ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Greystone has provided a $16 million HUD construction loan for White Oak Grove Apartments, a 113-unit apartment complex in Asheville. The borrower and developer is White Oak Grove Associates. The loan provides 85 percent of the project costs and carries a fixed interest rate during the construction period, followed by a 40-year term with amortization. HUD’s 221(d)(4) loan product enables construction or substantial rehabilitation of multifamily projects with long-term, fixed, low-rate financing. The community also will be built to comply with HUD’s Energy Star requirement to achieve a Green Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) reduction. The community will consist of 10 garden-style walk-up buildings, with 12 one-bedroom units averaging 743 square feet and 101 two-bedroom units averaging 1,138 square feet. Community amenities will include a fitness room, community room, business center, dog park, picnic areas and green space throughout. The project is planned for completion in 2020.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Cambridge Village Optimal Living has broken ground on The Cambridge at Brier Creek, a 205-unit active adult community in Raleigh. A sales office is scheduled to open in March 2020 in advance of a planned opening in late summer 2021. Phase I of the project is located on 6.4 acres of the 12.5-acre site, and will include the community’s publicly available wellness center, Cambridge Fitness. The property is five miles from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport and will be located across the street from WakeMed’s Brier Creek Emergency Care Unit. The developer plans to partner with WakeMed to provide physical, occupational and speech therapy at the community.
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Fallon Company, a Boston-based developer specializing in urban mixed-use projects, has unveiled plans for Raleigh Crossing, a new development spanning 1.8 acres in the state capital. Named for its location at the convergence of four city districts, Raleigh Crossing will feature four distinct uses. Preliminary plans call for 280,000 square feet of Class A office space, 18,000 square feet of retail space, a 165-room hotel and a 135-unit apartment community. The project will also include an outdoor amenity terrace with space for communal events. Sidewalks will also be expanded to accommodate a heavier volume of foot traffic. Fallon expects to break ground in September on Phase I of the project, which will deliver a commercial tower at 301 Hillsborough St. That building will house the 280,000 square feet of office space, as well as 12,500 square feet of retail space and a fitness center. The hotel and residential components, as well as the remaining 7,000 square feet of retail space, will comprise Phase II. Duda | Paine Architects is designing the project. CBRE is handling preleasing of the retail space, which is underway. Pendo, a provider of cloud and software solutions, plans to relocate its corporate …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — TerraCap Management LLC has acquired Resource Square I, II and V for $59.3 million. The three properties are located within the Resource Square office campus and total 337,611 square feet. The property is located near Interstates 85, 77 and 485, as well as Charlotte’s LYNX Light Rail Blue Line. Patrick Gildea of CBRE represented the seller, The Dilweg Cos., in the transaction. IberiaBank provided TerraCap with an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for the deal.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Canopy will break ground on an adaptive reuse project in Charlotte’s NoDa (North of Davidson) neighborhood. The project, known as Indigo CLT, will be located at 4000 Raleigh St. and will comprise 60,000 square feet of industrial space, 40,000 square feet of office space and 20,000 square feet of retail space. Situated along Charlotte’s LYNX Blue Line, the existing building on the site was built in 1954 as the former home to a mill company. Redevelopment plans for Indigo CLT will highlight the existing original architectural features, including its 18-foot ceilings, exposed brick and numerous skylights. The redevelopment plans also include a boutique apartment community adjacent to the existing building. Canopy and The Nichols Co. plan to target complementary retail tenants to support Indigo CLT’s live-work-play dynamic, such as a coffee shop/juice bar, second-generation brewery, bodega and fitness concept. Charlotte-based Canopy expects the project to deliver in spring 2020.
The momentum of the Charlotte office market continued in the first quarter of 2019, as office rents rose for an eighth consecutive quarter and the city notched a major economic development win with the announcement that BB&T and SunTrust would merge, creating a new bank that will be headquartered in Charlotte. The news came on the heels of announcements late last year that Honeywell plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to the city and that LendingTree would expand its headquarters, creating 436 jobs over five years. The city’s economic strength has been fueled by a growing labor market that was led by the tech sector in 2018. Last fall, CompTIA’s 2018 Tech Town Index found that Charlotte is the No. 1 city for information technology workers when it comes to job opportunity and cost of living. At the time of the report, more than 44,000 IT jobs had been posted in Charlotte over the previous 12 months. That number is projected to grow by 11 percent over the next five years as Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and Ally Financial look to fill IT jobs at all levels. Office rental rates in Charlotte increased by 6.5 percent …
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $71.5 million sale of The District, a 309-unit multifamily complex in Asheville. The property is located at 100 District Drive, three miles south of downtown Asheville. The District offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans ranging from $1,248 to $2,700. Communal amenities include a 2,300-square-foot clubhouse with a fitness center, game room, lounge, business center and cyber café, heated saltwater pool, fenced dog park, picnic area with six grills and a car care center. Jordan McCarley, Marc Robinson and Watson Bryant of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Flournoy Development, in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CBRE has provided a $39.7 million Freddie Mac acquisition loan for Arbor Steele Creek, a 384-unit apartment community in southwest Charlotte. The borrower, a joint venture between Charleston, S.C.-based Blaze Partners and Acre Valley Real Estate Capital, plans to continue interior and exterior renovations. The previous owner, a joint venture between Blaze Partners and True North Management Group, acquired the property in 2017 and began renovations. The complex comprises 16 three-story buildings. Communal amenities include a swimming pool, fitness center, business center, picnic areas with grilling stations, pet park, playground and a clubhouse.
Charlotte has been in expansion mode for several years, due to population growth, excellent logistics infrastructure, low operating costs and low unionization rates. At the mid-point of 2019, the market continues to expand at a healthy rate and is growing outward into Cabarrus, York and Gaston counties. This expansion follows a strong 12-month period ending first-quarter 2019 when nearly 6 million square feet of new product was delivered. Now encompassing 322 million square feet of space, Charlotte is the second largest industrial market in the Southeast. Charlotte’s accessible location and low cost of doing business is attracting many e-commerce and logistics providers, as well as more traditional industrial businesses looking to expand or realign their space requirements. One common theme is consolidation of business units, which has been a significant benefit to the Charlotte market. Among the examples are J.J. Haines & Co. consolidating its Carolina warehousing operations from several Carolinas locations into a 500,000-square-foot distribution center in Cabarrus County and Staples consolidating from multiple Charlotte facilities into a 600,000-square-foot logistics center in south Charlotte. Driven by available land and access to key transportation routes, a look at the market’s growth patterns shows that development and leasing are extending up …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Beacon Partners is set to break ground this month on The Square at South End, which will include a 10-story building that will feature 150,000 square feet of office space and 8,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The project will also include a multifamily building that will be connected by an outdoor plaza. Construction is expected to be complete by the end of 2020. Amenities at the office building will include outdoor decks on multiple floors, a 2,400-square-foot coffee bar for tenants and guests, two-story fitness center, outdoor wellness area and a 2,500-square-foot patio overlooking Uptown Charlotte. As part of the project, Beacon will partner with Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation to develop Wilmore Centennial Park, a 1.5-acre park located at the intersection of South Tryon and Kingston streets. Centro Cityworks will develop the multifamily portion of The Square at South End. The design teams for the office portion includes Axion as the architect, Edifice as the general contractor and LandDesign as the civil engineer. Kristy Venning and Erin Shaw of Beacon Partners will handle leasing. Sauceman’s, a local barbecue restaurant, plans to relocate to a new, larger space next to Sugar Creek Brewery.