CHARLESTON, S.C. — NXT Capital has provided a $21 million acquisition loan for 400 Meeting Street, a 41-unit, 160-bed student housing community situated less than a mile north of the College of Charleston. The Class A community includes a fitness center, covered bicycle storage, car sharing services and controlled access. According to the property website, the borrower is renovating and rebranding 400 Meeting Street as My House on Meeting.
DALLAS — Cypress Equities has sold eight Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery stores in Alabama and South Carolina to an undisclosed REIT. Dallas-based Cypress Equities has served as a preferred developer in the Walmart Neighborhood Market build-to-suit program that was established in January 2014. In the past three years, Cypress has constructed and opened 20 Walmart Neighborhood Markets, and this sale represents the final disposition of the 20-store portfolio, which also includes stores in Texas. Listing brokers for the portfolio include Glen Kunofsky, Lauren Veres, Mike James and Don McMinn at Marcus & Millichap; Pat Luther, Matt Mousavi, Kyle Stonis and Ryan Hoff of SRS Real Estate’s National Net Lease Group; and Brad Moulder of Stan Johnson Co. The sales price and store locations were not disclosed.
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Equity Inc., an Ohio-based developer and broker, has begun construction on Palmetto Primary Care Physicians Medical Campus in the community of Nexton, about 30 miles northwest of Charleston. The $32 million project will deliver a 100,000-square-foot Class A medical office with primary and specialty care services, an urgent care center and an imaging lab. Construction is scheduled for completion in late 2018.
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — North America Sekisui House LLC (NASH) and development partner American Newland Communities LLP (Newland) have purchased 4,000 acres in Summerville from WestRock Land and Development for an undisclosed price. The acquired land is situated within the Nexton master-planned development near Charleston. WestRock will continue to develop its commercial land fronting I-26 and US 176, including the PPCP Medical Campus, the Nexton town center retail space and other commercial and retail projects. Nexton has been approved for up to 13,000 residential units, comprising single-family detached, single-family attached and multifamily. Currently, more than 200 homes have been sold or are currently under construction within Nexton. The Nexton acquisition is the first development project in the Charleston area for both NASH and Newland, whose plans for the project were not disclosed.
COLUMBIA, S.C. AND GREENSBORO, N.C. — ARA Newmark has arranged two sales of student housing assets near the University of South Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The sales totaled more than $50 million. In the first transaction, Pittsburgh-based Campus First Student Living purchased The Club at Carolina Stadium in Columbia from Aspen Square Management for $30.5 million. Situated directly across from Carolina Stadium, the 240-unit, 486-bed asset was fully occupied at the time of sale. In the second deal, Shanghai-based private equity fund OC Ventures and operating partner SkyeCroft Realty purchased Sterling Cottages at West End in Greensboro from Houston-based The Dinerstein Cos. for an undisclosed price. Built in 2011, the 176-unit, 600-bed asset was 93 percent occupied at the time of sale. Ryan Lang of ARA Newmark’s Student Housing group in Austin, Texas, represented the sellers in both transactions.
CINCINNATI — Cincinnati-based Phillips Edison & Co. has sold five shopping centers totaling 583,000 square feet to Albanese Cormier Holdings for an undisclosed price. The portfolio includes Quincy Plaza, a 141,816-square-foot, Hobby Lobby-anchored shopping center located in Ottumwa, Iowa; Kokomo Plaza, an 89,414-square-foot shopping center anchored by Ollie’s Bargain Outlet and Vendor City Antiques in Kokomo, Ind.; Catawba Village, a 59,463-square-foot, Goodwill-anchored shopping center located in Newton, N.C.; Lakeside Shopping Center, a 184,579-square-foot property anchored by Big Lots, Save-A-Lot, Citi Trends and Family Dollar in Anderson, S.C.; and Louisa Plaza, a 108,065-square-foot shopping center anchored by Goody’s and Family Dollar in Louisa, Ky. Eric Wohl of Hanley Investment Group served as an advisor for the transaction.
SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. — Phoenix Senior Living is set to open the doors next week on The Pearl at Five Forks, a 48-unit memory care community located at 15 Five Forks Road in the Greenville suburb of Simpsonville. Phoenix, a privately held seniors housing developer based in Kennesaw, Ga., hired a team of certified dementia practitioners to deliver care at the community. The company also partnered with Memory Care Centers of America for the project.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Holder Properties has begun construction on River Oaks Center, a 106,000-square-foot, Class A office building located on Leeds Avenue off I-526 in North Charleston. The four-story property is Holder’s fifth office development within Charleston’s largest office park, The Executive Park at Faber Place. The project team includes architect Warner Summers and general contractor Harper Corp. River Oaks Center will be ready for new tenants this fall.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — CBRE has brokered the $16.7 million sale of 750 Brookfield, a 106,649-square-foot office building located at 750 Brookfield Parkway in Greenville. The office building was 93.5 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Ford Motor Credit Co., which occupies nearly 70 percent of the building. Patrick Gildea, Tripp Sellers and Charles Gouch of CBRE represented the seller, Chicago-based J.L. Woode Ltd., in the transaction. CCP Commercial Real Estate was the buyer.
CONWAY, S.C. — Morgan Construction Co. has been awarded a contract to build its 100th and 101st Aldi stores in the Southeast. The two new stores will be located in Conway. The Chattanooga, Tenn.-based contractor has previously built Aldi stores in eight states in the region, including all six Aldi stores in southeast Tennessee and northwest Georgia over the past decade. The German grocer awards contracts one project at a time, according to Morgan Construction.
