PRATTVILLE, ALA., AND ORMOND BEACH, FLA. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has arranged the sale of seniors housing communities in Alabama and Florida. In the first transaction, SLIB arranged the sale of Green Springs, a 32-unit assisted living community in the Montgomery suburb of Prattville. The 4.5-acre site will allow future expansion of the community. In the second transaction, SLIB arranged the sale of Seasons by Riviera, a 36-unit memory care community in Ormond Beach, a coastal town located between Jacksonville and Orlando. The buyer intends to re-open the vacant community. Bradley Clousing of SLIB brokered both transactions. The sales prices were undisclosed.
LAKE CHARLES, LA. — Venture Commercial Real Estate and SRSA Commercial Real Estate, two real estate brokerage firms and members of X Team International, have arranged a 19,019-square-foot retail lease in Lake Charles. The tenant, Northern Tool + Equipment, will be situated within Park Plaza Shopping Center at 3031 Gertsner Memorial Drive. Clay Mote of Venture Commercial worked with Kirsten Early of SRSA Commercial to negotiate the 10-year lease deal on behalf of the retailer, and Seth Citron of Stirling Properties represented the landlord.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Wegmans plans to open a new 130,000-square-foot grocery store at Town Center of Virginia Beach. Situated near the intersection of Virginia Beach and Independence boulevards, the store will feature a parking deck in front and a mezzanine level for café seating. Wegmans is expected to create hundreds of jobs and invest millions of dollars in the new store. The Rochester, N.Y.-based grocer currently has 10 other stores in Virginia.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trinity Capital Advisors has purchased 1001 Bond St., a two-building industrial property totaling 404,351 square feet in Charlotte’s Northwest industrial submarket. Trinity Capital acquired the property in a joint venture with SilverCap Partners for an undisclosed price. Both buildings are fully leased to Camber Ridge, a tire characterization research and development company. The properties are situated off of I-85 and feature direct access to I-485, I-77 and Charlotte Douglas International Airport via NC Highway 16.
ATLANTA — Spaces, a co-working office space brand owned by Regus, plans to open a new location at 715 Peachtree in Midtown Atlanta. Situated across from the Fox Theatre, Spaces Midtown East will provide more than 100 private offices, 40 private desks, a 10,000-square-foot business club, hospitality-quality services and three meeting rooms available to Spaces members and community residents. The new Midtown location, the brand’s fourth in North America, is set to open on February 6, with co-working memberships starting at $199. In mid-2017, Spaces will open Spaces Atlanta-The Battery at SunTrust Park at The Battery Atlanta, a $1 billion mixed-use village surrounding SunTrust Park, the Atlanta Braves new ballpark in Cobb County. All Spaces locations provide 24/7 access to dedicated desks and office space for members, as well as access Monday through Friday of the business club.
RICHMOND, VA. — Capital Square 1031 has completed the stabilization and sale of Forest Office Park, a 19-building, 710,000-square-foot office campus in Richmond, for $24.1 million. The firm served as a replacement sponsor and manager of NNN Forest Office Park LLC, a tenant-in-common (TIC) ownership. Forest Office Park was under TIC ownership for the past 11 years. Capital Square 1031 assumed sponsorship and management in February 2016, replacing the previous manager after more than a decade, to take over sponsorship, management and serve as loan guarantor for the TIC program. Forest Office Park is situated in Richmond’s West End at the corner of Three Chopt Road and Forest Avenue. Located within six miles of Short Pump and downtown Richmond, the property was approximately 95 percent leased at the time of sale. CBRE | Hampton Roads, CBRE | Richmond and the Atlanta office of CBRE Group Inc. brokered the sale on behalf of the TIC ownership.
SAVANNAH, GA. — Burroughs & Chapin, a retail investment REIT based in Myrtle Beach, S.C., has acquired an 8,800-square-foot retail property located at 5-15 W. Broughton Street in downtown Savannah’s Historic District. Originally built in the 19th century, the property is fully leased to tenants including Ann Taylor LOFT, FedEx Office and Flying Monk, an Asian restaurant. The seller and sales price were undisclosed.
HYATTSVILLE, MD. — Greysteel has arranged the $8.9 million refinancing of Madison Park, a 91-unit apartment community located at 5902 31st Ave. in Hyattsville, about six miles northeast of Washington, D.C. Built in 1962, Madison Park’s units average 873 square feet. The borrower, Madison Park LLC, will use the loan proceeds to refinance a maturing CMBS loan. Greysteel arranged the 10-year loan with a fixed 4.65 percent interest rate and three years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.
MIAMI — Ytech-1428 Brickell LLC, an investment affiliate of Ytech International, has acquired the 100,762-square-foot BankUnited Office Building located at 1428 Brickell Ave. in Miami’s Brickell district. The purchase includes $26.5 million for the real estate and “tens of millions of dollars more” to settle claims and non-real estate matters. The transaction also includes development rights for up to 80 stories and 825,000 square feet of mixed-use space. Ytech provided the immediate capital to stave off the impending foreclosure, and in a series of separate transactions and agreements involving both the real estate and non-real estate matters, Ytech and its outside general counsel, Stuart Kapp of Kapp Morrison LLP, negotiated to bring an end to years of litigation that included claims by neighboring property owner Walter DeFortuna, lender ESJ Capital Partners and New York investor Shahab Karmely. Ytech International is a Miami-based real estate investment and development company that has invested in, developed and redeveloped more than 7,000 residential units in the Southeast over the past decade.
MABLETON AND LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. — Avison Young has arranged the sale of two shopping centers located in metro Atlanta. The dispositions include The Village Shoppes at Creekside, a 212,654-square-foot shopping center located in Lawrenceville, which sold for $18.5 million; and The Plaza at Mableton, a 63,367-square-foot shopping center located in Mableton. Theresa Johnson of Avison Young represented the seller, Torchlight Investors, in the Lawrenceville transaction. Johnson also represented the seller, Plaza of Mableton LLC, in the Mableton transaction. The buyers and purchase price of Plaza at Mableton were undisclosed.