HILTON HEAD, S.C. — HFF has secured $13.4 million in acquisition financing for Fresh Market Shoppes, an 86,694-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center in Hilton Head. Redeveloped in 2004, the shopping center was 91.2 percent leased at the time of financing to 16 tenants, including anchor The Fresh Market, Bonefish Grill, Dollar Tree, Massage Envy and West Marine. Situated on 9.7 acres at 890 William Hilton Parkway, the shopping center is bounded by two golf courses: Long Cove Golf Club and Shipyard Plantation Golf Course. Travis Anderson and Cory Fowler led HFF’s debt placement team to arrange the loan through Synovus Bank on behalf of the borrower, Ferncroft Capital.
South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Atlanta-based Haven Campus Communities will develop a $55 million, six-building student housing project in the Bull Street development near the University of South Carolina in Columbia. The 234-unit project will go up on nearly 6.5 acres in the proposed BullStreet Common development and feature apartment residences and townhomes. The project includes a 608-space parking deck and 104 street spaces, as well as a pool, courtyard and covered pavilion. The site is adjacent to a city-owned baseball stadium that will open this year.
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Capstone Capital has closed the $32.5 million cash-out refinancing of Kilnsea Village Apartments, a 313-unit multifamily property located at 5300 Patron Place in Summerville, roughly 26 miles west of Charleston. The unnamed borrower, a Southeast-based developer, refinanced an existing $20 million loan and withdrew approximately $12.5 million from the new financing. Jackson Howard of Capstone Capital arranged the Fannie Mae loan at a fixed interest rate of 4.45 percent. The loan features three years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.
DUNCAN, S.C. — Exeter Property Group has purchased a 307,132-square-foot, Class A industrial building located at 1375 Howell Road in Duncan. Exeter purchased the asset from TIC Properties for an undisclosed price. Located within Hillside Industrial Park, the property is leased to Benore Logistics, a third-party logistics and sequencing provider for BMW. Givens Stewart, Garrett Scott and Brockton Hall of Colliers International represented Exeter in the transaction.
SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. —McCrory Construction Co., a South Carolina-based general contractor, has broken ground on The Crossing at Five Forks, an independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Simpsonville, located in Upstate South Carolina. Virginia-based developer Smith/Packett Med-Com LLC is developing the 197,702-square-foot community, which will feature 100 independent living units, 48 assisted living units and 24 memory care units. Development costs are estimated to be $19 million. More than 15 percent of the population in Greenville County, where the community will be located, is above 62 years of age. Studies project that in 10 years, one of every four residents in Greenville will be over 55, according to McCrory. The Crossing at Five Forks is the second seniors housing community McCrory is building in South Carolina for Smith/Packett and its subsidiary Harmony Senior Services. The Crossings at Wescott Plantation, located in Charleston, is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2016.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Colliers International has brokered the $3.5 million sale of a 133,240-square-foot industrial facility located at 2641 New Cut Road in Spartanburg. Reger Holdings LLC purchased the former Faurecia manufacturing facility from Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies LLC. Faurecia is a manufacturer of automotive seating, interior systems, automotive exteriors and emissions control technologies and is major supplier for BMW, which has a major presence in South Carolina. Colliers is the global real estate services provider for Faurecia, which has 238 production facilities and 38 research and development centers in 33 countries. Chuck Salley, Dave Mathews, Givens Stewart, Sam Myers, Garrett Scott and Brockton Hall of Colliers represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction. Reger Holdings has retained Colliers to lease and manage the facility.
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $5 million sale of a single-tenant property net leased to Walgreens at 4300 Highway 17 South in North Myrtle Beach. Walgreens has operated at the store, located at the intersection of Highway 17 and Windy Hill Road, since 2002 and has seven years remaining on its lease agreement. Randy Blankstein and John Feeney of The Boulder Group represented the buyer, a Midwest-based private investor, in the 1031 transaction. The seller was a private investor based in California.
Marcus & Millichap Brokers $12.8M Sale of Walmart Neighborhood Market in Charleston MSA
by John Nelson
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $12.8 million sale of a 41,117-square-foot, freestanding Walmart Neighborhood Market in Goose Creek, a suburb of Charleston. Built in 2014 and opened for business in June 2015, the store features a drive-thru pharmacy and a six-pump Walmart fuel station on an outparcel. Walmart has signed a 20-year modified triple-net lease on the property with four five-year options, each with rent increases. Don McMinn and Zach Taylor of Marcus & Millichap’s Atlanta office and principals of the firm’s Taylor McMinn Group represented the seller, a developer. The buyer is a private investor in a 1031 exchange. Raj Ravi of Marcus & Millichap’s Charleston office is the firm’s broker of record in South Carolina.
ANDERSON, S.C. — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the sale of a newly constructed, 41,369-square-foot Walmart Neighborhood Market located at 2003 E. Greenville St. in Anderson. The store is situated at the northwest corner of Greenville Street and Reed Road directly across the street from AnMed Health Medical Center. Kyle Stonis, Pierce Mayson, and John Topping, Jr. of SRS’ Atlanta office represented the seller, Cypress Equities, in the transaction. The buyer, VEREIT Inc., was self-represented. The purchase price was undisclosed.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — NAI Avant has arranged a 5,400-square-foot office lease in downtown Columbia. The Mariner Group has relocated its headquarters to the TD Bank Building located at 1501 Main St. Mariner is a provider of maritime situational awareness and response management solutions and services. Paul Hartley, Roger Winn and Paul Paschal of NAI Avant represented Mariner in the transaction.