MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Rockpoint Group has purchased Aloft South Beach, a newly built, 235-room hotel located on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach’s South Beach district. JMH Development and Mitchell Hochberg sold the hotel to Rockpoint for $105 million. Rockpoint plans to rebrand the hotel, the largest Aloft hotel in the world, to The Gates Hotel, according to the Miami Herald. Doubletree by Hilton will operate the hotel.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — The Finvarb Group plans to develop the Kimpton Hotel Palomar South Beach, a 96-room boutique hotel that will be located in Miami Beach’s South Beach district. Slated to open in 2018, Kimpton Hotel Palomar South Beach will feature a rooftop pool, fitness center and a restaurant overlooking the adjacent Collins Canal. Miami-based Kobi Karp designed the five-story hotel, which will be the eighth Kimpton hotel in Florida.
BRADENTON, FLA. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $48.8 million Fannie Mae loan for ParkCrest Landings, a 400-unit property located at 5725 1st Ave. in Bradenton. Built in 2015, ParkCrest’s amenities include a theater, catering kitchen, cyber café, fitness center, game room, heated whirlpool spa, two lakefront swimming pools, two playgrounds, tennis courts, fenced dog parks, volleyball court, lakeside gazebo and four lakes with multiple fountains. Chris Black and Caleb Marten of KeyBanks’s commercial mortgage group arranged the financing, which facilitated the acquisition of the property.
MIAMI — Housing Trust Group (HTG) and AM Affordable Housing, a nonprofit founded by NBA Hall of Famer and Miami Heat legend Alonzo Mourning, celebrated the grand opening of Courtside Apartments, an 84-unit residential community in the historic Overtown neighborhood of Miami. Public officials, community members and guests gathered at the new $22.8 million development at 1699 N.W. 4th Ave. for an official ribbon-cutting ceremony. Courtside’s one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments are reserved for residents making an annual income of no more than 60 percent of area media income (AMI). Monthly rents range from $760 to $990. The property is fully occupied. HTG secured financing in 2014 through a variety of public-private sources including $9 million in Florida Housing Finance Corp. low-income housing tax credits; $3.3 million in construction debt from City Community Capital; $7.5 million from the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency; $1.8 million from Miami-Dade County in the form of a surtax loan along with developer equity. Courtside Apartments broke ground in 2015, with 40 percent of the construction labor provided by residents of the surrounding neighborhood. Amenities include a basketball court, fitness center, business center with computers, laundry facilities, picnic area with outdoor grill, media center, …
Defending claims of lien recorded by tenant improvement contractors can be costly, time consuming and lead to protracted litigation. However, with a little planning and the right contract language, landlords can protect their properties from such liability. Below is a summary of various strategies a landlord can implement to avoid liens from its tenant’s improvements. Include No-Lien Language in all Leases and Record A Notice Thereof Under Florida law, when a lease between a landlord and a tenant requires the tenant to make improvements to the tenant’s premises, if the tenant ends up failing to pay its contractor for the tenant improvement work, then the contractor can file a claim of lien (and eventually foreclose) against both the tenant’s leasehold interest and the landlord’s fee simple interest in the property in an attempt to recover payment. However, under Section 713.10, Florida Statutes, the landlord can prevent such claims of lien and foreclosure actions, even if the improvements are the “pith of the lease,” by taking a few proactive steps. First, the landlord must include express “no-lien language” in its lease that states that the interest of the landlord shall not be subject to liens for improvements performed in the premises …
MERRITT ISLAND, FLA. — NGKF Capital Markets has arranged the $33 million sale of Merritt Square Mall, an 811,277-square-foot regional mall located at 777 E. Merritt Island Causeway in Merritt Island. Macy’s, Sears, Dillard’s, JC Penney and Cobb Theatres anchor the mall, which is also home to tenants including Bath & Body Works, Kay Jewelers, Rue21, Finish Line, Victoria’s Secret and Journeys. Thomas Dobrowski of NGKF represented LNR Partners and John Mitchell in the sale of the property to Mason Asset Management and Namdar Realty Group. The property was 95.7 percent leased at the time of sale.
TAMPA, FLA. — Canyon Partners Real Estate LLC has provided $15.4 million of preferred equity to a joint venture between ECI Group and Mercury Advisors to develop The Channel Club in Tampa. The 22-story, Class A apartment high-rise will include 323 rental units totaling approximately 295,000 leasable square feet and a seven-story parking garage with 596 spaces. The project also will include construction of a 36,900-square-foot Publix grocery store. The 2.26-acre site is located in the Channel District, directly adjacent to downtown Tampa, one of Tampa’s fastest growing multifamily submarkets. Project construction is scheduled to begin this October and be completed in December 2018. The property is bordered by Twiggs Road, Meridian Avenue and Madison Street. It is adjacent to the Grand Central at Kennedy, a mixed-use condominium, office and retail property developed by Mercury Advisors, for which Canyon provided a $27.4 million non-recourse senior loan in June 2012.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Franklin Street has brokered the $14.1 million sale of Misty Oaks, a 251-unit multifamily community located at 744 Spring West Circle in Orlando. The community, which is 95 percent occupied, offers one-bedroom, one-bathroom units. Approximately half of the units have undergone renovations and are achieving premium rent. Franklin Street’s Darron Kattan, Kevin Kelleher, Zachary Ames and Robert Goldfinger represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyers were 1031 investors from out of state.
DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA. — Berger Commercial Realty has arranged two retail and industrial leases in Deerfield Beach, roughly 40 miles outside of Miami. The leases include 10,351 square feet of industrial space to Vapor Supply LLC at Enterprise Commerce Center, located at 1901 Green Road, and 8,077 square feet of retail space to PGH International LLC at 1825 S. Powerline Road. John Forman and Keith Graves of Berger Commercial represented the landlord, Mancini & Sons Florida LLC, in both transactions.
TAMPA, FLA. — HFF has arranged $29.5 million in financing for TriPointe Plaza, a 71,721-square-foot, mixed-use property located in Tampa. Located at 4488 Boy Scout Blvd. in the Westshore District, the property consists of a four-story, Class A office building; 374-space structured parking garage; 10,008-square-foot Eddie V’s Prime Seafood & Steaks restaurant; and 15,005 square feet of ground-floor retail. A drive-through Synovus Bank branch, BNY Mellon, TD Ameritrade and Sharp Electronics anchor the 90 percent-leased office component. Chris Drew and Brian Gaswirth of HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, Cardinal Point Management, to secure the five-year, fixed-rate loan through a life insurance company. Initial loan proceeds were used to acquire the property with the future proceeds going to fund the construction and interior build-out of a rooftop restaurant/lounge area.
