Georgia

ATLANTA — A joint venture between Starwood Global Opportunity Fund X and Core Property Capital has purchased One Atlantic Center, a 50-story office tower located at 1201 W. Peachtree St. in Midtown Atlanta. The sales price was undisclosed, but the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports the price as likely being $300 per square foot, or $330 million. The LEED Gold-certified tower is the tallest office building in Midtown Atlanta. One Atlantic features 1.1 million square feet of office space and a 2,110-space parking garage. In a similar transaction last year, the joint venture acquired the TowerPlace office and retail complex in Atlanta’s Buckhead district in July 2015.

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BUFORD, GA. — Ivy Creek Partners LLC plans to build a 16-acre mixed-use development adjacent to the Mall of Georgia in Buford, a northeast suburb of Atlanta in Gwinnett County. Atlanta Falcons star Julio Jones and his business partner Jon Guven of Guven’s Fine Jewelry are the principal investors in what is predicted to be a $180 million venture. The project, which will be created in four stages, will include retail space, a grocery store, 21-story hotel/condo tower with a rooftop restaurant, office space and multifamily residential units. The development will also offer direct access to the Ivy Creek Greenway, which links to the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center. The first phase, which is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2017, will include 23,000 square feet of street-level retail space and 336 multifamily units. Plans for the project’s additional stages include a 50,000-square-foot family entertainment center, bars, restaurants and music and comedy clubs. The entertainment center will feature an arcade, bowling, sports theater and meeting space. Ivy Creek Partners is the development manager and partner for the project, and Dunwoody, Ga.-based Phillips Partnership Architecture and Engineering is designing the development, which has yet to be named.

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PEACHTREE CITY AND MARIETTA, GA. — CBRE National Senior Housing has arranged the sale of Arbor Terrace Peachtree City and Arbor Terrace at East Cobb, two seniors housing communities located in Georgia, for $50.5 million. Arcapita Investment Management purchased the two communities, respectively located in the Atlanta suburbs of Peachtree City and Marietta, from Capitol Seniors Housing. The Arbor Co. will continue to operate the two communities. Arbor Terrace Peachtree City features 112 independent living units and 34 assisted living units. Arbor Terrace at East Cobb features 56 assisted living units and 34 memory care units. Lisa Widmier and Matthew Whitlock of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. The firm’s Aron Will also arranged a seven-year, fixed-rate loan with 36 months of interest-only payments to fund the acquisition. The financing is secured through Freddie Mac.

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ATLANTA — Piedmont Atlanta Hospital in Atlanta has unveiled its plans for a 16-story expansion and renovation of the existing campus. Development costs are estimated at $603 million. Construction of the new patient tower is slated to begin in January 2017. The tower will be known as the Marcus Tower, in honor of benefactor Bernie Marcus, who gave $75 million for the project. Hospital officials have secured partnerships with 31 companies such as subcontractors, marketers and engineers. The project still requires approval from the Georgia Department of Community Health. The first phase of the project should be completed in September 2020. Phase II will begin in 2022, with one new patient floor completed per year, except for 2026 when the final two floors will be built out. The total project duration will be 10 years. In addition to the tower at the corner of Peachtree and Collier roads, the project includes major renovations to the hospital’s main campus and the addition of 114 general hospital beds, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Approximately 45 percent of the hospital’s current space will soon exceed its life expectancy of 40 years, creating the need for the new construction and renovations, according to …

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ATLANTA — Dockerty Romer & Co. has arranged a $34.2 million permanent loan for a Class A, 13-story office building located at 2100 Riveredge Parkway in Atlanta. Situated by the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, the 264,374-square-foot building is currently 92 percent leased, with United Healthcare as its anchor tenant. Craig Romer and Chris Romer of Dockerty Romer arranged the two-year, floating-rate loan through NXT Capital on behalf of the borrower, Mainstreet Capital Partners.

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MCDONOUGH, GA. — Tory Burch LLC, a women’s accessories and apparel retailer, plans to invest more than $60 million by 2020 for a new distribution center in McDonough, a south Atlanta suburb in Henry County. The distribution center will support Tory Burch’s e-commerce business and is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2017. The new facility is expected to create more than 150 jobs by 2020, including positions in management, administration, transportation, order processing, packaging and shipping. Tory Burch will fully occupy the 753,000-square-foot distribution center located in the Lambert Farms Logistics Park in McDonough. Tory Burch leased the space from the developer, Panatonni Development Co. Inc. Wit Truitt and Reed Davis of JLL represented Panatonni in the lease deal. The industrial facility features an adjacent pad site, which makes the development expandable up to 1.5 million square feet. Tory Burch is headquartered in New York and has 180 boutiques worldwide, including locations in Los Angeles, Shanghai, Milan and Paris, as well as nine e-commerce sites in six languages. The retailer sells clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, watches, home and beauty items. Tory Burch worked with Josh Stephens of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, the Georgia Ports …

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ADAIRSVILLE, GA. — Choate Construction has been selected to build a new inn and conference center at Barnsley Resort, a 3,300-acre resort at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Adairsville. Slated to open in the fall of 2017, the new additions will total 73,446 square feet. The three-story inn, known as The Inn at Barnsley Resort, will span 54 guestrooms and feature one boutique retailer. The conference center, known as the Georgian Hall Conference Center, will feature 10,500 square feet of indoor space, including the Savannah Ballroom, Augusta Room, Oglethorpe Room, Dalton Room and an estate lawn. The design team for the new additions includes architect Cooper Carry and interior designer Kent Interior Design.

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FLORIDA, N.Y. — Big V Capital LLC, the investment management affiliate of New York-based Big V Properties, has closed on the purchase of three shopping centers in the Southeast for a combined $24 million. The properties include the 74,370-square-foot Village at Myrtle Grove in Wilmington, N.C.; the 180,194-square-foot Lancer Center in Lancaster, S.C.; and the 203,876-square-foot Lanier Plaza Shopping Center in Brunswick, Ga. Village at Myrtle Grove was 87 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Staples; Lancer Center was 89 percent leased to Big Lots, Citi Trends, Pet Sense and Bi-Lo; and Lanier Plaza was 81 percent leased to Winn-Dixie, Dollar Tree, Rent-A-Center and Habitat for Humanity. With the purchase of these three assets, Big V Properties owns and/or operates 31 Class A and B shopping centers totaling roughly 3 million square feet.

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DACULA AND CUMMING, GA. — The Shopping Center Group has brokered the sale of two family lifestyle and sports-centric retail centers located in north metro Atlanta. The transactions include the $5.9 million sale of the 107,000-square-foot Dacula Family Festival in Dacula and the $3.5 million sale of the 62,410-square-foot Midway Family Festival in Cumming. Vishal Dacula LLC purchased both assets. Neal Pringle and the late Mark Cooley of The Shopping Center Group represented the seller, Watkins Real Estate Group, in both transactions. Constructed in 2008, Dacula Family Festival’s tenant roster includes TEBO Dentistry for Kids, Belle Nails, Taekwondo, Green Tea Restaurant and Little Caesars in two buildings. Kids Up Indoor Playground + Party Center, Swim Atlanta and Jack City Sports occupy three additional buildings. Dacula Family Festival also features a 200-foot baseball field, indoor pitching mounds and batting cages, a full-size basketball court and an indoor flag football arena operated by Jack’s City Sports Center. Two new tenants, Mathnasium and Fit Body Boot Camp, are slated to open in late 2016. Built in 2009, Midway Family Festival was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Pepperoni’s Pizza, Vickery Animal Hospital, 7 Tequilas Mexican Restaurant, Johns Creek …

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ACWORTH, GA. AND NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Cushman & Wakefield has secured more than $32 million in short-term, floating-rate financing for the acquisition of and capital improvements to two multifamily communities in Georgia and South Carolina. The properties include Stanton Place Apartments, a 240-unit, garden-style community located roughly 30 miles outside of Atlanta in Acworth; and The Reserve at Ashley River, a 280-unit, garden-style community located in North Charleston, S.C. Cushman & Wakefield’s Mike Ryan, Telly Fathaly and Brian Linnihan secured the financing on behalf of The RADCO Cos. through a regional bank. RADCO plans to implement a combined $6.3 million in capital improvements to the communities.

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