FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services has arranged a 203,289-square-foot industrial lease at Railhead Industrial Park, located at 421-441 Railhead Drive in Fort Worth. The tenant, Quorum International, a Fort Worth-based specialty lighting company, has renewed and expanded its initial lease and will consolidate its national distribution center in the facility. Nick Talley and Karen Simon of Bradford represented the tenant in the lease transaction. Sun Life Assurance Co. owns the facility.
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BELLEVUE, WASH. — The Rockefeller Group and Sterling Realty Organization (SRO) plan to develop a 2.4-million-square-foot project on a 5.46-acre site in Downtown Bellevue. The site is owned by SRO. The agreement will allow the partners to develop five adjacent parcels over a phased period of time. The initial plans will include three office towers situated above a podium that will include retail shops and public areas.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. – The 588-unit Esplanade at Riverwalk in Riverside has received $63.9 million in first-mortgage refinancing. Financing was based on a 10-year term and a 30-year amortization schedule. It was arranged by Dennis Williams of NorthMarq’s San Francisco regional office on behalf of Sequoia Equities through its affiliate AmeriSphere Multifamily Finance, LLC, a Fannie Mae DUS lender.
PHOENIX — A 29-acre parcel of land in Southwest Phoenix has sold to McClain Foods Services for $7 million. It is located at the Southwest corner of 75th Avenue and Interstate 10. The company plans to develop a 200,000-square-foot freezer/cooler facility on the site. Construction is scheduled for 2013. McClain was represented by Stein Koss and Mike Quint of Lee & Associates, along with Jackson & Cooksey. The seller, EJM Development Co., was represented by Rick Robertson and Allen Lowe.
DENVER — MIG Real Estate, LLChas purchased the 168-unit Churchill Downs apartments in Denver for an undisclosed sum. The unnamed seller was represented by Doug Andrews, Jeff Hawks, Terrance Hunt, Shane Ozment and Jason Wine ofApartment Realty Advisors(ARA). MIG represented itself in this transaction. The property will be managed by Alliance Residential.
BULLHEAD CITY, ARIZ. – A five-building medical office campus is set to break ground within Bullhead City’s master-planned community of Fox Creek. The five-acre project will contain five buildings, each consisting of 7,500 square feet. A $17-million assisted living facility is scheduled to be built adjacent to the campus. The 95,300-square-foot facility, named Joshua Springs, will contain 74 assisted living units and 30 memory care beds. Brookfield Communities is developing the medical office campus, which will break ground early this year. It had previously sold the land where Joshua Springs will be developed to Strata Management. Joshua Springs will be built by Seabold Construction and designed by John Lape. The facility will break ground next month. It is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2014.
SPARKS, NEV. — The Waterford Apartments, a 240-unit apartment community in Sparks, has sold to a California-based apartment investment firm for $17.1 million. The community is located at 800 Nichols Blvd. The selling group was led by Silverwing Development’s J. Carter Witt III and represented by Kenneth Blomsterberg of Marcus & Millichap.
SEATTLE — Dexter Station, a 340,000-square-foot office building, is set to begin construction in Seattle’s South Lake Union district. It will be located at 1101 Dexter Ave. Construction will commence Feb. 1, and is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2015. It is being developed by a joint venture between Capstone Partners and Stockbridge Capital Group. The project, which is aiming for LEED-Silver certification, will be the first speculative office development in the Puget Sound region since 2008. Dexter Station will be built by JTM Construction and designed by LMN Architects and CPL. Stuart Williams, Laura Ford and Joe Gowan of Jones Lang LaSalle will serve as the property’s leasing agents.
MEDLEY, FLA. — A joint venture between Butters Construction & Development and L&B Realty Advisors will develop a $100 million, 918,000-square-foot Class A bulk distribution industrial park called Airport North Industrial Park in Medley. It is located on a 44.5-acre site at N.W. 87th Avenue and N.W. 80th Street. CBRE Capital Markets procured L&B Realty Advisors and its client, the State of Florida, as Butters Construction & Development’s equity partner for the deal. Airport North Industrial Park will include four institutional-quality industrial buildings. Site development will commence in the first quarter of this year and vertical construction in the second quarter of this year.
SLIDELL, LA. — Stirling Properties and CBL & Associates Properties Inc. have formed a 35/65 joint venture to develop Fremaux Town Center in two phases at Interstate 10 and Fremaux Avenue in Slidell. Phase I will include approximately 295,000 square feet with anchors Dick’s Sporting Goods, Michaels, TJ Maxx and Kohl’s. Additionally, Phase II will include up to 300,000 square feet of retail space. Construction on Phase I will begin in March and the grand opening is scheduled for the second quarter of 2014. Fremaux Town Center is more than 70 percent leased.