LAUDERHILL, FLA. — Forest City Enterprises Inc. has completed the $18.5 million sale of Forest Trace, a 322-unit independent living seniors apartment community in Lauderhill. Forest Trace, which includes 40 assisted living beds, was purchased by Pacifica Lauderhill LLC. The buyer also assumed the existing mortgage on the property. The property was originally developed in 1989 and was acquired by a subsidiary of Forest City in 2000.
TAMPA, FLA. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Wells Fargo Center, a Class A, 389,608-square-foot office building located at 100 S. Ashley Drive in downtown Tampa. The 22-story LEED Gold-certified building was 93 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Wells Fargo, UBS, USAA, Valet Waste, Phelps Dunbar, AllegiantMD, Warren Averett and Carlton Fields. Wells Fargo Center features a fitness center, café, full-service bank branch, ATM, new conference center and a complimentary shuttle service. Christian Lee, Dale Peterson, Charles Foschini and Marcos Minaya of CBRE brokered the transaction.
PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLA. — Calkain Cos. has brokered the $9.6 million sale of a single-tenant office/industrial asset located at 1300 Thomas Drive in Panama City Beach. The 83,000-square-foot property is anchored by Booz Allen Hamilton. Stephen Counts and Brian O’Hear of Calkain Cos. represented the seller, Skyview Development, in the transaction.
LAKELAND, FLA. — Colliers International has brokered the $5.3 million sale of a 113,308-square-foot industrial property located at 5120 Great Oak Drive in Lakeland. Edward Miller and Dolores Seymour of Colliers International’s Tampa Bay office represented the seller, Great Oak Property Management LLC, which was conducting business under the moniker Structall Building Systems. The buyer was Brennan Investment Group LLC.
WINTER PARK, FLA. — Plaza Advisors has brokered the sale of Aloma Square Shopping Center, a grocery-anchored shopping center in Winter Park, a suburb of Orlando. The property was 88.8 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Aldi, Deal$, CARQUEST, Fresenius Medical Care, CosmoProf, Liberty Tax and Subway. Mike Cvetetic and Jim Michalak of Plaza Advisors represented the seller, Noble Properties, in the transaction. The buyer was Aloma Square WP LLC.
ORLANDO, FLA. — CBRE has brokered the $26.5 million sale of a 124,500-square-foot, single-tenant office building in Orlando fully leased to Kaplan University. The two-story property is located in the Central Florida Research Park at 12650 Ingenuity Drive and features a 25-foot glass atrium, open spiral staircase and a cafeteria. Kaplan University signed a 13-year lease for the entire building in 2008. Ronald Rogg and Chip Wooten of CBRE represented the seller, RT Ingenuity LLC, in the transaction. City Office REIT Inc. purchased the property.
MIAMI — Continental Real Estate Cos. (CREC) has brokered the $19.2 million sale of a 57,406-square-foot office building in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. The property is located at 3000 Biscayne Blvd., two blocks from Biscayne Bay. Peter Mekras and Andrew Remick of CREC represented the seller, Legal Services of Greater Miami, a nonprofit organization that has owned and occupied a large portion of the property since 1997. The buyer was 3000 Property LLC, which is managed by principals of Miami-based Crescent Heights. William Bloom and Shawn Amuial of Holland & Knight’s Miami office provided legal counsel to the seller. Robert Berrin of Capital Realty Services Inc. acted as the owner’s representative.
DORAL, FLA. — Riviera Point Development Group has begun construction on Riviera Point Business Center at Doral, a $9.5 million, 41,000-square-foot office building in Doral, an affluent suburb of Miami. Corrales Group Architects designed the two-story lakefront property, which is slated for completion in the first quarter of 2016. The office project is fully funded through the U.S. Immigrant Investor program, also known as EB-5. Under the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) program, the EB-5 program allows a foreign national interested in obtaining permanent U.S. residency to do so by investing in a commercial enterprise that generates at least 10 jobs for U.S. workers for two years. The qualifying investment for a project like Riviera Point Business Center at Doral is $500,000.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Highwoods Properties Inc. has acquired Lincoln Plaza, a 16-story, 246,000-square-foot office building in Orlando’s central business district (CBD). Highwoods Properties’ total investment is expected to be $68.3 million, which is financed through equity, its ATM program and borrowings under its revolving credit facility. Highwoods did not assume any debt in the transaction. The property is currently 82 percent leased and features a fitness center and a café. Including Lincoln Plaza, Highwoods owns 1.5 million square feet of office space in Orlando’s CBD.
ORLANDO, FLA. — The Courtelis Co., Kislak Organization and HMG/Courtland Properties are partnering to develop, manage and build a 240-unit apartment community in Orlando. The property will be located on a 9.5-acre site at the corner of John Young Parkway and Taft-Vineland Road. The joint venture project between the three Florida-based companies is expected to break ground in the first quarter of 2015, with delivery projected for the first quarter of 2016.