HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — MH Hospitality has acquired the Holiday Inn Express Hotel, a 98-room, four-story hotel in Huntsville. Wealth Hospitality Group sold the property for $13.9 million. The Holiday Inn Express Hotel is a newly constructed, 56,963-square-foot hotel that features two elevators, 1,200 square feet of meeting space, an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Situated on 2.7 acres, the property is located about one mile from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville Botanical Garden and the Huntsville campus for the University of Alabama.
NORTHPORT, ALA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $14.9 million sale of Publix at Bristol Park, a 58,887-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center in Northport, about 1.6 miles from Tuscaloosa. The sales price was $14.9 million, or $254 per square foot. Margaret Jones and Lane Breedlove of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Watkins Real Estate Group, in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed. Publix at Bristol Park was 96 percent leased at the time of sale. Built in 2019, the property includes a Publix, which occupies most of the shopping center. Other tenants at the property include Great Clips, Dos Amigos Mexican Restaurant, a nail salon and a wine and liquor store. Located at 13556 Hwy 69 North, the property is close to the intersection of Ala. Highway 69 and Mitt Larry Road. The property is also 8.3 miles from the University of Alabama.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — Brass Enterprises has bought Henry House at Clift Farm, a 273-unit, garden-style multifamily property in Huntsville. The sales price was not disclosed. Russ Hardy and David Wilson of Berkadia Institutional Solutions completed the sale on behalf of the seller, a joint venture partnership between Atlanta-based META Real Estate Partners and Huntsville-based Watercress Partners. Tom Genetti of Berkadia arranged an undisclosed amount of financing on behalf of Brass. Henry House at Clift Farm offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans. Unit features include in-unit washers and dryers and private patios or balconies. Community amenities include a clubhouse, fitness center, swimming pool, multiple outdoor kitchens, dog park and a playground. Located at 1435 Balch Road, the property is situated close to a new Publix, Madison Hospital, the shops and restaurants along Highway 72 and walking trails within the 600-acre Clift Farm master-planned development.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Kroger has plans to open a 50,000-square-foot distribution facility in Birmingham. The “spoke” property will serve as a last-mile cross-dock location that expands Kroger’s grocery delivery services. Cincinnati-based Kroger and UK-based Ocado Group plan to open the facility later this year. The facility will collaborate with the Kroger-Ocado hub in Forest Park, Ga. The facility is expected to create up to 161 jobs. Located at 30 West Oxmoor Road, the property will be situated 6.3 miles from downtown Birmingham and 12 miles from Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. The property is also 4.6 miles from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Kroger also plans to open spoke facilities in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — PBR x Lockhart Smokehouse is opening this year at Bridge Street Town Center, a mixed-use development in Huntsville. The dining concept is a partnership between the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Cowboy Bar, Lockhart Smokehouse and Live! Concepts. Bayer Properties is the developer for the Bridge Street Town Center. PBR Cowboy Bar’s Country-Western experience will be joined with Lockhart Smokehouse’s Texas barbecue in the dining concept. The location at Bridge Street Town Center will be Lockhart Smokehouse’s first location outside of Texas. PBR x Lockhart Smokehouse will take up 8,121 square feet of space. Bridge Street Town Centre features over 50 tenants including Apple, Athleta, H&M and Sephora. The development recently added The Cheesecake Factory and soon will open Main Event. The property is also home to more than 207,000 square feet of Class A office space that is fully leased, as well as a 232-room Westin hotel, 150-room Element by Westin hotel, 244-unit Seleno apartment complex and a 131-room Hyatt Place Hotel.
VANCE, ALA. — Holmdel, N.J.-based Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. has acquired a 530,000-square-foot distribution center in Vance for $51.7 million. The seller was not disclosed. The distribution center is net-leased for 10 years to automobile giant Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc. The building will serve Mercedes-Benz’s new electric vehicle assembly line. Located at 11146 Will Walker Road on approximately 53.5 acres, the property is situated 37.3 miles from Birmingham and 21.3 miles from Tuscaloosa. Monmouth specializes in single tenant, net-leased industrial properties. The firm’s portfolio includes 124 properties with a total of approximately 25.7 million rentable square feet and an occupancy rate of 99.7 percent.
ORLANDO, FLA. — JLL Capital Markets has secured a $318.5 million acquisition loan for a six-property multifamily portfolio located across Maryland, Virginia and Alabama. There were multiple sellers for the properties. The 1,494-unit workforce housing portfolio includes the following: Park at Kingsview Village (326 units) in Germantown, Md.; Stonecreek Club (240 units) in Germantown; Hunt Club (336 units) in Gaithersburg, Md.; Springwoods at Lake Ridge (180 units) in Woodbridge, Va.; Windsor Park (220 units) in Woodbridge; and Oaks of St. Clair (192 units) in Moody, Ala. Melissa Marcolini Quinn, Lee Weaver, Drew Jennewein, Rob Rothaug, Emily Moallem and Cody Mizelle of JLL arranged the loan through J.P. Morgan Chase Bank on behalf of the borrower, Carter Multifamily. The floating-rate, non-recourse bridge loan will facilitate a Single Asset Single Borrower (SASB) securitization, which is a single loan large enough to create its own pool for securitization. “This portfolio acquisition featured multiple sellers and a compressed timeframe, with less than 30 days from signed term sheet to closing,” says Quinn. “The team at JP Morgan was able to provide an attractive, short-term, balance sheet financing option, which is ideal for the planned SASB take out.”
ATHENS, ALA. AND SPRING HILL, TENN. — Birmingham-based Atlas Senior Living and Salta Capital have acquired two new senior living communities, The Goldton at Athens in Athens and The Goldton at Spring Hill in Spring Hill, bringing their total number of properties in their owned portfolio to 32. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Atlas will be the owner-operator of the communities, which will be rebranded. Located at 22171 Traditions Way, The Goldton at Athens totals 75,824 square feet, comprising 12 independent living residences and 72 assisted living residences. Located at 3056 Miles Johnson Parkway, The Goldton at Spring Hill totals 66,395 square feet comprising 63 assisted living residences and 16 memory care residences.
VALLEY, ALA. — SRS Real Estate Partners’ Investment Properties Group has brokered the $4.5 million sale of Shops at Valley, a 28,000-square-foot shopping center in Valley. Boris Shilkrot of SRS represented the seller, OSCI Properties, in the transaction. The buyer, Prudent Growth Partners LLC, was self-represented in the transaction. The shopping center is shadow-anchored by a Walmart Supercenter and fully occupied by tenants including Ace Hardware, Workout Anytime, H&R Block, T-Mobile and Advance America. Located along the Georgia and Alabama state lines, the property is situated 26 miles from Auburn, Ala., and 31.8 miles from Columbus, Ga.
VANCE, ALA. — Highline Real Estate Partners and Growth Capital Partners have purchased Vance Logistics Center, a 604,000-square-foot, cross-dock logistics facility in Vance. Stewart Calhoun and Casey Masters of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sellers, Niantic Partners and Rothschild Capital Partners, in the transaction. Mark Byers of Cushman & Wakefield provided local leasing support. The sales price was $55 million. Built in 2004, Vance Logistics Center was fully leased to two tenants, ARD Logistics and BLG Logistics, at the time of sale. Located at 10095 Brose Drive, the facility is situated near a Mercedes-Benz Assembly Plant and is located near Interstate 20, Interstate 59 and University of Alabama, Birmingham. The property’s features include Class A tilt-wall construction, LED lighting with motion sensors, 116 dock-high doors, loading docks on three sides of the building, plenty of onsite employee and trailer parking and a guard house.