BALTIMORE — Restaurateur Pinky Cole will open two food-and-beverage concepts, Slutty Vegan and Bar Vegan, at Baltimore Peninsula, a $5 billion mixed-use redevelopment project currently underway in Baltimore. Scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2024, the plant-based restaurants are expected to create more than 100 new jobs. The 14 million-square-foot, 235-acre Baltimore Peninsula development also features a four-acre sports venue, ROOST Apartment Hotel and the Rye House and 250 Mission residential communities. The development and investment team for the project includes MAG Partners, MacFarlane Partners, Kevin Plank of Under Armour and his Sagamore Ventures investment firm and Goldman Sachs Asset Management Urban Investment Group. Additionally, Pinky Cole will join the development team for Baltimore Peninsula’s Rye Street Market component.
HYATTSVILLE, MD. — JLL has secured a $63 million refinancing for Vie Towers, a 910-bed student housing community located in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Hyattsville. The high-rise community serves students attending both Howard University and the University of Maryland. Doug Opalka, Dan Kearns, Jayme Nelson and Owen Claypool of JLL worked on behalf of the borrowers, Safanad and Vie Management, to secure the three-year, floating-rate loan through Värde Partners. Built in 2006 and renovated in 2019, the community offers a mix of two-, three- and four-bedroom, fully furnished units with bed-to-bath parity. Shared amenities include a rooftop pool deck, modern fitness center, yoga studio and coworking and creative space.
HAGERSTOWN, MD. — Binswanger has arranged a lease at a 2.1 million-square-foot distribution facility currently underway in Hagerstown in northwest Maryland. Binswanger secured the 10-year lease on behalf of the tenant, Conair, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of health, beauty and kitchen products. Trammell Crow Co. is developing the property within its Mid-Atlantic Crossings industrial park. Originally planned as two separate facilities at 10440 Downsville Pike and 17250 Sterling Road, the warehouse will now be developed and operated as a single, contiguous building.
GAITHERSBURG, MD. — KLNB has negotiated the sale of two apartment communities in Gaithersburg totaling 194 units. The properties include Towne Crest and Chelsea Park. Acento Real Estate Partners purchased both communities from the undisclosed sellers. The sales prices were also not disclosed. Acento plans to make renovations to both properties and add amenities. Rawles Wilcox, Jared Emery and Dutch Seitz of KLNB represented the sellers in both transactions.
SILVER SPRING, MD. — Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH) has acquired Falkland Chase, a 170-unit apartment community in Silver Spring, just north of Washington, D.C. JBG Smith sold the property for an undisclosed price. APAH plans to redevelop the property and create 1,250 new units in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Most of the new apartments will be reserved for residents earning at or below 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). Partners on the project include The Housing Partnership Fund, Woodforest National Bank and the National Housing Trust Community Development fund.
HAGERSTOWN, MD. — Lee & Associates has negotiated two leases at New Heights Industrial Park in Hagerstown totaling 58,750 square feet. The 900,000-square-foot industrial park is located at 18450 Showalter Road, less than one mile from Hagerstown Regional Airport and I-81. The new tenants joining New Heights include Tomu Inc., a prefabricated modular buildings system user that is leasing 15,000 square feet, and Pycube, a Virginia-based healthcare asset management firm that is leasing 43,750 square feet. Joel Kreider and Ed Skonecki of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, a joint venture between Bluestone Group and The Langer Co., in both lease transactions. With this leasing activity, the project is approximately 82 percent leased.
COLLEGE PARK, MD. — Core Spaces has opened Hub College Park, a 475-bed student housing community located near the University of Maryland campus in College Park. The 239,542-square-foot property offers 161 fully furnished units in studio through five-bedroom configurations. Shared amenities include a fitness center, spa and sauna, coworking spaces, private study lounges, rooftop swimming pool and a coffee shop. Studio K Creative designed the interior of the property alongside Core’s in-house design team. Antunovich Associates served as the architect and Treehouse Builders was the general contractor for the development. Core’s in-house management team is managing the community, which opened ahead of the 2023-2024 academic year.
EDGEWOOD, MD. — KLNB has brokered the $10.4 million sale of Edgewood Plaza, a 76,000-square-foot shopping center located at 2204-2250 Hanson Road in Edgewood, about 28 miles northeast of downtown Baltimore. Food Lion and Dollar General have anchored the center since 1999 and 2004, respectively. Edgewood Plaza was 96 percent leased at the time of sale. The seller, Sandmar Properties, recently resurfaced the center’s parking lot, replaced the roof and repainted the façade. Chris Burnham, Andy Stape, Vito Lupo and Jake Furnary of KLNB represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was an unnamed local investor.
BETHESDA, MD. — Berkadia Institutional Solutions has arranged the sale of The Elm, a 456-unit multifamily community located at 4710 Elm St. in Bethesda. Completed in 2021, the property features apartments in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans across two 28-story towers that are connected via a glass sky bridge. Amenities at the community include a swimming pool, fitness center, pet spa and a dog park. Brian Crivella, Walter Coker and Bill Gribbin of Berkadia’s DC Metro office brokered the sale on behalf of the seller, Washington, D.C.-based Carr Properties. The buyer and sales price were not disclosed.
CROFTON, MD. — Jersey Mike’s Subs and Bruster’s Ice Cream have signed leases to join the tenant roster at Seven Oaks Shopping Center, a Weis Markets-anchored retail center in Crofton. The two brands are dividing a 3,046-square-foot retail pad site at 2288 Blue Water Blvd. Brandon Howard of Divaris Real Estate represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. He has also negotiated all the inline retail vacancies at Seven Oaks and is marketing a build-to-suit opportunity for a 5,000-square-foot pad site next to the Jersey Mike’s and Bruster’s. Seven Oaks is situated one block from the Fort Meade campus and about 20 miles south of Baltimore.