CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bluerock Residential Growth REIT Inc. (BRG) has acquired a newly constructed apartment community in Charlotte’s South End neighborhood known as the Park & Kingston Apartments. BRG purchased the 168-unit asset in a joint venture with Bluerock Special Opportunity + Income Fund III LLC for roughly $30.7 million. BRG funded the acquisition with $6.3 million in equity and a five-year, $15.3 million Fannie Mae loan that features a fixed interest rate of 3.21 percent and five years of interest-only payments. Park & Kingston’s amenity package includes a rooftop terrace with uptown skyline views, internet cafes, coffee bars, private courtyards, pool and sundeck, outdoor fireplaces, dining and grilling stations, controlled access covered parking and a fitness studio. The seller was Park Kingston Investors LLC.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Piedmont Properties/CORFAC International has brokered the $4 million sale of an 80,000-square-foot industrial property located at 10210 Pineville Road in Charlotte. The purchase also included 10 acres of land. Jim Plyler of Piedmont/CORFAC and Xan Law of Investment Partners of Charlotte Ltd. represented the seller, Ellison Co. Inc., in the transaction. Plyler and Law also procured the buyer, TT of HY Pineville LLC.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Camden Property Trust has opened Camden Southline, an upscale apartment community located at 2300 South Blvd. in Charlotte’s South End neighborhood. The apartment community offers studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments with amenities like a saltwater pool, on-site fitness center with virtual trainer and yoga zone, high-speed internet and Wi-Fi, cable through AT&T U-Verse and full-size washer and dryers. Camden Southline is also pet-friendly and features a Paw Spa and an unleashed dog park. The property is one of 10 Camden communities in the Charlotte metro area.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trinity Partners has brokered the $8.5 million sale of Three South Executive Park, a 54,000-square-foot office building located at 6115 Park South Drive in Charlotte’s SouthPark submarket. Chicago-based Origin Capital Partners purchased the property from an unnamed private partnership. The office building was 86 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Signature Healthcare, Carolinas ACG and Wyndham Capital Mortgage. This is Origin Capital’s second acquisition in Charlotte — the company purchased Cambridge Corporate Center in August 2014. Dunn Mileham of Trinity Partners represented the seller in the transaction.
COLUMBIA, S.C. AND HIGH POINT, N.C. — Capital One Multifamily Finance has closed a total of $39.5 million in agency loans for the acquisition of two apartment communities in the Carolinas. Chad Thomas Hagwood of Capital One originated both agency loans on behalf of the borrowers, affiliates of EBSCO Income Properties. The loans included a $20.5 million Freddie Mac loan for EBSCO’s acquisition of Polo Village, a 312-unit apartment community in Columbia, and a $19 million Fannie Mae loan for the acquisition of Highbrook Apartments, a 312-unit Class B apartment community in High Point. Watson Bryant of Multi Housing Advisors’ Charlotte office brokered the sale of both communities.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-based Crosland Southeast and Childress Klein have inked a lease agreement with Novant Health to serve as the medical office anchor of Waverly, a master-planned, mixed-use development that will be located at Providence and Ardrey Kell roads in south Charlotte. Upon its completion in 2016, Waverly will feature a 40,000-square-foot Whole Foods, Novanta Pizzeria Napoletana, Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt, Modern Salon & Spa, Polished Nail Bar and Quail Dry Cleaners. Gwen Glaeser and Tommy Trimble of CNL Commercial Real Estate represented the developers in the lease transactions. Novant Health will occupy roughly 23,000 square feet of space in Waverly’s first 33,000-square-foot building, which is slated to open this fall. The medical office space will include an urgent care, family healthcare services and physical therapy. Mike Wiles of NAI Southern Real Estate represented Novant in the lease transaction, and the owners were represented internally by James Downs, partner of Crosland Southeast, and Paul DeVine of Childress Klein. Travis Hart of Childress Klein is working on pre-leasing the remaining medical office space.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Eller Capital Partners has acquired Colonial Arms Apartments located at 612 Hillsborough St. in Chapel Hill for $3.6 million. Eller Capital will rebrand the asset as 612 Hillsborough. The apartment community is within walking distance to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus and downtown Chapel Hill. 612 Hillsborough is Eller Capital’s fourth acquisition in the Chapel Hill area in the past 16 months, with the other three properties being The Apartments at Midtown 501, 86 North Apartments and Timber Hollow Apartments.
RALEIGH, N.C. — CBRE | Raleigh has brokered the sale of the ECPI Building, a Class A office building located at 4101 Doie Cope Road in Raleigh. Constructed in 2001, the 51,903-square-foot property is fully leased with ECPI University occupying 42,637 square feet through February 2026. The buyer, Family Video, purchased the office building for an undisclosed price. Ben Kilgore of CBRE | Raleigh represented the seller, Robinson Development Group, in the transaction.
VANCOUVER — Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust (PIRET), an industrial REIT based in Vancouver, has purchased a 51 percent interest in the $57 million acquisition of three industrial assets in North Carolina. The three bulk distribution/warehouse facilities are located in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem markets and total roughly 1.3 million square feet. The assets are 100 percent leased to three tenants. The properties are located at 6104 and 6105 Corporate Park Drive in Greensborough and 3928 Westpoint Blvd. in Winston-Salem. The acquisition was funded with a $29 million bridge loan facility and $14.1 million that PIRET provided from existing working capital for its share of the balance of the purchase price. After completing the acquisition, PIRET’s portfolio of assets under management will total 177 properties spanning 17.5 million square feet.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Atlanta-based TWO Capital Partners and its capital advisor Patterson Real Estate Advisory Group have begun construction on Capital Creek, a 214-unit multifamily community in Raleigh’s North Wake submarket. The property will be part of the 2,000-acre Heritage master-planned development, which upon completion will feature a golf course, three public schools, a private school, a charter school, multifamily housing an multiple office and retail facilities. Patterson arranged construction financing through RBS Citizens for Capital Creek. TWO Capital Partners expects construction to last roughly 16 months with lease-up starting in early 2016.