Southeast

ATLANTA — Condor Hospitality Trust, a hospitality REIT based in Bethesda, Md., and Three Wall Capital have entered into a joint venture agreement to acquire Aloft Atlanta Downtown, a 254-room hotel located at 300 Spring St. N.W. in downtown Atlanta. The joint venture purchased the hotel for $43.6 million. The property includes dry cleaning services, a splash outdoor pool, fitness center, valet and self-parking and free Wi-Fi access. Aloft Atlanta Downtown is within walking distance to Centennial Olympic Park, World of Coca-Cola, the Georgia Aquarium and the Children’s Museum of Atlanta. Condor Hospitality will own 80 percent of the joint venture and Three Wall Capital will own the remaining 20 percent. The joint venture has selected Boast Hotel Management Co. LLC, an affiliate of Three Wall Capital, to manage Aloft Atlanta Downtown once the off-market transaction is finalized, which is expected to occur in the third quarter.

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BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Berkadia and Colliers International have brokered the sale of Colony Woods, a 414-unit apartment community located at 2000 Colony Park Drive near The Summit Birmingham. The sales price was $43 million, according to Al.com. Built in two phases in 1990 and 1995, the property last sold in October 2009 for $24.8 million. The previous owner, Nashville-based C-H Core I LLC, upgraded more than half of the units with new appliances and lighting packages prior to the sale. David Oakley of Berkadia represented the buyer, Forum RE Acquisitions LLC, in the transaction. Will Mathews of Colliers International’s Atlanta office represented the seller.

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HANOVER, MD. — A partnership between Chesapeake Real Estate Group LLC and Thompson Creek Window Co. has sold two industrial buildings totaling nearly 300,000 square feet in Hanover. PGIM Real Estate purchased the properties from the partnership for $33 million. The assets are located within Penn 95 Commerce Center and include a 167,500-square-foot spec warehouse building at 8210 Penn Randall Place and a 117,000-square-foot build-to-suit warehouse and manufacturing facility leased to Thompson Creek Window at 8300 Pennsylvania Ave. Brook Furniture Rental Inc. recently leased 66,606 square feet at the spec warehouse building.

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TALLAHASSEE, FLA. — Real estate investment firm CollegePlace Partners has acquired The District, a 311-bed student housing portfolio located adjacent to Florida State University in Tallahassee. The company purchased the portfolio in an off-market transaction for $22.7 million. The District comprises eight townhome and flat-style buildings, featuring 90 three-, four-, five- and six-bedroom units. Andrew Kirsh and Serineh Baghdasarian of Los Angeles-based law firm Sklar Kirsh LLP represented CollegePlace Partners in the acquisition. CollegePlace Partners has engaged Asset Campus Housing, the nation’s largest third-party student housing management company, to manage the portfolio.

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VIDALIA, GA. — Love Funding has secured a $74.4 million loan through HUD’s 242/223(a)(7) loan insurance program for the refinancing of Meadows Regional Medical Center, a 22-acre hospital in Vidalia. The hospital’s owners, Toombs County Hospital Authority, used the refinancing to cut the interest rate by more than half, saving more than $1.5 million a year in debt-service costs, or more than $30 million over the life of the loan. Originally constructed in 1963, the hospital was expanded in 2011 to include a 194,000-square-foot healthcare facility. Meadows Regional offers 64 private patient suites, 20 emergency treatment rooms and six surgical suites, along with a cardiovascular lab. In the past five years, HUD’s 242 program has insured financing for $2.2 billion of hospital projects across the country.

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COLUMBIA, MD. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $72 million loan for the refinancing of Columbia Corporate Park, a 495,000-square-foot office park located at 8825, 8830, 8840 and 8850 Stanford Blvd. and 8890 McGaw Road in Columbia. Joseph Burke of NorthMarq Capital’s Baltimore office arranged the 12-year loan through an unnamed life insurance company on behalf of the borrower. The loan features four years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.

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WEST MIAMI, FLA. — Chicago-based Waterton has purchased Soleste West Gables, a newly built, 206-unit apartment community located in West Miami. Waterton bought the asset from the development group comprising Estate Investments Group, Fortune Capital Partners and Mattoni Group for $57.4 million, or $278,000 per unit. The group’s other projects in the area include the 196-unit Soleste Club Prado, the 221-unit Soleste West Gables II, the 329-unit Soleste Alameda and the 290-unit Soleste Valentina View. Soleste West Gables began leasing in September 2015 and offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units with amenities including a resort-style pool with an oversized sundeck, cabanas, poolside gymnasium, community entertainment lounge and Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the property.

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NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged a $19.5 million loan for the refinancing of Aventura Oaks Apartments, a 204-unit multifamily community located at 1572 N.E. 191st St. in North Miami Beach. The three-story property features a swimming pool, lounge and fitness center. Jonathan Zilber and Steven Halpert of Meridian Capital Group arranged the three-year loan with a fixed 3.1 percent interest rate and one year of interest-only payments through an unnamed balance sheet lender. The unnamed borrower is currently remodeling 75 percent of Aventura Oaks’ apartment units.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $11 million sale of Harbour Pointe, a 34-unit luxury apartment building located at 2201 S.E. 18th St. in Fort Lauderdale’s Harbour Inlet neighborhood. Situated south of the 17th Street Causeway, the property features 350 of water frontage with rental boat slips. Marcus & Millichap brokered the sale of Harbour Pointe in 2010 for $8.1 million and again in 2013 for $9.2 million. The property was renovated by a previous owner in 2010. Joseph Thomas, Adam Duncan and Derek Soven of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller and procured the buyer, a joint venture between entities based in New York and California.

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BATON ROUGE, LA. — CBRE has arranged $48 million in construction financing for the development of Park Place, a 745-bed student housing community to be located adjacent to the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge. The six-story project is scheduled for completion in 2017. CBRE secured the three-year, floating-rate loan through Commercial Bank Syndication on behalf of the Park 7 Group.

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