North Carolina

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — TriBridge Residential has broken ground on the retail portion of One305Central, a $50 million mixed-use development located in Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood. The Shopping Center Group will market the 10,000 square feet of retail space and 2,000 square feet of patio space for dining and entertainment tenants. The project team for the retail portion, which will be housed in a redeveloped building located at the corner of Central and Clement avenues, includes Hood Architecture and Roper Construction. In addition to the retail space, One305 Central will also feature 281 apartments, which will be complete this summer, along with resident-only parking and 65 parking spaces allocated for retail and dining customers. TriBridge Residential acquired One305Central’s five-acre site in 2014 for $7.8 million. Citizens Bank provided construction financing for the mixed-use development.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Haven Campus Communities plans to build an 887-bed student housing community located directly across from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus on University City Boulevard. The development will offer fully furnished one-, two-, four- and five-bedroom units with bed-to-bath parity. Community amenities will include a cyber lounge with charging stations; coffee bar; fitness center; tanning room; gaming room; computer center with private study rooms featuring Smart TVs; gathering areas with built-in seating; bocce ball and horseshoes; fire pits; an open courtyard; and a pool area with a large pavilion, TVs, a tanning deck, cabanas and built-in grilling stations. The development will also offer the company’s Smart Apartment technology, created in partnership with Airwave Networks that include voice command technology through Amazon Echo; keyless entry that can be integrated with smartphones through a mobile application; and voice-controlled smart lighting, thermostats and ceiling fans. Haven Campus expects to deliver the student housing property in fall 2018.

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MATTHEWS, N.C. — The Memphis office of Financial Federal Bank has arranged a $24.3 million acquisition loan for Legacy Matthews Apartments in Matthews, a suburb of Charlotte. The borrower, a repeat Financial Federal customer, purchased the 288-unit garden-style property, which was 97 percent occupied at the time of closing. Rick Wood and Jon Van Hoozer of Financial Federal Bank arranged the 12-year, fixed-rate loan with three years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule through an agency lender.

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MORRISVILLE, N.C. — JLL has arranged INC Research Holdings Inc.’s office lease at Perimeter Five, a Class A office building under construction at 3032 Carrington Mill Blvd. in Morrisville, about 13 miles west of Raleigh. The global contract research firm leased the entire 215,450-square-foot building, which will be situated within the 3 million-square-foot Perimeter Park master-planned office development. The office building will feature lake views, green space, a café serving Starbucks Coffee and a fitness center. Erika Jean McNeil, Paul Glickman, Matthew Astrachan and Michael Morgan of JLL represented INC Research in the 12-year lease deal. William Allen of Trinity Partners represented the landlord. The office building will break ground in March for an expected delivery in July 2018.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Singh Development, a multifamily owner-operator with communities in Michigan and North Carolina, has unveiled renderings of the interior of Waltonwood Lake Boone, a 183-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Raleigh. Development costs for the 285,000-square-foot project are estimated at $50 million, and Singh Development expects the facility to create more than 125 jobs and serve more than 200 residents. The property is situated on six acres, and will feature 121 independent living units, 39 assisted living units and 23 memory care units. Waltonwood Lake Boone is Singh’s second seniors housing project in the Raleigh area and is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2018. As of this month, the construction crews are completing framing in the assisted living area, and framing is completed in the independent living portion of the facility.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bank of America has renewed its 194,000-square-foot office lease at 525 North Tryon, a 19-story office building in Uptown Charlotte. Charles Jonas and Meredith Ball of Foundry Commercial represented the building’s owners, Grubb Properties and New York Life, in the lease deal. JLL represented Bank of America, according to Charlotte Business Journal. Grubb Properties and New York Life have enhanced existing amenities at 525 North Tryon and added new ones, including a fitness center known as Club 525, bike storage room, free electric car shuttle, conferencing center and an electric car charging station. The owners are also in the final stages of securing LEED Silver certification at the building, which has already earned the EPA’s Energy Star designation.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pollack Shores Real Estate Group plans to develop a 350-unit apartment community at 327 and 349 Tremont Ave. in Charlotte’s South End district. Design is currently underway on the project, which is located within walking distance of Atherton Mill. The residential units will feature stone countertops and stainless steel appliances, and the community amenities will include a pool courtyard, clubroom, sky lounge, two courtyards with outdoor kitchen amenities and a dog park. The community will also feature 2,500 square feet of street-level retail space and “Live Work Units” fronting Tremont Avenue. Pollack Shores expects to deliver the unnamed project in late 2018.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trinity Capital Advisors has purchased 1001 Bond St., a two-building industrial property totaling 404,351 square feet in Charlotte’s Northwest industrial submarket. Trinity Capital acquired the property in a joint venture with SilverCap Partners for an undisclosed price. Both buildings are fully leased to Camber Ridge, a tire characterization research and development company. The properties are situated off of I-85 and feature direct access to I-485, I-77 and Charlotte Douglas International Airport via NC Highway 16.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Reger Holdings has purchased a 222,596-square-foot industrial building located at 1000 Exchange St. in Charlotte. The western New York-based investment firm plans to convert the freezer/cooler building into a dry warehouse property. The building is rail-served by CSX and features outdoor storage capabilities. Rob Speir and Don Moss of Colliers International’s Charlotte office brokered the transaction and will be retained as the property’s leasing agents. Reger Holdings owns more than 4 million square feet of industrial real estate space in the Carolinas. The sale price and seller were not released.

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