ATLANTA — Value Place, an extended-stay hotel brand, has opened its second hotel in Atlanta and ninth hotel in Georgia at 2877 Dresden Drive. The four-story, 124-room hotel is located south of Chamblee Tucker Road inside the I-285 perimeter. The hotel features kitchens with a microwave, cooktop and refrigerator; high-speed Wi-Fi internet; guess laundry; and 24-hour vending. To date, Value Place has opened nearly 200 hotels in 31 states. The brand is targeting markets such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, Miami, Portland, the Twin Cities and Fort Lauderdale for its continued expansion.
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COLUMBUS, GA. — America’s Realty, in partnership with ARCJ Capital, has purchased Fountain Park Shopping Center, a 107,105-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center in Columbus. America’s Realty purchased the asset from Phillips Edison and Co. for approximately $5 million. The asset was 89 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Winn Dixie, Dollar Tree, Gallery Wedding, China Café, Golden Beauty, Q Nails, Veri Best Donut and Farmers Home Furniture. The property is the fifth shopping center that America’s Realty has purchased in Georgia.
KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Campus Advantage is currently developing its newest project, The Knox, which will serve students attending the University of Tennessee beginning in fall 2016. Pinecrest Partners is providing equity financing for the 101-unit, 382-bed community. Located at 1505 Clinch Ave., the location puts residents less than 100 feet from the University of Tennessee campus. The Knox will feature three-, four- and five-bedroom apartments. The community consists of two buildings, a five-level building and a six‐level building, and features two levels of gated garage parking and nine floors of residential space. Amenities will include a cyber cafe, computer bar, lounge room with fireplace and large-screen televisions and a fitness center, as well as an outdoor green roof with grills, water features, hammocks and a theater area. Each fully furnished apartment features a 42-inch television in its living room, wood-style flooring in the common areas, an in-unit washer and dryer, high-end finishes, stainless steel appliances and cable and high-speed Internet. Campus Advantage worked closely with the Historic Preservation Office at the city of Knoxville, as well as the Historic Fort Sanders Neighborhood Association, to design The Knox. Ronnie Macejewski, senior vice president of development of Campus Advantage, is leading the …
Bristol Group, Butters Acquire 74 Acres in Broward County for 925,000 SF Business Park
by John Nelson
DEERSFIELD BEACH, FLA. — Bristol Group Inc. and Butters Construction and Development have acquired the former Deerfield Country Club in Deersfield Beach from Gator Development Group LLC. Bristol and Butters will be co-developing a 925,000-square-foot business park at the site known as Hillsboro Technology Center. Plans for the 74-acre campus include a Class A warehouse/distribution center, office space and a limited service hotel. The park will be located adjacent to the four-way interchange of I-95 and Hillsboro Boulevard. Phase I of the park will also include a developer-donated recreation building for the city of Deerfield Beach and a public park with jogging and walking trails. Construction on the development will begin in the second quarter of 2015, and the developers plan to deliver the first two speculative industrial buildings in the first half of 2016. Upon completion in three to five years, Hillsboro Technology Center is expected to host roughly 1,500 permanent jobs, and the project is expected to create roughly 3,500 construction jobs. Tom Viscount and Tom Hotz of Butters Realty & Management have been selected to lease the project.
ACWORTH, GA. — Construction has begun on Celebration Village Acworth with plans to open the 16.5-acre seniors housing community in May 2016. The community includes 114 independent living apartments, 44 apartment homes, 55 assisted living units and 31 memory care apartments. Active Senior Concepts and AgeWell Living developed the Celebration concept. Active Senior Concepts’s developments are located throughout metro Atlanta. AgeWell, located in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., will operate the community.
HAMPTON, VA. — Huntington Ingalls Industries, a publicly traded shipbuilding company, has leased 515,486 square feet of warehouse space in West Park, a business park located at 300 and 500 W. Park Lane in Hampton. Worth Remick, Ashton Williamson and Chamie Burroughs of CBRE|Hampton Roads represented the owner, Boston-based High Street Equity, in the transaction. Clay Culbreth of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer represented the tenant.
HATTIESBURG, MISS. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $16.8 million sale of Academy Sports + Outdoors and Shops at Turtle Creek, a 98,673-square-foot shopping center located at 6173-6175 U.S. Highway 98 in Hattiesburg. The shopping center is within the 504,000-square-foot Turtle Creek Crossing power center. Built between 2011 and 2012, the shopping center comprises a 75,760-square-foot Academy Sports + Outdoors and two shopping spaces leased to Mattress Express, Massage Envy Spa, Keesler Federal Credit Union, Papa Murphy’s and J. Allan’s. Alvin Mansour and Ryan Gomez of Marcus & Millichap’s San Diego office, along with Anne Williams of the firm’s Memphis office, represented the seller, a private developer based in Texas. The team also represented the buyer, an institutional net lease investor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — HFF has brokered the $109 million sale of a 195,624-square-foot office building located at 2025 M St. N.W. in downtown Washington, D.C.’s Golden Triangle area. James Meisel, Dek Potts, Andrew Weir, Stephen Conley, Matthew Nicholson and Jessica Diorio of HFF represented the seller, a partnership between The Oliver Carr Co. and Clark Enterprises Inc. Mikeone EK purchased the asset, which was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Kaplan, Radio Free Asia and Smith Bucklin. CBRE arranged acquisition financing for the transaction.
PORT ORANGE, FLA. — CBRE has brokered the $40.2 million sale of Whitepalm Apartment Homes, a new 306-unit luxury apartment community located at 5400 S. Williamson Blvd. in Port Orange, roughly 45 minutes outside of Orlando. Built in 2014, the gated Class A community features a large clubhouse, resort-style pool with cabanas, serenity beach with hammocks and a fitness center. Nashville-based Carter-Haston Holdings purchased the community from Birmingham-based LIV Development. Shelton Granade, Luke Wickham and Justin Basquill of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction.
ARLINGTON, VA. — PCCP LLC has provided a $34.6 million senior loan to refinance a nine-story, 114,766-square-foot office building in Arlington. The asset is located in the Courthouse submarket of Arlington’s Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor. The borrower, Washington, D.C.-based Penzance, will use the loan to refinance maturing debt on the asset, as well as finance tenant improvements, leasing efforts and renovations. Built in 1987, the office building is currently occupied by 14 tenants, 11 of which use the office building as their corporate headquarters.