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 …
OAKLAND, CALIF. – The 45-unit Jackson Courtyard Condominiums in Oakland has sold to an unnamed buyer for $15.9 million. The community is located at 14th and Jackson streets in the city’s Lakeside district. It is situated near two Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations. The seller, 685 Scofield LLC, was represented by Kevin Turner of Marcus & Millichap’s Oakland office.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. – A partnership through Dalan Management has acquired the 276-unit Glendale Commons Apartments through a trustee sale for $8.9 million. The community is located at 6565 West Bethany Home Road in Glendale. It was built in 1983. Dalan assumed the Fannie Mae loan that was originally placed in 2006. The seller was a partnership through NV Investments. The sale was executed by ABI Multifamily.
LAS VEGAS – M&M World Las Vegas has completed a $4.7-million renovation. The 31,056-square-foot building is located at Showcase Mall on the Las Vegas Strip. DC Building Group remodeled all four floors of the attraction. M&M World features a new NASCAR display with a full-size NASCAR race car replica and a new M&M Color Wall with a colored candy tube ceiling. Construction commenced in late 2012. FITCH served as the architect. The building is owned by MARS.
SAN DIEGO – An 8,662-square-foot medical office building in San Diego has sold to BKC Commercial Properties for $2.4 million. The building is located at 9878 Hilbert Street. The buyer plans to relocate its dermatology clinic to the new facility, which will allow for expansion. BKC was represented by Mario Martinez of Lee & Associates – North San Diego County. The seller, Williams Charitable Remainder Trust, was represented by Colliers International.
MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS — Trammell Crow Co. and partner Artis REIT have acquired two land tracts totaling 127 acres in Missouri City. The partnership plans to develop a new, Class A industrial business park called Park 8Ninety, which will accommodate more than 1.7 million square feet of build-to-suit or speculative office/warehouse, distribution and manufacturing space. Construction on the first phase of Park 8Ninety, which will include three buildings totaling over 330,000 square feet of industrial space, is expected to begin in Summer 2015, with completion scheduled for Spring 2016. The property is located at the south corner of U.S. Highway 90A and Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Parkway), 20 miles southwest of downtown Houston. Barney Van Huss represented the seller, Ellis Management, which sold a 75-acre parcel. Ron Dagley of The Betz Cos. represented a local investment group, which sold an adjacent 52-acre parcel. Bo Pettit and Alexander Reilly of Boyd Commercial LLC/CORFAC International represented Trammell Crow Co. and Artis REIT in the acquisition.
HOUSTON — McCarthy Building Cos., and the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) have broken ground on the METRO Harrisburg Overpass project located in Houston’s East End. The project will be the final piece of METRO’s Green Line, which travels through downtown to the Magnolia Transit Center. The $27 million project will involve construction of a 2,400-linear-foot grade separation at the Houston Belt and Terminal (HBT) and Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) railroad tracks located west of Hughes Road. It will include a bridge structure with aesthetic architectural features, two 16-foot wide vehicular traffic lanes, a 26-foot LRT guideway located in the center of the bridge structure, and two five-foot wide emergency walkways on each side of the bridge. The overpass is set to be complete in 12 months.
