ORMOND BEACH, FLA. — Lake Mary, Fla.-based DIX Developments has completed the sale of Halifax Town Center, a mixed-use development site located in Ormond Beach. Dixie 95 OBD, a company related to O2G Capital of Ontario, Canada, purchased the 53-acre site for an undisclosed price. Situated in the southeast quadrant of Interstate 95 and Old Dixie Highway, the fully developed site is ready for immediate construction with storm water retention, surfaced roadways and utilities. Halifax Town Center is part of the golf course community Halifax Plantation. The planned mixed-use development in Volusia County has gone through a transition in ownership in the past few years. John Kurtz of Stirling International Real Estate represented the seller in the deal.
MIAMI — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of a mixed-use building located at 3138 Commodore Plaza in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood. A partnership between Terra and Banyan Street Capital purchased the property for $7.2 million, or $232 per square foot. Hollywood, Fla.-based MG|3 Development sold the property. Developed in 1986, the 31,000-square-foot, multi-tenant property features ground-floor retail space and three floors of offices, as well as on-site structured parking. Vacant at the time of sale, the property most recently housed the Academy of Arts & Minds charter school. Miquel Alcivar, Dominic Montazemi, Scott O’Donnell, Greg Miller and Jason Hochman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — HREC has arranged the sale of St. Petersburg Marriott Clearwater. Menna Development & Management sold the Tampa Bay property for an undisclosed price. Located at 12600 Roosevelt Blvd. in Northeast St. Petersburg, the hotel features 209 guest rooms, 22,832 square feet of meeting space, a 1,600-square-foot fitness center and The Crafted Plate, a farm-fresh American restaurant. Scott Stephens and Jaimin Patel of HREC’s Tampa office represented the seller in the transaction.
ATLANTA — CBRE has promoted Chris Bosworth and Will Pike to vice chairman, the highest-ranking title among CBRE producers. Based in the firm’s Atlanta office, Bosworth and Pike serve as partners and co-leaders of CBRE Net Lease Properties, a national practice that provides net lease investors with acquisition and disposition advisory services for single-tenant assets, national net lease portfolios and corporate sale-leasebacks. Over the course of their careers, Bosworth and Pike have executed more than $16 billion worth of assignments spanning more than 2,600 properties. Since 2016, the team has been responsible for the disposition of 720 properties with a value of over $8.2 billion. Bosworth joined the firm in 1999 and is a founding member of Net Lease Properties and the firm’s Corporate Capital Markets practice. Additionally, he is the first retail-focused capital markets professional in the firm’s history to be named vice chairman. Pike, who joined in 2004, is a founding member of Corporate Capital Markets, head of Retail-Occupier Capital Markets and currently serves on the board of CBRE’s Investment Properties and America Brokerage divisions. Pike is the third-youngest CBRE professional to earn the title of vice chairman.
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a two-property, 384-unit multifamily portfolio in Daytona Beach for a total of $37 million. Built in 1987, the 240-unit Lake Forest Apartments sold for $23.5 million, while the 144-unit Jade Park sold for $13.4 million. Situated side-by-side in a wooded lakeside setting, the communities are near the Daytona International Speedway, Volusia Square Mall, One Daytona and Daytona Beach International Airport. Michael Donaldson and Nicholas Meoli of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller and procured the undisclosed buyer in the deal.
WESLEY CHAPEL, FLA. — Westlake, Ohio-based Emerald Hospitality Associates has acquired and opened Hilton Garden Inn Tampa-Wesley Chapel, located at 26640 Silver Maple Parkway in Wesley Chapel. Emerald Hospitality Associates will manage the property, which it purchased in partnership with Nimbus Investment Fund, an independent affiliate of Emerald Hospitality. The hotel features 124 guestrooms each with a microwave and refrigerator, 3,712 square feet of flexible meeting space, and an extensive lobby and outdoor patio featuring the Garden Grille & Bar. Additional amenities include complimentary Wi-Fi, a 24-hour business station, state-of-the-art fitness center, Keurig coffee maker and a full-service restaurant and bar.
BOCA RATON, FLA. — A trio of developers — Giles Capital Group, Rosemurgy Properties, Schmier Property Group — in partnership with Wheelock Street Capital have broken ground on Uptown Boca, a $200 million mixed-use project in South Florida. The development, which will be located at the corner of Glades Road and 95th Avenue South in Boca Raton, will feature 150,591 square feet of retail space. Lucky’s Market and Silverspot Cinema will anchor the project. In addition, Uptown Boca will offer 456 Class A apartments. Additional tenants will include Bolay, a healthy restaurant concept, and Chick-fil-A. Marc Wiener Architecture, a local firm, provided design services for the retail portion of the project. Roxanne Register and Nicole Fontaine of the Boca Raton office of Katz & Associates are the leasing agents for the retail portion of the project. Retailers are expected to open their doors in summer 2019, and multifamily units are projected to be available for occupancy by early 2020. “With no new significant development in over two decades, this type of lifestyle component is long overdue in West Boca,” says Alexander Rosemurgy, CEO of Rosemurgy Properties. “It will truly create the complete shop-dine-live experience that this area deserves.” — Taylor …
Fundamentals in the Orlando multifamily market are exceptionally strong and should remain healthy as long as this economic cycle continues. Following a period of no construction after the recession, new supply is finally starting to catch up with pent-up demand held in check during the downturn. Even with over 7,000 units projected to be delivered annually for the next several years, occupancy rates should hold strong between 95 and 96 percent. Supported by continued economic expansion in the Orlando metro area as well as strong population and job growth, we remain bullish on the multifamily market and do not see the potential risk of oversupply any time in the near future. The justification for continued new construction makes sense given Orlando’s history. As in most markets throughout the country, the recession halted new multifamily development in Orlando. From 2007 to 2009, there was virtually no new supply added to the market. It was not until 2010 that construction picked up again, and by that time, post-recession job creation had already taken off, causing a tremendous amount of pent up demand for housing. Each year since, new supply has been quickly leased, and it has not yet slowed. As of July …
MAITLAND, FLA. — Coral Gables, Fla.-based The Allen Morris Co. has completed the development of Maitland City Centre, a $68 million mixed-use property located at 190 Independence Lane in Maitland, a northern suburb of Orlando. Encompassing a full, three-acre city block, the six-story development features 220 one- and two-bedroom rental apartments, 24 live/work units (one-bedroom with an office suite) and 35,000 square feet of commercial space with high visibility. On-site amenities include a rooftop pool deck and lounge, business center and co-working space, individual furnished offices for lease, pet wash and grooming facility, private rooftop dog park, fitness center, group fitness room and courtyard yoga lawn and a private courtyard with grilling stations and outdoor living room. Additional amenities include a clubhouse, lounge and game room, mail room café, high-speed Wi-Fi internet throughout the amenity space, access-controlled covered parking and designated Uber and Lyft pick-up stations. The project team includes LAMM & Co., Millenia Partners and ACi Architecture.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — A joint venture between PCCP and The Bainbridge Cos. is developing Bainbridge St. Johns Town Center, a Class A multifamily property in southeast Jacksonville’s Southside submarket. The partnership recently acquired a 17.3-acre parcel for the development. Situated on a wooded site with a four-acre lake and adjacent golf course and nature trail, Bainbridge St. Johns Town Center will feature 276 market-rate apartments across 10 three-story buildings. The unit breakdown is 102 one-bedroom, 138 two-bedroom and 36 three-bedroom floorplans. Additionally, the community will feature 442 surface parking spaces and 36 detached garages. This is PCCP’s first transaction with Bainbridge, a full-service estate company that develops, owns and manages multifamily communities across the eastern United States.