FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. has acquired a 304,608-square-foot industrial building located in the Fort Worth Alliance Airport at 2701 Texas Longhorn Way in Fort Worth for $35.3 million. The property is net leased for 15 years to FedEx Ground Package System. The building is situated on 44.2 acres. Monmouth was founded in 1968 and specializes in net leased industrial properties.
HOUSTON — NAI Partners represented Customform Transportation Systems in the renewal of a 27,000-square-foot industrial lease at the Post Oak Industrial Park located at 1217 N. Post Oak Blvd. in Houston. Clay Pritchett of NAI Partners and Robin Weber of Weber Commercial represented Customform in the renewal, while Jude Filippone of Transwestern Commercial Services represented the landlord, St. Paul Marine Insurance Co.
HOUSTON — Mercantil Commercebank has leased 18,069 square feet at the Town Centre I building located at 750 Town & Country Blvd. in Houston. Bob Cromwell and Kevin Nolan of Moody Rambin represented the building owner, Town Centre Partners Ltd. Bobbie Bozarth of Transwestern represented the tenant in negotiations.
BROOKHAVEN, GA. — GLL Real Estate Partners has acquired TOWN Brookhaven, a 460,609-square-foot shopping center located at 4330 N.W. Peachtree Road E. in Brookhaven, an affluent suburb of Atlanta. The mixed-use property was 94 percent leased at the time of sale, with anchors including Cinebistro, Costco, LA Fitness, Marshalls and Publix. In addition to retailers and restaurants, TOWN Brookhaven features 22,000 square feet of office space. GLL Real Estate Partners purchased the property from a partnership between The Sembler Co. and Bell Partners. Eastdil Secured’s Atlanta office brokered the transaction. The sales price was undisclosed but media outlets are reporting TOWN Brookhaven sold for $162 million. TOWN Brookhaven is the retail and office component of a $400 million mixed-use development featuring 949 existing luxury apartment units and 374 units under construction.
VALLEY, ALA. — Multi Housing Advisors (MHA) has brokered the $44 million sale of Apartments at the Venue, a 618-unit apartment property located at 100 Sydney St. in Valley, a town along the Alabama/Georgia border. The property is located roughly 10 minutes from the KIA Motors manufacturing plant in West Point, Ga. The community’s amenity package features three resort-style swimming pools with outdoor fireplaces and grilling areas, two clubhouses, laundry facilities and a fitness center. Atlanta-based Irinda Capital Management purchased the property from Haley Real Estate Group. Jimmy Adams and Robert Stickel of MHA represented the seller in the transaction.
TAMPA, FLA. — A discretionary fund formed by PM Realty Group and The Roseview Group called Roseview-PMRG Fund I LLC acquired Westshore Center in Tampa. The sales price was undisclosed, but according to industry sources, the nine-story office building sold for $40 million. The 216,410-square-foot office property is located at 1715 N. Westshore Blvd. in Tampa’s Westshore submarket. The fund purchased the asset from an unnamed institutional investor for an undisclosed price. Built in 1984, the property is located roughly 2.4 miles south of Tampa International Airport. The Class A office building is the first acquisition in Florida for Roseview-PMRG Fund I LLC, which owns properties in Atlanta, Houston, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
LARGO, FLA. — Sterling Organization has sold Barclay Square, a 99,054-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center in Largo, a city in the Tampa Bay MSA. Northbrook, Ill.-based Pine Tree Commercial Realty purchased the shopping center from Sterling Organization for $18.9 million. Originally developed in 1988 and renovated in 2008, the shopping center is located on the northeast corner of Walsingham and Indian Rocks roads one mile east of the Gulf of Mexico. A 42,018-square-foot Walmart Neighborhood Market anchors the shopping center. Adam Feinstein of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction. Sterling Organization purchased Barclay Square via its Sterling Value Add Partners LP institutional fund for $10.8 million in 2012.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $14.4 million sale of Royal Isles, a 264-unit apartment community located at 803 Don Quixote Ave. in Orlando. The property has 80 one-bedroom/one-bath units, 132 two-bedroom/two-bath apartments and 52 three-bedroom/two bath units. Evan Kristol of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office and Still Hunter III of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a private investor from Beverly Hills, Calif., and the buyer, a Miami-based limited-liability company.
Miami’s multifamily market now ranks among the country’s strongest overall performers (if not the strongest). The city attracts, and benefits from, numerous tourists, investors, financial institutions, real estate funds, retailers and tourists from countries around the globe. The demand for condominiums and apartment buildings in Miami seems insatiable with the investors competing for increasingly scant deals. In practical terms, that means hotel and office developers often lose out across asset classes to the “ever-on-fire” multifamily sector. There is every indication in the first quarter of 2015 that Miami’s multifamily market’s upward trend will continue. Debt and equity continue to stream into the Miami-Dade County apartment and condominium sector from both local sources and out-of-area buyers attracted to solid asset performance and robust housing demand generators. Continued employment and population growth have bolstered housing demand as the overall Miami economy strengthened in 2014. The Miami metropolitan area added more than 30,000 jobs last year, and based on figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Miami-Dade County’s unemployment rate continued its downward trend to 5.4 percent in February 2015. According to the Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, South Florida’s population is expected to increase by approximately 29 percent between 2013 …
CHICAGO — U.S. Bank has provided a $73.5 million construction loan to the Onni Group, a Canadian-based firm that is developing The Hudson, a 25-story, 240-unit luxury apartment project located at 750 N. Hudson St. in downtown Chicago’s River North district. U.S. Bank served as lead left and administrative agent for the loan, with PNC Bank, N.A. as a participant. The Hudson will feature a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units, each of which will include a balcony or terrace, granite countertops, designer cabinets, a washer/dryer and more. Common amenities include a pool and hot tub, fitness business centers, resident lounges, an outdoor terrace and more. The Hudson will also include ground-floor retail space. Onni broke ground on the project this summer. The target date for completion is mid-2017.