Southeast

KENDALL, FLA. — Keystone Property Group has purchased Dadeland Towers South, a portfolio comprising two office buildings totaling 228,136 square feet and an on-site, 246,319-square-foot parking garage located at 9400-9500 S. Dadeland Blvd. in the Kendall submarket of Miami. Avison Young’s John Crotty and Michael Fay represented Keystone in the $36 million acquisition. Keystone simultaneously completed a 102,000-square-foot lease with the seller, AvMed Inc., a Florida-based health insurance company, which will remain at the property long-term. For more than 10 years, Keystone has owned Dadeland Towers North, the three-building and parking garage portfolio that makes up the northern section of the office campus. With this acquisition, Keystone now owns the entire property, which was 89 percent leased at the time of sale.

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SAVANNAH, GA. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of a full city block in downtown Savannah, comprising two historic buildings and one shared parking lot located at 114 Barnard St., 104 W. State St. and 109-119 Whitaker St., for an undisclosed price. Ashley Smith, Rhett Mouchet and Tyler Mouchet of Colliers International’s Savannah office represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The U.S. Post Office, Roly Poly, Alligator Soul and various office spaces are among the tenants at the 24,139-square-foot Barnard Street building. The LEED Silver-certified Whitaker Street building spans approximately 10,500 square feet and is home to Tequila Town Restaurant, Rocko Lounge and office spaces. Colliers International will handle the leasing and management of the properties.

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TYSONS, VA. — Lerner Enterprises has received $200 million in permanent financing for 1775 Tysons Boulevard, a 17-story office tower located in Tysons, Virginia. The developer, Lerner, delivered the property in late 2016. The 476,000-square-foot office tower is LEED Platinum certified, and features a state-of-the-art fitness center, conference center, café, indoor and outdoor social areas, and an onsite Fogo de Chão restaurant. Tenants at the property include EY, DXC Technology and WeWork. JLL is handling leasing at the tower. KPF designed the project. Towers Golde was landscape architect, Dewberry handled engineering and Paladino was LEED consultant. The office complex is the newest building in the Tysons II master plan, which features office, retail, dining, hotel and residential space. The 117-acre development is home to Tysons Galleria, an 800,000-square-foot luxury retail center, and a Ritz-Carlton. TH Real Estate — the real estate investment management arm of TIAA — provided the capital for the financing, which John Sieber Jr. of Phillips Realty Capital structured. Rockville, Md.-based Lerner Enterprises is one of the largest development and management companies in metro Washington, D.C. The company’s portfolio includes Dulles Town Center, a 1.4 million-square-foot regional mall in Loudoun County, Va., and Washington Square, a 1 …

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — CBRE has arranged $35.5 million in financing for Half Mile North and Pacific Box & Crate, two mixed-use projects on the Charleston peninsula. CBRE’s Jeff Ackemann and Porter McDonald arranged the permanent mortgage through Nationwide Real Estate Investments on behalf of the borrower, Raven Cliff Co. LLC. In 2016, the CBRE team secured a $35 million construction loan to recapitalize the Half Mile North Development and provide construction financing for the Pacific Box & Crate project. Together, the developments encompass 222,113 square feet of office space and chef-driven food options. The projects were 97 percent leased at the time of sale. SIB, Integral Solutions Group, BoomTown!, Phish Labs and Blue Acorn are among the developments’ current tenants.

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HIALEAH, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $27 million sale of Miami International Logistics Center, a 506,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility located at 725 S.E. 9th Court in Hialeah. Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. acquired the asset. Cushman & Wakefield’s Mike Davis, Rick Brugge, Michael Lerner, Wayne Ramoski, Gian Rodriguez, Robert Given and Troy Ballard represented the seller, Keating Resources, in the transaction. The building was 88 percent leased at the time of sale.

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MANASSAS, VA. — Finmarc Management Inc. has purchased Festival at Manassas, a 117,000-square-foot shopping center located at 10280-10388 Festival Lane in Manassas, from Katz Properties for $20 million. Bill Kent of CBRE represented Bethesda, Md.-based Finmarc Management in the transaction. The Global Food-anchored center was 97 percent leased at the time of sale. Potbelly Sandwich Works, CiCi’s Pizza, 360 Buffet, Nutritional Wellness Center and Furniture House are among the center’s other retail tenants.

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CLEMSON, S.C. — Broadstreet Partners has sold The Farm at Clemson, a newly built, 105-bed student housing property located near the Clemson University campus in South Carolina, for $8 million. The property features 35 cottage-style homes, a clubhouse, basketball and turf volleyball courts and bicycle parking. The community was developed and completed in July 2016. The property was acquired by Palm Beach-based Calidus Holdings and will continue to be managed by CollegeTown Properties.

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LOUISVILLE, KY. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged $5.3 million in acquisition financing for Holly Hills Apartments, a 94-unit multifamily property in Louisville. Noah Juran of NorthMarq Capital’s Cincinnati office structured the three-year loan with a 25-year amortization schedule and two years of interest-only payments through Ready Capital Structured Finance on behalf of the undisclosed buyer.

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BENTONVILLE, ARK., AND NEW YORK CITY — Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has agreed to acquire online apparel retailer Bonobos Inc. for approximately $310 million in cash. Walmart, the giant discount department store chain, expects to complete the transaction by September. The announcement comes on the heels of Walmart’s acquisition of online women’s apparel retailer ModCloth in March. Founded in 2007 by Andy Dunn and Brian Spaly, New York-based Bonobos designs and sells its own brands of clothing for men. These brands will be featured and sold on various Walmart-owned digital platforms, including Jet.com, which Bentonville-based Walmart acquired in August 2016 for approximately $3 billion. Bonobos also operates 35 physical retail locations, known as Guideshops, across the United States. Walmart currently has no plans to feature lines of Bonobos clothing in its brick-and-mortar locations, according to The New York Times. Under the terms of the agreement, Dunn, the current CEO of Bonobos, will oversee the company’s collection of clothing brands that are designed in-house and distributed online. Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart U.S. e-commerce and founder of Jet.com, says the acquisition reflects the company’s long-term e-commerce strategy. “We’re seeing momentum in the [e-commerce] business as we expand our value proposition with customers,” he …

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When comparing Birmingham’s industrial market to other major cities in the Southeast, “The Tortoise and the Hare” comes to mind. Birmingham has had slow and steady progress — not to say that our sister cities have periods of laziness and napping. Birmingham’s current pace of activity is more the norm and thankfully the trends remain positive with 2016’s transaction numbers actually tilting in the direction of a “hare-like” pace. Occupancy rates for the 15 million-square-foot, multi-tenant industrial market eclipsed 90 percent for the first time since 2005. We had positive absorption of over 400,000 square feet with just under 1.5 million square feet of inventory remaining. During 2016, 12 new lease transactions of 50,000 square feet and larger were completed, eight of which were automotive related. These 12 transactions compare to seven and eight in 2014 and 2015, respectively, which is a strong increase. Leases of note include 270,600 square feet to a third-party logistics provider for Mercedes-Benz; 240,240 square feet to Grupo Antolin, a Spanish-based supplier of interior parts for Mercedes-Benz; and a 225,496-square-foot lease directly with Mercedes-Benz. Much of the remaining 1.5 million square feet of inventory is Class B or lower quality, so finding suitable space has …

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