WEST CHICAGO, ILL. — NAI Hiffman has arranged the $4.2 million sale of a 4-acre industrial outdoor storage property at 2351 Powis Road in West Chicago. The asset includes 11,000 square feet of shop/fabrication space in two buildings, a concrete yard, mobile office trailer and truck scale. Kelly Disser, Michael Freitag, Bill Byrne and TJ Feeney of NAI Hiffman represented the seller, a private investor group. The Disser/Freitag team also brokered the September 2023 sale, when the property traded for $2.4 million. Constructed in 1993, 2351 Powis Road is zoned for office, research and light industrial uses with a planned unit development overlaid that permitted certain outdoor storage uses. The buyer is relocating from Villa Park, Ill.
PHILADELPHIA — Andrew Carle believes that university retirement communities (URCs) represent a potential game-changing opportunity not only for the seniors housing industry but also for universities and retirees, if executed properly. Yet, URCs are also extraordinarily complicated to operate, cautions the founder of UniversityRetirementCommunities.com, the first directory and information resource of its kind, which lists more than 85 such communities nationwide. “It doesn’t get more difficult than trying to merge big, large, bureaucratic state universities that move very slowly and who live in a bubble of 20-year-olds with the senior living industry that’s very fast-paced, investor-oriented and focused on 80-year-olds. If you had to think of an odd couple, that would be it,” said Carle, an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University and president of Carle Consulting. His comments came at the InterFace Seniors Housing Northeast conference on Dec. 5. at the Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia, where he was the keynote speaker. Up until the last 15 years, there were only a handful of URCs nationwide, but today it’s among the fastest growing segments in the senior living industry, said Carle. While the vast majority of URCs are loosely connected to institutions of higher learning, the top dozen or so …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A partnership between Penzance and TriWest Multifamily has purchased Stoney Trace Apartments, a 380-unit community located at 4616 Stoney Trace Drive in Charlotte’s Mint Hill neighborhood. The previous owner sold the recently renovated apartment community for $59.8 million. Blake Hockenbury and Bryan Frazier of Walker & Dunlop arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing on behalf of Penzance and TriWest Multifamily. The new ownership has tapped ZRS Management to operate Stoney Trace, which offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and amenities including a fitness center, club room with a business center and pool table, soccer field, dog park and an outdoor pool with a grilling area.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Owner-operator Beth Sholom Village has opened Aviva Pembroke, a new community located in Virginia Beach adjacent to the Pembroke Square shopping mall. Pembroke Realty Group developed the property on behalf of Beth Sholom Village. Totaling 153 units, the community features 121 independent living, 20 assisted living and 12 memory care residences. Amenities at the property, which was designed by Kahler Slater, include a pool, fitness center, bistro, community room and a meditation and prayer room. Outdoor amenities include a deck, rooftop lounge and terrace, pickleball courts, putting greens and firepits. The project team also included associate architect Drew Kepley, contractor S.B. Ballard Construction Co., civil engineer Kimley-Horn, structural engineer Lynch Mykins and interior designer Solution 65. JLL provided project oversight to Beth Sholom Village.
ATLANTA — Berkadia has arranged a $28.3 million HUD 221(d)(4) loan for the construction of Englewood Multifamily, a 200-unit mixed-income community underway in Atlanta’s Chosewood Park neighborhood. The non-recourse, fully amortizing loan features a construction-to-perm structure that covers the construction period followed by a 40-year amortization schedule. Carolyn Whatley and Angela Folkers of Berkadia’s FHA/HUD team originated the financing on behalf of the co-developers, The Benoit Group and the City of Atlanta’s Housing Authority (AHA). Englewood Multifamily is part of a 37-acre master-planned development and represents the second building within Phase I of the redevelopment of Englewood Manor on Atlanta’s southeast side. Englewood Multifamily’s development costs are estimated to exceed $86 million. The property will feature 80 percent of the units reserved for households earning 60 percent or less of AMI with the remainder rented at market rates. The community will also include 21,844 square feet of commercial space. The network of companies and organizations that are bringing the Englewood Multifamily development to fruition include the following:
RALEIGH, N.C. — Siemens Energy has signed a 55,279-square-foot lease at 540 Tech Center, a 110,500-square-foot office building located at 4912 Green Road in Raleigh. The tenant doubled its office footprint at the property and is now the sole occupant. Matt Winters and Kimarie Ankenbrand of JLL represented Siemens Energy in the lease transaction. Dennis Hurley, also with JLL, represented the undisclosed landlord. Siemens Energy is expected to occupy the new space, which features lab space for research-and-development purposes, in July.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Portman has signed contrast therapy studio SweatHouz to a retail lease at Starling, a 359-unit apartment community in Nashville’s Germantown neighborhood. With this lease, Starling’s 17,000 square feet of retail space is fully committed to concepts including Toastique, Solidcore, Retrograde Coffee, Social Cantina, KyuRamen and PannePazze. The new SweatHouse is set to open in August and will be the brand’s first location in Nashville and second in Tennessee. The location will offer private suites featuring infrared saunas, cold plunges and vitamin-C showers for members.
PLANO, TEXAS — A partnership between two locally based investment firms, Rosewood Property Co. and Pillar Commercial, has purchased a 200,765-square-foot industrial property in Plano. The two-building facility was built in 2022 within Plano Commerce Center on the city’s east side and features 24-foot clear heights, dock-high doors, rear-load configurations and 185-foot truck court depths. The property was 71 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Acre Security, Ulrich Medical USA, Cheer Athletics and Senderra Specialty Pharmacy. Provident Realty Advisors sold the property for an undisclosed price.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of The Destino, a 192-unit apartment complex located roughly midway between Dallas and Fort Worth in Grand Prairie. The Destino comprises 18 buildings that were built on an 11-acre site in the 2000s. Units come in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, and amenities include a pool, outdoor kitchen, playground and a dog park. Al Silva and Ford Braly of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Atlantic Multifamily, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, a New York-based private investment company.
KYLE, TEXAS — Tennessee-based developer GBT Realty Corp. has landed five new tenant commitments at The Shops at The Brick & Mortar District, a 42,000-square-foot shopping center in the Central Texas city of Kyle that is nearing completion. The tenants are Playa Bowls, Jeremiah’s Italian Ice, Skip’s Beer Wine & Liquor, Square Nails Austin and Perspire Sauna Studio. Sprouts Farmers Market is the anchor tenant of the center, which is now 90 percent preleased ahead of the scheduled late-summer completion date.