GREENVILLE, TEXAS — Academy Sports + Outdoors and Hobby Lobby will build new locations at Kari Beth Krossing, a retail power center located at the northwest corner of I-30 and State Highway 34 in Greenville. Both stores are slated to open this summer. Developed by The Stainback Organization, a commercial real estate development and brokerage company headquartered in Dallas since 1987, Kari Beth Krossing is anchored by a 138,000-square-foot Lowe’s Home Improvement store and national retailers Cotton Patch Café, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks Coffee and Discount Tire. The additions of the 63,000-square-foot Academy Sport + Outdoors and the 55,000-square-foot Hobby Lobby store, along with additional 12,400-square-foot retail/restaurant space which will include a Chipotle Mexican Grill, brings the total space to nearly 300,000 square feet.
HOUSTON — Hunington Properties has purchased 3.3 acres in Wolff Cos.’ Ten Oaks, an 83-acre master-planned development, for the development of The Shops at Ten Oaks. Construction is expected to begin in the spring on the shopping center, which includes a freestanding quick service restaurant and an additional 20,000 square feet of general retail space. Located at the northwest corner of Barker Cypress Road and Park Row, The Shops at Ten Oaks will be developed next to the newest Hunington Residential multifamily project, The Vic on Park Row. The project will also be adjacent to Western International’s Courtyard by Marriott, which opened in 2015, and Hampton Inn & Suites, which is under construction. The development is also located within the Texas Medical Center’s west campus, where Texas Children’s Hospital and Methodist Houston Hospital are both undergoing expansions.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Crescent Communities is developing a transit-oriented, mixed-use development in Charlotte’s NoDa (North Davidson Arts and Entertainment) district called Crescent NoDa. The project will be located at the planned 36th Street Lynx Blue Line light rail station. Crescent Communities plans to begin construction this month on Crescent NoDa and open the project in 2017, in line with the opening of the city’s light rail extension. Crescent NoDa will feature 344 apartment residences, 7,500 square feet of street-level retail space, an extended platform for the light rail stop, an open plaza, above-ground parking deck and an adjacent commercial parcel, which could include a mixed-use development with up to eight stories in height and 28,000 square feet of additional street-level retail space. Communities amenities will include an outdoor terrace, dog wash station, resident workshop, clubroom, fitness center and private courtyards with a pool, grilling area, green space and fire pits. The project team includes architect Lord Aeck Sargent, landscape architect Land Design and interior designer Vignette Interior Design. Crescent NoDa will be financed with an equity investment by Crescent Communities and debt from Synovus Bank and Citizens Bank. Crescent Communities worked with the NoDa Neighborhood and Business Association in planning …
NORCROSS, GA. — Westmount Realty Capital LLC and Quilvest Private Equity have formed a joint venture to purchase Gwinnett Corporate Center, a 1.2 million-square-foot business park located at 1700-1865 Corporate Drive and 4145-4165 Shackleford Road in Norcross. The companies purchased the asset from the Dexter Cos., which owned and managed the property for more than 30 years, for an undisclosed price. The 115-acre property is situated in Atlanta’s I-85 North industrial submarket in Gwinnett County and features 17 Class A industrial and office buildings. Westmount will provide property management services for the property, which will be rebranded as Gwinnett Commons following tenant improvements. The joint venture has hired Reliant Real Estate Partners to lease the asset. The Corporate Drive assets were 79 percent leased at the time of sale, and the Shackleford Road buildings were 48 percent leased.
SPRINGHILL, TENN. — Trillium Capital Resources (TCR) has arranged a $29 million loan for Grand Reserve Springhill, a newly constructed, 290-unit apartment community located in Springhill. Trillium arranged the 12-year, non-recourse, fixed-rate loan through Aegon Insurance Group on behalf of the borrower, a Columbus, Ga.-based developer. The borrower will use the proceeds of the financing to take out an existing construction loan.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Cushman & Wakefield’s Atlanta retail investment advisors group has brokered the $25 million sale of Village at Lee Branch II, a 223,100-square-foot shopping center in Birmingham. Monarch Investments purchased the property from Rushmore Properties, a private real estate investment firm based in Chicago. Located at the intersection of U.S. Route 280 and Doug Baker Boulevard, the shopping center’s tenant roster includes Hobby Lobby, Carmike Theaters, Baumhower’s, Taziki’s Café, The Melting Pot and Sport Clips. The sale included several undeveloped pad sites. Mark Joines, Drew Fleming and Fain Hicks of Cushman & Wakefield’s Atlanta office, along with Mark Gilbert of the firm’s Miami office, represented the seller in the transaction.
ATLANTA — The Boulder Group has arranged the $4.8 million sale of a newly built Chick-fil-A restaurant located at 1100 Northside Drive in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood. According to CoStar, the transaction represents the highest priced single-tenant Chick-fil-A property ever sold. The restaurant is situated within a half mile of Georgia Tech and Atlanta’s only IKEA location. Randy Blankstein and Zach Wright of The Boulder Group represented the buyer, a Midwest-based real estate developer, in the 1031 transaction. The seller was a partnership based in the Southeast. The ground lease is for 20 years and features rent escalations every five years, seven five-year renewal option periods and no landlord responsibilities. Founded in 1946, Chick-fil-A is a privately owned company based in Atlanta with more than 1,900 locations throughout the country.
O’FALLON, MO. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the $54 million sale of Park Place Senior Living at WingHaven, a 206-unit independent living and assisted living community in the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon. Blueprint represented the seller, AEW Capital Management, which sold the property on behalf of AEW Senior Housing Investors to CNL Healthcare Properties. Originally built in 2006, a joint venture of AEW and First Capitol Group acquired Park Place in 2011. The venture expanded the community with the addition of assisted living units and by converting units to memory care. Blueprint’s Ben Firestone was lead advisor on the transaction.
ALLENTOWN, PA. — Allentown-based CrossAmerica Partners LP has agreed to acquire 31 franchised Holiday convenience stores located in Wisconsin and Minnesota from SSG Corp. for $48.5 million. Of the 31 company-operated stores, 28 are located in Wisconsin and three are located in Minnesota. The acquisition is subject to customary conditions to closing and is expected to close in the first quarter of this year.
INDIANAPOLIS — Thorofare Capital has provided an affiliate of Arciterra Group LLC with a $32.5 million acquisition loan for a retail property in Indianapolis. Castleton Square & Commons is a 256,582-square-foot power center located on Castleton Corner Drive. Tenants at the property include REI, Golfsmith, Dave & Busters, Haverty’s Furniture, Buffalo Wild Wings and DXL Casual Male. The property was 94 percent leased at the time of sale. The seller was an affiliate of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based McKinley Inc. The non-recourse, floating-rate loan is for a period of two years and includes two six-month extension options, a flexible prepayment structure and was priced at a competitive spread over LIBOR.