FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — Victory Real Estate Group has begun construction on a seven-acre tract of land located at the northeast corner of FM 3040 and Morriss Road. Located in Flower Mound, Victory at FM 3040 will be a mixed-use retail development comprising two pad sites and 37,600 square feet of retail space. Construction will be completed in the near future. The center is currently 50 percent pre-leased. The acre site was the only remaining undeveloped corner and will have the only street facing retail on all four corners in Flower Mound.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — CBRE Capital Markets has arranged the sale of Derby Park, a 360-unit multifamily community in Grand Prairie. Intergerman Derby LP purchased the asset from a private equity firm for an undisclosed price. Dirk Goris, Chris Deuillet and Daniel Baker with CBRE’s Dallas office represented the seller. The 95 percent occupied property is located at 606 W. Palace Parkway at the northwest corner of Beltline Road and I-30. The buyer is planning interior unit upgrades for the complex. Community amenities include two swimming pools, a cyber café, business center, fitness center and a playground.
PHOENIX — Parallel Capital Partners has acquired One North Central, a 410,000-square-foot office tower in Phoenix, for $93.7 million. The Class A tower is located at 201 North Central Ave. Parallel Capital plans to invest more than $1.5 million to renovate and upgrade the property. This will include lobby modernizations, common-area upgrades, a new tenant lounge and spec suites. The tower was originally built in 2001. It has LEED-Silver certification. One North Central is currently 95 percent leased. Notable tenants include Ryley, Carlock and Applewhite, Arizona Summit Law School, Comerica Bank and the Bureau of Land Management. Parallel represented itself in the transaction. The seller was represented by Eastdil Secured. Parallel currently maintains a portfolio of 1.2 million square feet of office and retail space in Phoenix, including the City Square and Midtown regions.
DENVER — Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. (HFF) has arranged an $89.5 million construction loan for A Block @ Union Station, a 310,055-square-foot, mixed-use development in Denver’s Union Station Neighborhood. Continuum Partners LLC worked with HFF to arrange the four-year construction loan with Wells Fargo and CrossHarbor Capital Partners. Continuum also raised $14.5 million in equity from more than 20 investors in addition to contributing land to the project, which will contain hotel, office and retail space. New construction will include a 12-story, 200-room hotel managed by Kimpton; a five-story, 45,458-square-foot office building along with approximately 13,000 square feet of retail/restaurant space; and a 197-space subterranean parking garage with 100 spaces dedicated to public parking. Both properties will contain ground floor retail, with Bank of America already under lease for 3,496 square feet of space. Eric Tupler and Leon McBroom of HFF led the debt placement team in the transaction.
PHOENIX — Realty Associates Fund X L.P. has purchased the White Star Portfolio, which contains nine industrial buildings throughout Phoenix, for $42.2 million. The buildings are all situated near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The portfolio features a total of 460,669 square feet of multi-tenant industrial space. It includes White Star Corporate Center at 2110 – 2140 S. 7th Ave.; Baseline Foothills at 4401 – 4409 E. Baseline Road; 3710 E. University Drive; and 2501 W. Phelps Road. The transaction was executed by JLL’s Mark Detmer and Bo Mills.
LOS ANGELES — Laurus Corporation is set to begin a $30 million renovation of Promenade at Howard Hughes Center, a 250,000-square-foot retail center located just off Interstate 405 in Los Angeles. Renovation plans call for an exterior facelift, a new outdoor screening area and fire pit, new restaurants, enhanced landscaping and interior design, and an outdoor dining area with casual lounge space. A new pedestrian-friendly layout will be included in the renovation, adding more indoor-outdoor connections and courtyards. Jerde Partnership will act as lead architect in the renovation. Laurus recently acquired Promenade at Howard Hughes Center for $111 million.
MONROVIA, CALIF. — Charles Dunn Company has arranged the sale of a single-tenant, 7,327-square-foot property located in Monrovia for $5.15 million. Citibank occupies the triple-net leased property. Kyle Gulock and Jason Cope of Charles Dunn led the effort in representing the seller, a Los Angeles-based private investor. Other Charles Dunn team members involved in the transaction include Darrell Levonian, Fred Sheriff, Tanel Harunzade and Justin Mendelson. Kathy Quach of Treeline Realty represented the buyer, Evan & MC LLC, in the transaction, which closed at a capitalization rate of 4.3 percent.
ATLANTA — Shane Investment Property Group has brokered the $68.5 million sale of a Class B, 392,000-square-foot office building located at 1117 Perimeter Center W. in Atlanta. Built in 1985, the five-story office building is located at the intersection of Perimeter Center West and Mount Vernon Boulevard in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter office submarket. The office building was 90 percent leased at the time of sale. Andy Sutton of Shane Investment represented the buyer, a private foreign investor family, in the transaction.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Chicago-based MB Financial Bank has provided a $40.3 million construction loan for the development of a 218-unit student housing development near the University of South Carolina in Columbia. The 660-bed property will be located at the corner of Gervais and Harden streets in Columbia’s Five Points district. MB Financial Bank provided the loan to Chicago-based Blue Vista Capital Management. The unnamed developer plans to deliver the asset in time for the fall 2016 semester.
New York Life Originates $24.5M Acquisition Loan for Apartment Community in North Charleston
by John Nelson
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — New York Life Real Estate Investors has originated a $24.5 million acquisition loan for Ansley Commons, a 270-unit, Class A multifamily community in North Charleston. New York Life provided the loan to the buyer, The Praedium Group. Brian Eisendrath and Steve Heffner of CBRE arranged the loan on behalf of The Praedium Group.