PORTLAND, ORE. — A joint venture between American Realty Advisors (ARA) and Unico Properties LLC has purchased the 23-story Congress Center in Portland for an undisclosed sum. The office tower is located at 1001 S.W. 5th Ave. Congress Center was built in 1980. The JV plans to upgrade the lobby, fitness center and bike parking. It will also add amenities like an outdoor deck to encourage creativity and collaboration among tenants. HFF’s Nick Kucha and Michael Leggett represented the seller. The firm’s Tom Wilson and Erica Christensen assisted the JV in securing a floating-rate acquisition loan through RBC Capital Markets.
SAN DIEGO — Sentre has purchased the 80-room Sommerset Suites Hotel in San Diego for an undisclosed sum. The asset is located at 606 Washington St. in the Hillcrest submarket. The property was originally designed in the late 1980s as a boutique apartment community. The sellers converted the property into a hotel in the mid-90s, leaving most of the apartment amenities intact. This included a heated pool and spa, barbeque area, dining room and business center. Sentre is repositioning the property into the Whiston, an 80-unit boutique apartment community. Sentre received a five-year, fixed-rate loan that was placed with a life insurance company. Financing will be used to purchase the hotel and fund the repositioning. HFF’s Hunter Combs and Scott Hall executed the transaction. Aldon Cole led HFF’s debt placement team.
IRVING, TEXAS — Greysteel has brokered the sale of Radford Place Townhomes, a multifamily property located at 3922 Evergreen St. in Irving. Texas 05 Partners LLC sold the property to Radford PT LLC for an undisclosed sum. Built in 1986, the property features 30 two- and three-bedroom units — 24 of which have been renovated — covered parking, a swimming pool and a hot tub. Boyan Radic, Doug Banerjee, Andrew Mueller, Ryan Hill and Andrew Hanson of Greysteel represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
SNYDER, TEXAS — Senior Living Investment Brokerage Inc. (SLIB) has arranged the $3.7 million sale of a skilled nursing facility in Snyder, located approximately 110 miles northeast of Odessa, Texas. The facility was built in 1977 and features 97 licensed and 72 operational beds. A Texas-based operator purchased the property. Neither the seller nor the name of the facility were disclosed. Matthew Alley led the SLIB team in negotiating the transaction.
DENTON, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Market Square at Unicorn Lake, a 19,253-square-foot retail property located at 2900 Wind River Lane in Denton. Built in 2008, the 100 percent occupied property features all triple-net leases. Bill Jordan of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and secured the buyer, an out-of-state private investor, in the deal. The acquisition price was not released.
PALESTINE, TEXAS — Pierson Retail Advisors has arranged the sale of Palestine Town Center, a retail center located in Palestine. A local buyer acquired the 14,925-square-foot property for an undisclosed price. At the time of sale, the property was 91 percent occupied by tenants including Western Finance, Preferred Income Tax and Livingston Hearing Aid Center. Pierson Retail Advisors represented the seller, a private individual, in the transaction.
DALLAS — Avison Young, in partnership with LiquidSpace, has arranged a lease for office space at The Centrum in Dallas’ Oak Lawn/Turtle Creek submarket for Salesforce. The Fortune 500 company will occupy 18,172 square feet at the office building, which is owned by Quadrant Investment Properties. Charlie Morris of Avison Young brokered the lease transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — KPMG LLP, a global tax advisory services firm and one of the Big Four auditing corporations, plans to develop a 55-acre, 800,000-square-foot training and conference complex within Tavistock Group’s Lake Nona, a 14-square-mile master-planned development in Orlando. KPMG didn’t disclose the estimated costs for the new complex, but the Orlando Sentinel reports that the campus will cost roughly $430 million to develop. The facility will feature an “Innovation Center,” as well as 800 guest rooms, fitness and outdoor recreational facilities and multiple food and beverage venues. The facility is expected to serve 50,000 KPMG employees annually, according to the Orlando Sentinel. KPMG expects to create at least 80 positions to work at the facility and that an additional 250 third-party contract operator positions will be created. New York-based Gensler is designing the campus to achieve LEED standards. Construction is expected to kick off this spring and wrap up in late 2019.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Bank of America has funded the refinancing of The Summit, a 1 million-square-foot trophy retail development in Birmingham. Built in phases in 1997 and 2009, The Summit’s retail tenant roster includes Apple, Trader Joe’s, Restoration Hardware, Carmike Cinemas, Bed Bath & Beyond, lululemon athletica, Anthropologie and West Elm. Restaurant tenants include P.F. Chang’s, Seasons 52, Cheesecake Factory, Macaroni Grill and California Pizza Kitchen. Situated on 102 acres at 125 Summit Blvd., The Summit is bordered by U.S. 280, I-459 and Cahaba Heights Road and was 99 percent leased at the time of financing. Jim Curtin led HFF’s debt placement team to place the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through Bank of America. The loan amount was not disclosed. The borrowing entity, a partnership between The Summit’s developer Bayer Properties LLC and Institutional Mall Investors LLC, which is a co-investment venture between Miller Capital Advisory Inc. and CalPERS, will use the loan proceeds to refinance an existing loan.
CARY, N.C. — The Dilweg Cos. has purchased Regency Lakeview, a two-building, 376,131-square-foot office complex in Cary, a suburb of Raleigh. Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. sold the property to Durham, N.C.-based Dilweg for $61 million. The two five-story, Class A buildings were built in 1985 and 1998 and were fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Dude Solutions, HCL, Global Knowledge and Black & Veatch. Dilweg plans to invest roughly $4 million to upgrade Regency Lakeview’s operating systems, parking, common areas and tenant amenities. Ben Kilgore, Elliott Brewer and Leslie Holmes of CBRE | Raleigh, along with Patrick Gildea, Matt Smith and Leslie Wooten of CBRE Inc., represented Intercontinental in the transaction.