Georgia

BROOKHAVEN, GA. — High Street Residential, a subsidiary of Trammell Crow Co., has broken ground on Residences at Perimeter Summit, a 350-unit apartment community located at 1251 Perimeter Summit Parkway in Brookhaven. Situated approximately nine miles from Midtown Atlanta, the seven-story apartment community will serve as a pillar of Perimeter Summit, a 1.7 million-square-foot mixed-use campus that also includes offices, shops, restaurants, a 182-room hotel and condominiums. Spear Street Capital is heading the office development at Perimeter Summit and recently partnered with STHRN Hospitality to add two new restaurants set to open this year: The Little Gem and Pizza Stop. Residences at Perimeter Summit will include a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments with an average unit size of more than 900 square feet. Community amenities will include a resort-style pool, three courtyards, 1,200-square-foot speakeasy lounge, fitness center, clubroom, coworking center, private conference and study rooms, tasting room, pet spa, golf simulator, wellness sauna and access to walking trails and two MARTA stations. The design-build team includes architect Cooper Carry and general contractor New South Construction. The construction timeline was not disclosed.

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BUFORD, GA. — Marcus & Millichap’s Taylor McMinn Retail Group has brokered the sale of a newly built restaurant located at 4996 Lanier Islands Parkway in Buford, a northeast suburb of Atlanta. Quick-service restaurant chain Arby’s has a 15-year ground lease at the restaurant, which was delivered last year at the entrance of a 1.1 million-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center. The Arby’s restaurant sits on 1.6 acres and totals 2,577 square feet in size. Don McMinn and Andrew Koriwchak of Taylor McMinn Retail Group represented the seller, a developer based in Florida, in the transaction. The buyer was a 1031 exchange investor based in California. The names of the buyer and seller were not released, along with the sales price. “This was part of a multi-parcel development we are marketing in Buford,” says McMinn. “We first sold a Whataburger and now the Arby’s, and in both cases we were able to leverage our national platform and local reach to generate strong interest and multiple cash offers.”

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GAINESVILLE, GA. — Atlanta-based Branch Properties has received civic approval for the redevelopment of Lakeshore Mall, a former shopping mall in Gainesville that opened in 1970. Gainesville City Council unanimously approved the developer’s vision for a 49-acre mixed-use redevelopment that was announced this past fall. Branch plans to break ground on the redevelopment in late 2026 and wrap up construction in 2028. Located between Lake Lanier and I-985, the new Lakeshore Mall project will usher in 652 multifamily residences, 38,200 square feet of community green space and more than 300,000 square feet of retail space, including existing anchors Belk and Dick’s Sporting Goods, both of which will remain open during the redevelopment. Dick’s will relocate to a new store within the redevelopment. Len Erickson of Franklin Street is leading the project’s retail leasing component with Branch. Future plans for the project could include a hotel and townhomes.

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BREMEN, GA. — Southwire plans to open a new 1.2 million-square-foot distribution center in Bremen, located 45 miles west of Atlanta via I-20. The new center will combine operations with three existing distribution sites in Villa Rica, Ga., serving as a centralized distribution center for customers across the organization. Upon completion, the center will rank as one of Southwire’s largest facilities for its distribution and shipping operations in the West Georgia region. The facility is scheduled to be completed by the third quarter of 2026. Southwire opened its most recent distribution center in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in August 2024.

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BRASELTON, GA. AND MEMPHIS, TENN. — CBRE has arranged the sale of a two-property industrial portfolio in Braselton and Memphis totaling more than 1.6 million square feet. The facilities include a 613,440-square-foot cross-dock warehouse in Braselton, a city on the northeast outskirts of the metro Atlanta area, and a 1 million-square-foot cross-dock warehouse in Memphis. The Braselton facility was built in 2016 and is fully leased to a large e-commerce company, and the Memphis property was built in 2021 and is fully occupied by Medtronic. Frank Fallon, Trey Barry, José Lobon, Royce Rose, George Fallon, Ryan Bain, Zach Graham and Bentley Smith of CBRE represented the seller, JW Mitchell Co., in the transaction. The buyer and sales price were not disclosed. Additionally, Brian Linnihan, Mike Ryan, Richard Henry and Taylor Crowder of CBRE’s debt and structured finance team in Atlanta arranged a $69.9 million acquisition loan through Wells Fargo on behalf of the buyer.

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ATLANTA — Several key performance indicators are trending positively for the extended-stay hotel sector, according to research from Atlanta-based The Highland Group. Extended-stay hotels are lodging properties that have flexible rental options for guests, many of whom choose to rent for weeks or months at a time. In the fourth quarter of 2024, revenue per available room (RevPAR) and room revenue for the extended-stay sector increased by 3 percent and 6.1 percent year-over-year, respectively. Additionally, total occupancy in the fourth quarter hovered at 72.7 percent, which is the highest fourth-quarter occupancy rate in the past three years and a full 12 percentage points above the overall U.S. hotel sector. “Extended-stay demand growth in fourth-quarter 2024 was the largest quarterly increase in three years and well ahead of the accelerating gain in supply,” says Mark Skinner, partner at The Highland Group.

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SAVANNAH, GA. — Barings and Charlotte-based Trinity Capital have broken ground on Phase II of Horizon 16 Industrial Park, a logistics park located at Jimmy Deloach Parkway and I-16 in Savannah. The second phase will span six buildings totaling 1.5 million square feet. Phase I of the park spans 1.1 million square feet across three buildings and is currently 74 percent leased to tenants including Ferguson and Harbor Freight. The design-build team for Phase II includes general contractor Evans and architectural firm Atlas. The co-developers have tapped William Lattimore of CBRE to lease the second phase of Horizon 16. Barings and Trinity Capital previously partnered to develop 85 Exchange, a 1.3 million-square-foot industrial park near Charlotte that is leased to tenants including Amazon.

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ATLANTA — Workspace Property Trust has signed Hyundai Capital America to a 45,000-square-foot office lease at 4100 Wildwood Parkway, a 100,000-square-foot office building located within the Wildwood Office Park in Atlanta’s Cumberland-Galleria submarket. Hyundai Capital America, the finance and loan partner of Hyundai, Kia and Genesis car brands, previously operated a call center out of this location. 4100 Wildwood Parkway features offices, onsite conference facilities, kitchens and recreational areas. Kirk Anders of Anders Commercial Properties and Bob Gibbons of REATA Commercial Realty represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Wes Rudes represented Workspace on an internal basis.

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SAVANNAH, GA. — The Home Depot has acquired its own 1.4 million-square-foot The Home Depot Distribution Center (DC) from the Savannah Economic Development Authority (SEDA). The facility is situated near the Port of Savannah. The sales price was not disclosed. SEDA has leased the center to The Home Depot since 1995. The acquisition includes 100 acres of adjacent land. The Home Depot DC supports hundreds of The Home Depot stores and typically employs around 250 associates. “This sale signals a significant, long-term commitment by The Home Depot to our region and the Georgia Ports Authority,” says Trip Tollison, president and CEO of SEDA. “We are honored that they continue to have great confidence in the Savannah region.”

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ATLANTA — PGIM Real Estate has provided an $82.3 million, floating-rate loan for the refinancing of Mira at Midtown Union, a 355-unit multifamily property located in Midtown Atlanta. The borrower, a joint venture between MetLife Investment Management and StreetLights Residential, will use the loan proceeds to refinance existing debt and secure tenants for the available retail space. Tom Goodsite of PGIM Real Estate led financing efforts for the transaction. Delivered in 2022, the 26-story tower offers a unit mix of studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans that range from 496 square feet to 1,743 square feet in size. Amenities include a resort-style pool, resident lounge, sunset deck with fire pits and grills, pet spa and dog wash station, coworking spaces and a multi-room fitness center.

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