BOCA RATON, FLA. — HJ Sims has raised roughly $214 million for a start-up continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Boca Raton known as Sinai Residences of Boca Raton. The property is located on the campus of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. The resort-style CCRC features 237 independent living units, 48 assisted living units, 24 memory care units and 60 skilled nursing suites. Federation CCRC Operations Corp. is the property’s developer, owner and manager. HJ Sims structured $120.7 million of tax-exempt fixed-rate bonds, $69 million of Entrance Fee Principal Redemption Bonds and $24.1 million of Draw Down Bonds. Sinai Residences of Boca Raton is slated to open in 2015. The project team includes development and marketing consultant Greenbrier Development, manager Life Care Services and architect Perkins Eastman.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — HFF has advised on the equity and debt capitalization totaling $39.4 million for the acquisition of Wingate Apartments, a 714-unit apartment community located at 4660 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. S.W. in southwest Washington, D.C. The property consists of two components: the 385-unit Vista at Wingate, which is composed of three high-rise buildings, and the 329-unit Gardens at Wingate, a garden-style community. Brenden Flood, Cary Abod, Alan Davis, Dave Nachison and Bret Thompson of HFF arranged the debt and equity financing on behalf of the borrower, CIH Ventures Inc. HFF arranged a $27.6 million, 10-year Fannie Mae loan through M&T Bank, along with $8.5 million in equity through The Zitelman Group, $1.8 million from CIH principals and $1.5 million from a CIH private syndicate.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — United Realty Trust Inc., a non-traded REIT, has purchased a triple-net leased medical office building at 945 82nd Parkway in Myrtle Beach for $15.7 million. The property is located adjacent to the Grand Strand Regional Medical Center, an acute care hospital. United Realty purchased the two-story, 44,323-square-foot property in an off-market transaction. The medical office facility is fully leased to three tenants: Carolina Health Specialists, The Cardiology/Gastroenterology Associates and Grand Strand Regional Diagnostic and Women’s Center.
ALEXANDRIA, VA. — The Greysteel Co. has brokered the sale of Mount Vernon Apartments, a boutique apartment property in Alexandria’s Del Ray neighborhood. Ari Firoozabadi, Kyle Tangney, John Mullen, Caleb Brown, Lance Ahmadian, Mike Bediones and Jake Ying of Greysteel represented the seller, Latitude 38 Realty LLC, in the transaction. The buyer was 3310 Mt Vernon Ave LLC.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Stiles Construction has topped off construction on Elan 16Forty, a 261-unit luxury apartment community at 1640 E. Sunrise Blvd. in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Greystar owns the project and will operate it upon completion in September. Elan 16Forty will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging in size from 686 to 1,599 square feet. The community will feature 2,300 square feet of ground-level retail space, a gourmet demonstration kitchen, community room, business center, game room, resort-style swimming pool, sun deck with cabanas, outdoor grilling stations and a rooftop terrace.
DAVENPORT, FLA. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $36.3 million loan to refinance Victoria Park Apartments, a 348-unit multifamily community located at 1000 Victoria Park Blvd. in Davenport, about 35 miles southwest of Orlando. Melissa Marcolini Quinn and David Schofield of NorthMarq’s Orlando office arranged the 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through a CMBS lender.
BOCA RATON, FLA. — Meridian Capital Group LLC has arranged $31 million to refinance seven unanchored shopping centers in Orlando, Tampa, Kissimmee, Sanford and Sarasota. The properties total 200,000 square feet and house 80 tenants. The retail centers include Westchase Town Center in Tampa; The Gateway and Osceola Gateway in Kissimmee; The Shoppes of East Colonial and Hunter Creek Shoppes in Orlando; Sanford Town Center in Sanford; and Sarasota Palms Plaza in Sarasota. Michael Brown and Adam LeBlanc of Meridian’s Boca Raton office arranged the 10-year, non-recourse loan through a CMBS lender. The loan has a fixed interest rate of 4.88 percent and features five years of interest-only payments.
CORAL GABLES, FLA. — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has closed a $24.5 million first mortgage loan for The Mile at Coral Gables, a 13-story luxury apartment project under construction at 3622 S.W. 22nd St. in Coral Gables. Once complete, the property will feature 3,000 square feet of ground-level retail space and 119 apartment units, with amenities including a swimming pool, fitness center and 175-space parking garage. Phil Carroll of Grandbridge originated the three-year interest-only loan through an unnamed bank.
LEXINGTON, S.C. — Newmark Grubb Wilson Kibler has brokered the $5.5 million sale of a two-story, 51,512-square-foot office building located at 113 Reed Ave. in Lexington. TD Bank currently occupies the property. Jeremy Wilson of Newmark Grubb Wilson Kibler represented the buyer, ET Lexington LLC, in the transaction. Ben Kelly of NAI Avant represented the seller.
Though Atlanta has had a reputation as a boom-or-bust town for many years, it has struggled to maintain a thriving multifamily development business. However, an in-depth look at the current local trends shows a strengthening multifamily market, and with it, an evolution of many lower-cost neighborhoods into desirable development and residential sites. Now, the city is poised for a more sustainable future as demand for apartment housing inside the Perimeter continues to increase. Classic institutional developers are seeking to use this increasing demand as a platform to boost Atlanta to a new strata in line with New York, Boston and other metropolises such as Houston and Dallas. With no significant barriers to entry, active merchant buyers are taking advantage of Atlanta’s large developable land supply to support new high-density multifamily developments. Developers are working to stabilize the supply in response to the overwhelming demand; three- to five-year waves of building and development will help grow the market steadily. Amid the current five to 10 percent growth rate, some in-town projects are predicted to trade at higher levels than ever before. For example, 77 12th Street is widely expected to trade for more than $300,000 per unit — a robust figure …