YULEE, FLA. — Carmike Cinemas Inc. plans to build a 10-screen movie theater at SR 200 & Amelia Concourse in Yulee. The new theater will have seating capacity for approximately 1,700 patrons. Construction is planned to begin in late April. The new theater will feature a “Big D” auditorium, Carmike’s large-screen format that features a wall-to-wall screen. Carmike Cinemas owns 252 theaters in 37 states.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 14,490-square-foot Walgreens store at 1600 Skibo Road in Fayetteville. The property, which sold for approximately $5.6 million, operates 24 hours a day and features a drive thru pharmacy. Michael Early of Marcus & Millichap’s southern Virginia office represented the seller, an individual trust, in the transaction. Ned Zivkovic and Alvin Mansour of The Mansour Group in Marcus & Millichap’s San Diego office secured and represented the buyer, a private investor. James Allen Smith of Marcus & Millichap assisted in the transaction.
BENTONVILLE AND ROGERS, ARK. — Virtus Real Estate Capital has acquired two self storage facilities in northwest Arkansas for an undisclosed price. The Austin, Texas-based private equity firm purchased a 57,700-square-foot facility in Bentonville and a 72,025-square-foot property in Rogers. Both locations are operated under the A&A Stor It brand. Virtus purchased the assets in a joint venture with Memphis, Tenn.-based Absolute Storage Management (ASM). ASM will invest approximately $120,000 in capital improvements to the two facilities, and Virtus will undertake asphalt repairs, painting and repairing doors, office rehabilitations and implementing additional security measures.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged $4.1 million in refinancing for Woodview Apartments, a 208-unit multifamily community in Charlotte. Bill Matone of NorthMarq’s Charlotte office arranged the 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through a Fannie Mae DUS lender.
The Upstate of South Carolina is home to 1.2 million people located on the Interstate 85 corridor between Atlanta and Charlotte. The population is clustered around the cities of Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson. The epicenter of the industrial market is along the county line between Greenville and Spartanburg counties, where South Carolina Inland Port (SCIP) was recently completed. The region has a long legacy of manufacturing, but during the last 30 years, the type of manufacturing has shifted away from low-skill textile manufacturing to a more diverse economy built around the automobile, energy and chemical industries. The Upstate is first and foremost an industrial market with approximately 150 million square feet of manufacturing, warehouse and flex space. At the close of the fourth quarter of 2013, vacancy reached 7.6 percent — its lowest point in the last 10 years. While this market vacancy pales in comparison to the sub-3 percent vacancy rates found routinely on the West Coast, given the amount of older textile-era warehouse facilities in the market inflating vacancy, the current rate is extremely low for our market. Eventually this low vacancy will hinder growth rates as tenants interested in a particular type of space are unable to …
ALPHARETTA, GA. — North American Properties (NAP) has topped off Avalon, the $600 million, mixed-use development in Alpharetta, an affluent suburb north of Atlanta. NAP has also signed 15 new retailers to the property, making Avalon’s retail component 97 percent pre-leased. The new retailers joining Avalon’s tenant roster include J. Crew, Crate & Barrel, Calypso St. Barth, Bantu, LensCrafters, BCBG, Sunglass Hut, Road Runner Sports, Soft Surroundings, J. Jill, Goldberg’s Deli, J. McLaughlin, Boston Proper, Lou & Grey and Columbia Sportswear. Avalon is set to open to the public on Oct. 30.
MONTGOMERY, ALA. — The Shopping Center Group has arranged the sale of two retail centers in Montgomery totaling $14.4 million. Atlanta-based Monarch Investments purchased both the 165,114-square-foot Promenade Montgomery and the 43,500-square-foot Promenade Montgomery North. The two assets are located approximately 1,000 feet from one another. Kathy Dennis of The Shopping Center Group represented the seller, New York-based Garrison Investment Group, in the transaction. The Shopping Center Group will continue to lease the two retail centers on behalf of Monarch Investments.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Mumford Co. has brokered the sale of the 107-room Homewood Suites-Mt. Pleasant located on the Isle of Palms Connector at Seaside Farms in Charleston. Rupa LLC purchased the hotel from The Suites at Seaside LLC, the hotel’s developer, for an undisclosed price. Rupa has retained Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Vision Hotel Group to manage the asset and oversee the property’s renovation. David Mumford of The Mumford Co. represented the seller in the transaction.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — HREC Investment Advisors has arranged the sale of the 289-room InnPlace Hotel in Charleston. The hotel was formerly a Sheraton Charleston Airport Hotel. Monty Levy, Paul Sexton and Scott Stephens of HREC Investment Advisors represented the seller, an affiliate of LNR Partners LLC, in the transaction.
ROCKVILLE, MD. — New Boston Fund Inc. has inked two leases for office space totaling 11,944 square feet at Building III of the Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus in Rockville. Pediatric Nursing Certification Board leased 6,387 square feet and Cato Research leased 5,557 square feet at the property. Danny Sheridan and Morgan Sullivan of JLL represented New Boston Fund in the lease transaction. Andrew Genova of West, Lane & Schlager Realty Advisors represented the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, and Matt Brady of Scheer Partners Inc. represented Cato Research.