LEXINGTON, KY. — Ziff Properties has purchased the former Golden Burley Tobacco Warehouse and Building Materials Warehouse located on Angliana Avenue in Lexington for an undisclosed price. Fred Pfister of Silvestri Craig Realtors facilitated the transaction. The name of the seller and sales price were not released. Ziff Properties plans to convert the property, which is situated on 3.5 acres, into a Class A self-storage facility with 103,500 square feet of climate- and non-climate-controlled units. CubeSmart Self Storage will manage the asset.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Brennan Investment Group has acquired an industrial property located at 1300 W. Park Road in the Bullitt submarket of Louisville. Concurrent with the acquisition, the 194,519-square-foot property was leased back to the seller, a joint venture between Westfall Technik and a client of Arch Street Capital Advisors. The building is fully occupied by Amaray, a specialized global plastic packaging company, which was simultaneously acquired by Westfall Technik. Amaray has occupied the property since 2003.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Goldin Management has sold Colonial Oaks, a multifamily development located at 5011 Southside Drive in Louisville. Patrick Kelley and Connie Kelley acquired the property for an undisclosed price. Built in 1970, Colonial Oaks features 192 units in a mix of one- and two-bedroom layouts. Brandon Wilson and Brian Devlin of Nashville-based The Kirkland Co. brokered the deal.
LEXINGTON, KY. — Silvestri Real Estate has arranged the sale of Springs at Winchester Road Apartments, a multifamily property located at 1809 Meeting St. in Lexington. Continental Properties, a multifamily developer, sold the property for $35.5 million, or $140,873 per unit. Built in 2014, Winchester Road features 252 townhome-style units, gated access and a pet spa. Ken Silvestri, Brandon Cutwright and Robert Jones of Silvestri brokered the transaction.
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY. — Fairmount Properties has broken ground on St. Elizabeth Medical Office building at the main entrance to Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights. Fairmount is developing the property in partnership with Northern Kentucky University, St. Elizabeth Healthcare, OrthoCincy, the City of Highland Heights and Campbell County. The project team includes Bialosky, Casler Design Group, Danis, The Kleinger Group, KLH Engineers, Realm Collaborative and THP Limited. Located on Nunn Drive, the 65,000-square-foot facility will offer urgent care, primary care and specialty physicians space, as well as OrthoCincy’s on-site orthopaedical office, physical therapy and other orthopaedical services. The facility is slated to open in early 2020. The medical office is the first phase of a more than $100 million NKU Gateway mixed-use development. Upon complete build-out, the property will include restaurants, retail space, market-rate apartments, a hotel, parking and new public gathering spaces.
SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY. — Walmart will invest $41 million to open a new distribution facility in Shepherdsville, a city roughly 20 miles south of Louisville in Bullitt County. The Arkansas-based retailer will lease a 720,000-square-foot building within Velocity 65 Trade Center, an industrial park located off Interstate 65 along Velocity Way. The center will create 400 full-time jobs upon opening later this fall, and will eventually employ several hundred temporary workers, including seasonal employees. The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority has preliminarily approved Walmart for tax incentives up to $3 million through the Kentucky Business Investment program. The performance-based incentive allows the company to keep a portion of its investment over the agreement term through corporate income tax credits and wage assessments by meeting job and investment targets. Indianapolis-based Browning Investments is the developer and owner of Velocity 65 Trade Center.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Birmingham-based Doster Construction Co. has broken ground on two new multifamily properties for Continental Properties in Tennessee and Louisville. The projects include the 296-unit Springs at Forest Hill that will be located at 3735 S. Forest Hill Irene Drive in Tennessee’s Shelby County, roughly 25 miles southeast of Memphis. The second community, Springs at La Grange, will be located in Louisville. The project will include 11 buildings with a total of 236 units. Both developments will feature amenities such as resort-style swimming pools, community clubhouses and fitness centers. A construction timeline for the projects was not disclosed.
LEXINGTON, KY. — NAI Isaac has secured the $8.5 million sale of Stonewall Shopping Center, a 79,142-square-foot retail center located at 3101 Clays Mill Road in Lexington. Al Isaac of NAI Isaac arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller. Eli Mashni of Keller Williams represented the buyer. Other terms of the deal were not disclosed. Stonewall Shopping Center was 85 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Bargain Hunt, Dollar Tree, Domino’s, Goodwill and Peoples Exchange Bank.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — The Kirkland Co. has arranged the sale of River Hill, a 273-unit apartment community in Louisville. Brandon Wilson and Brian Devlin of Kirkland brokered the transaction on behalf of the buyer, Covenant Capital, as well as the seller, Lafayette Cos. The sales price was not disclosed, but Louisville Business First reports the asset sold for $18.5 million. Constructed in 1972, River Hill includes a mix of one- to four-bedroom apartment units. Community amenities include a pool and laundry facilities.
LEXINGTON, KY. — RJ Thieneman, in partnership with Seay Properties and a group of private investors, has acquired Regency Centre, a 140,000-square-foot shopping center located at 2325 Nicholasville Road in Lexington. The sales price and name of the seller were not disclosed. Regency Centre is home to tenants such as Kroger, T.J. Maxx, Five Below, Pet Supermarket, Title Boxing Club, IHOP and BB&T. The acquisition marks the third purchase in Central Kentucky for RJ Thieneman, which also owns and manages Franklin Square in Frankfort and Kroger Plaza in Winchester.