Alabama

Village at Hays Preserve

HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — Daniel Corp. has broken ground on a new $60 million luxury apartment development in east Huntsville known as Village at Hays Preserve. The project team includes Birmingham-based general contractor Doster Construction Co. and architectural firm Nelson Architects. The 336-unit Village at Hays Preserve will be a seven-building complex located on 22 acres along U.S. Highway 431. Community amenities will include a clubhouse, saltwater pool and an onsite nature trail within Hays Nature Preserve. Construction is expected to complete in early 2023 with first units becoming available in 2022. Doster Construction is also working on another development in downtown Huntsville known as Constellation, a mixed-use property. The company is working with developer Heartland Real Estate Partners LLC on that project.

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100 Inverness

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Berkadia has brokered the $38.3 million sale of 100 Inverness, a 322-unit, Class B multifamily property in Birmingham. David Wilson, Caleb Frizzell and Steve Nunnelley of Berkadia, with support from David Oakley of OG Capital, represented the seller, Colorado-based FPA Multifamily, in the transaction. Tucker Knight of Berkadia assisted the unnamed buyer in assuming an existing Berkadia-originated loan on the property as part of the transaction. Three seasoned multifamily investors from Texas syndicated the buyer group for this transaction, the first acquisition in Alabama for the new ownership. Located at 100 Iverness Lane, the property is situated on a 39-acre lakefront site in the Highway 280 submarket of Birmingham. 100 Inverness features 2,450 feet of shoreline on Lake Heather and frontage on the Iverness Country Club golf course. Community amenities include swimming pools, tennis courts, a 24-hour fitness center, two garage buildings and private balcony and patios. The property was built in two phases in 1974 and 1979 and has 62 townhomes spanning over 1,850 square feet. The apartments are 97 percent occupied. FPA Multifamily, a private equity group, acquired the property in 2015 and completed renovations over the past five years, including exterior updates, renovating the …

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Pinnacle at Tutwiler Farm

TRUSSVILLE, ALA. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of Pinnacle at Tutwiler Farm, a 248,988-square-foot regional shopping center in Trussville, a suburb of Birmingham. Brad Buchanan, Jim Hamilton, Will Sledge, Tom Hall and Taylor Callaway of JLL marketed the property in coordination with online auction platform Ten-X on behalf of the sellers, Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates and Series 2007-C1. The undisclosed buyer was a private investor based out of Texas. The sales price was not disclosed. The Pinnacle at Tutwiler Farm is located at 5006 Pinnacle Square. The center was 75 percent leased at the time of sale and features a mix of national and regional tenants, including anchors Best Buy and At Home.

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Marbella Luxury Apartments

GULF SHORES, ALA. — An affiliate of OG Capital has purchased Marbella Luxury Apartments, a 96-unit luxury apartment community situated on 4.8 acres at 1910 E. First St. in Gulf Shores. The buyer, an entity doing business as OG Marbella LLC, purchased the property from Marbella Gulf Shores LLC for $15 million. Troy Wilson and Frank Malone of Bellator Real Estate & Development brokered the transaction. ServisFirst Bank provided acquisition financing. Marbella Luxury Apartments features 99,600 square feet of rentable space including one- and two-bedroom residences. OG Capital plans to improve the community’s clubhouse and pool areas and install washers and dryers in each unit, as well as add grill stations and outdoor gathering spaces. The Mitchell Co., a Mobile-based multifamily operator led by Chris Sylvester, will manage the community. The property is situated close to Gulf Shores Elementary School, a Rouse’s Market and is located less than two miles to the Gulf Shores Beach. OG Capital is a Birmingham, Ala.-based multifamily real estate investment firm. In addition to its latest acquisition of Marbella, the firm has holdings in markets from Chattanooga, Tenn., to south Alabama.

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MIAMI — Transcendent Electra, a joint venture between single-family rental (SFR) platform Transcendent Investment Management (TIM) and multifamily owner/operator Electra America, has purchased 1,889 new single-family homes. The company has $496 million in contract process and closing and another $1 billion in the pipeline. This acquisition marks Transcendent Electra’s first significant acquisition since launching in February. The properties are new single-family homes and townhomes that are purchased directly from homebuilders throughout the following markets: Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala.; Florida; Savannah and Atlanta, Ga.; North Carolina; South Carolina; Nashville, Tenn.; and Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin in Texas. Transcendent Electra aims to acquire or develop approximately $3 billion in SFR housing over the next three years, with a focus on new-build homes in the $175,000 to $300,000 price range, where average rent will be $1,500 to $2,800 per month.

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Technicolor campus

HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — An affiliate of Milwaukee-based Phoenix Investors has acquired the Technicolor Campus located at 4905 Moores Mill Road in Huntsville. The industrial property spans 1.4 million square feet and sits on approximately 161 acres. Daniel Stubbs of Binswanger brokered the sale. Technicolor, which is exiting the property in August, uses the campus for disc manufacturing, warehousing and distribution fulfillment. The property features 916,000 square feet in warehouse and distribution space; 425,000 square feet in manufacturing and production space; and 30,000 square feet of office space. The property was last renovated in 2007. The property features 27- to 42-foot clear heights, 50 docks and six drive-in doors.

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The Range

HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — The Beach Co. has broken ground on The Foundry, a mixed-use apartment community, and The Range, a commercial office building, in Huntsville. Construction on The Foundry is scheduled for completion in spring 2023, and The Range is scheduled to be completed in winter 2022. The Foundry will comprise four residential buildings offering 328 multifamily residences with studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans and three townhome buildings encompassing 14 units. The multifamily units will range from 608 to 1,176 square feet, and the three-bedroom townhomes average 2,468 square feet. Residences at The Foundry will feature stainless appliances, designer fixtures, tile showers and backsplashes, granite counters and ceilings ranging from nine to 14 feet. Residential amenities will include a pool deck, dog park, club and fitness rooms, private parking and a bike storage room and bike shop. The Foundry will also offer approximately 9,900 square feet of commercial space throughout its campus, including a one-story, 5,500-square-foot building designated to feature multiple retail or restaurant concepts sharing a common patio space along Governors Drive. Wieland was The Foundry’s general contractor, Nashville-based Smith Gee Studio is the architect and Fifth Third Bank is the lender. The Range will offer 49,000 square …

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HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — WSS Development LLC has broken ground on 2020 at Providence, a $100 million luxury apartment project in Huntsville. The development is situated within the larger 305-acre Village of Providence master-planned community. Located at the intersection of Providence Main Street and Town Center Drive, 2020 at Providence will feature 360 luxury apartment units and 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. More than 70 percent of the retail space has been leased to Starbucks, The Cajun Steamer, Oh Crepe and an unnamed breakfast and lunch concept. Amenities will include a rooftop pool, rooftop fitness center, covered parking deck, high-speed elevators and an electronic package delivery system. The project team includes Humphreys & Associates Contractors LLC, Riverstreet Architects, Goodwyn Mills Cawood and Geo Solutions. BancorpSouth provided financing and Spaces Management will serve as property manager. Completion is slated for the end of 2022. The surrounding Village of Providence, which Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Co. designed and WSS developed, is home to hundreds of single-family homes, townhomes and a town center that includes more than 800,000 square feet of office, restaurants, retail and hotels. “The broader Huntsville market is experiencing unprecedented growth from both a rent and employment standpoint,” says Marc …

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MADISON, ALA. — Novare Group and Batson-Cook Development Co. (BCDC) plan to develop a new apartment community in Madison. Synovus Bank provided construction financing to the co-developers, and Marble Capital provided equity for the 290-unit, mid-rise community. The Synovus loan was not disclosed but reportedly totaled $31.5 million. The unnamed project will include three, four-story residential buildings with two ground-floor retail spaces totaling 5,000 square feet. Each building will have conditioned corridors and elevators, and there will be 483 surface parking spaces and 25 detached garages. The property will offer studios, one- and two-bedroom units. Community amenities will include a resort-style swimming pool, private coworking lounge with private rooms and a conference room, fitness center with a yoga and spin room, dog park, clubroom with demo kitchen and fireplace and direct access to the Singing River Trail, a 70-mile-long Northern Alabama trail system. The project will also include eight live/work units. Located at 375 Lime Quarry Road, the community will be adjacent to Town Madison, a 563-acre mixed-use urban, walkable community. Niles Bolton Associates is the architect, Walter Schoel Engineering Co. is the civil engineer and Doster Construction Co. is the general contractor. Construction will commence in April, with the …

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Renaissance at Galleria

BIRMINGHAM AND HOOVER, ALA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of two multifamily properties in the Birmingham area. The first property is Chace Lake Villas, a 264-unit asset in Birmingham that sold for $31.4 million, or $118,826 per unit. The second is Renaissance at Galleria, a 244-unit property in Hoover that traded at $26.8 million, which represents $110,000 per apartment. Chace Lake Villas was built in 1996 on 13 acres and Renaissance at Galleria was constructed in 1994. Jacobs represented the seller, the West Palm Beach, Florida-based Myers Apartment Group and procured the buyer, Carter Funds.

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