HOUSTON – HFF has arranged financing for the development of Market Square Tower, a 40-story, mixed-use tower that will include 463 residential units and 21,000 square feet of retail in downtown Houston. HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, Woodbranch Investments, to secure the loan through Pacific Life Insurance Co. Market Square Tower will be located on 1.4 acres at 777 Preston, comprising a full city block bounded by Milam, Preston, Louisiana and Congress. The project is due for completion in fall 2017, with residences ranging from 550 to 1,950 square feet. Amenities will include two pools, a virtual golf simulator, indoor basketball court, screening room and banquet room. HFF’s debt placement team included Travis Anderson, Matt Kafka and Cory Fowler.
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ATLANTA —Atlanta Property Group (APG) has acquired Palisades Office Park in the central perimeter submarket from Shorenstein Properties. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that the 637,000-square-foot complex was acquired for approximately $95 million. The office park consists of four office buildings, two parking decks and four surface lots. It is within walking distance of two MARTA stations.?? With this acquisition, APG has now acquired nine properties since mid-2010, including The Park at Perimeter Center East and 1200 Ashwood Parkway. Combined, the three properties give APG more than 1.1 million square feet of space in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket.?? Eastdil Secured represented the seller in the purchase. Shorenstein bought Palisades, which was constructed in two phases (the first in 1981 and the second in 1999), in 2007. The property is approximately 90 percent leased at this time.
ATLANTA — Atlanta-based Oakmont Industrial Group, along with The Carlyle Group, has closed on a 39-acre land purchase in Atlanta’s I-20 West submarket for a speculative industrial property. Oakmont has begun developing Skyline/20 West, a 604,932-square-foot property that will feature 36-foot clear heights, cross-dock loading, concrete truck courts, 171 trailer parks and 287 auto parks. Bilijack Bell of Wilson, Hull & Neal Real Estate assisted Oakmont in the land acquisition. Oakmont and The Carlyle Group have selected Bell and Joseph Rogers, also with Atlanta-based Wilson, Hull & Neal Real Estate, to lease Skyline/20 West. The design team includes architect Randall-Paulson Architects and general contractor The Conlan Co. Regions Bank is providing construction financing for the project, which is slated for a summer 2015 delivery.
FLOWOOD, MISS. — UCR Properties has arranged the $2.6 million sale of Flowood Plaza, a 28,000-square-foot shopping center located in Flowood, a suburb of Jackson. The property’s tenant roster includes HobbyTown USA, Papa John’s Pizza and Anytime Fitness, and it is shadow-anchored by Walmart. The asset was 77 percent leased at the time of the sale. Micah McCullough and Brett Bailey of UCR Properties represented the seller, Wells Fargo Bank, and procured the buyer, a Louisiana-based private investor.
TYBEE ISLAND, GA. — HFF has arranged a $13.5 million acquisition loan for Ocean Plaza Beach Resort, a 204-room hotel fronting the Atlantic Ocean in Tybee Island, approximately 20 miles east of downtown Savannah. The six-building, 223,986-square-foot hotel, which was originally built in 1909, features a restaurant, lounge, meeting and banquet space, business center, two outdoor pools and a video game arcade. Mark Sixour and Greg LaBine of HFF led the team that arranged the loan through M&T Bank on behalf of the borrower, Linchris Hotel Corp., which plans to spend approximately $1.5 million in the first year for property upgrades.
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Westwood Financial Corp. has signed Publix to anchor Cherry Road Crossing, a 78,890-square-foot shopping center on Cherry Road in Rock Hill, a suburb of Charlotte. Publix will occupy the 63,241-square-foot store formerly occupied by Bi-Lo. This marks the seventh former Bi-Lo location that Publix has replaced in the past year. Cherry Road Crossing is 90 percent leased to Publix, Jackson Hewitt Tax Services, The Wireless Co., Sally Beauty Supply and Americash.
NEW YORK — Carlton has arranged a $240 million multi-tranched equity and debt capital stack for Michael Shvo, Davide Bizzi and Howard Lorber to acquire 125 Greenwich Street, an 80-story condo tower in Manhattan’s Financial District. Carlton provided the capital stack by coordinating six different lenders and investors from five different countries, including India and China. Michael Campbell, Jeff Kosow and Robert Mudry and Chad Roberson of Carlton worked with Chairman Howard Michaels to execute the transaction.
HOBOKEN, N.J. — HFF has arranged $70 million in financing for Curling Club Apartments, a 240-unit, Class A multifamily community in Hoboken. Curling Club Apartments consists of four five-story residential buildings and includes two-bedroom units. HFF worked on behalf of the undisclosed borrower to secure the fixed-rate loan through Nationwide Life Insurance Co. HFF brokered the sale of the asset to the borrower in June 2014. Jon Mikula, Tom Didio and Samuel Seiden led the HFF debt placement team representing the borrower.
NEW YORK — Related Cos., Oxford Properties Group and Neiman Marcus Group Inc. plan to open a flagship Neiman Marcus store on Manhattan’s west side at Hudson Yards. The 250,000-square-foot, multi-level store is scheduled to open in 2018 and will be the first for the brand in New York City. The three-level Neiman Marcus will anchor the 1 million-square-foot Shops at Hudson Yards. Related Cos. and Oxford Properties Group developed the 28-acre Hudson Yards, which includes more than 17 million square feet of commercial and residential space. The property also features more than 100 shops and restaurants, approximately 5,000 residences, a 750-seat public school and a 175-room luxury hotel.
WESTBOROUGH, MASS. — Ferris Development Group has arranged a seven-year, 114,000-square-foot lease to bring Genzyme to One Research Drive in Westborough. Genzyme will be relocating operations from its offices in Framingham, Mass., with an expected move-in during the fourth quarter of 2014. Since February, Ferris Development and Transwestern | RBJ have signed five leases, raising the building’s occupancy to 93 percent. John Lashar and Paul Leone, along with Danielle DeMarco of Transwestern | RBJ, represented Ferris Development. Louis Kluger, Jeff Zell and Marc Sobel of JM Zell represented Genzyme in the transaction.