ATLANTA — AloStar has provided three loans totaling $20.5 million for the acquisition of industrial and retail assets in North Carolina and Georgia. AloStar funded a $9 million loan to ColumbusNova for the purchase of a 159,810-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mooresville, N.C. The property will be leased to a specialty beverage producer. AloStar also funded a $7.3 million loan to a joint venture for the purchase and renovation of a 272,396-square-foot industrial asset in Durham. The joint venture was between Trinity Capital Advisors and SilverCap Partners. AloStar also provided a $4.2 million loan to SunCap Opportunity Fund for the purchase of Uptown Square, a 72,277-square-foot shopping center in Fayetteville, Ga. The asset is anchored by Goodwill and Harbor Freights Tools. AloStar is headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., and its commercial office is located in Atlanta.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $5.6 million sale of a 45,778-square-foot store in Myrtle Beach leased to Walmart Neighborhood Market. The newly built store is triple-net leased to Walmart for 20 years. The store anchors Village Square, a 157,941-square-foot shopping center situated on the Atlantic Coast on U.S. Highway 17. Don McMinn and Zach Taylor of Marcus & Millichap’s Atlanta office and principals of the firm’s Taylor McMinn Retail Group represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer is based in California and purchased the store all-cash in a 1031 exchange at a cap rate in the upper fours. Raj Ravi is Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in South Carolina.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — BC Wood Properties has acquired Catawba Village, a 56,840-square-foot shopping center located in Charlotte. Food Lion anchors the property, which is also home to tenants including Workout Anytime and State Farm. The property is BC Wood Properties’ fifth shopping center acquisition in North Carolina. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Lexington, Ky.-based BC Wood Properties owns and manages 39 shopping centers spanning more than 5 million square feet in 11 states.
DALLAS — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured an $85 million permanent loan for Tradition Senior Living, a Dallas-based owner and operator of seniors housing facilities in Texas. Tradition Senior Living plans to refinance Tradition Lovers Lane, a 311-unit seniors housing community located in Dallas. The property, which includes 202 independent living units, 85 assisted living units and 24 memory care units, opened in November 2014. Monique Bimler of KeyBank’s healthcare mortgage banking group arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through a life insurance company. Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera of KeyBank’s healthcare group originated the initial construction loan and agented the syndication of the loan with three other banks.
MERCEDES, TEXAS — Kamel Salomon Investments Ltd., a McAllen-based development company, has announced plans to develop The Harbor in Mercedes. The $12 million project will be located one mile from Rio Grande Valley premium outlets, which receive over 6 million visitors per year, and will feature a beautiful man-made lake. BigShots Golf, a golf entertainment center with an attached restaurant and bar, will anchor the entertainment complex. Other entertainment concepts planned for The Harbor include a go-kart racing track, zip line over the lake, trampoline park and casual dining concepts. The Harbor will be developed in two phases. Phase I will consist of BigShots Golf and the central lake, and is expected to break ground in September. Final completion of Phase I is scheduled for fall 2017. Phase II of The Harbor will consist of the go-kart race track, zip line system and the other dining and entertainment concepts. Final completion of the project is expected for summer 2018.
PASADENA, TEXAS — CBRE has brokered a land sale of 188 acres near the intersection of State Highway 225 and Beltway 8 in Pasadena. The buyer, an energy infrastructure company, plans to use the acreage, located at 3503 Pasadena Freeway, to build a marine terminal that will improve its vessel and barge access at the Houston Ship Channel. CBRE’s Patrick Rollins represented the buyer in the land purchase. Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller.
HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of West Junction Shopping Center, a 66,617-square-foot retail property located in Houston. Gus Lagos, Alex Bouchard and Nik Kapetanakis of Marcus & Millichap’s Houston office had the exclusive listing to market the property on behalf of the seller, a partnership. The buyer, a limited liability company, was secured and represented by Evan Altemus of Marcus & Millichap’s Houston office. West Junction Shopping Center is located at 4978-4998 Highway 6 North.
TEMPLE, TEXAS — SVN | Asset Advisory Group has negotiated the $2.4 million sale of a single-tenant net-leased property located at 7036 W. Adams Ave. in Temple. The property is 100 percent occupied by a Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers fast casual restaurant. The 3,550-square-foot restaurant features a drive-thru. Chris Rink of SVN | Asset Advisory Group represented the California-based buyer, Boulevard Plaza San Diego LLC. John Andreini of Capital Pacific represented the seller, AL Marco Properties LLC of Kansas.
The downturn in the upstream oil and gas industry, caused by the low prices of these commodities, has been the subject of continuous examination and prognostication since its onset in late 2014, particularly in the Houston region. Though it has diversified its economy somewhat since the 1980s, when its overdependence on that industry brought ruin to its economy, Houston remains the large Texas metro most economically tied to oil and gas. Houston benefited from those ties from 2011 to 2014, during the period of surging fortunes in that sector, by adding 380,000 jobs. However, because this tremendous boom in employment was less economically diversified than the region’s overall economy, when upstream oil and gas abruptly switched from growth to contraction, so did the region’s growth prospects. Houston’s other economic sectors at this point are not growing substantially enough to keep net growth strongly positive in terms of jobs. So far they are merely keeping the region in an essentially stagnant condition. The Push for Amenities All sectors of Houston-area real estate have felt an impact from this reversal, but to varying extents. The apartment market, which is traditionally among the sectors most directly tied to current employment levels, is receiving …
HUNTLEY, ILL. — Hammes Co. and the Centegra Health System will open the $230 million, 128-bed Centegra Hospital-Huntley on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Hammes began developing the hospital, located approximately 50 miles northwest of Chicago, in February 2014. In addition to general medical and surgical services, the hospital also features a cardiac catheterization lab, two Level II trauma rooms, a Family Birth Center, a special care nursery and a helipad for critical Flight for Life situations. Centegra Hospital-Huntley created 800 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs. Power Construction was the general contractor, and Kahler Slater was the architect of record. Korda/Nemeth Engineering provided engineering services.