FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Teague Nall & Perkins (TNP), a professional civil engineering, surveying, and landscape architecture firm, will move into the Mercantile Center located at 5237 N. Riverside Drive in Fort Worth. TNP has signed a 42,071-square-foot lease at the office building that will bear its name and will serve as its new corporate headquarters. The company’s corporate office is currently located on Macon Street in downtown Fort Worth. Andrew Ward of Mercantile Partners represented the landlord internally in the transaction, while David Walters of CBRE’s Fort Worth office represented TNP in the site search and lease negotiations.
MESQUITE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Tradewinds, a 308-unit multifamily asset in Mesquite. Nick Fluellen and Bard Hoover of Marcus & Millichap’s Dallas office, along with Marc Sommer of the firm’s Chicago Downtown office, represented the seller. Fluellen, Hoover and Sean Scott, an associate in the Dallas office, procured the buyer. The property is located at 2136 Tradewind Drive with frontage along North Town East Boulevard. Built in 1967 on 13.1 acres, Tradewinds features five floor plans. The average unit size is 836 square feet and the majority are two- and three-bedroom apartments. Recent improvements include roof replacements on four buildings, the installation of a new chiller, cooling tower and hot water boiler and parking lot repairs. Approximately 120 units have undergone interior upgrades including vinyl flooring, updated appliances, new carpet and faux granite countertops.
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA. — Keystone Property Group has unveiled its plan to redevelop One Plymouth Meeting, a 180,000-square-foot office property located at 502 W. Germantown Pike in Plymouth Meeting. The nine-story building will be renovated to accommodate modern workplace demands, including the addition of amenities, interior and exterior upgrades, and to qualify for LEED certification. Overlooking Plymouth Meeting Mall, the office building has walkable access to various of restaurants and retail venues as well as an AMC movie theater.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has arranged the sale of a block-front development site at 286-298 and 300-306 Wythe Ave. in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Tri-Boro Shelving & Partition Corp. sold the site to Brooklyn-based North Development Group for $27 million. The site consists of two contiguous lots that together can support construction of up to approximately 51,200 buildable square feet of residential or commercial space with a community facility. Current zoning for the properties allows for residential and commercial development. Nicole Rabinowitsch and Gabriel Saffioti of Eastern Consolidated represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Alpha Realty has brokered the sale of a multifamily property located at 36-40 Linden St. in Brooklyn’s Bushwick section. A local private investor sold the property to Manhattan-based buyers for $10.5 million. The four-story building includes 38 apartments. Glenn Raff of Alpha Realty represented the buyers, while Lev Mavashev, also of Alpha Realty, represented the seller in the transaction.
EMERSON, GA. — AVATRON USA Development LLC has selected Lee & Associates Atlanta to lease AVATRON Park, a 712-acre development housing a theme park and an adjacent hospitality and retail complex in Emerson, roughly 40 miles north of Atlanta. Slated for completion in early 2019, AVATRON Park will feature a theme park, 300,000-square-foot lifestyle shopping center, dining area, two hotels totaling 500 rooms and a 10,000-seat outdoor amphitheater. According to Joe Simpson of Lee & Associates Atlanta, the firm is primarily focused on hospitality and multifamily projects at the development and will work with New York–based Newmark Grubb Knight Frank on the retail projects. Attractions in development for the theme park will include newly created intellectual property along with gaming and movie industry intellectual property, most notably The Hunger Games franchise. In early November, movie studio Lionsgate announced its licensing, for the first time in North America, of the Hunger Games, Step Up and Now You See Me franchises as part of its partnership agreement with AVATRON.
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors has arranged an $8 million supplemental loan for Independence Plaza Shopping Center in Hamilton Township. The owners, which acquired the property earlier this year, are renovating the shopping center. Four new leases have been signed with Regal Cinemas, Sav-A-Lot Supermarket, Crunch Fitness and Ollie’s Bargain Outlet. The owners plan to fully restore the property to 100 percent occupancy after the renovations are complete. Elizabeth Smith of Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein provided legal counsel for the owners. James Houlihan of Houlihan-Parnes Realtors secured the financing.
RAHWAY, N.J. — The Goldstein Group has arranged the sale of a 21,000-square-foot, freestanding retail building, located at 2161 Route 1 in Rahway. JRS Realty LLC sold the property to Kata Corp. for an undisclosed price. Chuck Lanyard of The Goldstein Group represented the seller in the transaction.
CLEARWATER, FLA. — An affiliate of North American Development Group has purchased Courtyard at Countryside, a retail center located at 2514-2532 State Road 580 in Clearwater, for $25.5 million. The center was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Kohl’s, Total Wine & More, Panera Bread, EverBank, Salon Lofts, Sport Clips and Tijuana Flats. The center is directly across from Westfield Countryside, a 1.3 million-square-foot mall anchored by Dillard’s, Macy’s, JC Penney, Sears and Whole Foods Market. Michael Milano and Ron Schultz of Colliers International’s Tampa Bay office represented the seller, Skylark Plaza LLC, which developed the property in 2008.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Lincoln Harris has brokered the $7.5 million sale of Cypress and Cedar East, two office buildings in Raleigh totaling 79,186 square feet. The properties are located at 3117 and 3101 Poplarwood Court and were 73 percent leased at the time of sale. Kaler Walker of Lincoln Harris represented the seller, Cedar East & Cypress LLC, in the transaction. Carter Worthy of Worthy Commercial represented the buyer, Debnam Properties, which owns two other buildings in the neighborhood. The buyer plans to occupy a portion of the buildings and continue leasing the rest.