SMYRNA, GA. — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has provided an $18.4 million loan for the refinancing of Jasmine at the Galleria Apartments, a 270-unit apartment community in Smyrna, a northwest suburb of Atlanta. The property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment units in 19 apartment buildings. Jasmine at the Galleria’s community amenities include tennis courts, a swimming pool, gated access and a business center. Walker & Dunlop provided the 10-year loan that features five years of interest-only payments to the borrower, Lyon Communities. The loan, which Walker & Dunlop provided using Freddie Mac’s index-lock program, will refinance the Freddie Mac adjustable rate mortgage that was placed on the property 16 months ago.
HAINES CITY, FLA. — Axiom Capital Advisors has brokered the $12 million sale of a Publix-anchored shopping center located at 600 US Highway 17-92 in Haines City. The 118,848-square-foot shopping center’s tenant roster includes Bealls Outlet, Dollar General and Anytime Fitness. Roberto Susi of Axiom represented the buyer, Haines City Mall LLC, in the transaction. Craig Callaway and Eric Bylin of BlueGate Partners represented the seller, Haines Mall LLC, an affiliate of Blackpoint Partners.
HOOVER, ALA. — American Realty Capital – Retail Centers of America I & II, a non-traded retail REIT, and Lincoln Property Co. Southeast have acquired the 512,871-square-foot Patton Creek in Hoover for $83.5 million. Patton Creek comprises 65.7 acres of open-air retail space occupied by tenants such as Dick’s Sporting Goods, Rave Motion Pictures, Ross Dress for Less, Cost Plus World Market, DSW, Barnes & Noble, buybuyBABY and Christmas Tree Shops. Patton Creek was approximately 95 percent leased at the time of sale. The seller was Patton Creek Holdings LLC.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. — Berkadia has arranged $23.2 million in construction financing for Seminole Booster Inc.’s College Town Phase II at Florida State University (FSU), a mixed-use development in Tallahassee. College Town Phase II will be situated less than half a mile from FSU and approximately a mile from downtown Tallahassee at the crossroads of South Woodward Avenue and West Madison Street. The project will comprise 89 student housing apartments with 202 beds in total, 23,145 square feet of retail space, 3,300 square feet of office space and a parking garage spanning 593 spaces. The developers, which include Alan Hooper and Tim Petrillo of Urban Street Development and Seminole Boosters Inc., plan to deliver College Town Phase II in August 2016. Phase I, which consists of 71 apartments and 33,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space, opened in August 2013. Hooper Construction will be the construction manager for the project. Brad Williamson of Berkadia’s Miami office worked on behalf of the developers to arranged the three-year, interest-only loan through Mutual of Omaha Bank.
GULF SHORES, ALA. — Langley Properties Co. has sold Pelican Place at Craft Farms, a 229,911-square-foot shopping center located at 3800 Gulf Shores Parkway in Gulf Shores. Atlanta-based RCG Ventures purchased the asset from Langley Properties for $18.5 million. The shopping center’s tenant roster includes Bed Bath & Beyond, Cobb Theatres and Books-A-Million. Target and Publix shadow-anchor the center. Fred Victor of Transwestern represented the seller in the transaction. Scott Tarbet represented the buyer internally.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $12.3 million sale of London Arms, a four-story, 21,120-square-foot mixed-use property located at 727 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach’s Collins Avenue Fashion District. Originally constructed in 1930 as a 52-room hotel, the property was later converted to an apartment building. Aria Development Group purchased the building in 2013 and later converted it into a mixed-use asset comprising 4,700 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 25 upper floor rental units. Aria is the operator of the seller, 727 Collins Avenue, a limited liability company. Drew Kristol, Kirk Olson, Felipe Echarte and Evan Kristol of Marcus & Millichap, along with Still Hunter III of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller in the transaction. Drew Kristol and Olson procured the buyer, a limited liability company based in Atlanta.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — TRIO Commercial Property Group has arranged a long-term ground lease with Kroger for a new 123,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace in Louisville. The new store is set to open before Thanksgiving 2016 at 4915 Dixie Highway. Justin Baker of TRIO represented Kroger in the lease transaction. The landlord, Louisville-based Dixie Associates, was self-represented.
TUSCALOOSA, ALA. — InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Chance Partners have broken ground on Hotel Indigo Tuscaloosa Downtown, a 91-room hotel located at 120 Greensboro Ave. within Riverfront Village, a $60 million mixed-use development. Riverfront Village fronts Black Warrior River in downtown Tuscaloosa. The new hotel will be the first LEED-certified hotel in Alabama and Tuscaloosa’s first riverfront hotel. IHG and Chance Partners expect to open the hotel in winter 2016. Upon completion, the hotel will feature 1,000 square feet of executive meeting space, a fitness center, restaurant, rooftop bar, business center and a 2,500-square-foot outdoor terrace. Interstate Hotels & Resorts will manage the hotel upon completion.
ATLANTA — The RADCO Cos. has purchased two apartment communities in metro Atlanta totaling 554 units for a combined $53.4 million. The properties include Andover at East Cobb in Marietta and Crossing at McDonough in McDonough. Both properties offer apartments with one, two and three bedrooms. Community amenities include resort-style pools, fitness facilities and business centers with Wi-Fi. Each apartment complex is within one mile of I-75 and provides immediate access to major local corporations such as Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta and Midland Industrial Park in McDonough. Atlanta-based RADCO will invest a combined $6.5 million to upgrade both properties through unit upgrades, amenity enhancements and exterior improvements. Andover at East Cobb will be rebranded as Winterset at East Cobb, and Crossing at McDonough will become Crossings at McDonough. RADCO purchased both assets from Wilkinson Real Estate Advisors Inc., and the two communities are now the third and fourth assets that RADCO and Wilkinson have traded together. CBRE brokered both transactions. RADCO’s portfolio now includes 44 multifamily assets with an additional 1,301 units under contract, which should close in September and October.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — High Street Residential, the multifamily subsidiary of Trammell Crow Co., and its joint venture equity partner have teamed up with Central Armature Works (CAW) to redevelop an existing CAW electrical repair and supply warehouse at 1200 3rd St. N.E. in Washington, D.C. High Street Residential plans to transform the 2.5-acre parcel in Washington’s NoMa neighborhood into an apartment building, condominium building, outdoor public space, street-level retail and a hotel. The transit-oriented project will be located directly adjacent to the NoMa Metro station. HFF represented CAW in the land sale.