty Trust purchased the asset from Chicago-based SMB Bradley for an undisclosed price. The facility is GE’s largest lighting distribution center and serves some of the world’s leading retailers, including Walmart, Lowe’s Home Improvement and Target. The property features 32-foot clear ceiling heights, T5 lighting, 350 trailer parking spaces and 250 automobile parking spaces. Excel Logistics, a division of DHL, has operated the facility since 2007. Erik Foster, Mike Wilson, Sue Earnest and Chris Skibinski of Avison Young represented the seller in the transaction.
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NorthMarq Capital Secures $21.2M Freddie Mac Green Up Loan for Multifamily Property in Naples, Florida
by John Nelson
NAPLES, FLA. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $21.2 million acquisition loan for Berkshire Reserve, a 146-unit apartment community located in Naples. Lee Weaver and Melissa Marcolini-Quinn of NorthMarq Capital structured the loan through Freddie Mac’s Green Up program on behalf of the borrower, which has committed to saving at least 15 percent in energy or water usage.
Trillium Capital Arranges $6.5M Freddie Mac Loan for Apartment Community in Decatur, Alabama
by John Nelson
DECATUR, ALA. — Trillium Capital Resources has arranged a $6.5 million Freddie Mac loan for the refinancing of Summer Key Apartments, a 188-unit multifamily community in Decatur. Trillium arranged the 10-year, non-recourse loan with a fixed interest rate 198 basis points over the 10-year Treasury yield. The loan features a 70 percent loan-to-value ratio.
EAST BOSTON AND REVERE, MASS. — The HYM Investment Group LLC, a mixed-use developer based in Boston, has purchased Suffolk Downs, a 161-acre horse racetrack located in East Boston and Revere. Sterling Suffolk Racecourse LLC sold the asset in a sale-leaseback transaction to HYM’s affiliate, The McClellan Highway Development Co. LLC, for $155 million. The under-utilized horse racing facility will officially close after the summer of 2018, according to HYM. The Boston Globe reports that the racetrack is only planning on hosting six live races this season. HYM plans to redevelop Suffolk Downs into a transit-oriented, mixed-use project, including office, retail, housing and open space. HYM expects to develop street-level retail and housing in the redevelopment’s first phase. No timeline for construction was given. “In our dozens of preliminary meetings with elected officials and local community stakeholders in Revere and East Boston recently, we consistently heard that local residents want retail, restaurants and new job opportunities. This development will provide all, while also setting aside a significant amount of the site for open space and providing better connections to the neighborhood,” says Thomas O’Brien, founding partner and managing director of HYM Investment Group. “We are looking forward to engaging the …
The pace of retail construction remains brisk in Wichita with national retailers showing an increased interest in the market. In the first quarter, developers started construction on nine buildings totaling 112,961 square feet, reports brokerage firm NAI Martens. Completions during the first quarter totaled 117,300 square feet. Notable store openings included Sprouts Farmers Market at Central Avenue and Rock Road; Save-A-Lot grocery store at 1640 S. Broadway; Cavender’s western wear store in Greenwich Place at K-96 and Greenwich Road; Andy’s Frozen Custard at NewMarket Square along 21st Street; and a freestanding Starbucks at Wichita State University on the school’s innovation campus. In short, developers in Wichita appear to be making up for lost time. As a result of the Great Recession, the local economy shed 30,000 jobs between 2009 and 2011, many of them related to the aviation industry, according to the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce. Commercial real estate activity ground to a halt at that point. “Between 2008 and 2012 and maybe into 2014, we just didn’t have much development at all. There were some plans on the drawing boards, but nothing really reached fruition,” recalls Thomas Johnson, president of NAI Martens. But consumer confidence gradually began to …
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — A joint venture between Mariner Real Estate Management and PRES Cos. has purchased a 191,556-square-foot office building in downtown Anaheim for $58.9 million. St. Joseph Health System fully occupies the asset. The building is located at 200 W. Center St. Promenade. It was built in 1992 and renovated in 2015. St. Joseph maintains a long-term lease at the property that still has 10 years left. NGKF’s David Milestone and Brett Green represented the buyers. The same firm’s Kevin Shannon, Paul Jones, Ken White and Blake Bokosk represented the undisclosed seller.
LOS ANGELES — Taubman Centers, Inc. has named four new restaurants that will join Beverly Center’s culinary lineup as part of the shopping and dining destination’s $500 million redevelopment. The restaurants — Cal Mare, Eggslut, Farmhouse and Yardbird — will be located on Level 1. All are expected to open by the end of 2018. A brand new 8,200-square-foot concept from James Beard Award-winning, Michelin-starred Chef Michael Mina, Cal Mare is a celebration of coastal Italian cuisine with Mediterranean and Californian influences. Farmhouse celebrates California’s bounty from local farms, markets, dairies and purveyors, situated within a new informal dining experience in a 7,000-square-foot space. Yardbird will be a 6,000-square-foot homage to farm-fresh ingredients, classic Southern cooking, culture and hospitality, helmed by award-winning restaurateur John Kunkel. Eggslut is a gourmet food concept founded in 2011 as a food truck. Every store is open throughout the renovation that is scheduled to be completed by holiday 2018. Beverly Center has more than 100 distinctive stores, including Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Saint Laurent and Salvatore Ferragamo. The center is anchored by Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s. Taubman Centers is engaged in the ownership, management and/or leasing of 27 regional, super-regional and outlet shopping centers …
Capstone, Harrison Street Close Equity Financing for $50M Mixed-Use Development at Seattle University
by Nellie Day
SEATTLE — Capstone Development Partners and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital have closed on equity financing for an on-campus mixed-use development at Seattle University. The 143,000-square-foot mixed-use development will include 300 beds of student housing and 16,000 square feet of office space to be used as administrative offices for the university. Financing for the $50 million development was completed under Capstone and Harrison Street’s P3+ development model. Construction on the project is already underway, with an opening scheduled for August 2018. Ankrom Moisan Architects designed the project, which Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Company, is constructing. Seattle University Housing & Residence Life will provide residence life programming services, while Capstone and Harrison Street will provide asset management and Blanton Turner will provide facility maintenance services, all in a shared governance approach.
Marcus & Millichap Negotiates $5.4M Sale of 40-Unit Seniors Housing Community in Hemet
by Nellie Day
HEMET, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $5.4 million sale of The Terrace at Seven Hills, a 40-unit seniors housing property in Hemet, located east of Los Angeles and north of San Diego. Built in 2012, the property is age restricted and features 12 one-bedroom, one-bath units and 28 two-bedroom, two-bath units. The sales price equates to $135,000 per unit and a capitalization rate just under 6 percent. Reza Ghaffari from Marcus & Millichap’s Ontario office represented the seller, a limited liability company. Ghaffari and Mark Bridge represented the buyer, a private investor.
HOUSTON — Whitestone REIT (NYSE: WSR) has acquired BLVD Place, a 216,944-square-foot, mixed-use property in Houston’s Galleria/Uptown neighborhood. Whitestone purchased the property for approximately $158 million, according to realtynewsreport.com. The property was 99 percent leased at the time of sale by tenants such as Whole Foods Market, Frost Bank and Verizon Wireless. The sale includes 1.4 acres upon which the company will develop a six-story mixed-use building featuring 46,000 square feet of retail space and 91,000 square feet of office space.