CLEVELAND — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured $66 million in debt financing on behalf of Pierce Education Properties for a five-property student housing apartment portfolio. Totaling 2,788 beds, the properties are located in four states across the Midwest and Southeast. KeyBank originally funded five on-balance sheet, three-year, non-recourse loans to finance the acquisition of the five properties in 2014. KeyBank refinanced the original bank loans with 10-year, interest-only floating rate debt with a loan-to-value ratio of 55 percent. Robert Prouty and Andrew Lucca of KeyBank’s Commercial Mortgage Group arranged the financing.
CINCINNATI — Phillips Edison Grocery REIT II has acquired three properties in Ohio, Minnesota and Maryland. Glennwood Crossing in Cincinnati was purchased from Glenwood Crossing LLC for $7.1 million and includes 101,021 rentable square feet. Currently, the center is 96 percent leased to 11 tenants, with anchor grocery Kroger occupying 62,541 rentable square feet. Rosewick Crossing in La Plata, Md., was purchased from Excel Rosewick LLC, for $25 million and includes 115,972 rentable square feet. Currently the center is 82 percent leased to 12 tenants. Anchor grocery Giant occupies 61,932 rentable square feet. Waterford Park Plaza in Plymouth, Minn., was purchased from Provident/Waterford LLC for $19.5 million and contains 127,586 rentable square feet. Currently the shopping center is 96 percent leased to 24 tenants. Anchor grocery Cub Foods occupies 64,673 rentable square feet.
ST. PAUL, MINN. — Dougherty Mortgage has arranged a $9.5 million HUD 223(f) loan for the refinancing of Crosby Pointe Apartments, a 73-unit multifamily market rate apartment property located in St. Paul. The 35-year loan includes a 35-year amortization schedule. Dougherty’s Minneapolis office arranged the loan for the borrower, Crosby Pointe LLC. Real Estate Equities LLC manages Crosby Pointe Apartments. The property features an outdoor pool, fitness center and an underground parking garage. Units are currently undergoing renovations that include the addition of stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and new finishes.
CHICAGO RIDGE, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $4.5 million sale of Ridge Terrace Apartments, a 72-unit apartment property in Chicago Ridge. Ridge Terrace Apartments is located at 7030-40 West 100th and 9940 Nottingham. The three buildings include one-bedroom and two-bedroom units ranging in sze from 715 to 860 square feet. Each building features storage spaces, off-street parking and on-site laundry facilities. Andrean Angelov and Ryan Engle of Marcus & Millichap’s Chicago Oak Brook office represented the seller, a limited liability company and the buyer, a private investor.
CORAL GABLES, FLA. — Aventura, Fla.-based Axiom Capital Advisors has brokered the $16.5 million sale of Riviera Plaza, a 55,161-square-foot mixed-use development located at 1542 S. Dixie Highway in Coral Gables. Roberto Susi of Axiom Capital represented the buyer, Riviera Holdings Plaza LP, a partnership between Gadinsky Real Estate, Echion USA and 13th Floor Investments. The partnership purchased the asset in an off-market transaction. According to Susi, the new ownership is contemplating repositioning Riviera Plaza to include multifamily housing.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — HFF has arranged a $14.5 million acquisition loan for a 32,000-square-foot office building located at 1509 16th St. N.W. in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. Dan McIntyre of HFF arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through First National Bank on behalf of the borrowers, MidAtlantic Realty Partners LLC and UberOffices. In addition to the acquisition, the borrowers will use the loan proceeds to fund renovation/lease up costs. Originally built in 1909, the building will be fully renovated by early 2016 for UberOffices, which will occupy the entire office building.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Divaris Real Estate Inc. has brokered the sale of Brookland Plaza, an 18,000-square-foot shopping center located at 3730 10th St. N.E. in Washington, D.C. Urban Investment Partners purchased the asset from Jan and Anna Slamen Family Trust for $5.5 million. Joseph Farina, John Camp and Amit Grover of Divaris represented the buyer and seller in the transaction.
GAFFNEY, S.C. — Lyons Industrial Properties has brokered the sale of a 208,000-square-foot industrial facility located at 805 Victory Trail Road in Gaffney. The property is leased to Suminoe Textiles of America, a textile distributor to the automotive industry. Bobby Lyons of Lyons Industrial Properties represented the seller, Anderson Family Associates, in the transaction. Reger Holdings purchased the asset for $3.3 million.
With the industrial real estate market in Grand Rapids nearing critical mass — where demand is strong enough to fill the entire supply of available space — a new challenge has emerged for developers. How do they create enough new, competitive product to keep up with continued market momentum? For the first time in a decade, total inventory in the industrial market must grow. The solution will likely come in the form of new construction and creative repositioning of functionally obsolete facilities. During the Great Recession and slow recovery, many companies consolidated operations. Buildings that had become vacant were repurposed, substantially modified or eliminated altogether. Now, we are beginning to see a trend of new construction. Both speculative and build-to-suit construction has become the logical solution to the lack of inventory. Noteworthy Projects An investment group led by a local building materials supplier, and marketed by the industrial team at Colliers, is developing a 45,000-square-foot light manufacturing speculative building, located at 3838 Soundtech Court in Kentwood, a southern suburb of Grand Rapids. Delivery is expected by June 1. On the city’s southeast side near Gerald R. Ford International Airport, a new industrial building is under construction at 5300 Broadmoor Ave. …
NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — CBRE Group has arranged the sale of The Shoppes at North Brunswick, a shopping center located along Route 1 North Brunswick. A New York-based private equity firm sold the 150,000-square-foot property to Shoppes at North Brunswick LLC, an entity controlled by The Azarian Group, for an undisclosed price. The center is 94 percent leased to a mix of tenants, including Anthropologie, Banana Republic, Five Below, Talbots, NY & Company, Ann Taylor Loft, Charming Charlie, Corner Bakery Café, SuperCuts and Wingstop. Additionally, the retail and office property has 10,000 square feet of space available. Jeffrey Dunne, Casey Rosen, David Gavin and Dennis Carson of CBRE represented both parties in the transaction.