THOMASTON, GA. — Coldwell Banker Commercial Eberthardt & Barry Inc. has brokered the sale of a 433,000-square-foot industrial property in Thomaston. The buyer, Australasia Holdings LLC, plans to lease the building to a third-party logistics provider servicing nearby cabinet manufacturers, as well as a national appliance manufacturer. Situated on an 80-acre site beside the Upson County Reservoir, the property was originally built in 1994 as a textile manufacturing and distribution facility for Thomaston Mills. Atlantic Lakeside Properties, a paper products company, purchased the asset in 2004 and leased it to manufacturers for the next 10 years before closing its doors in 2014. Art Barry III of Coldwell Banker Commercial Eberthardt & Barry brokered the transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — In a move to further liquidate the company, CNL Lifestyle Properties Inc., a REIT specializing in the acquisition of resort properties, has sold a seven-property portfolio of international trophy retail assets located within luxury resorts for $103 million. A private real estate consortium between The Imperium Cos., MMG Equity Partners and Blue River Family Office Partners was the buyer. The portfolio consists of 423,482 square feet of ground-floor retail in the mixed-use villages of six ski resorts and one golf and beach resort in the United States and Canada. The properties include: • Whistler Creekside Village in Whistler, British Columbia • The Village at Mammoth in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. • Village at Snowshoe in Snowshoe, W.Va. • Village at Cooper in Frisco, Colo. • Stratton Mountain Village in South Londonderry, Vt. • Blue Mountain Village in Blue Mountains, Ontario and • The Village of Baytowne Wharf in Miramar Beach, Fla. Lori Schneider of Marcus & Millichap’s Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) division arranged the sale. Schneider, along with the Marcus & Millichap’s brokers of record for each state in the portfolio, exclusively represented the seller and procured the buyer. “These stabilized yet dynamic assets are unique in location, …
MIAMI — Hong Kong-based Swire Properties, along with co-developers Whitman Family Development and Simon Property Group, has opened the first group of retail stores at Brickell City Centre, a $1.05 billion mixed-use destination in downtown Miami’s Brickell district. The project’s 500,000-square-foot, open-air shopping center housing more than 100 retailers and eateries, including a flagship Saks Fifth Avenue, Victoria’s Secret, Suit Supply, lululemon athletica, Cinemex, Coach, LIVE! and Porsche Design. Opening in 2017 will be a three-story Italian food hall that will feature a market, wine shop, gelato, cheese bar and restaurant. Swire Properties is integrating the Miami Metromover transit system with Brickell City Centre with a stop that exits directly onto the shopping center’s third floor. About 20 percent of the retail center at Brickell City Centre will feature retailers exclusive to the area and/or entering the United States for the first time from Europe and Latin America. The development, which also features two condo towers, two Class A office towers and the EAST, Miami hotel, are linked together by Climate Ribbon, a $30 million elevated trellis of steel, glass and fabric that is designed to harness Miami’s bay breezes while deflecting direct sunlight. The shopping center is currently 92 …
ARLINGTON, VA. — Transwestern has arranged the $69.5 million sale of Ballston Metro Center, a 235,568-square-foot office building located at 901 N. Stuart St. in Arlington, roughly five miles outside of Washington, D.C. A joint venture between PERSEUS Realty and ELV Associates purchased the asset from Ballston Metro Investors LLC. Gerry Trainor and Mark Glagola of Transwestern’s Mid-Atlantic capital markets group represented the seller in the transaction. The new ownership group plans to make capital improvements to the office building. Ballston Metro Center is situated directly above Ballston Metro Station and within one block of Ballston Common Mall, which is undergoing a $317 million renovation and repositioning into Ballston Quarter.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Bissell Cos. has signed Wells Fargo to a full-building lease at the Brigham Building situated within Ballantyne Corporate Park in Charlotte. Located at 11625 N. Community House Road, the 10-story, 287,507-square-foot is under construction and set for completion in December. Wells Fargo will occupy the building starting in 2017. The Class A office building overlooks The Golf Club at Ballantyne and features a two-story lobby, glass exterior curtain walls and free structured parking. The Bissell Cos. is developing Brigham Building to achieve LEED Gold certification.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Stiles plans to develop a new Class A, 64,000-square-foot office building located at 300 W. Summit Ave. in Charlotte’s historic South End neighborhood. The three-story project will feature underground parking and a rooftop terrace. The asset will be situated within walking distance of the Bland Rail Station, less than one mile from the Dowd YMCA and three miles from I-85. Stiles’ Charlotte office has begun site work and will begin vertical construction in March 2017, with an expected delivery in first-quarter 2018. Charley Leavitt and Stephen Woodard of JLL are handling the office building’s leasing responsibilities.
GREER, S.C. — Liberty Property Trust has broken ground on Caliber North, a 171,600-square-foot warehouse situated within the Caliber Ridge industrial park in Greer. Located at I-85 and Green Road, the warehouse is situated near the BMW Manufacturing Plant and the South Carolina Inland Port. Set for an April 2017 completion, Caliber North will feature 7-inch concrete slab floors and 36-foot clear heights, the first warehouse in the market built to those specifications. The project team includes architect MCA Architecture, civil engineer blueWATER Civil Design and general contractor Harper Corp. Jaime Maldonado of Liberty Property Trust is Caliber North’s project manager, and Liberty’s Bryan Blythe is teaming up with Brian Young, Elliott Fayssoux and Kacie Jackson of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer to market the project. Liberty is planning to build a second property at the site totaling 94,500 square feet.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The JBG Cos. has sold a Class A, eight-story office building located at 1025 Thomas Jefferson St. in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown district for $141.8 million. HFF represented JBG Cos. and procured the buyer, Alduwaliya Asset Management, a private investment vehicle based in the United Kingdom that represents a high net-worth family in Qatar. The 317,248-square-foot building is situated directly across from Georgetown Waterfront Park and Washington Harbour. The building was 96 percent leased at the time of sale to 22 tenants including Palantir Technologies, the American Institutes of Research, Carlton Fields, Education Development Center and Combined Properties. Built in 1984, 1025 Thomas Jefferson features two multi-level courtyards with fountains, a brick façade, fitness center, deli, Metrorail shuttle and 268 below-grade parking spaces. Jim Meisel, Dek Potts, Andrew Weir, Stephen Conley and Matt Nicholson led HFF’s investment sales team in the transaction.
LAKE MARY, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $130 million sale of Primera Towers, a five-building, 771,826-square-foot office campus in Lake Mary, a suburb of Orlando. Miami-based Parmenter Realty Partners purchased the portfolio from an ownership group including Miami-based Banyan Street Capital, Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management and Munich-based Balandis AG. Mike Davis, Michael Lerner and Rick Brugge of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller. The transaction is Orlando’s largest suburban office sale since the disposition of Heathrow International Business Center in 2002.
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLA. AND DURHAM, N.C. — Walker & Dunlop has closed two loans totaling $111 million to finance Cortland Partners’ acquisitions of two apartment communities in the Southeast. The properties include Camden Renaissance in Altamonte Springs and Arboretum at Southpoint in Durham. The financing comprised two Freddie Mac moderate rehab loans, which Cortland Partners will use to fund the acquisition and renovations. The loans include an initial three-year interest-only period with a floating interest rate, followed by a seven-year, floating-rate loan term with two years of interest-only payments. Stephen Farnsworth of Walker & Dunlop’s New Orleans office arranged the financing.