SPARTANBURG, S.C. — NAI Earle Furman has brokered the $8.8 million sale of two apartment communities totaling 166 units in Spartanburg. The assets include the 74-unit Georgetown Village located at 1421 John B White Sr. Blvd. and the 92-unit Timberlane Apartments located at 106 Kensington Drive. Cedar Grove SC LLC purchased both assets from Georgetown Holdings LLC. Tony Bonitati, Kay Hill and Bern DuPree of NAI Earle Furman represented the seller in the transaction. Both Georgetown Village and Timberlane Apartments were fully occupied at the time of sale.
ORLANDO, FLA. — UFC Gym has leased 12,000 square feet of space at Westland Terrace Shopping Center on West Colonial Drive in Orlando. The gym will be situated within the space formerly leased to Petco. Nick Barbato and Eric Portnoy of Equity Investment Services represented the landlord, ESJ Capital Partners, in the lease deal.
ATLANTA — United Parcel Service (UPS) has unveiled plans for a new 1.5 million square-foot distribution center in Atlanta. California-based Majestic Realty Co. will develop the project on a 250-acre industrial site west of the city’s downtown. The facility will be the largest in the UPS global network and will process 100,000 packages per hour. Development costs will total $400 million. The site’s location near Fulton County Airport-Brown Field, otherwise known as Charlie Brown Airport, offers easy access from I-285, I-20 and Fulton Industrial Boulevard. Majestic Realty will also provide additional infrastructure for the airport, including up to 20 new hangars and a new $1.1 million operations center. UPS expects the facility to be fully operational on Nov. 1, 2017. Majestic Realty, InvestAtlanta, the City of Atlanta, the State of Georgia, Fulton County and UPS make up the public/private partnership. Majestic Realty recently completed a five-year entitlement process for Fulton County Airport, and signed a 50-year ground lease with Fulton County. Majestic Realty is the largest privately held developer and owner of master-planned business parks in the United States. — Kristin Hiller
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Boston-based AEW Capital Management has purchased Carnegie VII and Carnegie Ten, two office buildings located at 5955 and 5605 Carnegie Blvd. in Charlotte’s Southpark office submarket, for $40.2 million. Patrick Gildea, Will Yowell and Jay O’Meara of CBRE represented the sellers, Carnegie Ten LLC, owned by Community Investments Foundation, a supporting organization of Foundation For The Carolinas; and Carnegie VII LLC, in the transaction. The sellers are subsidiaries of Bissell Cos., which developed and managed Carnegie VII and Carnegie Ten. The office properties’ anchor tenants include Citizens Bank, Enpro Industries and Humana Insurance.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. — Emma Capital Investments Inc. has purchased 3400 Club Apartments, a 300-unit, garden-style apartment community located at 3400 Club Lake Parkway in Lawrenceville, a northeast suburb of Atlanta in Gwinnett County. Emma Capital acquired the asset for $25.7 million. Built in 1984, 3400 Club features six different floor plans averaging 1,140 square feet. Community amenities include a swimming pool and tennis court. Emma Capital plans to renovate the interiors of a majority of the units, as well as expand tenant amenities with features such as outdoor fitness equipment and enhancements to the clubhouse. This is Emma Capital’s 19th purchase in the United States and brings Emma Capital’s total acquisitions to date to more than $300 million and over 4,500 apartment units.
DURHAM, N.C. — Gemini Rosemont LLC, a Santa Fe, N.M.-based office real estate investment firm, has purchased SouthCourt, a six-story office building in Durham. The sales price was undisclosed, but the Triangle Business Journal reports that Gemini Rosemont acquired the 131,976-square-foot building for $17.5 million. Torchlight Investors sold the property, which is anchored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina’s headquarters. SouthCourt features ground-floor retail space, a fitness center and a salon, and the property is within walking distance of The Fresh Market, Starbucks Coffee, Super Target and Mi Peru. Scot Humphrey and Ryan Clutter of HFF brokered the transaction. Trinity Partners, under the direction of Gemini Rosemont’s Tine Renee McCall, will handle leasing responsibilities and property management services at SouthCourt.
ARLINGTON, TENN. — The Memphis office of Financial Federal Bank has arranged a $16.1 million permanent loan for Hall Creek Apartments, a newly built garden-style multifamily community in Arlington, a suburb of Memphis. Constructed in 2015 and 2016 by the Memphis-based borrower, Hall Creek features 164 units with community amenities including a parking garage, resort-style swimming pool, pool deck with private cabanas, grilling area and a fitness center. Rick Wood and Jon Van Hoozer of Financial Federal arranged the 20-year loan with a fixed 3.87 percent interest rate and a 30-year amortization schedule through an unnamed national life insurance company.
WESTON, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Weston Commerce Park, a 134,400-square-foot warehouse and distribution building located at 1951 N. Commerce Parkway in Weston. The sales price was undisclosed, but Broward County records show the asset sold for $14.3 million. Mike Davis, Rick Brugge, Michael Lerner and Christopher Metzger of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Founders Properties, in the transaction. The buyer was EastGroup Properties. Situated on an eight-acre parcel, the rear-load Weston Commerce Park features 30-foot clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system, T5 lighting, 40- by 40-foot column spacing and a 118-foot truck court.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Concord Hospitality Enterprises Co. plans to open a new hotel under the Marriott Autograph Collection brand at the former City Hall site in West Palm Beach. The 200-room hotel will anchor the $135 million redevelopment of the three-acre site. Navarro Lowrey Properties is the master developer of the redevelopment, which will include 27,000 square feet of retail space, up to 7,000 square feet of restaurant and outdoor dining space, 255 multifamily residences and a public park. The new hotel will overlook the Intracoastal Waterway and Palm Beach and offer views of the Atlantic Ocean. Concord Hospitality plans to break ground on the hotel in 2017.
BATON ROUGE, LA. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has brokered the $11.5 million sale of Oakwood Village, a 77-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Baton Rouge. Blueprint represented the seller, a regional owner-operator divesting its only seniors housing asset. The buyer was a subsidiary of Florida-based specialty insurer Fortegra Financial Corp., an affiliate of Tiptree Financial Inc. New York City-based Care Investment Trust LLC will serve as asset manager of Oakwood Village, and Traditions Senior Management of Clearwater, Fla., will provide management services. Jacob Gehl was the lead Blueprint advisor on the transaction, supported by Michael Segal. Clint Parker and Jeremy Joiner from Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. Real Estate Partners assisted in the transaction.