ORLANDO, FLA. — Stan Johnson Co. has arranged the $28 million sale of 14 restaurants in Central Florida leased to Ker’s WingHouse, now known as WingHouse Bar & Grill. STORE Capital, a single-tenant, net-lease real estate investment firm, purchased the 89,282-square-foot portfolio. Joshua Pardue of Stan Johnson’s New York City office led the brokerage team in the transaction.
LAKE WORTH, FLA. — Big Rock Partners has opened a welcome center and begun pre-leasing for Atria at Villages of Windsor, a $105 million independent living, assisted living and memory care community situated on a 22.5-acre site in the Palm Beach County city of Lake Worth. The community’s 186 units of independent living are scheduled to open this summer, followed by 80 assisted living units and 54 memory care units in the fall. Atria Senior Living will operate the community once completed. Gensler designed the property, while Moss & Associates served as construction manager. Walker & Dunlop arranged a $68.2 million construction loan for the project last year.
While Florida as a whole was able to bounce back from the Great Recession relatively quickly, one market that had been lagging behind in that recovery was Jacksonville. However, a surge of new development and strong population growth has kicked Jacksonville’s retail market back into high gear. Occupancy rates have gone up year-over-year to 91.1 percent and the retail sector currently has 748,000 square feet of new space under construction, according to JLL’s 2016 Florida Retail Report. While this infusion of new space may have a small squeeze on asking rates — currently at $13.24 per square foot — the outlook for Jacksonville’s retail market remains strong. The St. John’s Town Center has had a transformative effect on the Northeast Florida market over the past decade. The shopping center saw huge success when it first opened its doors in 2005 and was relatively immune to the effects of the downturn. As the economy started to trend upward, the St. Johns area saw even greater shopper traffic and with that came expansion; in fact most of the 748,000 square feet of retail space currently under construction is in the St. Johns area. As St. John’s continues to fuel Jacksonville’s retail market, …
COCONUT GROVE, FLA. — Hersha Hospitality Trust has purchased the 115-room Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove for $36 million. The hospitality REIT funded the acquisition with proceeds from the recent sale of the Residence Inn in Greenbelt, Md. Situated on 3.4 acres about a half-block from the waterfront, the Ritz-Carlton is part of a two-tower, 22-story residential-hotel condominium complex that opened in 2002. The property features 14,000 square feet of meeting space, a restaurant bar, spa, fitness center, retail space, pool, exterior courtyards and approximately 8,000 square feet of leasable office space. The identity of the seller was undisclosed.
MIAMI, ORLANDO AND JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Atlanta-based MDH Partners LLC has purchased a portfolio of 23 distribution buildings in Florida totaling more than 3.3 million square feet. The Class A and B properties are located in Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville. The sales price was undisclosed. Hank Hall and Kevin Troy of Colliers International’s Atlanta office arranged $134 million in acquisition financing through Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Synovus Bank on behalf of MDH. Since May 2014, the company has purchased or developed 93 industrial properties totaling more than 11.7 million square feet. MDH’s other assets are located in Atlanta, Memphis, Tampa, Charlotte, Raleigh, Greenville, Winston-Salem, Norfolk and Richmond.
MELBOURNE, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $42 million sale of Highlands Viera West, a 240-unit, Class A apartment community located at 2185 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Melbourne, a town along the Atlantic Ocean in Brevard County. Atlanta-based JMG Realty Group purchased the asset from Atlanta-based Branch Properties for roughly $175,000 per unit. Built in 2007 on 14.8 acres, the community includes one-, two- and three-bedroom loft and townhome units averaging 1,265 square feet. Community amenities include a resort-style swimming pool, poolside kitchen and grilling area, a gazebo, fitness club with a cardio room, wine tasting lounge, billiards room with plasma TVs, internet café, media center with surround sound, elevators, covered parking, car care center and a walking trail to The Avenue Viera and Viera Market Center. Jay Ballard and Ken Delvillar of Cushman & Wakefield’s Orlando office represented Branch Properties in the transaction.
BRANDON, FLA. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged the $4 million refinancing of Lithia Square, a 69,007-square-foot, grocery-anchored retail property located at 901-927 Lithia Pinecrest Road in Brandon, about 12 miles east of Tampa. Walmart Neighborhood Market is on a ground lease at the property, and Walmart owns the building. Robert Hernandez of NorthMarq Capital’s Tampa office arranged the 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through a national CMBS lender.
DELRAY BEACH, FLA. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $23.9 million in financing for the development of a three-story, 118-unit seniors housing community in Delray Beach. The five-year loan, provided by a regional balance sheet lender, features a floating interest rate of 3.25 percent over LIBOR and three years of interest-only payments. Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson, all based in the Meridian’s New York City headquarters, arranged the financing.
Jacksonville’s industrial market continues to improve as encouraging fundamentals are in place that are prompting developers to commit to building spec warehouse again. The lack of new construction over the last eight years, the expected reduction in regulations and taxes by the new administration in Washington and the commitment to upgrades in the local infrastructure will drive growth in our market. A 5.3 percent vacancy rate for warehouses and distribution space is also a major factor. With 126 million square feet of existing warehouse space spread over 860 square miles, our market has room to grow. Recent announcements of major expansions coming to Jacksonville include Amazon, General Electric and UPS. Amazon will occupy 2.5 million square feet in North Jacksonville and will have the largest impact on employment in the history of the city. General Electric is leasing 500,000 square feet in Hillwood’s Cecil Commerce Center. Situated on Jacksonville’s Westside adjacent to Pattillo’s Westside Industrial Park, UPS is adding 260,000 square feet to its existing 560,000-square-foot facility. When completed in the fall of 2019, the 820,000-square-foot facility will be able to process more than 80,000 packages per hour. Jacksonville is a tier-two market nationally and typically has a few large-scale …
TAMPA, FLA. — The RADCO Cos. has purchased St. Croix, a 540-unit, Class B apartment community in Tampa, for $58.5 million. The Atlanta-based multifamily investor plans to rebrand the asset Radius Tampa Palms and invest $7 million in capital improvements to the property’s amenities and interiors. RADCO is financing the acquisition and renovations using a $45.4 million Freddie Mac loan and $23 million in private capital. RADCO’s property management division, RADCO Residential, will manage Radius Tampa Palms. Built in two phases in 1988 and 1990, the apartment community comprises one- and two-bedroom units averaging 754 square feet. Community amenities include a fitness center, two pools, lighted tennis courts, sand volleyball court, clubhouse, business center and a dog park.
