LEESBURG, FLA. — Elderfire Lodges, a developer based in Florida, has unveiled plans for Red Maple Lodge, a 150-bed assisted living and memory care community in Leesburg, approximately 45 miles northwest of Orlando. Red Maple Lodge will be the company’s fourth seniors housing property. Groundbreaking is scheduled for early summer 2016.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Unison Realty Partners has purchased Johnston Road Plaza, a 79,508-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center in Charlotte, for $15.3 million. The Boston-based firm purchased the asset from Westwood Financial. Berkeley Capital Advisors brokered the transaction. The 16-store shopping center was 98 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Food Lion and Goodwill.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Joubran Commercial Properties (JCP) has brokered the $2.6 million sale of a 2.4-acre parking lot and 5,500-square-foot restaurant building in downtown Greensboro. JJ Joubran of JCP represented the Atlanta-based buyer, Buckhead Investments LLC, in the transaction. Rich Mossman of CBRE | Triad represented the seller.
VALRICO, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $5 million sale of River Hills Plaza, a 34,500-square-foot shopping center located at 4325 Lynx Paw Trail in Valrico, a suburb of Tampa. Built in 2004, the property was 93 percent leased at the time of sale. James Medefind and Armando Rodriguez of Marcus & Millichap’s Tampa office represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The buyer was a private investor from Canada.
BALTIMORE — Vision Properties has acquired 100 East Pratt, a 662,708-square-foot trophy office tower at 100 E. Pratt St. overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, for $187 million. Vision acquired the asset from Columbia Property Trust (NYSE: CXP). The building is the long-time headquarters of T. Rowe Price, a global investment firm that leases roughly 65 percent of the building. Other tenants of the tower, which was 98.5 percent leased at the time of sale, include PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Merrill Lynch and Tydings & Rosenberg. The property is located in downtown Baltimore near Harborplace and The Gallery, as well as a multitude of dining and retail options around the Inner Harbor and along Pratt Street. Stephen Conley, Jim Meisel, Dek Potts, Andrew Weir and Matt Nicholson of HFF represented Columbia Property Trust in the transaction, which also included the property’s 932-space parking garage. Vision Properties plans to upgrade the lobby of the 28-story building, according to reports by the Baltimore Business Journal. Columbia Property Trust intends to use the proceeds of the sale to repay a $119 million short-term bridge loan and borrowings on its unsecured credit facility. Vision Properties is a full-service real estate investment and management firm headquartered in New Jersey. The …
The Jacksonville multifamily market continues to enjoy strong fundamentals at levels not seen since before the recession. In fact, the last 18 to 24 months have seen a major record-setting environment. Jacksonville saw new records being set across the board from all asset classes in all submarkets. Class A and value-add assets continue to see cap rate compression and consequently we have new benchmarks for highest price per unit and price per square foot. In 2014, Jacksonville reached nearly $800 million in sales — accounting for more than 12,000 units (includes transactions exceeding $1 million). Based on the year-to-date transactional volume — $735 million with multiple large deals set to close by the end of the year — it’s safe to say that we will exceed last year’s amount. This is the highest sales volume for multifamily in Jacksonville in the last decade. The apartment market has experienced a steady improvement in fundamentals during the past 12 to 15 months. Effective rent increased 2.6 percent from $905 in the first quarter to $928 in the second quarter, which resulted in an annual growth rate of 5 percent. According to CBRE Econometric Advisors’ (CBRE EA) second quarter report, the forecast for …
STERLING, VA. — Gramercy Property Trust, an office and industrial REIT, has closed on the $145.5 million sale of Pacific Corporate Park, a four-building office campus in Sterling. The New York-based REIT’s disposition strategy has led to the firm selling approximately $646.3 million of single- and multi-tenant office assets since the plan was announced in 2015. In December 2015, Gramercy finalized its merger with Chambers Street Properties, creating an office and industrial REIT with an enterprise value of $6 billion.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cousins Properties Inc. plans to develop Dimensional Fund Advisors’ new 229,000-square-foot regional headquarters in Charlotte. The Class A office building will be located on a 2.3-acre site in Charlotte’s South End. The project is a 50/50 joint venture between Cousins and Dimensional. Construction is anticipated to begin in the fourth quarter, and delivery is slated for the fourth quarter of 2018. Dimensional signed a 15-year lease to occupy 100 percent of the building upon completion.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Mesa West Capital has originated a $56.8 million acquisition loan for Northbridge Centre, a 287,000-square-foot, Class A office building located at 515 N. Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach. The sponsor, 515 N. Flagler Drive Owner LLC, recently acquired the property from Gaedeke Group, which had owned the building for 20 years. The floating rate loan includes a future funding component to be used toward leasing costs, according to Mesa West Capital. Built in 1987 and renovated in 2002, the office building was 71 percent leased at the time of sale.
MAUMELLE, ARK. — Dominium, an apartment development and management firm based in Minneapolis, has purchased The Gables of Maumelle, a 120-unit apartment community located in the Little Rock metro area. Built in 2001, The Gables is Dominium’s first acquisition in Arkansas. Dominium will upgrade the property’s clubhouse and pool with new furniture, artwork, painting and a new fully equipped fitness room. All units will receive washers and dryers, and select units will receive new flooring, appliances and other improvements. The property will also receive updated signage, major landscaping and new lighting. The sales price and seller were not disclosed.