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ALEXANDRIA, VA. AND ORLANDO, FLA. — Avanath Capital Management LLC has purchased tow affordable housing communities for a combined $99.2 million. The first property, Alexandria Station Apartments, is located in Alexandria and sold for $52.7 million. The 290-unit community was built in 1965 and renovated in 1998 and 2010. The property comprises 25 three-story buildings that were 97 percent occupied at the time of sale. Alexandria Station is a 251,579 square-foot property consisting of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities include a swimming pool, grilling and picnic areas, playground, on-site-laundry facilities and a clubhouse. The other property is Brooke Commons, a 288-unit complex in Orlando that sold for $46.5 million. Built in 2000 and comprising 36 two-story buildings, Brooke Commons was 99 percent occupied at the time of sale. Five percent of the community’s units serve those making 55 percent of the area median income (AMI), while 50 percent are reserved for residents earning 60 percent AMI and 45 percent of the units are for residents earning 60 to 80 percent AMI. The property is located three miles from the University of Central Florida campus and 12 miles northeast of downtown Orlando. Communal amenities include a business …

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DAVENPORT, FLA. — New Market Properties, a subsidiary of Preferred Apartment Communities (PAC), has bought Berry Town Center, a 99,441-square-foot, Publix-anchored shopping center in Davenport. Berry Town Center is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 27 and Sand Mine Road, 29 miles southwest of downtown Orlando and 10 miles southwest of Walt Disney World. John Hancock provided the buyer with acquisition financing. Further details of the sale were not disclosed.

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CORAL GABLES, FLA. — BGI Capital has provided a $12 million loan for the renovation of a 52,179-square-foot office building in Coral Gables. The borrower, Location Ventures, will renovate the building’s ground floor into a new coworking business known as “FORUM.” Jason Shapiro of Aztec Group Inc. arranged the 24-month loan on behalf of the borrower. The building, located at 299 Alhambra Circle, will be the first location for the coworking platform. Location Ventures expects renovations to be completed within four to five months. The property is three blocks north of Miracle Mile and five miles east of downtown Miami.

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WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the $23.6 million sale of The Shoppes at Southern Palms, a 200,888-square-foot retail center in West Palm Beach. The center was fully leased at the time of sale to 11 tenants including anchors Kohl’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods, as well as Dollar Tree, Hard Exercise Works, GNC, Phenix Salon Suites, Experimax, Principled Chiropractic, Garden Nails and Medwear Uniforms. The Shoppes at Southern Palms was built in 2009 and spans 22 acres at the intersection of Southern Boulevard and Sansburys Way, 10 miles west of downtown West Palm Beach. Craig Fuller, Kirk Olson, Erin Patton, Scott Wiles and Drew Kristol of IPA represented the seller, an undisclosed private fund based in New York City, in the transaction. The IPA team also procured the buyer, a South American investment group founded by Claudio Mekler of Miami Managers LLC.

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JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — CBRE has negotiated the sale of Promenade Shopping Center, a 115,000-square-foot shopping center in Jacksonville. The property was 94 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including anchor Rowe’s IGA Supermarket, Planet Fitness and the Armed Forces Career Center. The buyer, Jacksonville-based Hakimian Holdings, plans to rebrand the center as Gates of The Promenade Shopping Center. The asset is located at 8595 Beach Blvd., seven miles southeast of downtown Jacksonville. Scott Rogers and Ryan Hixon of CBRE represented the seller, Phillips Edison & Co., in the transaction.

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TAMPA, FLA. — Olympus Property has acquired Icon Harbour Island, a 21-story, 340-unit multifamily property in Tampa, for $131.5 million. The seller, The Related Group, delivered the community in 2017. Olympus Property will rebrand the asset as Olympus Harbour Island. The property offers studio through three-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities include a pool, cabanas, daybeds, clubhouse, catering kitchen, 24-hour fitness center, game room, billiards tables, game tables, wine cellar, movie theater, grilling and picnic area and a parking garage. Patrick Dufour, Richard Donnellan and Ryan Crowley of Newmark Knight Frank represented  the seller in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed.

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Miami continues to be a top-ranked commercial real estate market in the Southeast United States. As the economy gears up to enter its longest expansion period in U.S. history, Miami has shown more resiliency than other South Florida markets, recording steady gains in absorption, robust leasing activity and modest rent growth. Economic fundamentals remain strong as job growth continues to fuel Miami’s office market with the unemployment rate trending down to 3.2 percent. Miami’s unemployment rate reached the lowest point in its history, falling to 3 percent in April 2019. The fundamentals in economic growth continue to support corporate expansion in nearly every industry as well as new-to-market growth from other U.S. markets and globally. While in the past, most of Miami’s growth came from Latin America, 60 percent of new-to-market growth now comes from Europe, with Spain being a frontrunner. High demand amid deliveries Miami-Dade County’s overall office vacancy rate rose slightly by 1 percent in the past 12 months, during which time 937,919 square feet of new office space was delivered to the market. More than 500,000 square feet was absorbed during that time. Because of the strong absorption, the vacancy rate was impacted only slightly, bringing it …

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TAMPA, FLA. — VanTrust Real Estate and Tampa International Airport (TPA) broke ground on SkyCenter One, a planned nine-story, 270,000-square-foot office building connected to the airport. The building will feature a conference center, fitness center, café and access to multipurpose trails that will eventually join with Tampa Bay’s regional trail network. The building will be connected to the airport’s car rental center via an elevated pedestrian walkway that is also under construction. SkyCenter One will be located within the SkyCenter development, a mixed-use campus that will feature office and commercial space, as well as a hotel, on land the airport owns. J.E. Dunn is the general contractor for SkyCenter One, and HOK designed the building. VanTrust and TPA plan to complete SkyCenter One in 2021.

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PLANT CITY, FLA. — A joint venture between Red Rock Developments, Wharton Industrial, Aspyre Properties and an institutional joint venture partner has broken ground on County Line Distribution Center, a 510,272-square-foot industrial facility in Plant City. The building will feature 36-foot clear heights, cross-dock loading, 200-foot truck courts and 60-foot speed bays. The property is situated on 36 acres, 30 miles east of downtown Tampa and two miles from Amazon’s announced Prime Air hub at Lakeland Linder International Airport. The joint venture expects to deliver the facility by the third quarter of 2020. Jan Boltres and Michelle Senner of Colliers International will handle leasing efforts.

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PORT ORANGE, FLA. — Phillips Edison & Co. Inc. has sold Countryside Shopping Center, a 124,268-square-foot retail center in Port Orange. An affiliate of Atlanta-based Vanguard Associates Inc. acquired the property for an undisclosed price. Sav-a-Lot and Big Lots anchor the 96 percent-leased center. Other tenants at the time of sale included Halifax Health, Wells Fargo, Cici’s Pizza, Workout Anytime and H&R Block. The center is located at 3840 S. Nova Road, seven miles south of downtown Daytona Beach. Eric Williams, Daniel Finkle, Luis Castillo and Whitaker Leonhardt of JLL represented the seller in the transaction.

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