North Carolina

Six Sixteen Oberlin Raleigh

RALEIGH, N.C. — Wood Partners LLC will soon begin development on Six Sixteen, a $40 million, 207-unit luxury apartment community located at 616 Oberlin Road in Raleigh. The asset will be located on the site of a vacant office building next door to Cameron Village Shopping Center. Wood Partners’ property management division, Wood Residential Services, will manage the community. The property will begin leasing in May 2016 with completion set for November 2017. JDavis Architects designed the community to wrap around a central courtyard that will feature a swimming pool, bocce ball courts, barbecue areas and an outdoor TV-viewing lounge. Other amenities will include an indoor TV lounge, billiards lounge, poker and wine-tasting room, fitness center, bike repair/maintenance room, dog-grooming room, parking garage, rooftop clubroom/patio and indoor storage units. Jim Anthony of Colliers International brokered the land sale for the site of Six Sixteen.

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Whole Foods Market Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Crescent Communities plans to develop a new mixed-use, transit-oriented project in Uptown Charlotte that will bring the neighborhood its first Whole Foods Market. The development will feature a 47,000-square-foot Whole Foods, a 450-unit luxury apartment community, two hotels and retail space. The project will be located on a 5.4-acre site at the Lynx Light Rail’s Stonewall Station. In addition to a raised, transit-level public plaza, the new project at Stonewall and Caldwell streets will include a resident-only outdoor amenities area atop the parking deck, which will feature a resort-style pool. Crescent will break ground on the new community on Stonewall Street this year and is targeting 2017 for its opening date. Bill Moseley of Moseley Real Estate Advisors represented Whole Foods Market in the lease transaction. Lord Aeck Sargent and Preston Partnership LLC provided site planning and design services for Crescent Communities, and Land Design is the civil engineer.

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TrustAtlantic Office Raleigh Triangle

RALEIGH, N.C. — JPB Holdings LLC has acquired the 32,272-square-foot TrustAtlantic office building located at 4801 Glenwood Ave. in Raleigh for $7.3 million. The fully leased property’s anchor tenant is TrustAtlantic Bank, with other tenants including Workday Inc., Maginnis Law and Executive Suites of North Carolina. Jimmy Barnes and Whit Brown of NAI Carolantic represented JPB Holdings in the transaction. Ben Kilgore and Jeff Glenn of CBRE|Raleigh represented the seller. Built in 1973, the Class A office building was renovated in 2009 to LEED Silver standards.

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Charlotte VA Health Care Center

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — JE Dunn Construction Co. has topped off the Charlotte VA Health Care Center, a $104 million, six-story, 420,000-square-foot clinic in Charlotte. The healthcare complex, located on 35 acres near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, will be the largest leased facility of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The facility will provide outpatient primary and mental health care, as well as specialty clinics for radiology, neurology, cardiology, dialysis, women’s health, dental and oncology. In addition to JE Dunn, the project team also includes Childress Klein Properties and Cambridge Development Group, who formed Childress Klein-Cambridge Healthcare Solutions LLC to design, build and provide facility management for the project, which it owns and will lease to the VA. Charlotte-based RPA Design, the architect of record, designed the project to achieve LEED Silver certification. The clinic is scheduled for completion in spring 2016 and is estimated to produce roughly 2,000 jobs during construction and, upon completion, about 500-600 permanent jobs.

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4001 Weston Parkway Raleigh Kruger USA

RALEIGH, N.C. — Hartwell Realty Inc., a Raleigh-based boutique commercial real estate firm, has brokered the sale of a 42,010-square-foot Class A office building located at 4001 Weston Parkway in Raleigh. The office building is the headquarters of Kruger USA, the U.S. headquarters for Veolia, a municipal solutions and technologies firm for wastewater management and drinking water treatment. Kruger recently took full occupancy of the building. Brenda Compton, Jason Stegall and Matt Raiford of Hartwell Realty put together the off-market transaction.

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Berkshires on Providence Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — ARA has brokered the sale of Berkshires on Providence, a 473-unit, Class B apartment community in Charlotte. Berkshires on Providence was built in 1969 and was receiving upgrades to units as they turned over. Community amenities include two swimming pools, two tennis courts, a business center, children’s play area, clubhouse and laundry center. The property was 97 percent occupied at the time of sale. Dean Smith, Blake Okland, Sean Wood and John Heimburger of ARA represented the seller, an affiliate of Boston-based Berkshire Group, in the transaction. The buyer, Charlotte-based Levine Properties, purchased the asset for an undisclosed amount.

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The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill (Research Triangle) region has entered a period of vibrant market expansion. Overall Class A vacancy has fallen below 10 percent for the first time since the building boom of 2001, with rates as low as 2.2 percent in some of the region’s most desirable submarkets, where severe shortages have absorption extending into long-stagnant Class B product. Despite this auspicious environment for new construction, developers are still exercising substantial caution, underscoring the depth of the last downturn and its long-lasting impact on both the development and lending communities. However, recent successful Class A deliveries by REITs like Raleigh-based Highwoods Properties and Indianapolis-based Duke Realty signal a shift toward a more pronounced supply cycle, with lower pre-lease thresholds, and a Class A market that is clearly transitioning from a recovery cycle to a period of low supply. As the market picks up steam, here are three trends that we see emerging in the Raleigh-Durham office market, and the implications for the MSA going forward. The Rise of Live-Work-Play In the last decade, no trend has had a greater impact than the rise of the live-work-play model, a phrase that encapsulates many meanings, but always embodies the high value placed …

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Ambercrest Winston-Salem

GREENSBORO AND WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Greystone has provided $30.5 million in acquisition financing for four multifamily properties in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. Vincent Langan of Greystone arranged the four Fannie Mae DUS loans on behalf of the borrower, Varden Capital Properties. The loan terms for all four properties include 10-year financing with 30-year amortization schedules and one year of interest-only payments. The apartment communities comprise a total 941 units and all offer amenities such as swimming pools, fitness centers, clubhouses and tennis courts. The properties in this portfolio include: Ashland Apartments in Greensboro; The Lakes on Meadowood in Greensboro; Ambercrest Apartments in Winston-Salem; and The Hunt Club Apartments in Winston-Salem.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Ferncroft Capital has purchased Miller Crossing in Winston-Salem for $12 million. The 40,292-square-foot shopping center is anchored by Whole Foods Market. The shopping center is located near the intersection of Miller Street and Stratford Road and is adjacent to the Wake Forest Baptist Hospital campus. Berkeley Capital represented the seller in the transaction while Bank of North Carolina provided acquisition financing. Meridian Realty will continue to handle management and leasing.

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Regency Creek I Cary North Carolina

CARY, N.C. — Chambers Street Properties has completed the $16.4 million sale of Regency Creek I, a 122,087-square-foot office building located in Cary. The four-story property is located at 12040 Regency Parkway. The building is 100 percent leased and serves as the North American headquarters for ABB, a leading power and automation technology company. The buyer, Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., assumed mortgage loans of approximately $8.6 million in the transaction. This property was included in the Chambers Street’s joint venture with Duke Realty Corp. and the sales price represents Chambers Street’s 80 percent share. Ben Kilgore and Jeff Glenn of CBRE|Raleigh represented Duke Realty in the transaction.

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