SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Red Capital Partners has provided a $36.5 million balance sheet acquisition loan to Investment360 for the purchase of James Square Health and Rehabilitation Centre in Syracuse. Excelerate Healthcare will operate the 440-bed skilled nursing facility as part of a long-term lease agreement with Investment360. Kathryn Burton Gray and James Scribner of Red Capital Partners arranged the financing for the borrower.
WALTHAM, MASS. — Hobbs Brook Management LLC has completed the renovation and sustainable upgrade to an office building located at 610 Lincoln St. North in Waltham. Intended for single- or multi-tenant occupancy, the property features flexible floor plans, on-site dining, multiple amenities and access to the Forefront Conference Center. Designed by Margulies Perruzzi Architects, the renovated building includes 86,169 square feet of highly efficient office space on three floors, ample parking and front-desk security. The lobby features a two-story glass vestibule. Some 6,000 square feet of additional office space was created by lowering the building grade and moving mechanical equipment to the roof. Slated to achieve LEED Silver certification, the property, which is located within Hobbs Brooks Office Park, features a new HVAC system, windows, electrical systems and fireproofing. The project team includes Columbia Construction Company, Studio 2112, AHA Consulting Engineers, Souza True & Partners, H.W. Moore Associates and Entegra.
JERSEY CITY, N.J., MILLERSVILLE, PA., AND CULLOWHEE, N.C. —Formerly known as Ambling University Development Group, RISE: A Real Estate Company has started construction on three student housing projects in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The company broke ground on a 425-bed residence hall at New Jersey City University in Jersey City; a 599-bed student housing community at Millersville University in Millersville; and a 421-bed mixed-use residence hall at Western Carolina University (WCU) in Cullowhee. The on-campus residence hall in Jersey City will feature music practice rooms, lounges, a fitness center, private courtyard, automated convenience store, game room and technology-enhanced classrooms. The Millersville property is the third phase of a multi-phase project to replace all on-campus housing with modern, suite-style units. The mixed-use project at WCU consists of three buildings, with 421 beds and 11,945 square feet of retail, connected by two towers in core location of campus.
SHARON, MASS. — Avison Young has brokered the sale of an industrial/flex property located at 6 Merchant St. in Sharon. Franchi Merchant Street LLP acquired the property for $2.9 million, or $97 per square foot, from Legacy Real Estate Ventures. The 30,300-square-foot property is fully leased to six tenants. Michael Smith, Scott Jamieson, Brandon Dickason and Bill Sullivan of Avison Young represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has arranged the sale of a development site located at 29-31 Lexington Ave. in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood. Tomer Erlich, a local developer, purchased the site for $2.7 million, or $315 per buildable square foot. Plans call for a four-story, 10-unit building on the site with 11,308 gross square feet. Ofer Cohen, Melissa Warren, Dan Marks, Peter Matheos, Michael Hernandez and David Algarin of TerraCRG represented the buyer and undisclosed seller in the transaction.
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Commercial Advisors (SACA), an independently owned and operated member of the Cushman & Wakefield Alliance, has arranged the sale of 4702 Goldfield Drive, an industrial building in northeast San Antonio. Local grocery chain HEB purchased the asset for an undisclosed price. SACA’s Ed Cross and Zach Dobin represented the seller of the 80,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.
CROSS ROADS, TEXAS — Alex Payne with Axis Realty Group and Everett Newland with Newland Real Estate represented Denton Fireman’s pension fund in the purchase of The Village at Cross Roads, a new 24,000-square-foot, Class A retail center in Cross Roads. Northbridge Management & Consulting, a commercial property management company owned by Axis Realty Group, will manage the asset moving forward.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Global colocation solutions provider CyrusOne has expanded its Carrollton data center with the recent completion of a new data hall, adding nearly 60,000 square feet and 4.5 megawatts of power capacity. The company’s Carrollton data center is the largest facility of its kind in the state, featuring a 670,000-square-foot campus. The Carrollton data center also houses the infrastructure and 911 dispatch center for Carrollton, Coppell, Farmers Branch and Addison, Texas. The communities have consolidated 911 dispatch services to form the North Texas Emergency Communications Center (NTECC).
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Howard Michaels of Carlton Strategic Ventures and Avery Modlin of The Modlin Group have negotiated the sale of Dobie Center to Fowler Property Acquisitions LLC. Located in Austin, Dobie Center is the largest privately owned student dormitory at the University of Texas at Austin. The property consists of a 27-story glass and steel residential tower, a 90,000-square-foot retail mall and a six-story, 250,000-square-foot, above-grade parking garage. Brian Kelly of HFF was the broker on the transaction. The Carlton Group’s general counsel Daniel Bildner closed the transaction along with Larry Haber of Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson LLP. Dobie Center is located next to the University of Texas at Austin campus, opposite the soon-to-be-completed 458,000-square-foot McComb’s Business School.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Karlin Real Estate has sold a 302,604-square-foot industrial building located at 13201 McCallen Pass in north central Austin to General Motors. GM acquired the building to complement its existing Austin IT Innovation Center at 717 E. Parmer Lane. The facility is located within Sector 6, the first phase of the 400-acre master planned technology and office park being developed by Los Angeles-based Karlin and Dallas-based Trammell Crow Co. Previously occupied by Dell Inc., Sector 6 comprises three existing institutional quality industrial buildings totaling approximately 1 million square feet. All three buildings have been leased or sold. Sector 6’s Other tenants include Allergan, Brown Traffic and Marco Fine Arts. Trammell Crow is completing the first phase of new construction at PARMER, a three-story, 192,000-square-foot office building and has plans to break ground on an identical building later this year. Both buildings are designed for single- or multi-tenant occupancy, and will feature 64,000-square-foot floor plates. PARMER is currently zoned for several million square feet of office, industrial, hotel and retail uses. The development will feature a central amenity area that will include covered outdoor dining and seating areas, extensive hardscape improvements, miles of jogging/walking paths and Wi-Fi enabled social …