SAVANNAH, GA. — Winter Construction plans to build a new seven-story boutique hotel in Savannah. The 173-room, 162,000-square-foot property will span an entire city block in the historic River Street district. Winter is building the hotel on behalf of developer RBHD and owner Rockbridge. Upon completion in October 2017, the hotel will feature two levels of parking, five levels of guest rooms, a fitness area, meeting space, pool, lobby bar, a restaurant on River Street and a rooftop event space and bar. The design team includes architect Gunn Meyerhoff Shay and interior designers FODA and Parts & Labor.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Lakemont West Business Park, a 970,000-square-foot industrial asset located in Charlotte’s Southwest submarket. The property was 84 percent leased at the time of sale, with more than half of the property coming to term within the next five years. Patrick Gildea, Bryan Crutcher and Anne Johnson of CBRE’s national partners team represented the seller in the transaction. Jeffrey Dunne of CBRE’s New York institutional properties team represented the buyer, an entity controlled by Hartz Mountain Industries, which has retained Jim Gunning and Donna Falzarano of CBRE’s capital markets debt & structured finance team to secure financing for the asset.
MIAMI — Meridian Capital has arranged an $11 million loan to refinance Village Portico, a 28,700-square-foot retail center located at 201-299 S.W. Eighth St. in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood. The property is anchored by a CVS/pharmacy, McDonald’s and Subway and is zoned for an additional 600,000 square feet of air rights. Eric Trombly of Meridian Capital’s Boca Raton, Fla., office arranged the seven-year loan through a regional balance sheet lender. The financing features a fixed interest rate and flexible prepayment terms.
FRISCO, TEXAS — The Dallas Cowboys have unveiled plans for a 200,000-square-foot retail block at The Star in Frisco, a $1.5 billion, 91-acre mixed-use development that will include the NFL team’s new headquarters. In addition to the retail space and corporate headquarters, The Star in Frisco will feature the Cowboys’ training complex, a 12,000-seat multi-use event center and an Omni hotel. “The retail area will allow visitors to enjoy The Star whether there’s an event happening or simply a Friday night out with friends and family,” says Jerry Jones Jr., executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer for the Dallas Cowboys. Storefronts will line The Star Boulevard, Winning Drive and Cowboys Way at The Star, and will provide shoppers and diners with a Dallas Cowboys brand experience. The restaurants that will be opening locations at The Star include City Works, Dee Lincoln Prime, Liberty Burger, Mi Cocina, Neighborhood Services, Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip and Tupelo Honey Café. The retail space will be located south of the Cowboys’ headquarters and The Ford Center, which will house the event center and the team’s training complex. Neighborhood Services will be located inside the Omni hotel. Next Step Dance, a …
CHICAGO — Structured Development has sold Blackhawk on Halsted, a 224,000-square-foot mixed-use development. A foreign institutional investment fund represented by LaSalle Investment Management purchased the property, which is located at 1460 N. Halsted St. in Lincoln Park, for an undisclosed price. The fully leased development was completed in 2009 and consists of three structures with retail and medical office space. Buildings include an 82,901-square-foot structure that houses the British School of Chicago, whose lease runs through 2040; an adjacent mixed-use building that includes 48,016 square feet of retail and 93,287 square feet of medical office space; and a 550-vehicle parking garage with an additional 48,016 square feet of ground-level retail. Retail tenants at Blackhawk on Halsted include The Tile Shop and REI, whose 28,000-square-foot store is the retailer’s only location in Chicago. Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, Advocate Health Care and Town & Country Pediatrics anchor the development’s medical office space. Structured Development acquired the property in 2012 for $82 million.
CHICAGO — Essex Realty Group has brokered the $4 million sale of a 31-unit multifamily property in Chicago. The building, located at 3747 W. Sunnyside Ave. in the Albany Park neighborhood, was fully renovated in 2014. Upgrades include all new electrical wiring, new plumbing, new windows and tuck-pointing. Interior renovations include granite countertops, new cabinets, refinished hardwood floors, new in-unit HVAC systems and fully updated kitchens and bathrooms. Doug Imber, Kate Varde and Brian Kochendorfer of Essex Realty brokered the transaction. The buyer and seller in the transaction were undisclosed.
CINCINNATI — CBRE Group Inc. has arranged the sale of a two-story office building in Cincinnati for $3.1 million. The 42,000-square-foot property, 111 Tri-County Parkway, is 100 percent leased to Cincinnati Bell Technology Services, which uses the facility as a support center for help desk functions, bench-testing and fulfillment services. Keith Yearout, Jim Vondran and Hank Davis of CBRE represented the seller, OA Development, in the transaction. Wang Brothers Investment, a California-based private equity investor, was the buyer.
TOLEDO, OHIO — The Cooper Commercial Investment Group has negotiated the sale of Great Eastern Shopping Center, a 335,000-square-foot retail center in Toledo for an undisclosed price. Super Dollar Tree, Dollar General and McDonald’s anchor the retail property. A New York-based private investment group acquired the property from a large institutional seller out of New York. Bob Havasi and Dan Cooper of Cooper Commercial Investment Group represented the seller in the transaction.
SHAWNEE, KAN. — Colliers International has arranged the sale of a 142,308-square-foot industrial building in Shawnee, approximately 10 miles southwest of Kansas City, for an undisclosed price. ECM Real Estate Holdings LLC sold the facility, located at 23501 W. 84th St., to Shawnee Logistics Centre LLC. John Stafford, Ed Elder and Tom Haverty of Colliers International represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was self-represented.
CULVER CITY, CALIF. — Olive Hill Group has purchased a 206,538-square-foot office campus in the Los Angeles submarket of Culver City for $65.5 million. The Class A asset is located at 200 and 300 Corporate Pointe. The buildings were 88.6 percent occupied at the time of sale. Notable tenants at the campus include Paychex, Landmark Education, DataScience, Fonality, TransUnion and Shiseido Cosmetics. The assets were constructed in 1988 and renovated in 2004. They are part of a larger master-planned development called Corporate Pointe, which encompasses a total of eight buildings. Bob Safai, Matt Case and Brad Schlaak of Madison Partners represented the seller, Broadreach Capital Partners, in this transaction. The new ownership has retained the firm’s Joe King to continue leasing efforts at the properties.