TAMPA, FLA. — Dockerty Romer & Co. has arranged a $55 million acquisition loan for five Class A office buildings within the 88-acre Highland Oaks development in Tampa. Highland Oaks is currently 96 percent leased and is situated near the I-75 and I-4 interchange. The five properties span 575,852 square feet. Craig Romer of Dockerty Romer arranged the loan through J.P. Morgan on behalf of the borrower, a global real estate investment manager.
TOWSON, MD. — Retail Properties of America Inc. (RPAI), a shopping center REIT, has purchased Towson Square, a 138,000-square-foot, entertainment-based retail center anchored by a newly constructed Cinemark Theatre in Towson, roughly 12 miles north of Baltimore. RPAI purchased the center on an unencumbered basis for $39.7 million. Towson Square includes national and regional restaurant concepts such as BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, World of Beer, Bobby’s Burger Palace, Bonefish Grill and Nando’s Peri-Peri. Opened in 2014, Towson Square is currently 96.6 percent leased and is located adjacent to the RPAI’s existing center, Towson Circle. RPAI expects to integrate both centers into one property as part of the larger planned redevelopment. Year to date, RPAI has completed $463.1 million of unencumbered acquisitions.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Doster Construction Co. has recently completed construction on 220 Riverside, a $30 million multifamily development in Jacksonville. The five-story, 294-unit property is built atop two levels of parking and features retail space and restaurants on the ground level. Community amenities include a fitness center, clubroom, internet café, rooftop courtyard with a resort-style swimming pool, an outdoor kitchen and seating niches overlooking the St. Johns River. Each unit features nine-foot ceilings, granite countertops and vinyl plank and hard tile flooring. The project team includes owner HP-MAA Riverside LLC and architect Studio 9 Architecture LLC.
PENSACOLA, FLA. — Crossman & Co. has arranged the $3.7 million sale of the Shoppes at Milestone, a 19,700-square-foot retail strip center in Pensacola. Bruce Lyons and Brian Carolan of Crossman & Co. worked on behalf of the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Westwood Financial Corp. acquired the fully occupied center. Tenants at Shoppes at Milestone include shadow-anchor Publix, Jersey Mike’s, Hot Heads Burritos, H&R Block, Cricket Wireless, Papa Murphy’s and Enterprise Rent-a-Car.
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC has arranged $98.8 million in financing for the acquisition of three apartment communities in Orange County by A&M Properties. The properties include Springdale Villa in Westminster, Portofino Cove in Anaheim and Tustin Parc in Tustin. The properties contain a total of 723 units. They were built between 1961 and 1971. Doug Taylor and Jason Krupoff of Bellwether arranged the Freddie Mac, fixed-rate financing. Bellwether is the commercial and multifamily mortgage banking subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment Inc. The team also helped A&M Properties identify Tustin Parc for acquisition.
SAN DIEGO — CityMark Development has received a $48 million loan to develop a 129-unit multifamily project in the downtown San Diego submarket of Little Italy. The community will be located at 2101–2175 Kettner Blvd. The site was formerly occupied by Caliber Collision Center. The new project will contain a six-story apartment building with 8,000 square feet of retail podium space, 100,000 square feet of residential space and 2.5 levels of subterranean parking. Tanner Hecht Architecture will design the community, while Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh will act as the architect of record. The funds were capitalized by Fident Capital, which has identified an institutional equity partner for this project. The Los Angeles-based fund manages more than $2 billion in assets. It focuses exclusively on urban infill residential projects that contain over 100 units.
ENCINO, CALIF. — Encino-based supermarket chain Gelson’s Markets has won final approval to buy six Haggen grocery/pharmacy properties in Southern California. Acquisitions will include 2627 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica; 25636 Crown Valley Parkway, Ladera Ranch; 36-101 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage; 2707 Via De La Valle, Del Mar; 730 Turquoise St., San Diego; and 1736 Avenida De Los Arboles, Thousand Oaks. Haggen filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this past September. Gelson’s plans to relaunch the acquisitions early next year under its own brand with initial improvements to product selection and merchandising, followed several months later by redesign and construction. Existing pharmacies will remain open during the transition.
JANESVILLE, WIS. — Dollar General Corp. has broken ground on a new distribution center in Janesville, approximately 40 miles southeast of Madison. The facility, which will span nearly 1 million square feet, will be the retailer’s 14th distribution facility. The development is slated to come on line in December 2016. Clayco Inc. is serving as the general contractor for the project. Leo A Daly is the building design company, and Elan Design Lab is the civil design company. The new distribution center is expected to service more than 1,000 stores in the upper Midwest. Dollar General currently operates 122 stores in Wisconsin.
BROOKFIELD, WIS. — Ryan Companies US Inc. has broken ground on a new facility for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Brookfield, a western suburb of Milwaukee. The new facility will serve as a primary care building and will be located within the Underwood Crossing retail center. The retail center is located on Bluemound Road and is anchored by Target. The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Pediatric Consultants Primary Care Clinic will be renamed Bluemound Pediatrics when it relocates to the new facility, which is 1.5 miles west of its current location. Construction is slated for completion in the spring of 2016. The development will be an 18,000-square-foot freestanding building that will be adjacent to Target at the east end of the 175,000-square-foot shopping center. Stephen Perry Smith Architects and ScopeBridge are the architects of record for the project. Johnson Bank provided financing for the development.
TROY, MICH. — Signature Associates has arranged a 32,686-square-foot lease of high-tech industrial space in Troy, a northern suburb of Detroit. SGS North America Inc. is leasing the space located at 894 Maplelawn Drive from Troy Industrial LLC. John Boyd and Paul Hoge of Signature Associates represented the landlord in the transaction. Anthony Leeds of Signature Associates and Ben Brenner of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant.