SANTA MARIA, CALIF. — Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT II has acquired Broadway Pavilion in Santa Maria for an undisclosed price. The 142,944-square-foot center is anchored by Food Maxx, a banner of Save Mart, a private chain of supermarkets that owns and operates stores in Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada. Additional tenants include Starbucks Coffee, Subway, Sally Beauty, Rent-A-Center, Cricket Wireless, Play It Again Sports, Party City, Hallmark and Federal Credit Union.
MONTROSE, COLO. — Roaring Fork Lodge LLC has selected Denver-based architectural firm OZ Architecture to design Roaring Fork Lodge, a new independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Montrose, located in the southwestern portion of Colorado. The 80,000-square-foot community will be situated on a 10-acre plot. It will include 10 independent living duplex cottages, in addition to the main building that will feature 69 independent living, assisted living and memory care apartments. The site will also feature a retail component, coffee shop, café and small medical clinic. Colorado-based Vivage Senior Living will operate the community, which is expected to open in late 2016.
ATLANTA — Avison Young has advised Adventus Realty Trust in its off-market acquisition of 1000 Parkwood, a 212,500-square-foot office building located in Atlanta’s Cumberland/Galleria office submarket. The seller, Atlanta Property Group, sold the 10-story property to Adventus for $38.9 million. Built in 1985, 1000 Parkwood was 92 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including global chemical company Kemira. Matt Tritschler of Avison Young advised Adventus in the transaction, and CBRE represented Atlanta Property Group.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Berkadia has brokered the $24.6 million sale of a two-property multifamily portfolio in southeast Orlando. Located across Curry Ford Road from one another, the portfolio includes the 210-unit Pendelton Park Villas and the 100-unit Carlyle Court Apartments. At the time of sale, Pendelton Park Villas was 97 percent occupied and Carlyle Court was 94 percent occupied. Both properties have undergone capital improvements totaling more than $1.2 million since 2012. Cole Whitaker and Hal Warren of Berkadia represented the seller, West Springfield, Mass.-based Florida Pendelton LP, in the transaction. The buyer was Miami-based Lloyd Jones Capital LLC.
CAPE CORAL, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $8.5 million sale of Crossings at Cape Coral, a 168-unit affordable housing community located at 1150 Hancock Creek S. Blvd. in Cape Coral. The property was constructed and placed into the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in 2000. The community comprises eight three-story buildings and a freestanding clubhouse. Evan Kristol of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office represented the seller, an institutional owner based in New York City, and the private, Florida-based buyer in the transaction.
MEDLEY, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a 149,980-square-foot industrial lease at Airport North Logistics Park, bringing Building One to full occupancy. The 45-acre industrial park is located at 8502 N.W. 80th St. in Medley, part of Miami’s Airport North submarket. The tenant, Eco Window Systems, is a privately owned manufacturer of affordable impact-resistant doors and windows. The company is relocating from Medley International Business Park and is doubling the size of its distribution center. Wayne Ramoski and Gian Rodriguez of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Airport North Industrial Inc., in the lease deal. Americas Commercial Real Estate LLC represented Eco Window Systems. Buildings Two and Three at Airport North Logistics Park are under construction and are expected to be delivered by mid-2017.
GERMANTOWN, TENN. — Trademark Property Co. has signed three new retailers to join Saddle Creek, a 173,000-square-foot outdoor lifestyle retail center in Germantown, roughly 22 miles east of Memphis. The new tenants include Atlanta-based American Threads, Sephora and Sur La Table. American Threads will open its 1,995-square-foot store next to Janie and Jack later this year; Sephora will open its 5,701-square-foot store next to Michael Kors later this year; and Sur La Table will open its 5,807-square-foot store next to Brooks Brothers in 2017. Saddle Creek is currently home to 40 retailers, including Apple, Anthropologie, J. Crew and Banana Republic. Other retailers opening this summer include Grimaldi’s Pizzeria, Paper Source and Sleep Number.
NEW YORK CITY — New York REIT (NYSE: NYRT) has agreed to acquire all properties of JBG Cos. and some of its private funds, creating an $8.4 billion real estate investment trust (REIT) named JBG Realty Trust. JBG Realty Trust’s portfolio will span more than 14.5 million square feet of office, residential and retail properties across the gateway markets of New York City and Washington, D.C. The properties are concentrated in transportation-served, urban-infill submarkets. The combined company will be headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md., with a regional office in New York City. JBG has received all required approvals for the transaction from its owners and JBG Fund Advisory Committee members. The board of directors of NYRT has approved the merger agreement and recommended that its stockholders approve the issuance of common stock and operating partnership units in the transaction. JBG Cos. will receive 319.9 million shares of common stock and operating partnership units of NYRT in exchange for the contributed JBG properties. NYRT stockholders will own about 34.8 percent of the combined company’s shares and units, while JBG equity holders will own about 65.2 percent once the deal is complete. The Eastdil Secured group of Wells Fargo Securities acted as …
Overall the Rhode Island office market exited 2015 with positive momentum, which resulted in a strong first quarter 2016. While much of the activity is intrastate, it is a sign that local businesses have regained confidence in the overall economy outside of Rhode Island. In Providence, office building conversions to residential apartments continues to drive much of the urban office building demand. The largest of the recent residential conversions include the sale of 95 Chestnut Street (57,000 square feet) and 170 Westminster Street (62,000 square feet), which has resulted in contraction of the Class B Providence office market. In addition, The Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD) recent expansion/purchase of a 12,000-square-foot office condominium at 123 Dyer Street has also spurred downtown demand. The Providence office market has also been affected by corporate consolidation. Citizens Bank, Bank of America, Textron and Blue Cross have all reduced the size of their footprints in Providence over the past 18 months. As a result, the Providence office market experienced a slight uptick in vacancy rates ending 2015, at about 16.5 percent. In the Jewelry District, three construction projects are well underway. The South Street Landing project is a $220 million dollar renovation of …
In real estate, where some see an eyesore, others can sometimes find opportunity. Such was the case with The Mayfair Collection, a new regional shopping center in Wauwatosa, Wis., located approximately 10 miles west of downtown Milwaukee. Just a few years ago, the 69-acre site was filled with old, obsolete industrial buildings that were mostly unoccupied, but the City of Wauwatosa and our firm, Chicago-based HSA Commercial, shared the vision of transforming the vacant industrial park into a vibrant mixed-use community. The project initially involved adaptively repurposing 1 million square feet of warehouse space into a contemporary retail destination that has brought national retailers like Nordstrom Rack and Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH to Wisconsin. The development also has helped launch new national brands such as J. Crew Mercantile and Off/Aisle by Kohl’s. The once-empty industrial structures are now completely transformed into lively shops and restaurants that are drawing customers from all over southeast Wisconsin. Phase I: Find the right mix What historically made the site attractive for industrial use — its highly accessible location, at the interchange with U.S. Highway 45 and Burleigh Street, less than five miles north of Interstate 94 — also made it ideal for retail, …