PENSACOLA, FLA. — FourPoint Student Housing Investments has arranged the sale of College Vue, a 408-bed student housing community located near the University of West Florida in Pensacola. The property offers fully furnished two- and four-bedroom units. Community amenities include a modern clubhouse, fitness center and lap-style pool. Chris Epp, Chris Bancroft and Meredith Wolff of FourPoint led the sales effort on behalf of the seller, Next Chapter Development. A private buyer purchased College Vue for an undisclosed amount.
MIAMI — Boston-based Rockpoint Group has purchased 1221 Brickell, a 408,423-square-foot office building located at Brickell Avenue and Coral Way in Miami’s Brickell Financial District. The sales price was undisclosed, but the South Florida Business Journal reports that the property traded for $155 million. The 26-story tower’s tenant roster includes Lydecker Diaz, Regus, Banco Do Brasil, Safra National Bank of New York and Clyde & Co. Tenant amenities include various restaurants, a conference facility, 24-hour security, dry cleaning services, a 5,000-square-foot daycare center, parking and a car wash facility. Hermen Rodriguez, Manny de Zarraga, Ike Ojala, Tracey Good and Christina Kong of HFF represented the seller, The Blackstone Group. HFF also brokered the sale of the office tower in 2006 on behalf of the previous owner, Equity Office Properties Trust, prior to Blackstone’s acquisition of the REIT later that year.
CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the $68.2 million sale of Forest Apartments, a 400-unit luxury multifamily community in Coral Springs. Built in 1989, the recently renovated property is surrounded by the 29-acre Sherwood Forest Park and features a lake with fountains, two resort-style swimming pools and a 24-hour fitness center. Steve Witten and Victor Nolletti of IPA, along with Evan Kristol of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a Canadian limited partnership. The team also procured the buyer, a value-add institutional investor based in Manhattan.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Berger Commercial Realty/CORFAC International has brokered the $14.8 million sale of East Port Center, a 108,500-square-foot industrial park located at 1881-1887 State Road 84 in Fort Lauderdale near Interstate 95. The property features 20-foot clear heights, parking, frontage on State Road 84, a glass façade on the storefront and rear dock-high loading. St. George Guardabassi and Judy Dolan of Berger Commercial represented the seller, EJP East Port LLC, in the transaction. The buyer, East Port Center LLC, has retained Berger Commercial to market East Port Center, which was fully leased at the time of sale.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — A partnership between SROA Capital, MacArthur Holdings and Live Oak Capital Partners plans to develop a 100,000-square-foot self-storage facility at 1620 Congress Ave. in West Palm Beach. Situated at the entrance of the Land of Presidents and the Palm Beach Outlet Mall, the three-story property will feature 830 climate-controlled units, 1,200 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 24-hour camera surveillance. The partnership plans to deliver the facility in the first quarter of 2018.
PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. — Related Development has sold the recently completed Town at Pembroke Pines, a 356-unit apartment community located at 10700 City Center Blvd. in Pembroke Pines, a city in South Florida’s Broward County. Rockpoint Group, a Boston-based real estate private equity firm, purchased the property from the Miami-based developer for $87 million. Built in 2016, Town at Pembroke Pines features 33 units per acre and community amenities such as a resort-style pool deck with personal cabanas and daybeds, outdoor dining area, demonstration kitchen, game room, private movie theater, eight courtyards, dog park, children’s playground and volleyball, tennis and racquetball courts. Over the past 18 months, Related Development has sold three completed multifamily projects totaling over $290 million, not including Town at Pembroke Pines.
PEMBROKE PINES. FLA. — An affiliate of Harbor Group International LLC has acquired the 700-unit Montage at City Center in Pembroke Pines, a suburb of Miami, for $158.5 million. Montage at City Center contains 12 mid-rise buildings and 28 townhome buildings. The community offers a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units. The property is currently 95 percent leased with an average market rent of $1.55 per square foot. Montage at City Center was built in two phases between 2014 and 2015. Unit interiors feature formica countertops, espresso cabinetry, stainless steel appliances and hard-surface flooring. Property amenities include a LEED Gold-certified clubhouse, two resort-style pools, a fitness center, business center, game room and demonstration kitchen. Private garages and storage units are also available for rent. The multifamily complex is located adjacent to Pembroke Pines City Center, a 47-acre mixed-use project that will feature retail, office and residential components. Terra Group is developing the project. Phase I will deliver 200,000 square feet of retail anchored by a 45,600-square-foot Publix. Phase II will add 450 apartments and 100,000 square feet of office. The City of Pembroke Pines is also building a $60 million civic and cultural center, which includes a new city …
HIALEAH GARDENS, FLA. — Bridge Development Partners has sold two Class A industrial assets spanning 676,835 square feet within three buildings in Hialeah Gardens, a suburb of Miami. According to public records, Duke Realty purchased the properties, named Bridge Point Crossroads East and Bridge Point Crossroads South, for $80 million. Located at 15002 and 14802 N.W. 146th St., Crossroads East consists of two buildings totaling 420,989 square feet. Recently completed in the first quarter of 2017, the buildings feature a 180-foot shared truck court, 32-foot clear heights, 54-foot column spacing, build-to-suit offices, T5 energy-efficient lighting and an ESFR fire sprinkler system. Located at 10701 N.W. 140th St., Bridge Point Crossroads South is a 255,846-square-foot building with the same features as Bridge Point Crossroads East except with a 120-foot non-shared, fenced truck court. The properties have immediate access to U.S. 27, Florida’s Turnpike, state Route 826 and Interstate 75. Chris Riley, Christian Lee and Jose Lobon of CBRE represented Miami-based Bridge Development in the transaction.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLA. — TH Real Estate, an affiliate of Nuveen (the investment management arm of TIAA), has acquired the Promenade Shopping Plaza, a 202,696-square-foot, grocery-anchored retail center in Palm Beach Gardens. The seller and sales price were undisclosed, but the South Florida Business Journal reports that TH Real Estate purchased the shopping center from Boca Raton, Fla.-based Woolbright Development for $49.3 million. The property was 97 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Publix, Bealls Outlet, Planet Fitness, Club Outlet Store and CVS. First developed in 1972 and redeveloped in 2015, Promenade Shopping Plaza is the first deal closed by TH Real Estate’s new Miami office, which opened in January. The regional office currently manages a total of $10.5 billion of real estate investments spanning 36 million square feet of office, retail, industrial and multifamily space in the Southeast and Latin America.
MIAMI — PGT Innovations Inc., an impact window and door manufacturer, plans to open a new 330,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Miami. The company currently operates an 182,000-square-foot office and manufacturing property roughly 12 miles from the new facility. PGT Innovations will manufacturer its CGI branded products at the new location, as well as other commercial and PGT aluminum products. The new building space will accommodate a multi-brand showroom, offices, production and distribution capabilities. The new space is slated to be complete near the end of 2017 and is expected to be operational by January 2018.