North Carolina

McConnell

GREENSBORO, N.C. — McConnell Center Two LLC, a joint venture between Goria Properties and Richardson Properties, will soon begin construction on a new 300,000-square-foot speculative industrial building in McConnell Center Industrial Park. This will be the third speculative industrial property in the park, which is located off I-40 near McConnell Road in Greensboro. The joint venture has selected Triad Commercial Properties to lease the asset. General contractor Windsor Commercial is expected to complete shell construction in July 2015.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Inland Private Capital Corp. has sold BB&T headquarters, a 240,000-square-foot, 20-story office tower located in Winston-Salem, for approximately $25 million. Inland facilitated the sale of the property on behalf of one of its 1031 investment programs through a subsidiary, which serves as Inland’s asset manager.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Grubb Properties has partnered with New York Life Real Estate Investors to acquire a 19-story office building in Uptown Charlotte. The partnership purchased the 405,000-square-foot office tower located at 525 N. Tryon St. from Parkway Properties Inc. for an undisclosed price. The office tower is located adjacent to the new SkyHouse apartment tower that Grubb is developing with Novare Group and Batson-Cook Development Co. The office building features a conference center, café, on-site management, 24-hour security surveillance and a vacant restaurant site.

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Lexington Farms

RALEIGH, N.C. — ARA has brokered the sale of Lexington Farms, a 188-unit garden-style apartment community in northwest Raleigh. The property is situated between Rex Healthcare and Crabtree Valley Mall near I-440. Sean Wood, Blake Okland, Dean Smith and John Heimburger of ARA represented the seller, Church Street Partners LLC, a private real estate investment firm based in Raleigh. The buyer, Chicago-based Redwood Capital Group LLC, purchased Lexington Farms for an undisclosed price. The apartment community was 96 percent occupied at the time of sale and 70 percent of the unit interiors were recently renovated. Redwood Capital plans to invest $800,000 to continue the renovations.

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MONROE, N.C. — Time Equities Inc. (TEI) has purchased Monroe Crossing Shopping Center, a 379,630-square-foot shopping center located at 2107-2133 W. Roosevelt Blvd. in Monroe, 25 miles southeast of Charlotte. The property’s tenant roster includes Belk’s flagship store, JC Penney, Sears, Hibbett Sports, Shoe Carnival, Buffalo Wild Wings and Planet Fitness. Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer represented the seller, Madison Marquette, in the transaction. TEI was represented internally by Ami Ziff and Jonathan Kim.

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Foxfire

DURHAM, N.C. — Capstone Apartment Partners has brokered the $14.8 million sale of Foxfire Apartments, a 354-unit multifamily community in Durham. Built in 1973, the asset was 93 percent occupied at the time of sale. Andrew Klenk and John Ackiss of Capstone’s Raleigh-Durham office, along with Brian Ford and Beau McIntosh of the firm’s Charlotte office, represented the seller, VTT Management Inc., in the transaction. The buyer, Lexerd Capital Management, purchased the property for roughly $41,667 per unit.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Insite Properties has brokered the sale of a 37,000-square-foot office building located at 5811 Glenwood Ave. in Raleigh. Built in 2000, the three-story office building was fully occupied by three tenants at the time of sale. Ben Kilgore and Jeff Glenn of CBRE | Raleigh, along with Ashton Williamson of CBRE | Hampton Roads, represented the seller, EOR-5811 Glenwood Avenue LLC. Insite Properties represented the buyer, an unnamed investment brokerage client, in the transaction.

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Wake Forest

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center plans to break ground on a new medical education facility for the Wake Forest School of Medicine. The $50 million project will be located in the former 60 series R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. complex in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, an urban research and business park in Winston-Salem specializing in biotechnology, materials science and information technology. The 168,000-square-foot property is scheduled to open in July 2016. The building will be developed in partnership with Wake Forest Baptist’s Innovation Quarter partner, Wexford Science + Technology LLC, a BioMed Realty Company.

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Monore Corporate Center

MONROE, N.C. — JLL has brokered the sale of Monroe Corporate Center, a 102,000-square-foot property located at 4275 Corporate Center Drive in Monroe, about 24 miles southeast of Charlotte. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. purchased the facility for an undisclosed amount. The company plans to invest more than $15 million in the next five years to develop three separate pharmaceutical manufacturing units at the site. Glenmark expects to begin manufacturing oral solids at the location by mid-2015. John Buckley, Shawn Straka, John Cashion and Matt Treble of JLL represented Glenmark in the transaction. The seller, the city of Monroe, was represented in-house.

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Governours Square

WILMINGTON, N.C. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged $11.9 million in acquisition financing for Governours Square, a 219-unit apartment community in Wilmington. Todd Crouse of NorthMarq Capital’s Raleigh office arranged the 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through a Fannie Mae DUS lender on behalf of the unnamed borrower.

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