LOWELL, MASS. — Fantini & Gorga served as lead advisor on a financing package for the $36.4 million Boott Mills West construction project in the National Historic Park in Lowell. The project used three kinds of tax credits — federal, state and new market — as well as a $19.1 million loan placed by Fantini & Gorga. A joint venture between Winn Development and Rees-Larkin Development is transforming a 19th century mill into 77 apartments and 42,684 square feet of office space. Boott Mills West is located at 141 John St. and is the last undeveloped phase in the Boott Mills complex, which includes the Boott Cotton Mills Museum, the Tsongas Industrial History Center and The Apartments at Boott Mills. Joe Eddy and Tim O'Donnell of Fantini & Gorga handled the assignment.
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WARMINSTER, PA. — J.G. Petrucci Co. has secured a $34 million loan for The Station at Bucks County, a newly completed, 233-unit apartment community in Warminster, a suburb of Philadelphia. Jon Mikula led the HFF team that arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through Webster Bank. In 2011, HFF also arranged a $32 million construction loan for the borrower through Webster Bank. The Station at Bucks County is located at 330 Jacksonville Road and contains 19 buildings. Amenities include a clubhouse, fitness center and pool.
SAN ANTONIO — A partnership between Dallas-based MedProperties Holdings and Dallas-based Suntex Development, the development arm of Suntex Ventures LLC, has made an equity investment for the development of a 60-unit, 56,313-square-foot assisted living/memory care facility, located at the intersection of Lakeside Parkway and Cable Ranch Road in San Antonio. The facility will house 42 assisted living units and 18 memory care units. Austin-based TRISUN Healthcare will operate the facility, which will be designed by Austin-based DFD Architects and constructed by San Antonio-based Metropolitan Contracting Co. The unnamed facility is slated for a summer 2013 completion.
DALLAS — Construction has begun on the 276-unit 4110 Fairmount, an upscale multifamily community located in the Oak Lawn/Uptown submarket of Dallas, an infill area near the intersection of Maple and Oak Lawn avenues. The development plans include the demolition of 1960s-era housing on Throckmorton Street. The community will be a four-story residential building wrapped around a five-story parking garage and will include 23 three-story townhomes with attached two-car garages. Amenities will include a cyber cafe, business center, fitness center, virtual game room, two luxury swimming pools, and a dog-amenity station. Trammell Crow Residential is partnering with Behringer Harvard to develop the community, and an affiliate of Trammell Crow will serve as the general contractor.
CEDAR PARK — ARA has brokered the sale of the 416-unit Middle Brook Gardens, a multifamily community located at 335 Cypress Creek Road in Cedar Park. The community's amenities include two resort-style swimming pools, heated spa, fitness center, playground, sand volleyball court and a pond. The property is 97 percent occupied. Patton Jones of ARA's Austin office represented the seller, Baltimore-based Alex Brown Realty Inc., in the transaction. Newton, Mass.-based Northland Investment Corp. was the buyer.
TEMPLE — Dragon Realty LLC has purchased a 9,786-square-foot freestanding restaurant building, located at 2113 SW HK Dodgen Loop in Temple. Tom Paredes and Taylor Roberts of the John T. Evans Co. represented the seller, Golden Corral, in the transaction.
ARLINGTON — HFF has secured nearly $16 million in financing for Sunset Point and Springmist Apartment Homes, two multifamily communities totaling 408 units. Sunset Point and Springmist are located at 2015 and 2004 Randy Snow Road in Arlington, close to the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. The properties are 97 percent occupied. John Brownlee of HFF arranged the 10-year loan through Freddie Mac on behalf of the borrower, Pure Multi-Family REIT. Loan proceeds were used to acquire the properties.
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. – A 120,000-square-foot, Class A office building that resides within the Golden Triangle of Beverly Hills has sold to Clarion Partners for $80 million. The Golden Triangle is a high-end retail, dining and hospitality district. The fully occupied building is located at 100 N. Crescent Drive.
LOS ANGELES – A 151,029-square-foot, Class A entertainment office complex known as Tribeca West has sold to Kilroy Realty Corp. for $73 million. The property is located at 12233 W. Olympic Blvd. in Los Angeles. It is 97 percent leased. Notable tenants include Disney, HBO & NBC studios. Bob Safai of Madison Partners represented both the buyer and the seller, Ocean West Capital Partners, in this transaction.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. – The 56-unit El Royale apartment community in Hollywood has sold for $29.5 million. The community is located at 450 North Rossmore Ave. It was originally built in 1929. The buyer’s acquisition team included Kamran Hakim, a developer and investor, and Farhad Eshaghpour, a real estate professional. The seller, a family trust that had owned El Royale for more than 50 years, was represented by Ron Harris, Stewart I. Weston and Joseph Smolen of Institutional Property Advisors.