Southeast

INTown Little Havana Miami

MIAMI — Avison Young has arranged a $46.7 million construction loan for INTown, a two-tower, 14-story mixed-use project that will be located in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. The $81 million property will feature two split condominium and rental towers with retail space on the ground level. David Eyzenberg and Amanda Saltzman of Avison Young arranged the loan on behalf of the developer, Astor Cos. According to Avison Young, INTown will be the first high-rise developed in Little Havana in more than 10 years.

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TAMPA, FLA. — A public-private partnership that includes Port Logistics Tampa Bay I Inc. and Port Tampa Bay will start construction on a 130,000-square-foot cold storage food products facility at Port Tampa Bay early next year. Set to open in November 2016, the $19.1 million intermodal facility will employ 50 full-time workers and up to 200 part-time workers. The Tampa Port Authority Board recently approved a 27-year lease to Port Logistics Tampa Bay I for the 13.7 acres where the facility will be developed on Hookers Point in downtown Tampa. The Tampa Port Authority has engaged Atlanta-based Batson-Cook Co. as contract manager for the project. The facility will accommodate 8,000 pallet positions in several different rooms with independent temperature controls for produce and perishables. The building will include office space for truckers and regulators such as USDA and Customs officials, and 15 temperature controlled doors for truck shipments. The project team includes George Livingston, principal of Port Logistics; Huie, an investment banker in Hong Kong; Seatrade; Time Definite Services; and Canton Port Services.

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Carmel Park I and II Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — HFF has brokered the $23 million sale of Carmel Park I and II, two office assets in Charlotte’s Ballantyne/South Charlotte office submarket totaling 170,128 square feet. Carmel Park I and II are situated on 11.5 acres at 11111-11121 Carmel Commons Blvd. The properties are roughly 80 percent leased to tenants such as Pulte Group, Gentiva Health Services, M3 Engineering and Commercial Defeasance LLC. Ryan Clutter led HFF’s investment sales team in representing the seller, Carmel Park II LP, an entity managed by PICOA Inc. CapRidge Partners LLC purchased the office assets. Travis Anderson, Jim Curtin and Cory Fowler of HFF arranged floating rate acquisition financing through JP Morgan Chase & Co. on behalf of CapRidge Partners.

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Artmore Hotel Midtown Atlanta

ATLANTA — The Urbana Varro group of companies has purchased the Artmore Hotel, an independent boutique hotel located at 1302 W. Peachtree St. in Midtown Atlanta. The buyer, which includes a national commercial real estate investment fund and a development and property management firm, purchased the asset from Jamestown for an undisclosed price. Originally built as a luxury apartment building in 1924, the Artmore Hotel is located within walking distance of Center Stage, Woodruff Arts Center, Savannah College of Art and Design and the Fox Theatre.

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Tower 101 Fort Lauderdale

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — JLL has secured a 52,683-square-foot lease transaction at Tower 101, a newly renovated, 21-story office tower located at 101 N.E. 3rd Ave. in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The tenant, Uniforms Direct, is relocating its corporate headquarters from Plantation, Fla., to Tower 101. Uniforms Direct will be the building’s largest tenant and will bring roughly 200 employees to occupy Tower 101’s penthouse level, the 20th floor and half of the 16th and 19th floors. Existing tenants at Tower 101 include Kemet Corp., Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, the city of Fort Lauderdale and Advantage Opco LLC. Alice Lucia Jackson and Brady Titcomb of JLL represented the landlord, Banyan Street Capital, in the lease transaction. Matthew Cheezem and Zach Wendelin of Cresa represented Uniforms Direct. The transaction is the largest office lease completed in downtown Fort Lauderdale year-to-date.

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DoubleTree by Hilton Atlanta Downtown

ATLANTA — Hunter Hotel Advisors has arranged the $42.1 million sale of the DoubleTree by Hilton Atlanta Downtown. The 312-room hotel is located at 160 Ted Turner Drive N.W., within walking distance of the Peachtree Center MARTA station, the Georgia World Congress Center, Philips Arena and the Georgia Aquarium. Hunter Hotel Advisors represented an unnamed global private equity firm in the sale. The buyer, Legacy Property Group, plans to invest $12 million to renovate the hotel and its restaurant while retaining the DoubleTree brand.

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CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — Meridian Capital Group has arranged $15.2 million in acquisition financing for Heron Bay Corporate Center I & II in Coral Springs, a city in Broward County. The 89,000-square-foot office campus houses 19 tenants, including Regus. Avi Weinstock and Josh Rhine of Meridian’s New York City office arranged the seven-year loan through a regional balance sheet lender on behalf of the borrower, The Benedict Realty Group. The loan features a fixed 4 percent interest rate and three years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.

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Sugarloaf Walk Shopping Center

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. — Bull Realty has brokered the $2.8 million sale of Sugarloaf Walk Shopping Center, a 22,685-square-foot retail strip center in Lawrenceville, a northeast suburb of Atlanta. Sugarloaf Parkway LLC, an investment firm based in New York, purchased the property from Sugarloaf Walk Shopping Center LLC, a private investment firm based in Houston. John Harrison and Frank Meyrath of Bull Realty represented the seller in the transaction.

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NAPLES, FLA. — Colliers International has brokered the $2.1 million sale of an 18,645-square-foot, Class A warehouse located at 3600 Westview Drive in Naples. The property is fully air-conditioned and features 20-foot ceilings, a truck well and grade-level overhead doors. The buyer, RICDEN LLC, plans to convert a portion of the warehouse into a fitness and training facility. The buyer also intends to keep Herbeau Creations of America Inc., a sanitary ware and sink distributor, as an industrial tenant. Jim Tamblyn of Colliers International’s Southwest Florida office represented the buyer in the transaction. The seller was Naples-based Baron Investment Corp.

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King Industrial Realty CORFAC Atlanta

ATLANTA — Atlanta-based King Industrial Realty Inc. / CORFAC International has announced a new leadership structure. Charles B. King, Jr. has sold the majority of his interest in the company he founded in 1980 to six of King Industrial’s top producers. The new partnership is under the leadership of president Sim Doughtie, Bill Johnston, Steve Ratchford, Sally Tennant, Wilson Covington and Jason McCart. The firm will continue to do business as King Industrial Realty Inc., and King will remain a limited partner. Terms of the succession plan were not disclosed. Over the last 20 years, King Industrial Realty has completed over 9,200 lease and sale transactions of industrial buildings and land totaling 120 million square feet and more than 6,000 acres. King was one of the original founders of Corporate Facility Advisors (CORFAC International), a network of independently owned commercial real estate firms established in 1989.

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