ANNAPOLIS, MD. — UC Funds has provided a $20 million first mortgage for a multifamily project located in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore market near Annapolis. Upon completion, the development will feature 60 units and 19,000 square feet of retail space. Further details on the project and construction timeline were not disclosed.
GLEN BURNIE, MD. — Brennan Investment Group has purchased 15.8 acres along Solley Road in Glen Burnie, a suburb of Baltimore. The Chicago-based firm plans to develop an 80,275-square-foot industrial facility on the site. The building is slated for completion later this year and is intended to be the first of several investments for Brennan in the Washington-Baltimore corridor. The property, which will offer tenants interstate access via I-695, is situated 12 miles from Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The building is designed to accommodate one or two tenants, according to Brennan.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 2019, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments issued a report stating that the D.C. region — comprising the city, Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland — needed to add 320,000 more housing units between 2020 and 2030, and that at least 75 percent of this new housing should be affordable to low- and medium-income households. Rob Fossi, senior vice president of real estate development at Enterprise Community Development, says the figure has only climbed in recent years due to macroeconomic and local challenges. “In the three years since that report was issued, this demand has only intensified while supply chain interruptions, interest rate spikes and competing resource challenges precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic have all been challenges to maintain pace,” says Fossi. Enterprise Community Development, an affiliate of Enterprise Community Partners, is the top nonprofit owner and developer of affordable homes in the Mid-Atlantic with a portfolio spanning about 13,000 apartments that house more than 22,000 residents. The firm is actively developing and preserving affordable housing across the region in order to address the demand, which Fossi says shows no signs of abating anytime soon. “There is little doubt that the demand for quality affordable housing will …
CUMBERLAND, MD. — Contegra Construction has delivered a 192,000-square-foot distribution center at 12000 Mexico Farms Road in Cumberland. Kansas City-based Jones Development is the developer of the property, which features tilt-up concrete panels, 10,000 square feet of office space, 32-foot clear height, 56 dock doors, a PVC roof, LED lighting and parking for 48 trailers and 262 automobiles. The site also features a 35-foot-tall retaining wall that runs for a half-mile around three sides of the building. The tenant was not disclosed.
BEL AIR, MD. — ARLS Properties LLC is underway on the construction of Bel Air Village, a 35-acre mixed-use community located in Bel Air, roughly 30 miles northeast of Baltimore. Upon completion, the development will feature 115,000 square feet of office and retail space, 252 multifamily units and 24 townhomes. Four freestanding buildings, ranging in size from 7,000 to 11,000 square feet, will comprise the retail component, along with five pad sites of one to two acres each. A 50-unit multifamily building will be completed first, with the additional multifamily buildings to be built next year. Completion of the first phase of the project is scheduled for later this year. Sean Langford and Tom Fidler of MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services LLC will handle retail leasing for the development.
GLEN BURNIE, MD. — Locally based St. John Properties has acquired Aviation Business Park, a three-building commercial portfolio comprising 120,000 square feet in Glen Burnie, approximately 10 miles south of Baltimore. St. John acquired the properties — located at 6956, 6958 and 6960 Aviation Blvd. — from Miami-based Adler Real Estate Partners for $13.3 million. The buildings were roughly 63 percent leased at the time of sale. St. John plans to invest $1.5 million to reposition one of the properties to flex/R&D space. Graham Savage, Jonathan Carpenter and Dawes Milchling of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. St. John was self-represented. This marks the second significant acquisition for the company in recent months, following the purchase in November of Triangle Business Park, a 95 percent occupied, four-building portfolio in metro Baltimore comprising 74,000 square feet.
GLEN BURNIE, MD. — KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) has provided a $100 million bridge loan for Villages at Marley Station, a 757-unit mixed-income apartment community located in Glen Burnie, a suburb of Baltimore. The borrower, San Diego-based Fairfield, plans to renovate the property and convert 100 percent of the units to be affordable to households earning 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). Matt Haas and Greg Deeks of KeyBank structured the bridge financing, which will be re-syndicated later this year with 4 percent LIHTC equity, bonds and equity bridge loan funding for renovations that will take place over the next three years. Built in 1963 and renovated in 1997 and 2009, Villages at Marley Station consists of 26 elevator-serviced, low-rise buildings housing 35 studios, 428 one-bedroom, 281 two-bedroom and 12 three-bedroom apartments. Fairfield’s renovations to the interiors will include upgrades to HVAC, appliances, flooring, countertops, cabinets, bathtubs, plumbing and vanities. Common area improvements will be made to the property’s central laundry, clubhouse, pool equipment and furniture, fitness center, sport courts and playgrounds.
COLLEGE PARK, MD. — Axiom Capital Corp. has arranged the $34.5 million refinancing of a student housing property located near the University of Maryland in College Park. The fixed-rate, non-recourse loan was secured on behalf of an undisclosed borrower and features a three-year term. The unnamed student housing property offers 232 units alongside amenities including a swimming pool, fitness center, movie theater and shuttle service to both the University of Maryland and Howard University. Built in 2010, the community also offers a 629-stall parking garage and 30 surface-level parking spaces.
COLUMBIA, MD. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged separate refinancings totaling $193 million for two properties located in downtown Columbia. Jamie Leachman and Drake Greer of JLL secured the financing on behalf of the borrower, The Howard Hughes Corp. An undisclosed lender provided a $76 million, three-year, fixed-rate loan for the first property, a 317,189-square-foot office building located at 6100 Merriweather Drive. JLL also arranged a $117 million, five-year, fixed-rate loan for Juniper, an apartment community built in 2020 that also features 55,693 square feet of street-level retail space. Both properties are positioned within the mixed-use Merriweather District, and both loans were used to take out existing construction financing.
SILVER SPRING, MD. — Enterprise Community Development Inc. has purchased Parkside Terrace Apartments, an 87-unit workforce housing community located in Silver Spring, a suburb of Washington, D.C. The buyer plans to preserve the natural occurring affordable housing (NOAH) property by reserving units for households earning up to 60 percent of area median income (AMI). Enterprise Community Development purchased the community from an undisclosed seller for $20 million. The Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Affairs provided a $5 million bridge loan to the buyer through its Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund. Built in 1962, Parkside Terrace comprises one- and two-bedroom units spread across three- and four-story garden-style apartment buildings. Enterprise Community Development plans to make capital improvements to the property.
