CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Multi Housing Advisors (MHA) has brokered the sales of two apartment communities in separate transactions totaling $39.9 million. Marc Robinson, Jordan McCarley and Watson Bryant of MHA’s Charlotte office represented the sellers in both transactions. The deals included Meridia selling the 202-unit Tryon Park at Rivergate to White Point Partners and Wellington United selling the 254-unit Wellington Farms to JEM Holdings.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — EDENS, a shopping center owner, developer and operator based in Columbia, S.C., has purchased Myers Park Center in Charlotte for an undisclosed price. The 75,075-square-foot shopping center is anchored by a two-story Harris Teeter and is located in Charlotte’s affluent Myers Park neighborhood. EDENS owns other shopping centers in Charlotte, including Park Road Shopping Center, Atherton Mill and Kenilworth Commons.
RALEIGH, N.C. — CBRE|Raleigh has brokered the sale of Grove Towers, a three-building, 115,413-square-foot office campus in Raleigh. The office park is located at 1001, 1100 and 1110 Navaho Drive in the Six Forks/Falls of Neuse office submarket. Nearby attractions include retail destination North Hills, downtown Raleigh, neighborhoods inside the beltline and Duke Raleigh Hospital. The buyers, Iron Point Partners and Hobbs Properties, purchased the office campus from GT Company LP for an undisclosed amount. Ben Kilgore, Jeff Glenn and Jim McMillan of CBRE|Raleigh represented the seller in the transaction.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Piedmont Properties/CORFAC International has arranged NoDa Brewing Co.’s 15-year lease at 2921 N. Tryon St. in Charlotte. In the fall, NoDa Brewing will occupy the 33,000-square-foot industrial building, which triples its current 11,000-square-foot footprint at 2229 N. Davidson St. The future facility will have office space, production space and a tap room that is open to the public. Frank McCleneghan of Piedmont Properties/CORFAC represented NoDa Brewing in the lease transaction. The landlord, Hop, Drop and Loco LLC, recently purchased the facility from Ray Roofing for approximately $1.4 million. The property was constructed in the 1920s as a vinegar manufacturing plant for Speas Vinegar. There are plans in place to designate the facility as an historic property.
ROCK HILL, S.C. AND GASTONIA, N.C. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged two refinance loans totaling $34.8 million for two multifamily properties in the Carolinas. The assets include the 436-unit Brentwood Chase Apartments at 1654 Lowell Bethesda Road in Gastonia and the 248-unit Cowan Farms at 1310 Cypress Point Drive in Rock Hill. Bill Matone of NorthMarq Capital’s Charlotte office arranged both loans with 10-year terms and 30-year amortization schedules. Brentwood Chase’s loan amount was $21.8 million and Cowan Farms’ was $13 million.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Co-owners Grubb Properties and New York Life Real Estate Investors have signed Frontier Capital, a growth equity firm based in North Carolina, to a long-term lease for the top floor of 525 North Tryon Street, a 19-story office building in Uptown Charlotte. Frontier will use the 12,600-square-foot space as its new headquarters beginning in September. Andy Horsey of Cresa Charlotte represented Frontier Capital in the lease transaction. Jonathan Nance of Grubb Properties, along with Meredith Ball and Mark Holoman of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, represented the ownership group.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Sanders Trust (TST) has purchased a 24,000-square-foot medical office building located at 20 Medical Park Drive in Asheville for $11.6 million. Originally built in 2005, the property was fully leased at the time of sale. TST purchased the asset in a joint venture with its capital partner Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC. An affiliate of 21st Century Oncology is the primary tenant at 20 Medical Park Drive.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Adler Kawa Real Estate Advisors (AKREA) has purchased Shopton Ridge Business Park, a 422,400-square-foot office and industrial park in southwest Charlotte. The park was 90.8 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as PinPoint, Scent Air, Cardinal Health, Linde Gas and Rent-A-Center, among others. AKREA purchased the property for an undisclosed price through the Adler Kawa Real Estate Fund II. AKREA has tapped Bill Wood of Trinity Partners to lease the asset. Patrick Gildea, Anne Johnson and Bryan Crutcher of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Charles Foschini and Christopher Apone of CBRE’s Miami office arranged acquisition financing on behalf of AKREA.
CARY, N.C. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged the $4.2 million refinance of Lochmere Pavilion, a 32,236-square-foot retail property located at 2425 Kildaire Farm Road in Cary, part of the Raleigh-Durham metro area. David Vinson and Mark Dodson of NorthMarq Capital’s Raleigh and Los Angeles offices, respectively, arranged the financing through a local North Carolina bank on behalf of the borrower, a California-based entity.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Crescent Communities has broken ground on Air Park West Three, a 209,000-square-foot industrial building in the AirPark West industrial facility in northwest Charlotte. Merriman Schmitt Architects designed the property to achieve LEED certification and feature 32-foot clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system, 60 mil TPO roof, 46 insulated overhead doors and two drive-in doors. The Class A front-loading building will be 200 feet deep. General contractor Myers & Chapman expects to complete the facility in September. AirPark West is located at I-85 and Sam Wilson Road and offers close proximity to I-485, Charlotte Douglas International Airport and the Charlotte Regional Intermodal Facility. The park features two fully leased industrial buildings, also developed by Crescent, that total 276,000 square feet.
