Southeast

Office Depot 101 S. State Road 7 Royal Palm Beach

ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLA. — Baltimore-based Continental Realty Corp. has sold a 30,500-square-foot retail center located at 101 S. State Road 7 in Royal Palm Beach for $7.5 million. The property was fully leased at the time of sale to Office Depot and Mattress Firm. Uriel Investments LLC purchased the property from the seller’s investment fund, CRC Fund III. David Donnellan and Mark Drazek of CBRE represented Continental Realty in the transaction. Alexandra Escudero of Fortune International Realty represented the buyer.

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The Town Center of Virginia Beach

Millennials are the largest and fastest-growing retail consumer segment in the nation. In Hampton Roads, this demographic represents 30 percent of a total population in excess of 1.7 million people. This tech-savvy and largely transient group spends approximately $3.4 billion on retail and dining every year in the local economy. It is widely acknowledged that Millennials are changing the retail industry. Developers and retailers alike, faced with rapidly changing spending patterns, more than ever must focus on the shopping, living and working trends of these consumers in order to ensure that future developments meet the needs and expectations of this demographic. The well-established, nationwide trend of shoppers migrating to walkable, mixed-use environments has led to the proliferation of multi-faceted, pedestrian-friendly developments that feature specialty retail as an integral part of a live/work/play theme in a more or less urban setting. Hampton Roads is no exception to this movement. This explains the growth of lifestyle centers in Hampton Roads, as well as the successful repositioning of some traditional malls in the region. The combination of these upscale projects and the purchasing power of the large population base has finally caught the attention of many upscale national retailers that heretofore had considered …

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Charlotte VA Health Care Center

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-based Childress Klein and Vienna, Va.-based Cambridge Healthcare Solutions LLC have completed the construction of the largest Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care Center in the United States. The $150 million, 429,000-square-foot property is situated on a 35-acre lot at the intersection of Tyvola Road and Cascade Pointe Blvd. in Charlotte. The developers plan to hold the asset long-term and will remain as the property’s asset managers throughout the VA’s 20-year lease. The Charlotte VA Health Care Center will provide primary care and specialty services for up to an estimated 35,000 veterans enrolled in the VA healthcare system. Departments operating out of the clinic will include cardiology, audiology and speech, mental health, radiology, infectious disease, women’s health, ophthalmology and optometry, dental, gastroenterology, oncology follow-up and physical medicine and rehab, as well as four full operating rooms.

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Walmart Supercenter Fort Lauderdale

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $26.1 million sale of a 189,543-square-foot Walmart Supercenter in Fort Lauderdale. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has a 20-year absolute net ground lease for the store, which is located within Riverbend Marketplace, a new 36-acre retail development less than three miles from Fort Lauderdale’s central business district. The store is the newest prototype for Walmart Supercenters, according to Marcus & Millichap. Lori Schneider of Marcus & Millichap, along with Aztec Group, represented the seller, Gatlin Development, in the transaction. Drew Kristol and Kirk Olson of Marcus & Millichap’s Miami office represented the buyer, a 1031 exchange investor.

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NEWTOWN, N.C. — Binswanger has brokered the sale of a 439,500-square-foot industrial facility in Newtown. The property is located on a 94.8-acre parcel at 1545 St. James Church Road. Snider Tire Inc., a commercial tire dealer and retreader, purchased the asset for an undisclosed amount. Doug Faris of Binswanger’s Charlotte office brokered the transaction.

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COLLEGE PARK, GA. — Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Hotels (NGKF Hotels) has brokered the sale of the Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Hotels, an 83-room hotel located at 4839 Massachusetts Blvd. in College Park. The three-story hotel is located adjacent to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and roughly 11 miles south of downtown Atlanta. Georgia-based 64J Hotel Groups LLC bought the Microtel Inn with plans to negotiate a new, long-term franchise agreement and upgrade the property with a planned renovation totaling approximately $400,000. Sam Winterbottom, Bhavesh (B.J.) Patel and Barrett Corwin of NGKF Hotels represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. In the past eight months, NGKF Hotels has also brokered the sales of the nearby Wellesley Inn and Sleep Inn hotels. Combined, the three hotels have sold for $14 million.

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Vanderbilt University Dialysis Nashville

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Stan Johnson Co. has brokered the $3 million sale of a 10,500-square-foot dialysis clinic located at 20 Rachel Drive in Nashville. The property is fully leased to Vanderbilt University and is one of its two 24-hour dialysis operations in the metro Nashville area. A private partnership based in New England purchased the facility from a limited liability partnership based in California. Craig Tomlinson and John Zimmerman of Stan Johnson Co. marketed the asset and represented the seller in the transaction.

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DORAL, FLA. — Cohen Financial has secured a $73.2 million construction loan for the development of two Class A luxury residential buildings in Doral, a suburb of Miami. The two eight-story buildings will total 418 apartment units and be part of Landmark at Doral, a multifamily development located at the northeast corner of the intersection of N.W. 107th Avenue and N.W. 58th Street. Upon completion, Landmark at Doral will feature 631 units and three buildings, as well as 40,000 square feet of retail space. Daniel Sheehan and Eric McGlynn of Cohen Financial’s equity practice in Miami arranged the loan on behalf of the borrowers, The Congress Group Inc. and Encore Housing Opportunity Fund.

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Half Mile North Charleston

CHARLESTON, S.C. — CBRE’s capital markets debt and structured finance team has secured a $35 million loan to recapitalize Half Mile North, an 89,919-square-foot mixed-use development in Charleston. The loan will also provide construction financing for a similar and associated 131,174-square-foot development to be called Pacific Box & Crate. Jeff Ackemann and Porter McDonald of CBRE’s Atlanta office arranged the financing through Citizens Bank on behalf of Raven Cliff Co. LLC, which is the developer of the two adaptive reuse projects. Half Mile North is close to being delivered and is nearly fully leased. Pacific Box & Crate, one-fourth of a mile away from Half Mile North, is slated to deliver in the fourth quarter of 2016 and will provide additional office and retail space. BoomTown and Phish Labs have signed leases at Pacific Box & Crate, and Blue Acorn occupies space at Half Mile North. The two properties are approximately 83 percent pre-leased.

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Derby Estates

LOUISVILLE, KY. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $16 million sale of Derby Estates, a 381-unit apartment community located at 5319 Rangeland Road in Louisville. The workforce housing community is situated near the GE Appliance Park manufacturing facility. During the past three years, the property has received a $4 million upgrade package that includes new roofs and siding, new appliances, new HVAC units, new flooring and a new pool, fitness room and recreation area. Aaron Johnson and Aaron Willis of Marcus & Millichap’s Louisville office represented the seller, VTT Rangeland LLC, in the transaction. Capstone Apartment Partners worked with the Sperry Van Ness team in Cincinnati to also represent the seller.

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