NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $48 million in refinancing for an office property located at 1156 Avenue of the Americas in New York City. The borrower was APF Properties. The seven-year loan, which was provided by a regional balance sheet lender, features a fixed rate, a five-year extension option and five years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. The nine-story office property offers 71,900 square feet of office space and 8,000 square feet of retail space. Tal Bar-Or of Meridian negotiated the financing on behalf of the borrower.
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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — PCCP LLC has provided a $29.7 million senior loan to American Real Estate Partners and Silverpeak Real Estate Partners for the acquisition and lease-up of CenterPointe at Bridgewater in Bridgewater. The joint venture plans to implement a $2.7 million capital improvement plan for the renovation of one building and improvements and cosmetic enhancements for the remaining three buildings. The four-building campus offers 332,000 square feet of Class A office space.
BOSTON — Boston Capital has closed Boston Capital Corporate Tax Credit Fund LX, a nationwide portfolio of 21 affordable apartment properties in 13 states with a fund size of $120 million. The fund includes 17 properties for families and four seniors housing developments. This portfolio added 1,068 apartment units to Boston Capital’s holdings. Fund XL also will result in the creation of nearly 870 local jobs and will generate $54 million in local salaries. With the closing of Fund XL, the company has raised $538 million in equity in the past 12 months. Boston Capital also recently launched Corporate Fund XLI, a $160 million fund expected to close in October.
TANNERSVILLE, PA. — Michael Baxter & Associates Commercial Real Estate has arranged the sale of the former Pocono Record printing facility in Tannersville. DMC Properties PA LLC, an affiliate of Durr Mechanical Construction purchased the 25,000-square-foot property for $1.2 million. Michael Baxter of Michael Baxter & Associates represented the seller, Dow Jones, in the transaction. John Schilp of NAI James E. Hanson represented the buyer.
ATLANTA — Parkway Properties Inc. has completed the $78 million sale of Two Ravinia, a 390,000-square-foot office building in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket. Parkway had a 30 percent ownership interest in the property, which was owned by Parkway Properties Office Fund II LP. The 17-story office tower was 80.5 percent leased at the time of sale. David Meline, Stewart Calhoun, Samir Idris and Casey Masters of Cushman & Wakefield represented Parkway in the transaction. The buyer, Franklin Street Properties Corp., a publicly traded REIT, plans to invest $4.8 million over the next three to four years to upgrade the office property.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Capstone Capital has arranged a $35 million loan to refinance Hayleigh Village Apartments, a 360-unit apartment community in Greensboro. Capstone arranged the 10-year loan with a fixed 4.13 percent interest rate through Fannie Mae on behalf of the borrower, an undisclosed multifamily owner and developer based in the Southeast. The loan features three years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule for the remaining seven years of the term. Hayleigh Village Apartments recently appraised for $46.7 million.
ORLANDO, FLA. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured a $17 million acquisition loan for Falcon Trace Apartments, a 252-unit garden-style community in Orlando. The apartment complex was built in 1999. Jane Harrison of KeyBank’s commercial mortgage group secured the financing through Freddie Mac’s CME program.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Fresh Market has signed a lease for a new location in the Dilworth Gardens Shopping Center in Charlotte. The specialty grocer’s new store will be located at East Boulevard and Scott Avenue. Once opened, the new store will be the Greensboro, N.C.-based company’s 21st store in North Carolina and its sixth in the metro Charlotte area. The grocer currently operates 168 stores in 27 states.
DESTIN, FLA. — Atlanta-based Bull Realty has brokered the $3 million sale of a 2.2-acre lot at the corner of Emerald Coast Parkway (Highway 98) and Restaurant Row in Destin, a popular tourist destination located on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida’s panhandle. CM Destin LLC, a hotel group, purchased the site from Spa Destin LLC and is planning a Home2Suites by Hilton concept at the location. The buyer will be demolishing the existing 14,875-square-foot Whitney National Bank to make room for the new hotel. Bull Realty was the only broker involved in the marketing and sale of the land site. The developer will be Cohen Investments, a Memphis-based REIT specializing in hotel and commercial property development and management.
Throughout the economic recovery, real estate has been investors’ preferred asset class in the Cincinnati region and across the United States. Although the Federal Reserve is likely to raise short-term interest rates in June or September, demand for commercial real estate is expected to remain strong as long as the recovering economy continues to create new demand for commercial space. According to Real Capital Analytics, 2014 finally saw total U.S. sales volume and property prices (at the aggregate level) reach pre-recession levels. In fact, Real Capital Analytics reports that excluding portfolio sales, activity was higher in 2014 than in 2007. Investment Sales Surge Metro Cincinnati’s property and portfolio sales in 2014 totaled more than $2.3 billion across all major real estate sectors, a 53 percent increase over 2013. It was, by far, the strongest year for investment activity in recent memory, with significant increases across all property types. For the second straight year, retail sales transactions led the way locally among all property types. Retail sales volume in 2014 exceeded $600 million, $370 million of which occurred in the fourth quarter. Office property and portfolio sales in Cincinnati totaled nearly $580 million in 2014. This figure was a 162 percent …