Property Type

The Knox Campus Advantage

KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Campus Advantage is currently developing its newest project, The Knox, which will serve students attending the University of Tennessee beginning in fall 2016. Pinecrest Partners is providing equity financing for the 101-unit, 382-bed community. Located at 1505 Clinch Ave., the location puts residents less than 100 feet from the University of Tennessee campus. The Knox will feature three-, four- and five-bedroom apartments. The community consists of two buildings, a five-level building and a six‐level building, and features two levels of gated garage parking and nine floors of residential space. Amenities will include a cyber cafe, computer bar, lounge room with fireplace and large-screen televisions and a fitness center, as well as an outdoor green roof with grills, water features, hammocks and a theater area. Each fully furnished apartment features a 42-inch television in its living room, wood-style flooring in the common areas, an in-unit washer and dryer, high-end finishes, stainless steel appliances and cable and high-speed Internet. Campus Advantage worked closely with the Historic Preservation Office at the city of Knoxville, as well as the Historic Fort Sanders Neighborhood Association, to design The Knox. Ronnie Macejewski, senior vice president of development of Campus Advantage, is leading the …

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Hillsboro Technology Center

DEERSFIELD BEACH, FLA. — Bristol Group Inc. and Butters Construction and Development have acquired the former Deerfield Country Club in Deersfield Beach from Gator Development Group LLC. Bristol and Butters will be co-developing a 925,000-square-foot business park at the site known as Hillsboro Technology Center. Plans for the 74-acre campus include a Class A warehouse/distribution center, office space and a limited service hotel. The park will be located adjacent to the four-way interchange of I-95 and Hillsboro Boulevard. Phase I of the park will also include a developer-donated recreation building for the city of Deerfield Beach and a public park with jogging and walking trails. Construction on the development will begin in the second quarter of 2015, and the developers plan to deliver the first two speculative industrial buildings in the first half of 2016. Upon completion in three to five years, Hillsboro Technology Center is expected to host roughly 1,500 permanent jobs, and the project is expected to create roughly 3,500 construction jobs. Tom Viscount and Tom Hotz of Butters Realty & Management have been selected to lease the project.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Celebration Village Acworth

ACWORTH, GA. — Construction has begun on Celebration Village Acworth with plans to open the 16.5-acre seniors housing community in May 2016. The community includes 114 independent living apartments, 44 apartment homes, 55 assisted living units and 31 memory care apartments. Active Senior Concepts and AgeWell Living developed the Celebration concept. Active Senior Concepts’s developments are located throughout metro Atlanta. AgeWell, located in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., will operate the community.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
West Park Hampton

HAMPTON, VA. — Huntington Ingalls Industries, a publicly traded shipbuilding company, has leased 515,486 square feet of warehouse space in West Park, a business park located at 300 and 500 W. Park Lane in Hampton. Worth Remick, Ashton Williamson and Chamie Burroughs of CBRE|Hampton Roads represented the owner, Boston-based High Street Equity, in the transaction. Clay Culbreth of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer represented the tenant.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Academy Sports + Outdoors and Shops at Turtle Creek

HATTIESBURG, MISS. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $16.8 million sale of Academy Sports + Outdoors and Shops at Turtle Creek, a 98,673-square-foot shopping center located at 6173-6175 U.S. Highway 98 in Hattiesburg. The shopping center is within the 504,000-square-foot Turtle Creek Crossing power center. Built between 2011 and 2012, the shopping center comprises a 75,760-square-foot Academy Sports + Outdoors and two shopping spaces leased to Mattress Express, Massage Envy Spa, Keesler Federal Credit Union, Papa Murphy’s and J. Allan’s. Alvin Mansour and Ryan Gomez of Marcus & Millichap’s San Diego office, along with Anne Williams of the firm’s Memphis office, represented the seller, a private developer based in Texas. The team also represented the buyer, an institutional net lease investor.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
5-Below-BBB-World-Market-in-Phase-II-Central-TX-Marketplace

In stark contrast to past years when motorists would fly through Waco on I-35 wondering if anything was happening in this town, the dramatic Twin Signature Bridges across the Brazos River now sit majestically with the backdrop of Baylor University’s brand-new, $325 million McLane Stadium. However, it has become abundantly clear that the stadium is not the only big thing happening in Waco. Anyone who has driven the stretch of I-35 that passes through Waco in the past 24 months has undoubtedly noticed quite a bit of new construction, demolition and site clearing for even more commercial construction. Leading the way is the dramatic increase of national restaurants and retailers that have made their presence known to everyone who used to drive right through, but who now stop, eat and shop in Waco. A primary catalyst of this rise in retail activity has been the release of property along I-35 formerly owned by the Waco Independent School District (ISD). “We witnessed a surge in demand for retail sites along the I-35 Corridor in 2013,” says Jim Peevey, CCIM, a local broker with Central Texas Commercial. “My partner, Andy Sheehy, and I represented Waco ISD in selling three surplus properties on …

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
CenterPointe-Bridgewater-NJ

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — American Real Estate Partners has acquired CenterPointe at Bridgewater, a four-building office park located at 1130, 1140, 1150 and 1160 Route 22 East in Bridgewater. The 331,846-square-foot asset sold for $24.7 million. Situated on 20 acres, the property features flexible and highly efficient office space, fitness and food amenities, a conference facility and on-site management. American Real Estate Partners plans to invest $2.7 million in capital improvements to the office campus, including improved finishes and upgrades to elevators, lobby and common areas. At the time of sale, the campus was 54 percent leased, with two buildings 100 percent leased. The property is being acquired by a joint venture sponsored by a discretionary fund managed by American Real Estate Partners and is the fund’s fourth investment. The name of the seller was not disclosed.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

NEW YORK CITY — Greystone has acquired a retail development site at 108 Chambers St. in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood. Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. sold the property for $17 million. Located on the corner of Church and Chambers streets, the site features a 2,000-square-foot building with ground-floor retail space and approximately 12,000 square feet of air rights.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Harbor-Village-RI

WAKEFIELD, R.I. — CBRE/New England has brokered the sale of Harbor Village in Wakefield. An affiliate of JRK Property Holdings acquired the 234-unit apartment community, which sold for an undisclosed price. Harbor Village consists of 16 residential buildings and a clubhouse. The residential buildings comprise five two-story direct-entry townhome buildings and 11 three-story garden-style buildings. The property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units, with an average apartment size of 1,113 square feet. Simon Butler and Biria St. John of CBRE/NE represented the undisclosed seller in the deal.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Inn-at-Middletown-CT

MIDDLETOWN, CONN. — HREC Investment Advisors has arranged the sale of the Inn at Middletown, located at 70 Main St. in Middletown. Massachusetts-based Linchris Hotel Corp. acquired the 100-room hotel for an undisclosed price. Ketan Patel and Geoff Davis of HREC represented the seller, Middletown Hotel Associates LP, in the transaction.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail