SILVER SPRING, MD. — H&R Retail has arranged a 42,000-square-foot lease transaction with Dave & Buster’s at Ellsworth Place in downtown Silver Spring, roughly six miles north of Washington, D.C. The entertainment venue and restaurant was previously located at the former White Flint Mall in Bethesda, Md. David Ward and Sean Harcourt of H&R Retail represented the landlord, Petrie Ross Ventures, in the lease transaction.
KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $11.9 million sale of Farragut Pointe, a 71,406-square-foot office building located at 11132 Kingston Pike in Knoxville. Formerly a retail building, the office property was 100 percent leased at the time of sale to office and medical office tenants. Gary Lee, Paul Johnson, Korey Prefontaine, Don McMinn, Zachary Taylor and Tyler Fish of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an unnamed private partnership, in the transaction. Jason Yukins of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office secured and represented the buyer, a limited liability company. Michael Fasano is Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in Tennessee.
TAMPA, FLA. — Franklin Street Real Estate Services has closed the sales of five apartment communities in the metro Tampa area totaling more than $50 million. The five properties span roughly 950 units combined. Kevin Kelleher, Darron Kattan, Robert Goldfinger and Zachary Ames of Franklin Street brokered all five transactions. The buyers and sellers are private companies from the Tampa area and various locations throughout the U.S. The transactions included the $23.5 million sale of Harbour Cay in Largo, the $14.8 million sale of The Park at Chesterfield, the $7 million sale of University Oakwoods, the $4.3 million sale of Bayside North and the $1.9 million sale of Grove Court-Plant City, all in Tampa. All of the buyers are planning to make substantial investments to upgrade the properties.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — CapasGroup Realty Advisors and Cushman & Wakefield have teamed up to broker the $24 million sale of a full city block at 419 Lakeview Avenue in downtown West Palm Beach. Known as Lakeview Centre, the 3.2-acre site is approved for nearly 1.1 million square feet of office, residential, hotel and retail uses. Brad Capas of CapasGroup and Mark Pateman and Rosendo Caveiro of Cushman & Wakefield teamed up to represent the seller, an offshore entity, in the transaction. The buyer is a private investor with existing holdings in the West Palm Beach area.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three national retailers have signed leases for space at Shops at Dakota Crossing, a 430,000-square-foot, Class A retail center under construction in Washington, D.C.’s Fort Lincoln neighborhood. Dick’s Sporting Goods, PetSmart and an unnamed national retailer signed long-term leases to occupy a combined 85,500 square feet at the center, which is currently anchored by Costco and Lowe’s Home Improvement. This will be the first Dick’s Sporting Goods in Washington, D.C. Construction on the final phases of Shops at Dakota Crossing has started with a scheduled completion date in the fourth quarter of 2016. Following the lease deals, the retail center is more than 87 percent leased. Lisa Stoddard and Kristen Braun of CBRE are the leasing agents for Shops at Dakota Crossing on behalf of the developers, Trammell Crow Co., Fort Lincoln New Town Corp. and CSG Urban Partners.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Aztec Group Inc. has arranged a $12.7 million construction loan for a planned 105-unit multifamily community in West Palm Beach’s Northwood neighborhood. The 1.3-acre development site is located at 312 23rd St. north of downtown West Palm Beach. Jason Katz of Aztec Group arranged the loan through City National Bank of Florida on behalf of the developer, Parkland Cos.
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $5 million sale of a single-tenant property net leased to Walgreens at 4300 Highway 17 South in North Myrtle Beach. Walgreens has operated at the store, located at the intersection of Highway 17 and Windy Hill Road, since 2002 and has seven years remaining on its lease agreement. Randy Blankstein and John Feeney of The Boulder Group represented the buyer, a Midwest-based private investor, in the 1031 transaction. The seller was a private investor based in California.
The Richmond metropolitan area, with a population of 1.3 million, is bursting with multifamily development. The growing MSA contains more than 72,000 apartments units (45 percent Class A) and has 2,018 units under construction with another 5,826 in various stages of pre-development. On top of all this activity, the overall market occupancy remains at 96 percent. The fuel for these conditions comes from the many amenities in the market, from the University of Richmond and a robust sports scene to the proximity to Atlanta, the Atlantic coast and Washington, D.C., as well as the encouraging employment picture. The city’s unemployment stands at 5 percent compared to the U.S. average of 6.3 percent; since 2000 the city’s population has grown by nearly 15 percent. These conditions allow property owners to leverage this diverse and sustainable market for multifamily investments. Richmond development also benefits from the attractive interest rates, which remain low despite having climbed 80 basis points since late January. Along with monitoring this upward trend, news earlier this month from the Federal Reserve of a rate hike will serve as a caution sign for investors. Whether we see this hike in the next couple of months, or not until 2016, …
ORLANDO, FLA. — NGKF Capital Markets has recently completed three separate investment sale transactions in the metro Orlando area totaling nearly $100 million. Most recently, the company closed the $21.2 million sale of Vista Centre Shoppes, a 98,411-square-foot shopping center near Disney World. NGKF Capital Markets represented the buyer, GL Orlando Vista LLC, a real estate investment firm based in South Florida. Auction.com represented the seller, TSO Vista Centre. NGKF Capital Markets also brokered the sale of two multifamily communities on behalf of the seller, CWCapital Asset Management LLC. The properties, Victoria Place Apartments and Charter Pointe Apartments, sold at a combined $71 million. Adam Greenberg, Michael Lapointe, Michael Lohmann, Scott Gordon and Stephanie Ceballos comprise the NGKF Capital Markets team that brokered all three transactions.
MIAMI — Monogram Residential Trust Inc., a publicly traded operator and developer of luxury apartment communities, has opened SOMA, a new 418-unit multifamily community in downtown Miami’s Brickell district. Monogram Residential developed the eight-story boutique community in partnership with Alliance Residential Co. Monogram and Monogram Residential Master Partnership I LP, a joint venture between Monogram and PGGM Private Real Estate Fund, a real estate investment vehicle for Dutch pension funds, provided equity for the development of SOMA. The Class A property is located at 145 S.W. 13th St. within blocks of Mary Brickell Village, the Brickell Metrorail Station and Simpson Park. Community amenities include 24-hour package receipt and delivery via Luxer locker systems, electric car charging stations, an athletic center overlooking downtown Miami, yoga studio, big screen movie theater and a rooftop resort with a pool, grilling stations, lounge area and basketball court. Unit interiors feature epicurean kitchens, designer lighting, al fresco balconies, walk-in closets and Roman soaking tubs.
