WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $7.5 million acquisition loan for Sedgefield Apartments, a 144-unit apartment community located at 4755 Country Club Road in Winston-Salem. Wanda Riggs Mack of NorthMarq’s Atlanta office arranged the seven-year loan with five years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. NorthMarq arranged the loan through its Fannie Mae DUS program on behalf of the borrower, Arcan Capital, which will own and manage Sedgefield Apartments.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Avison Young has arranged a nearly 100,000-square-foot industrial lease within Westlake Business Park in Charlotte. Printful, a Los Angeles-based print-on-demand e-commerce retailer, will occupy the entire building located at 11025 Westlake Drive, which will serve as the home of the company’s East Coast operations. Christopher Skibinski and Alex Spears of Avison Young’s Charlotte office represented Printful in the lease deal. Warren Snowden and David Hanna of Foundry Commercial represented the landlord.
HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. — Duke Realty has begun construction on a 45,000-square-foot expansion of the UNC REX Healthcare campus in Holly Springs. Located at 617 Avent Ferry Road, the new three-story structure will be attached to an existing 30,370-square-foot medical office building via a three-story glass atrium. Duke Realty will develop, finance, own and manage the new space, which will be fully leased to UNC REX, a Raleigh-based healthcare system. The design team includes architect BSA LifeStructures and general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie. Duke Realty plans to deliver the new medical office building in December 2017. UNC REX also plans to build a new 50-bed community hospital on the Holly Springs campus beginning next year.
GASTONIA, N.C. — Harris Teeter has opened a new 53,000-square-foot store at the Kendrick Crossing shopping center located at the intersection of Robinwood and Kendrick roads in Gastonia, roughly 22 miles west of Charlotte. The store will be open 24 hours and will feature a Starbucks, salad bar and drive-thru pharmacy. Harris Teeter is the first tenant to open at Kendrick Crossing, and other retailers opening soon include Hungry Howie’s Pizza, UPS Store, Great Clips and Lucky Nails. The development team for Kendrick Crossing includes developer MPV Properties, general contractor Cummings and architect ai Design.
The Raleigh-Durham office market has not only recovered from the Great Recession, it is solidly in expansion mode, and tenants are facing market conditions not witnessed in 15 years. The current cycle has been marked by a prolonged period of limited development activity. While job growth in the local market has been rebounding for more than five years, the construction pipeline has only recently filled in a meaningful way, and a large portion of the development activity in 2014 and early 2015 was driven by build-to-suits. With Class A vacancy now at a 15-year low, speculative development is heating up again. While projects totaling 1.4 million square feet were underway in the first quarter, most of this product will not be delivered until 2017 or later, and approximately half of the space has already been spoken for. In the near term, the market heavily favors landlords. The Triangle office market began 2016 with strong activity as tenants absorbed 453,997 square feet, driving vacancy down by 40 basis points to 12.1 percent. This figure is down by 180 basis points on a year-over-year basis and has fallen from a cyclical high of 18.7 percent. Class A vacancy ended the first quarter …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Inland Real Estate Acquisitions Inc. has facilitated the purchase of Vanguard Northlake, a newly built, 204-unit apartment community located at 11010 Northlake Landing in Charlotte. Matthew Tice of Inland Real Estate Acquisitions facilitated the transaction on behalf of an Inland affiliate. According to the Charlotte Business Journal, an affiliate of Covington Realty Partners sold the asset to Inland for $31.7 million. Vanguard Northlake’s unit interiors include granite countertops, 9-foot ceilings, walk-in closets, TVs built into the master bathroom mirrors, washer and dryer units and private balconies or patios. Community amenities include an outdoor saltwater pool, fitness center, outdoor grilling kitchen, fireside lounge, sundeck with cabanas, dog park, bicycle storage and a business center. The property was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Crosland Southeast and Childress Klein have purchased an 8.5-acre site on Providence Road in south Charlotte from Crescent Communities. The joint venture plans to develop several single-tenant and multi-tenant retail buildings on the site. The site is adjacent to the planned Crescent Providence Farm apartment development and in close proximity to Waverly, a master-planned project that Crosland Southeast and Childress Klein are co-developing. Crosland Southeast and Childress Klein are partnering with the Matthews family on the project.
RALEIGH, N.C. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Charter Square, a 243,106-square-foot, Class A office tower located at 555 Fayetteville St. in downtown Raleigh. Highwoods Properties Inc. purchased the building from the seller, a joint venture between Dominion Realty Partners and a global real estate investment manager. The sales price was undisclosed, but the Triangle Business Journal reports that Highwoods plans to invest $83.5 million in the acquisition, including $5.1 million in capital improvements. The office building opened in June 2015 and was certified LEED Platinum earlier this year. The office building was 70 percent leased at the time of sale to 14 tenants, including three ground-floor restaurants: b.good, Living Kitchen and The Haymaker.
HIGH POINT, N.C. — BC Wood Properties, owner of Southwood Square Shopping Center in High Point, plans to remerchandise the center’s former Kmart store with retailers including Planet Fitness, Roses and dd’s Discounts. The new tenants will open their stores by spring 2017. BC Wood purchased Southwood Square in 2013 with the intent to renovate the center when Kmart vacated its 104,000-square-foot space. Southwood Square is located on the corner of South Main Street and West Fairfield Road and is leased to tenants including Dollar Tree, Save-A-Lot, Jackson Hewitt, Nationwide Insurance and Shoe Show.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Dominion Realty Partners and Prudential Global Investment Management plan to develop Wade IV, a new 103,000-square-foot office building within Wade Office Park in Raleigh. The new four-story asset will be Dominion’s 27th project in the Triangle region. Designed to achieve LEED Gold certification, Wade IV will feature a glass, brick, pre‐cast and metal skin exterior, as well as green features and amenities. Dominion Realty will serve as both the developer and on-site property management team for Wade IV, and Regions Bank will provide construction financing for the project. Other key team members include architect Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio, general contractor Choate Construction, civil engineer Piedmont Land Design and leasing agent Avison Young. Choate will break ground on the asset this week for an expected delivery in late summer 2017.