Southeast

Westshore Center Tampa

TAMPA, FLA. — A discretionary fund formed by PM Realty Group and The Roseview Group called Roseview-PMRG Fund I LLC acquired Westshore Center in Tampa. The sales price was undisclosed, but according to industry sources, the nine-story office building sold for $40 million. The 216,410-square-foot office property is located at 1715 N. Westshore Blvd. in Tampa’s Westshore submarket. The fund purchased the asset from an unnamed institutional investor for an undisclosed price. Built in 1984, the property is located roughly 2.4 miles south of Tampa International Airport. The Class A office building is the first acquisition in Florida for Roseview-PMRG Fund I LLC, which owns properties in Atlanta, Houston, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

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Barclay Square Largo Tampa Bay

LARGO, FLA. — Sterling Organization has sold Barclay Square, a 99,054-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center in Largo, a city in the Tampa Bay MSA. Northbrook, Ill.-based Pine Tree Commercial Realty purchased the shopping center from Sterling Organization for $18.9 million. Originally developed in 1988 and renovated in 2008, the shopping center is located on the northeast corner of Walsingham and Indian Rocks roads one mile east of the Gulf of Mexico. A 42,018-square-foot Walmart Neighborhood Market anchors the shopping center. Adam Feinstein of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction. Sterling Organization purchased Barclay Square via its Sterling Value Add Partners LP institutional fund for $10.8 million in 2012.

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ORLANDO, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $14.4 million sale of Royal Isles, a 264-unit apartment community located at 803 Don Quixote Ave. in Orlando. The property has 80 one-bedroom/one-bath units, 132 two-bedroom/two-bath apartments and 52 three-bedroom/two bath units. Evan Kristol of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office and Still Hunter III of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a private investor from Beverly Hills, Calif., and the buyer, a Miami-based limited-liability company.

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Miami’s multifamily market now ranks among the country’s strongest overall performers (if not the strongest). The city attracts, and benefits from, numerous tourists, investors, financial institutions, real estate funds, retailers and tourists from countries around the globe. The demand for condominiums and apartment buildings in Miami seems insatiable with the investors competing for increasingly scant deals. In practical terms, that means hotel and office developers often lose out across asset classes to the “ever-on-fire” multifamily sector. There is every indication in the first quarter of 2015 that Miami’s multifamily market’s upward trend will continue. Debt and equity continue to stream into the Miami-Dade County apartment and condominium sector from both local sources and out-of-area buyers attracted to solid asset performance and robust housing demand generators. Continued employment and population growth have bolstered housing demand as the overall Miami economy strengthened in 2014. The Miami metropolitan area added more than 30,000 jobs last year, and based on figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Miami-Dade County’s unemployment rate continued its downward trend to 5.4 percent in February 2015. According to the Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, South Florida’s population is expected to increase by approximately 29 percent between 2013 …

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Rivergate Tower Tampa

TAMPA, FLA. — PCCP has formed a joint venture with Banyan Street Capital to purchase Rivergate Tower, a 515,965-square-foot office complex located at 400 N. Ashley Drive in downtown Tampa. PCCP and Banyan Street Capital purchased the property for $70 million, according to Tampa Business Journal. CBRE brokered the sale and arranged acquisition financing for the joint venture. The property comprises a 31-story office tower and an adjacent five-story pavilion office building that houses the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. Other tenants include Malio’s Prime Steakhouse, an upscale café, full-service bank branch, dry cleaner, two-story parking garage and a fitness center. The office complex was built in 1988 for $150 million.

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545 Brookshire Road Greer

GREER, S.C. — Beacon Partners has begun construction on a 240,020-square-foot speculative industrial facility located at 545 Brookshire Road in Greer. Beacon Partners expects to complete the property in February 2016. The location is approximately two miles from I-85, Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport and the South Carolina Inland Port at Greer. Tim Robertson of Beacon Partners will lead the leasing efforts for the facility, which will feature an ESFR sprinkler system, 32-foot clear heights and a 185-foot truck court to accommodate on-site trailer parking.

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MIAMI — Coldwell Banker Commercial (CBC) Alliance has brokered the $15 million sale of a 213,131-square-foot industrial facility located in Miami’s Airport West industrial submarket. The property is located on an 8.9-acre site at 6950 N.W. 77th Court. The facility features 175,000 square feet of industrial space, 27,000 square feet of office space and 10,000 square feet of retail space. The property’s retail tenants include Perry Ellis and Bijoux Terner. The seller, Leyjon Investments Corp., will retain office and industrial space in the facility. Jim McCoy of CBC Alliance and Jeff Hartsook of Americas Industrial Realty Corp. represented Leyjon in the transaction. Luis Nunez of Realty Professionals #1 Inc. represented the buyer, The Apollo Group, a Miami-based cruise ship catering and logistics company.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dallas-based Velocis, in a partnership with Lincoln Property Co., has purchased a telecom carrier hotel and data center located at 701 Trade St. in downtown Charlotte. Built in 1968, the two-story building is more than 80 percent leased to telecommunications and colocation data center users. Lincoln Harris will lease and manage the property.

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Old Bridge Apartments Richmond

RICHMOND, VA. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $10 million refinancing for Old Bridge Apartments, a 222-unit multifamily property located at 2835 Hilliard Road in Richmond. Robert Bhat of NorthMarq’s Miami office arranged the fully amortizing, 20-year loan through an unnamed life insurance company. The loan was structured with a fixed interest rate in the high 3 percent range, according to Bhat.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Capital One has closed a $110 million non-recourse bridge loan for the refinancing of a six-story office building located at 64 New York Ave. in Washington, D.C. Capital One served as sole lead agent, sole bookrunner and administrative agent for the loan. Capital One provided the loan on behalf of the borrower, a property fund managed by Brookfield Asset Management. The office building is primarily leased to the Washington, D.C., government, according to Capital One.

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