NAPLES, FLA. — Investment Properties Corp. (IPC) has arranged the $14 million sale of the Iberia Bank Building, a 59,476-square-foot office building located at 2150 Goodlette Road N. in Naples. SHA Realty Holdings LLC purchased the asset from IberiaBank. The sale also included adjacent land. David Stevens and Clint Sherwood of IPC brokered the transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — The Shopping Center Group (TSCG) has arranged the $15.5 million sale of Mariner’s Village, a 133,400-square-foot shopping center located in Orlando. The center is currently 92 percent occupied and is anchored by Winn-Dixie, LA Fitness and Walgreens. Anthony Blanco of TSCG represented the seller, an affiliate of Madison Marquette, in the transaction. South American Investment Group acquired the property.
GREAT MILLS, MD. — Aztec Group Inc. has secured a $20.2 million loan for Hickory Hills East Apartments, a 231-unit apartment community located at 22501 Iverson Drive in Great Mills. Charles Penan and Howard Taft of Aztec Group arranged the 10-year loan through Rialto Mortgage Finance, a New York-based conduit lender, on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between affiliates of BAF Associates and the Raleigh Cos. The loan was structured with five years of interest-only payments, a 30-year amortization schedule, 75 percent loan-to-value ratio and a fixed interest rate below 4.6 percent.
HIGH SPRINGS AND ORLANDO, FLA. — Bank Leumi USA, a full-service commercial and private bank, has provided $16.7 million in total refinancing to Plantation Oaks Senior Living Management, a Florida-based owner/operator. The first loan is secured by a first mortgage on an existing seniors housing community located in High Springs, comprising 37 assisted living units and 29 memory care units. The credit facility was structured with a $5 million initial funding and a $1.2 million earn-out. The second credit facility is secured by an existing senior housing community located in Orlando, comprising 17 independent living units, 86 assisted living units and 22 memory care units. The $10.5 million financing was structured with an initial funding of $5.4 million, a $3.5 million holdback to fund the expansion of a 48-unit memory care building and a $1.6 million earn-out. Both of these loans refinanced existing debt, lowered the interest rate and provided a dividend to the owners of the communities. The fixed-rate loans have a five-year term and are intended to serve as a bridge to agency financing or to the future sale of the communities. Hely Santeliz of Bank Leumi led the team that structured the loan.
NORTH FORT MYERS, FLA. — Venture Commercial Real Estate has brokered the $4.5 million sale of a 23,104-square-foot retail building in North Fort Myers fully leased to Northern Tool + Equipment. The building is located at 14571 N. Cleveland Ave. Clay Mote of Venture Commercial represented the seller, DRW Partnership LLLP, in the transaction. The buyer, Realty Income Properties 6, was self-represented.
ATLANTA — Three new restaurants have signed on at Peachtree Center, a mixed-use campus comprising six high-rise buildings in downtown Atlanta. Tin Lizzy’s Cantina and Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken recently opened locations at Peachtree Center, and Panbury’s Double Crust Pies will open a new eatery there this fall. JLL brokered the lease transactions on behalf of Peachtree Center’s owner, Banyan Street Capital.
It’s no secret that the Sunbelt states have been, and continue to be, the front-runners for corporations looking to relocate to cities with a much lower cost of doing business. With each state taking different approaches, North Carolina does not often offer the relocation incentives that can be found in states such as South Carolina and Texas. Instead, North Carolina favors a system that offers less up-front cash incentives, but tries to offset that with a tax structure and business-friendly climate in an effort to compete for the large, attractive relocations. Because of this, the catalyst for growth in Charlotte has only been moderately associated with the recruitment of out-of-market users looking to relocate headquarters to more affordable and attractive markets. In large part, Charlotte’s growth has been driven by organic growth of existing businesses. In fact, more than 70 percent of the positive absorption in the central business district (CBD) since 2010 has occurred through organic growth. This expansion of existing business has provided for employment growth conditions that work hand-in-hand with the rapidly swelling population. In between new-to-market relocations that provide headline-grabbing bursts of employment, the diverse and impressive growth of Charlotte’s existing companies has attracted talent and …
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Berkadia has brokered the sales of nine multifamily communities in Alabama totaling $154.1 million in the past 90 days. The assets total 2,475 units. David Oakley led Berkadia’s sales team in representing the sellers in every transaction. The largest transaction was an Irvine, Calif.-based investment group purchasing Landmark at Magnolia Glen, a 1,080-unit property in Hoover, for $71.5 million. The most recent deal was the sale of two Center Point communities, Devonshire and Sun Valley, that sold together for a combined $14.1 million. Other Birmingham area sales include Inverness Landing, a 322-unit property, which sold for $27.6 million; River Place on the Cahaba, a 213-property, which sold for $17.7 million; Town Park, a 270-unit property, which sold for $15 million; TimberChase, a 94-unit property, which sold for $4.8 million; and Fox Hall, a 36-unit property, which sold for $2.3 million. In Mobile, Woodland Square, a 128-unit property, sold for $4 million. Royce Emerson and William Parkhurst of Berkadia brokered the River Place on the Cahaba and the Town Park transactions, and Josh Jacobs of Berkadia brokered the TimberChase and the Devonshire-Sun Valley transactions.
ATLANTA — Rubenstein Partners LP has sold Sterling Pointe, a two-building, Class A office campus spanning 351,345 square feet in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket. The buyer, a joint venture between Harbert Management Corp. and The Simpson Organization Inc., purchased the office property for an undisclosed price. Mercedes-Benz USA recently leased 89,910 square feet at Sterling Pointe II for its temporary corporate headquarters. William Yowell, Jay O’Meara and Justin Parsonnet of CBRE represented Rubenstein Partners in the sale. Rubenstein recently sold 3.5 acres of former parking lots on the campus for a new hotel and retail space. A hotel is currently under construction and will deliver in January 2016, and a new Corner Bakery Café and other restaurants will open this fall.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Lincoln Property Co. Southeast has purchased the newly built Jefferson Commons, a 196,488-square-foot shopping center located in Louisville, on behalf of American Realty Capital-Retail Centers of America I & II, a non-traded REIT. Lincoln acquired the center from the center’s developer, GBT Realty Corp., for $36 million. The retail center’s tenant roster includes Academy Sports + Outdoors, H.H. Gregg, Michaels and Shoe Carnival.
