UNION CITY, GA. — Capital One Multifamily Finance has provided an $8.6 million HUD 221(d)(4) loan for the construction of Providence at Parkway Village, a 150-unit affordable rental community for seniors. The age-restricted property will be located in Union City, part of the Atlanta MSA. Carolyn Whatley of Capital One originated the transaction on behalf of the developer, The Benoit Group. John Rucker at Merchant Capital was the bond underwriter for the loan, which features a construction period of 16 months and a 40-year amortization schedule. Providence at Parkway Village is Phase III of the master-planned Parkway Village, which includes two other multifamily properties delivered in 2009 and 2011. In addition to the HUD loan, the project is being financed through tax-exempt bonds, a tax credit equity investment facilitated by Raymond James and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, a HOME loan from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and a loan from the Housing Authority of Fulton County.
ATLANTA — Columbia Property Trust, one of the largest office REITs in the nation, has completed the sale of a five-building, 1 million-square-foot office campus in Atlanta for $290 million. The campus, which is fully leased to AT&T Services Inc., is located at 1025, 1055, 1057 and 1277 Lenox Park Blvd. and 2180 Lake Blvd. in the Lenox Park office complex in the Buckhead office submarket. The buyer was undisclosed.
MARIETTA, GA. — Colliers International’s Southeast retail investment sales team has brokered the sale of two shopping centers in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta totaling $14.4 million. The two assets include the 88,369-square-foot Home Center Village and the 206,828-square-foot Marietta Plaza. Home Center Village is 90 percent leased to tenants such as Dollar Tree and Anna’s Linens and includes Walmart Supercenter as a shadow anchor. The Geneva Group purchased Home Center Village from Mimms Enterprises for roughly $6.9 million. Marietta Plaza is anchored by Burlington Coat Factory. The Simpson Organization purchased the asset for roughly $7.5 million. Joe Montgomery and Tony D’Ambrosio of Colliers International represented the sellers in both transactions.
ROSWELL, GA. — Sterling Organization has purchased Roswell Village Shopping Center, a 145,082-square-foot shopping center located at the southwest corner of Highway 9 and Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell, roughly 20 miles north of downtown Atlanta. Sterling purchased the asset for approximately $10.6 million in an off-market transaction via its institutional fund Sterling Value Add Partners II LP. The property is currently 31 percent leased to tenants such as Goodyear, Pizza Hut, Jersey Mike’s and Curves.
ATLANTA — Encore Hospitality, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Encore Enterprises Inc., has purchased a 154-room Doubletree Suites by Hilton hotel in Atlanta. The hotel is located in Cobb County immediately adjacent to SunTrust Park, the future ballpark of the Atlanta Braves that is slated to open by Opening Day 2017. Encore plans on investing $6 million to remodel the hotel to include a new lobby with a multi-story water feature and a sports-themed lounge. Encore purchased the hotel for an undisclosed price from Inland Hospitality. Atlanta-based Hodges Ward Elliott brokered the transaction.
ATLANTA — HFF has closed on the sale of a retail portfolio consisting of seven Publix-, Kroger- and BI-LO-anchored shopping centers totaling 513,723 square feet in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas. The properties include Kingwood Glen in Houston; Doral Isles in Miami; Barclay Crossing in Tampa; Deltona Landings in Orlando; Parkway Centre in Columbus, Ga.; Publix at Powder Springs in Atlanta; and Sweetgrass Corner in Charleston, S.C. Richard Reid, Danny Finkle, Ryan West, Rusty Tamlyn, Jim Hamilton and Luis Castillo of HFF represented the seller, a joint venture between BVT Equity Holdings Inc. and WealthCap, in the transaction. The seven retail assets had a combined 96.5 percent occupancy at the time of the sale.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. AND GREEN COVE SPRINGS, FLA. — King Industrial Realty/CORFAC International has completed 183,000 square feet of industrial leases in two transactions in Lawrenceville and Green Cove Springs. Specialty Rolled Metals LLC has leased 83,000 square feet of space for five years at 975 Progress Center Drive in Lawrenceville. Jeff Graham and Jason McCart of King/CORFAC represented the landlord, Dietrich Gross Trust, in the transaction. Additionally, Graham represented U.S. Lumber Group in a five-year, 100,528-square-foot lease renewal at 4627 J.P. Hall Blvd., Suite 107 in Green Cove Springs. The building is owned by Green Cove LLC.
HIRAM, GA. — The Shopping Center Group has arranged Planet Fitness’ 20,000-square-foot lease at Paulding Commons, a 210,000-square-foot shopping center in Hiram, about 27 miles northwest of Atlanta. The Planet Fitness is expected to open in late 2014, while new tenants Aspen Dental and Vision Works are slated to open in the fall. The new trio of tenants will be joining established retailers Academy Sports + Outdoors and Hobby Lobby at Paulding Commons. Brett Fuller of The Shopping Center Group represented the landlord, NewQuest Epic Investments, in the lease transactions. The shopping center is currently undergoing a $2 million renovation, which is slated to wrap up in the fall.
HOSCHTON AND CUMMING, GA. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage Inc. has facilitated the sale-leaseback of two assisted living communities in metro Atlanta totaling $33.6 million. The two properties are The Oaks at Braselton in Hoschton and The Oaks at Post Road in Cumming. Built in 2011, The Oaks at Braselton features 46 assisted living units and 34 memory care units. Built in 2007, The Oaks at Post Road features 64 assisted living units and 36 memory care units. The current operator, Oaks Senior Living, will continue to operate both communities under a long-term lease agreement. Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage brokered the transaction.
The U.S. hotel market continues to gain strength following the Great Recession, where in 2009, revenue per available room (RevPAR) fell by 17 percent making it the single-worst performing year in the history of the hotel industry. Atlanta, which is one of the top 25 hotel markets in the U.S., as defined by Smith Travel Research (STR), the hotel industry’s leading performance data provider, experienced a similar decline with RevPAR falling by 18 percent in 2009. Since that time, across the country RevPAR has grown at a compounded average growth rate (CAGR) of 6.4 percent. Atlanta’s RevPAR CAGR during this time period has been 6.1 percent. The main reason Atlanta’s recovery has trailed the nation is related to its average daily rate (ADR). Atlanta’s ADR CAGR has been just 1.3 percent since 2009 as compared to 3 percent for the U.S. Put simply, hotels in Atlanta have not been able to grow their average rate as much as the U.S. average coming out of the recession. The Atlanta hotel market, like other segments of the Atlanta real estate market, has historically tended to get overbuilt when times are good. While hotels often do not represent the “highest and best use” …