DALLAS AND HOUSTON — Caddis has sold its southwest medical office building portfolio to Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III Inc. The portfolio, totaling 182,528 square feet, includes two medical office buildings located in metro Houston, one medical office building in metro Dallas in addition to a hospital/medical office building complex in Durango, Colo. The Texas properties include Winding Way Medical Plaza, a two-story, 27,405-square-foot building, which was built in 2008 and is located in Friendswood. It is 92 percent occupied. Memorial Hermann is the anchor tenant; South Texas Medical Clinic, a two-story, 55,000-square-foot medical office building located in Wharton. It is fully leased to Memorial Hermann Medical Group. Services in the building include family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, neurology, radiology and a lab and pharmacy. It was built in 1987; Keller Medical Plaza, a 31,070-square-foot, retail-style building, which was completed in 2011 in Keller. It is 94 percent leased, primarily to Texas Health Resources (THR) and THR affiliates, including anchor primary care and sports medicine tenants.
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PORTLAND, MAINE — North River Co., an affiliate of Waterfront Maine, has acquired Portland Square in downtown Portland for $66 million. Located at One and Two Portland Square, the two-building property features 260,000 square feet of office and retail space as well as adjacent and underground parking areas. Originally constructed in the late 1980s, the property is currently 97 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including TD Bank, Wells Fargo, Prudential and Stone Coast Fund Services. Drew Sigfridson of CBRE | The Boulos Company represented the buyer in the transaction. The seller was a REIT that had owned the property for nearly a decade.
NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $48 million in refinancing for an office property located at 1156 Avenue of the Americas in New York City. The borrower was APF Properties. The seven-year loan, which was provided by a regional balance sheet lender, features a fixed rate, a five-year extension option and five years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. The nine-story office property offers 71,900 square feet of office space and 8,000 square feet of retail space. Tal Bar-Or of Meridian negotiated the financing on behalf of the borrower.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — PCCP LLC has provided a $29.7 million senior loan to American Real Estate Partners and Silverpeak Real Estate Partners for the acquisition and lease-up of CenterPointe at Bridgewater in Bridgewater. The joint venture plans to implement a $2.7 million capital improvement plan for the renovation of one building and improvements and cosmetic enhancements for the remaining three buildings. The four-building campus offers 332,000 square feet of Class A office space.
BOSTON — Boston Capital has closed Boston Capital Corporate Tax Credit Fund LX, a nationwide portfolio of 21 affordable apartment properties in 13 states with a fund size of $120 million. The fund includes 17 properties for families and four seniors housing developments. This portfolio added 1,068 apartment units to Boston Capital’s holdings. Fund XL also will result in the creation of nearly 870 local jobs and will generate $54 million in local salaries. With the closing of Fund XL, the company has raised $538 million in equity in the past 12 months. Boston Capital also recently launched Corporate Fund XLI, a $160 million fund expected to close in October.
TANNERSVILLE, PA. — Michael Baxter & Associates Commercial Real Estate has arranged the sale of the former Pocono Record printing facility in Tannersville. DMC Properties PA LLC, an affiliate of Durr Mechanical Construction purchased the 25,000-square-foot property for $1.2 million. Michael Baxter of Michael Baxter & Associates represented the seller, Dow Jones, in the transaction. John Schilp of NAI James E. Hanson represented the buyer.
ATLANTA — Parkway Properties Inc. has completed the $78 million sale of Two Ravinia, a 390,000-square-foot office building in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket. Parkway had a 30 percent ownership interest in the property, which was owned by Parkway Properties Office Fund II LP. The 17-story office tower was 80.5 percent leased at the time of sale. David Meline, Stewart Calhoun, Samir Idris and Casey Masters of Cushman & Wakefield represented Parkway in the transaction. The buyer, Franklin Street Properties Corp., a publicly traded REIT, plans to invest $4.8 million over the next three to four years to upgrade the office property.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Capstone Capital has arranged a $35 million loan to refinance Hayleigh Village Apartments, a 360-unit apartment community in Greensboro. Capstone arranged the 10-year loan with a fixed 4.13 percent interest rate through Fannie Mae on behalf of the borrower, an undisclosed multifamily owner and developer based in the Southeast. The loan features three years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule for the remaining seven years of the term. Hayleigh Village Apartments recently appraised for $46.7 million.
ORLANDO, FLA. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured a $17 million acquisition loan for Falcon Trace Apartments, a 252-unit garden-style community in Orlando. The apartment complex was built in 1999. Jane Harrison of KeyBank’s commercial mortgage group secured the financing through Freddie Mac’s CME program.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Fresh Market has signed a lease for a new location in the Dilworth Gardens Shopping Center in Charlotte. The specialty grocer’s new store will be located at East Boulevard and Scott Avenue. Once opened, the new store will be the Greensboro, N.C.-based company’s 21st store in North Carolina and its sixth in the metro Charlotte area. The grocer currently operates 168 stores in 27 states.