Georgia

Ivy Commons Apartments Marietta

LITHIA SPRINGS AND MARIETTA, GA. — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, a subsidiary of BB&T, has closed two loans totaling $43.6 million for two apartment communities in the Atlanta suburbs of Lithia Springs and Marietta. Alan Tapie of Grandbridge arranged both loans through Freddie Mac’s CME (capital markets execution) program. Both loans feature initial periods of interest-only payments, 10-year loan terms and 30-year amortization schedules. The loans include a $20.8 million first mortgage for the 312-unit Brodick Hill Apartments in Lithia Springs and a $22.8 million acquisition loan for the 344-unit Ivy Commons Apartments in Marietta.

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COLLEGE PARK, GA. — Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Hotels (NGKF Hotels) has brokered the sale of the Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Hotels, an 83-room hotel located at 4839 Massachusetts Blvd. in College Park. The three-story hotel is located adjacent to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and roughly 11 miles south of downtown Atlanta. Georgia-based 64J Hotel Groups LLC bought the Microtel Inn with plans to negotiate a new, long-term franchise agreement and upgrade the property with a planned renovation totaling approximately $400,000. Sam Winterbottom, Bhavesh (B.J.) Patel and Barrett Corwin of NGKF Hotels represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. In the past eight months, NGKF Hotels has also brokered the sales of the nearby Wellesley Inn and Sleep Inn hotels. Combined, the three hotels have sold for $14 million.

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ALPHARETTA, GA. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $4.2 million acquisition loan for Windward Forest, a 67,000-square-foot office building located at 960 North Point Parkway in Alpharetta, a northern suburb of Atlanta. Johnny Rankin and Wanda Riggs Mack of NorthMarq’s Atlanta office arranged the five-year, fixed-rate loan with a 25-year amortization schedule through a local bank. The borrower used the proceeds to purchase Windward Forest in a 1031 exchange.

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Mill Shoppes of Winder

WINDER, GA. — Franklin Street has arranged the $2.3 million sale of Mill Shoppes of Winder, a 19,019-square-foot, two-building retail development in Winder. The property is located at 105 and 111 E. May St. John Tennant and Bryan Belk of Franklin Street’s Atlanta office represented the seller, Alpha Opportunity Fund I LLC, in the transaction. An unnamed Atlanta-based private investor purchased the property, which is currently 79 percent leased to tenants such as Subway, Titlemax of Georgia and Little Caesars Pizza.

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Amazon@GeorgiaTech Purdue

ATLANTA — Amazon has signed an agreement with Georgia Tech to open a staffed pickup location on the school’s campus at 86 Fifth St. N.W. in Midtown Atlanta. Known as Amazon@GeorgiaTech, the 2,500-square-foot space in the school’s Technology Square area will be used by patrons to pick up and return Amazon orders. Amazon Student and Prime members will be able to receive free same-day pickup for Amazon orders placed by noon and free one-day pickup for orders placed by 10 p.m. This is Amazon’s first staffed pickup location in the state of Georgia. Since 2015, Amazon has opened staffed pickup locations at the following universities: Purdue University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of California, Berkeley, as well as in the college communities of University of California, Santa Barbara, and University of Cincinnati. Amazon will open four more locations in 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Davis, and The University of Texas at Austin, as well as in the college community of University of Akron.

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VALDOSTA AND NASHVILLE, GA. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has arranged the sale of two assisted living communities in Georgia to Omega Healthcare Investors for $20.2 million. The transaction was structured as a sale-leaseback deal, so the undisclosed seller will continue to operate the communities. The properties are a 109-unit community in Valdosta, sold for $17.5 million, and a 26-unit community in Nashville, sold for $2.7 million. Both are located in south Georgia near the Florida border. Bradley Clousing led the SLIB team in brokering the transaction.

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Satellite Cinemas The Gallery at South DeKalb Decatur

DECATUR, GA. — Thor Equities, owner of The Gallery at South DeKalb in Decatur, plans to open a new 12-screen Satellite Cinemas movie theater at the mall in April. The 42,000-square-foot theater will join The Gallery’s more than 100 retailers and community services, including Macy’s, Fallas, Footlocker, DTLR, U.S. Post Office, Georgia Department of Drivers Services and GameStop. Urban Retail Properties manages the 800,000-square-foot mall. The theater, which will replace the former Screenworks theater, will feature in-auditorium dining, concessions, stadium seating and a 3D projection system.

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Moores Mill Publix Atlanta

ATLANTA — Edens, a Columbia, S.C.-based developer, owner and operator of shopping centers, has broken ground on Moores Mill, a 70,000-square-foot shopping center in Atlanta’s West Midtown District. The $95 million project will be anchored by Publix and feature a mix of retailers and restaurants, as well as apartment residences, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Located on Moores Mill Road at Marietta Boulevard, Edens plans to deliver the property in June 2017. Edens held a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, March 2 that was attended by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, Edens executives, local government officials and economic development officers.

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ATLANTA — Kroger has sold Bouldercrest Distribution Center, a three-building, 528,000-square-foot cold storage/food distribution center in southeast Atlanta, for $14.5 million. Highridge Provender purchased the property, which features a 374,155-square-foot dry grocery warehouse, a 132,184-square-foot freezer warehouse and a 21,119-square-foot truck maintenance building. Kroger has owned the property since 1992, but is in the process of relocating to the 1.2 million-square-foot, build-to-suit Gillem Logistics Center in Forest Park, Ga. Kroger will lease Bouldercrest from Highridge Provender for one year during the transition. Chris Cummings and Turner Wisehart of Colliers International’s Atlanta office represented the buyer in the transaction and will market the project for lease going forward.

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The Roof at Ponce City Market Atlanta

ATLANTA — Jamestown plans to open the final phase of Ponce City Market known as The Roof at Ponce City Market. Located on the roof of the mixed-use development, the project will feature boardwalk-style amusement games and rides, an 18-hole miniature golf course and a slide. On April 3, The Roof will host a miniature golf tournament organized by the Kyle Korver Foundation, Plywood People and the Jamestown Charitable Foundation. Proceeds from the event, called Putt! Putt! Putt!, will support 18 local charities in Atlanta. The Roof will open to the public in mid-2016. Jamestown hopes to pay homage to the Ponce de Leon amusement park, which was formerly situated at the site of Ponce City Market. Located along the Atlanta BeltLine in the Old Fourth Ward, Ponce City Market features 259 residential units, 550,000 square feet of Class A loft office space, 300,000 square feet of retail and restaurants and a pedestrian bridge linking the interior courtyard and public market to the BeltLine.

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