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ORLANDO, FLA. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the $56.1 million sale of Cypress Park, a 256,838-square-foot industrial property located along Satellite Boulevard in Orlando. Luis Castillo, Cody Brais, Taylor Osborne, David Orta Jr. and Mia Gian of JLL represented the seller, Herbert Management Corp., in the transaction. The buyer was Midtown Capital Partners. Situated directly off Florida’s Turnpike and U.S. Route 441 interchange near the Orlando International Airport, the five-building industrial property sits on roughly 23.4 acres and features 45 dock-high doors, 18 drive-in and grade-level doors, clear heights ranging from 20 to 22 feet and up to 100-foot truck court depths. At the time of sale, Cypress Park was 99 percent leased to 26 tenants across nine industries such as technology, manufacturing, building materials, construction, retail distribution, food-and-beverage, financial services and third-party logistics. Suite sizes range from 1,000 to 34,000 square feet.

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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles-based Ascendant Capital Partners has acquired an eight-property hotel portfolio across Virginia Beach and North Carolina’s Outer Banks region. CBRE Hotels, the hospitality division of CBRE Group, represented the seller, Coastal Hospitality, in the transaction. CBRE also served as financial advisor on behalf of Ascendant.  The sales price was not disclosed. Schulte Hospitality Group will assume operations of the portfolio. The portfolio comprises 965 rooms across six hotels in Virginia and two hotels in the Outer Banks. Seven of the eight properties are beachfront, with most rooms offering direct ocean views and outdoor balconies, while the remaining asset is a centrally located town center hotel. The properties include: Ascendant plans to implement capital and operational renovations across the properties.

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DULUTH, GA. — Hanover Co. has acquired nearly eight acres in Duluth, a northeast suburb of Atlanta in Gwinnett County, for the development of Hanover Sugarloaf, a 305-unit multifamily community. The purchase price was $12.4 million. John Speros and JT Speros of Ackerman & Co., along with Kyle Gable of Gable Land Co. and David Branch of SSG Realty Partners, represented the seller, an entity doing business as SP Sugarloaf LLC, in the transaction. The property will be situated near the 118-acre Gas South District, which is anchored by Gas South Arena and the Gas South Convention Center, and adjacent to Sugarloaf Parkway Shopping Center. Hanover Co. plans to demolish the 56,000-square-foot vacant office building at the property to make room for multiple four- and five-story apartment buildings, which will also include parking. Further details of the project were not disclosed.

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caprock

BETHESDA, MD. — CP Group, along with a fund managed by DRA Advisors, has signed six leases over the past three months at Caprock, a 709,313-square foot office property located in Bethesda. Totaling approximately 35,000 square feet, the new tenants include nonprofit mechanical contractors’ organization MCA of Metropolitan Washington (12,295 square feet); coworking and private office provider Pioneer Office Suites (8,905 square feet); business management consultancy firm mPower Inc. (4,610 square feet); IMC Construction (3,478 square feet); satellite communications company Commcrete (3,807 square feet); and Haverford Construction Co. (2,780 square feet). Tenants were represented by agents from KLNB, Clarefield Partners, CBRE and TTA. Bernie McCarthy, Amanda Davis, Danny Sheridan and Patrick Hall of JLL represented CP Group in all transactions.  Formerly known as Democracy Center, CapRock is a three-building, 10-acre campus that comprises two nine-story towers and one 15-story tower. CP Group recently completed renovations at Caprock’s 6903 building, including the rollout of its “worCPlaces” spec suite program, an entire seventh floor of move-in ready workspaces with shared amenities, such as a tenant lounge and break room. To date, CP Group has delivered more than 50,000 square feet of move-in-ready suites at CapRock across two phases. With nearly all the existing suites …

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Hurricane Helene was not a modest disruption. It was a disaster of historic scale. The North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management estimated total damage and recovery needs at $59.6 billion as of Dec. 2024, including damage to more than 73,000 homes, more than 100 confirmed deaths in North Carolina and a federal disaster declaration covering 39 counties. As a broker in Western North Carolina (WNC), I am often asked why the commercial real estate market has remained as strong as it has. The answer is not that the market avoided pain. It did not. The answer is that a tightly supplied market behaves very differently from a soft market after a disaster.  In WNC, Hurricane Helene did not expose oversupply. It exposed scarcity. Before Helene, the Asheville-area commercial market already had very little slack. In NAI Beverly-Hanks’ second-quarter 2024 Asheville MSA commercial market report, CoStar Group-derived vacancy stood at 5.3 percent for industrial, 2.8 percent for office and 1.6 percent for retail. Earlier 2024 reporting from the same source showed similarly constrained conditions, reinforcing the same point: this was already a tight market before the storm arrived. A familiar recovery pattern That pre-storm scarcity shaped the recovery pattern. …

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Sense-22

MIAMI — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $111 million construction loan for the development of Sense22, a 328-unit multifamily project located in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. Max La Cava and Pier Barinci of JLL secured the three-year loan through S3 Capital on behalf of the borrower, HA Emprendimientos, a real estate development and construction company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. JLL also previously secured the land and predevelopment loan for the property in 2025. The project is slated for completion in 2028. Sense22 will comprise 36 stories and will offer a mix of studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments. Amenities will include a resort-style swimming pool deck, a furnished rooftop terrace with outdoor grilling areas, spa, a fitness center and coworking spaces, along with 372 parking spaces.

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ORLANDO AND DAVENPORT, FLA. — Berkadia has secured a combined $85.4 million for the refinancing of two Orlando-area multifamily communities. Matt Robbins, Mitch Sinberg, Brad Williamson, Scott Wadler and Hugo Hernandez of Berkadia arranged the financing through Walton Street Capital on behalf of the borrower, Boston-based Taurus Investment Holdings. The first property, known as The Summit at MetroWest, is located at 6500 Metrowest Blvd., and features 280 multifamily apartments with a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans. Amenities include a swimming pool, game room, sun deck, golf course, a grilling and picnic area and a dog park, according to Apartments.com. The second property, named The Legends at ChampionsGate, is situated at 8101 Champions Circle in Davenport and comprises 252 apartments in one- to four-bedroom configurations. Amenities include a clubhouse, business center, swimming pool, fitness center, playground, sun deck, cabana and grills.

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Frontgate-Apartments

LOUISVILLE, KY. — A joint venture between Four Mile Capital and Midloch Investment Partners has acquired Frontgate Apartments, a 212-unit complex located in Louisville, for $38.3 million. Four Mile assumed an existing fixed-rate HUD loan on the property valued at approximately $27 million. The seller was not disclosed. Built in 2020, Frontgate Apartments offers a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans, with an average size of 1,125 square feet. Amenities include a clubhouse, resort-style swimming pool, 24-hour fitness center and a dedicated dog park and dog spa. Four Mile plans to improve the property by installing washers and dryers in every unit and offering community-wide internet service, as well as improving leasing and overall operations. Four Mile will manage Frontgate through its affiliate Kalos Residential, which also manages the firm’s neighboring community, Avalon Springs.

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SAVANNAH, GA. — Madison Commercial, an affiliate of Madison Capital Group, has completed the sale of a Chick-fil-A outparcel at its mixed-use redevelopment of the former Sears and Sears Auto Center site at Oglethorpe Mall in Savannah. The transaction marks the final piece of the company’s retail component at the mixed-use development. Along with Chick-fil-A, Madison Commercial has leased and sold all three retail outparcels at the property, including Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q and Valvoline Instant Oil Change. The outparcels are situated adjacent to Oglethorpe Mall and Madison Oaks, a new multifamily community developed by Madison Communities on the site of the former Sears anchor store. Madison Oaks opened early this year. Madison Commercial and Savannah-based engineering firm Thomas & Hutton collaborated throughout the planning, engineering and entitlement process to deliver the final retail component. Oglethorpe Mall features several restaurants, a food court and more than 120 stores. Tenants include American Eagle Outfitters, Barnes & Noble, Bath & Body Works, Belk, Claire’s, Cold Stone Creamery, Crunch Fitness, DSW Shoes, Foot Locker, Great American Cookies, H&M, JCPenney, Macy’s and Savannah Sweets, among others.

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JACKSON, MISS. — Newmark has arranged the sale of Highland Village, a 217,589-square-foot shopping center located at 4500 I-55 N in Jackson. Mississippi’s only Whole Foods Market anchors the 14.5-acre property, which was originally developed in 1960 and redeveloped in 2017 by the seller, WS Development. Charlotte-based Asana Partners purchased the shopping center for an undisclosed price. Conor Lalor of Newmark represented the seller in the transaction. Highland Village was approximately 90 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Free People, Kendra Scott, lululemon and Maison Weiss.

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