Southeast

2144 California St. N.W. Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — CBRE has brokered the $27 million sale of The Envoy, now known as 2144 California St. N.W., a 113-unit multifamily community in northwest Washington, D.C.’s Kalorama Heights community. A joint venture between Federal City Property Investors LLC and CBD LLC purchased the asset from an undisclosed seller. Robert Meehling and Yalda Ghamarian of CBRE’s Washington, D.C., office represented the seller, along with CBRE’s Bill Roohan, Mike Muldowney, Michael Rudolph, Brian Margerum and Martha Hastings. HFF arranged the joint venture equity partnership and secured debt financing through United Bank. The HFF team included Brenden Flood, Alan Davis, Dave Nachison, Bret Thompson, Tim Stanton, Daniel McIntyre, Nicholas Demas, Chuck Berman and Tracey Appelbaum.

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DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA. — Cosmo International Fragrance has selected Miller Construction Co. to fully renovate a 93,955-square-foot production, distribution and office facility in Deerfield Beach. The property is located at 1341 W. Newport Center Drive within the Newport Center business park. The renovation includes reconfiguring the manufacturing and warehouse space, expanding a concrete mezzanine, constructing a roof structure and installing interior air quality monitoring and exhaust systems. Miller Construction plans to complete the renovation in December, whereby Cosmo will transfer its South Florida production and office locations to the property. The project team includes FSMY Architects, KAMM Consulting and MUEngineers Inc.

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ATLANTA — Atlanta-based SG Property Services has acquired a portfolio of three Class A medical office buildings in metro Atlanta for $11.8 million. Totaling 60,000 square feet, the properties include Johns Creek Medical Building in Johns Creek, Marble Mill Medical Center in Marietta and Hospital Way in Stockbridge. The facilities are more than 95 percent leased and are located immediately adjacent to hospital anchors.

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Flamingo Commons Davie

DAVIE, FLA. — Avison Young has brokered the $5.4 million sale of Flamingo Commons, an 18,000-square-foot strip center and outparcel located at 4401 S. Flamingo Road in Davie. The property was 87 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as SunTrust Bank and Dunkin’ Donuts. Michael Fay, John Crotty and Joshua Ladle of Avison Young represented the seller, LNR Partners, in the transaction. The Avison Young team found potential buyers using Auction.com. The buyer, JDV Properties LLC, has retained Avison Young for leasing and management services.

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NoDa Brewing Co. Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Piedmont Properties/CORFAC International has arranged NoDa Brewing Co.’s 15-year lease at 2921 N. Tryon St. in Charlotte. In the fall, NoDa Brewing will occupy the 33,000-square-foot industrial building, which triples its current 11,000-square-foot footprint at 2229 N. Davidson St. The future facility will have office space, production space and a tap room that is open to the public. Frank McCleneghan of Piedmont Properties/CORFAC represented NoDa Brewing in the lease transaction. The landlord, Hop, Drop and Loco LLC, recently purchased the facility from Ray Roofing for approximately $1.4 million. The property was constructed in the 1920s as a vinegar manufacturing plant for Speas Vinegar. There are plans in place to designate the facility as an historic property.

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Manufacturing was instrumental in driving the United States economy out of the recession. With Greenville-Spartanburg having a high ratio of manufacturing to warehouse space, the region’s industrial market has been ahead of the national market in terms of growth. Greenville-Spartanburg is first and foremost an industrial market with approximately 160 million square feet of manufacturing, warehouse and flex space. This is larger than the industrial markets in Columbia and Charleston combined. For five consecutive years vacancy has declined and absorption has been consistently positive. Vacancy currently sits at a record 7.3 percent and has been there for several quarters, not moving down further mostly due to lack of product. Annual net absorption topped 4.3 million square feet in 2012 and 2013, and dropped down to 2.5 million in 2014. Space that does not exist cannot be absorbed. Developers are aggressively responding to this lack of product with more than 3 million square feet of space expected to be built in 2015. Over 1.3 million square feet of that space is considered speculative, meaning construction started before occupancy was achieved. Both numbers represent the highest amounts of construction since CBRE began tracking the Greenville-Spartanburg industrial market in 2001. Absorption in 2015 …

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Alta Eastmar Commons Orlando

ORLANDO, FLA. — Wood Partners LLC will break ground this month on Alta Eastmar Commons, a 312-unit, $41.9 million apartment community in Orlando. The asset will be located on 29.3 acres at 159 Dean Road. The property is Wood Partners’ 12th apartment community developed in Orlando. Construction is expected to wrap up in the fourth quarter of 2016, and Wood Partners plans to begin leasing the residences in the first quarter of 2016. Upon completion, the property will feature a two-story clubhouse, pool, nature trails, 516 surface parking spaces and 54 detached garages. Eastmar Commons Partnership was the seller of the land, and Jay Ballard of Cushman & Wakefield of Florida was the broker. CBREGI is the equity partner. BB&T provided the construction loan. Chancey Design Partnership (architect), Mellich Blenden Engineering (civil engineer) and Libra Design Group (landscape architect) designed the project. Wood Florida Builders is the general contractor, and Wood Residential Services will manage the community once it’s complete.

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Brentwood Chase Apartments Gastonia

ROCK HILL, S.C. AND GASTONIA, N.C. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged two refinance loans totaling $34.8 million for two multifamily properties in the Carolinas. The assets include the 436-unit Brentwood Chase Apartments at 1654 Lowell Bethesda Road in Gastonia and the 248-unit Cowan Farms at 1310 Cypress Point Drive in Rock Hill. Bill Matone of NorthMarq Capital’s Charlotte office arranged both loans with 10-year terms and 30-year amortization schedules. Brentwood Chase’s loan amount was $21.8 million and Cowan Farms’ was $13 million.

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Goshen Crossing Giant Gaithersburg

GAITHERSBURG, MD. — CBRE’s National Retail Investment Group has brokered the $19.5 million sale of Goshen Crossing, a 78,456-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center in Gaithersburg. Giant Food anchors the center and master ground leases the entire property on a long-term triple-net basis, occupying the majority of the center and subleasing the remaining portion to a mix of national and local tenants. The center was fully leased at the time of sale. Jeffrey Dunne, David Gavin, Bill Kent and Ryan Sciullo of CBRE represented the seller, GC Gaithersburg LLC, an entity controlled by Ceruzzi Properties. The CBRE team also procured the buyer, a private investor based in New York that acquired the asset as part of a 1031 tax-deferred exchange.

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SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. — Construction is underway on Fairview Park Assisted Living Facility, developed by Graycliff Capital Senior Housing, across a 10-acre parcel near Hillcrest Memorial Hospital in Simpsonville. Planned to accommodate 80 total beds, Fairview was modeled on Graycliff’s Spring Park concept and will comprise two residential assisted living wings containing common areas and 56 beds, as well as a 24-bed memory care wing with private common areas. Development cost is $11.2 million, and Graycliff expects to complete construction by November 2015.

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