Georgia

Atlanta Hawks Emory Healthcare

BROOKHAVEN, GA. — The Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club and Emory Healthcare have partnered to build a 90,000-square-foot training and sports medicine center on Executive Park Drive in Brookhaven, which will serve as the team’s official practice site. The privately funded facility will cost roughly $50 million to develop, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The project will feature a fully dedicated recovery area including cryotherapy, sensory deprivation tanks and in-ground hydrotherapy. All non-sports orthopaedic specialties will be located two blocks away at The Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center. The team expects to break ground this summer, and the Hawks Basketball Operations Department will be housed in the facility upon its completion. In addition to the naming rights entitlement of the training and sports medicine facility, Emory will become the official sports medicine provider of the team. The Hawks’ new facility will be the first in the NBA to be co-located with an entire sports medicine center, allowing for expert and immediate treatment and on-site access to state-of-the-art equipment such as a 3 Tesla MRI scanner. Emory will utilize roughly 30,000 square feet that will offer preventative and rehabilitative treatment and sports performance training. The entire roster of doctors, surgeons and specialists …

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

ATLANTA — A joint venture led by HOK has designed the $200 million improvement to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s domestic passenger terminal and central atrium. The project is part of the airport’s $6 billion, 20-year expansion and modernization program. Construction will begin later in 2016 and include the addition of two 864-foot-long canopies over curbside pick-up and drop-off areas, as well as a redesigned central atrium space. The joint venture includes Stanley, Love-Stanley PC and Chasm Architecture LLC, which are both headquartered in Atlanta. In 2015, the 207-gate airport became the world’s first airport to handle more than 100 million passengers in a calendar year.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Hotel Indigo Savannah Historic District

SAVANNAH, GA. — Noble Investment Group has opened the 252-room Hotel Indigo Savannah Historic District at 201 W. Bay St. in Savannah’s City Market at Ellis Square neighborhood. InterContinental Hotels Group manages the hotel, which is located at the site of the former Guckenheimer tobacco warehouse and grocery. The hotel features The Five Oaks Taproom restaurant, which serves breakfast and dinner with dishes made from ingredients sourced within 90 miles of Savannah. Local artist Meryl Turret designed the guest room murals, which showcase historic bottles that were unearthed in this district of Savannah, and each room also features watercolor pieces that highlight the original market building. Hotel amenities include a 24-hour fitness center and 6,000 square feet of flexible event space.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

FAIRBURN, GA. — South City Partners has selected McShane Construction Co. to build The Oakley Apartments in Fairburn, roughly 13 miles from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The 308-unit property will feature units with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, vinyl plank and ceramic tile flooring and washers and dryers. Community amenities will include a fitness center, on-site leasing and management building, beach entry swimming pool, fire pits, outdoor grills and pavilions, bocce ball court, sand volleyball court, dog park and walking paths. McShane Construction plans to complete the project in August 2017. Dallas-based Womack + Hampton Architects LLC is providing architectural services for the development.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

KENNESAW, GA. — Winter Construction has started the construction of Canterfield Senior Living of Kennesaw, a luxury seniors housing community in the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw. Atlanta-based Medical Development Corp. (MDC) hired Winter to build the three-story, 74,000-square-foot community. The expected completion date for Phase I of construction is spring 2017. Number of units, continuum of care and development costs were not disclosed. MDC launched the Canterfield brand in 2011. Atlanta-based architecture firm Corcoran Ota Group designed the model. Winter Construction is a general contractor based in Atlanta.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Mountain Park Estates Kennesaw

KENNESAW, GA. — CBRE has brokered the $64 million sale of Mountain Park Estates, a 450-unit apartment community in Kennesaw, a northern suburb of Atlanta in Cobb County. White Oak Partners purchased the asset from Arenda Capital Management. White Oak plans to renovate the property with new flooring, lighting, hardware, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. The apartment community is located directly across the street from a Whole Foods Market set to open later this year. Shea Campbell and Kevin Geiger of CBRE’s Southeast Multifamily Group represented Arenda Capital Management in the sale. Multifamily research firm Axiometrics reports that Kennesaw’s multifamily market has a 1 percent vacancy rate in its Class A subsector and as a whole the market will generate 22.9 percent in total rent growth over the next five years.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Equitable Building 100 Peachtree Atlanta

ATLANTA — Principal Global Investors has provided a $43.3 million loan for 100 Peachtree, a 625,424-square-foot, Class A office tower in Atlanta’s central business district (CBD). Known locally as the Equitable Building, the 32-story office tower features a conference center with a boardroom, three conference rooms, a mock courtroom, fitness center, dry cleaner, florist, FedEx-Kinko’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks and parking for 928 vehicles. The asset was 61 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Koch Properties, Accenture, Fulton County Public Defender, Atlanta BeltLine Inc. and McGuire Woods LLP. Mark Sixour and Gregg Shapiro of HFF arranged the four-year, floating-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, an affiliate of Five Mile Capital Partners LLC, which plans to refinance an existing loan and provide funds for capital improvements, tenant improvements and leasing commissions.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

ALPHARETTA, GA. — Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II Inc. has purchased Alpharetta Data Center III in Alpharetta, a northern suburb of Atlanta, for approximately $15.8 million. The property is a single-story, 77,322-square-foot colocation data center situated within 1,500 feet of a Georgia Power substation. The property is fully leased to Sungard Availability Services LP, an IT and cloud information services provider based in Wayne, Pa.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail
Creekside at Langford Distribution Corridor

EAST POINT, GA. — Atlanta-based Solution Property Group has purchased a former General Services Administration warehouse in East Point, a town roughly seven miles south of Atlanta, for an undisclosed price. The company plans to demolish the 55-year-old building and replace it with a new 538,500-square-foot project known as Creekside at Langford Distribution Corridor. The industrial property will be the closest bulk distribution center to Atlanta’s central business district, according to Solution Property Group, which plans to deliver the facility in the early fall of this year. Solution Property Group has selected Pat Murphy, Ray Stache and Spencer Green of Cushman & Wakefield to lease Creekside at Langford Distribution Corridor.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

ROME AND CEDARTOWN, GA. — Enlivant has purchased two assisted living and memory care communities, both located in rural Georgia, from affiliates of Winthrop Senior Living for $10 million. The two properties are Winthrop West in Rome and Winthrop at Polk in Cedartown. The two towns are near to each other, approximately 70 miles northwest of Atlanta. Winthrop West was built in 1999 and comprises 42 memory care units in a 25,591-square-foot facility on 3.7 acres. Winthrop at Polk was built in 1991 and added 20 memory care units in 2014 to its existing 29 assisted living units. The 27,715-square-foot community is situated on 2.4 acres. Senior Capital Advisors, a brokerage firm based in Florida, represented the seller in the deal. Enlivant is a Chicago-based owner/operator. These acquisitions expand its regional presence to seven communities between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Atlanta.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail