BARDSTOWN, MANCHESTER AND ELKHORN CITY, KY. — Strawberry Fields REIT has acquired three skilled nursing facilities in Kentucky for $21 million. Landmark Group will operate the properties, which total 312 beds. Average occupancy in the portfolio is 73 percent, of which 21 percent are Medicare residents, 60 percent are Medicaid and 19 percent are private-pay and insurance. The acquired communities include Landmark of Bardstown Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Bardstown (100 beds); Landmark of Laurel Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Manchester (106 beds); and Landmark of Elkhorn City Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Elkhorn City (106 beds). Oxford Finance LLC provided financing for the acquisition. The seller was not disclosed.
BURLINGTON, N.C. — Berkadia has arranged the $14.3 million sale of Summerlyn Place, a 140-unit garden-style apartment complex in Burlington. The property was 96 percent occupied at the time of the sale, selling for $101,768 per unit. Built in 1998, Summerlyn Place offers a car care center, tennis courts, clubhouse, swimming pool, playground and a dog park. The asset is situated about 19 miles east of downtown Greensboro. Mark Boyce, Blake Coffey, Andrew Mays and Paul Vetter of Berkadia represented the New York-based seller in the transaction. The buyer is based in New Jersey.
EASTON, MD. — KLNB Retail Investment Sales Group has arranged the $13 million sale of Easton Marketplace, a 126,650-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center in Easton. The asset is anchored by Weis supermarket and sits on 18.4 acres. Other tenants include McDonald’s, Ruby Tuesday, Pier 1 Imports, Hair O’ The Dog liquor store and Snifter’s Tasting Room. Andy Stape and Vito Lupo of KLNB represented the sellers, Mears Properties LLC and Easton Marketplace LLC, in the transaction. Rise Partners acquired the property and hired KLNB Management as property manager.
DALLAS — Colony Industrial has sold a light industrial portfolio spanning 2.3 million square feet across four states for $136 million. Nuveen Real Estate, a subsidiary of TIAA, purchased the properties. The sale includes 18 buildings in Atlanta, five in Dallas, five in Houston and six buildings spread across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. CBRE National Partners represented Dallas-based Colony Industrial in the sale. Colony Industrial is the industrial platform of Colony Capital Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), a real estate investment firm with $44 billion of assets under management. “We’ve owned and operated these assets for some time and the portfolio value had achieved Colony Industrial’s targets,” says Lew Friedland, managing director at Colony Capital and head of Colony Industrial. “We reevaluate the portfolio as opportunities arise, and this sale to Nuveen enables us to rebalance our property mix to align with our long-term strategic plans.” Nuveen is an investment manager that maintains its international headquarters in New York. — Kristin Hiller
The Raleigh-Durham region’s continued strong job growth is fueling sustained demand from tenants, keeping the office market firmly in favor of landlords despite a notable increase in construction activity in recent months. The region added 26,500 jobs between October 2017 and October 2018 for a growth rate of 3 percent. Unemployment fell from 3.8 percent to just 3.0 percent during this time, hitting its lowest level since 2000. Despite not making the final cut for massive headquarters expansions from Amazon and Apple, Raleigh-Durham experienced significant economic development wins in 2018. Major job announcements came from office-using tenants such as Advance Auto Parts (435 jobs), Pendo (590 jobs), Arch Capital Services (365 jobs), Ipreo (250 jobs) and LabCorp (422 jobs). As in many markets across the United States, co-working operators significantly increased their presence in the region in 2018. Spaces has signed leases at five Raleigh-Durham properties, and WeWork committed to two locations and has stated that it plans to triple its local footprint in the near term. In November 2018, Forbes ranked North Carolina the nation’s No. 1 state in which to do business, and Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers named Raleigh-Durham the No. 3 U.S. market in their Emerging …
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TD Bank: Construction Delays have Bolstered the Multifamily Market
It may sound counterintuitive, but Gregg Gerken, head of U.S. commercial real estate at TD Bank, believes some of the challenges the multifamily development market has faced have actually benefited the market. He specifically references labor shortages and construction delays. There were concerns in some areas that too much product might come online too fast, hampering absorption and rent growth. But the recent speedbumps have allowed the pipeline to even out a bit, staggering the delivery of new units and preventing overbuilding. Demand still outpaces supply in many markets, which has led to average vacancy rates of around 5 percent and healthy rent growth. Both developers and renters can look forward to new product delivering at a steady pace in 2019. Watch the video to hear takeaways from MBA CREF and 2019 predictions from Gerken.
BATON ROUGE, LA. — Wetlands mitigation banking has established a track record of success in restoring and preserving crucial ecosystems in many states during the past several decades, while helping smooth the way for commercial development. And as the proven system is positioned to grow and expand, it deserves to be more widely known and recognized, according to a leader in the field overseeing restoration of thousands of acres throughout the South. A mitigation bank is a site that has potential and natural attributes but may have been altered or damaged through overuse or abuse such as ditching, drainage or logging that changed the landscape. Restoring land to function as part of a healthy ecosystem as nature intended takes time and money, planning and preparation. Commercial development relies heavily on mitigation banks in states like Florida where population growth requires land and much of the land is environmentally vulnerable, laced with creeks, rivers, wetlands and woods. One of the pioneers in wetlands mitigation banking, Baton Rouge-based EcoSystem Renewal LLC, has successfully helped restore vulnerable sites throughout Florida, Louisiana and Texas, particularly along the fragile Gulf Coast. The company has a turn-key approach that oversees projects, including dealing with regulatory agencies, and takes the risk of mitigation away from …
MIAMI — Avison Young has arranged two leases totaling 184,718 square feet. within Dolphin Commerce Center in Miami. Roca Tile USA signed a 134,383-square-foot lease renewal and expansion, adding 25,745 square feet to its footprint within the business park. FastKit Corp., a custom packing and printing company, renewed its 50,335-square-foot lease. Dolphin Commerce Center spans 750,000 square feet about 15 miles west of downtown Miami and about 10 miles west of Miami International Airport.
KENNESAW, GA. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Mountain Park Estates, a 450-unit apartment community in Kennesaw, about 20 miles northwest of Atlanta. The community is situated about a mile from Kennesaw Marketplace, a 50-acre, Whole Foods-anchored mixed-use development completed in 2017. Amenities at Mountain Park Estates include a clubhouse, fitness center, swimming pool, outdoor lounge, fire pit and three lighted tennis courts. Greensboro, N.C.-based Bell Partners acquired the asset. which is located about 25 miles north of downtown Atlanta. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Houston-based development firm Morgan and JPMorgan Asset Management have opened Pearl Flagler Village, a 350-unit apartment complex in Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village neighborhood. Morgan acted as the developer and JPMorgan the financial advisers. Amenities include a media lounge, presentation kitchen, fitness center with a yoga studio, mailroom with parcel lockers, swimming pool, dog park and an AquaLounge with cabanas and fire pits. The property offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Pearl Flagler Village is situated at 400 NE 3rd Ave., less than a mile from downtown Fort Lauderdale. The property also enjoys proximity to FATCity (Flagler Arts and Technology City), a mixed-use project under construction that will include 612 residential units, 85,000 square feet of retail space, 270,000 square feet of commercial space and more than 1,300 parking spaces.