MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Franklin Street Real Estate Services has brokered the $4.3 million sale of a 24-unit apartment building in Miami Beach. The apartment community is located at 8101 Crespi Blvd., about five minutes south of Bal Harbour and 15 minutes north of South Beach. Deme Mekras, Elliot Shainberg and David Reinke of Franklin Street represented the seller, a local investor, in the transaction. The buyer, a real estate investor and developer from Italy, purchased the asset with the intent to convert the project to a condominium development.
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GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $3.4 million sale of Springhill, a 192-unit apartment property at 100 Swift Blvd. in Goose Creek. Mark Boyce, Andrew Mays and Paul Vetter of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a bank/financial institution, in the transaction. The property was built in 1974 and was in the mid-70 percent occupancy range at the time of sale.
ATLANTA — Lincoln Property Co. Southeast has arranged office lease renewals totaling 30,048 square feet at Eleven Seventeen Perimeter, a Class A office building in Atlanta’s North Fulton submarket. Hunter Henritze and Michael Howell of Lincoln Property Co. represented the unnamed landlord in the transactions, which include: Troy University renewing its 13,291-square-foot lease. Kathleen Burke of Cresa Atlanta represented Troy. Visionaire Partners renewing its 6,273-square-foot lease. Pete Shelton of Colliers International represented Visionaire. Care Solutions renewing its 5,681-square-foot lease. Ryan Cone of Cone Middour Partners represented Care Solutions. CURE Childhood Cancer renewed and expanded its lease to 4,803 square feet. Greg Kindred of Richard Bowers & Co. represented the tenant.
GLEN BURNIE, MD. — First Potomac Realty Trust has signed Skyline Technology Solutions to an 11-year lease for 28,753 square feet at Aviation Business Park in Glen Burnie. Aviation Business Park features three single-story, Class A office buildings totaling 120,285 square feet. The property is located about two miles from Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The transaction with Skyline brings the park to 70 percent occupancy.
SANDY SPRINGS, GA. — Core Property Capital has selected SRS Real Estate Partners to lease Sandy Springs Gateway, Core’s new 21-acre mixed-use development underway in Sandy Springs, a suburb of Atlanta. The new development will be located at the intersection of Roswell Road and Windsor Parkway. Core Property Capital is developing the office and retail portions and JLB is developing the multifamily component of Sandy Springs Gateway. The property’s tenant roster will include Tupelo Honey Café, Urban Cookhouse, CVS/pharmacy, an unnamed restaurant concept and a specialty grocer. Core Property has begun demolition on the site and construction is expected to wrap up in spring 2015. Lily Heimburger and Adrienne Crawford of SRS Real Estate Partners represented Core Property Capital in the lease transactions with its new tenants. Sarah Williams of SRS represented Urban Cookhouse and Howard Zoldessy of Southern Management & Development LP represented Tupelo Honey Café. The additional tenants did not have broker representation.
WINCHESTER, VA. — Atlanta-based Cocke Finkelstein Inc. has acquired Peppertree Apartments, a 194-unit apartment community in Winchester, about 80 miles west of Washington, D.C. The garden-style property, which was 94 percent occupied at the time of sale, sold for $14.1 million. CFLane, the apartment management subsidiary of Cocke Finkelstein Inc., will manage the community.
ORLANDO, FLA. — McCraney Property Co. has signed a 10-year lease for a 200,000-square-foot build-to-suit in its Bent Oak Industrial Park project in Orlando. The tenant, national apparel distributor Bodek and Rhodes, will relocate from its current Orlando warehouse and expand from 140,000 square feet to 200,000 square feet. Construction of the 700,000-square-foot Bent Oak Industrial Park is slated to begin within the next 45 days with occupancy expected to begin in December. Matthew Sullivan, Wilson McDowell and Bobby Isola of Colliers International represented McCraney Property Co. in the lease negotiation. McCraney’s in-house team on the transaction included Steven McCraney, James Marvel and Andrew Jacobson. Scott Williamson and Rick Schuhwerk of JLL represented Bodek and Rhodes, which was also self-represented by Rich Weisbrod.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has arranged an acquisition loan for Cross Creek Apartments, a 292-unit multifamily community in Jacksonville. The financing totaled approximately $5.4 million. The property features a clubhouse, laundry facilities, pool and playground. Michael Balan of Grandbridge’s Miami office originated the 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through a CMBS lender on behalf of the borrower, a Mexico-based real estate investor.
E-commerce and the automotive industry drove a resurgent Nashville industrial market in 2013, and we predict another strong, steady year for absorption and investor demand this year. Perhaps the biggest question mark, though, revolves around backfilling second-generation space as its former occupiers move into new build-to-suits. This factor is indicative of robust build-to-suit activity, and while it may increase vacancy early in the year and stall speculative development, the market’s overall health and forward momentum is unquestionable. Nashville’s 200 million-square-foot industrial market closed 2013 with vacancy at 7.9 percent, down from 8.7 percent at the end of 2012, on positive absorption of 3.4 million square feet. The 55 million-square-foot Southeast submarket proved to be the region’s most active, with 1.7 million square feet of net absorption for the year and a vacancy rate of 10.1 percent, followed closely by the East, with 1.6 million square feet of net absorption and a 13.9 percent vacancy rate. Clearly, build-to-suit activity was and is king in Nashville, as it is in many markets. Four build-to-suit projects are currently underway, including distribution centers for Dex Imaging, Allied Modular, Hogebuilt and Panattoni Development Co.’s 240,000-square-foot building for medical products firm Hollister. Panattoni also delivered a …
RICHMOND, VA. — Capstone Apartment Partners has brokered the $18.5 million sale of the Beaufont Oaks Apartments, a 312-unit multifamily community in Richmond. The asset was 96.2 percent occupied at the time of sale. The apartment community was built in 1982 and features a fitness center, swimming pool, playground and tennis court. The buyer, Charlotte, N.C.-based Grubb Properties, plans to continue the property’s renovations. Beau McIntosh, Todd Conner, Brian Ford and Andrew Klenk of Capstone Apartment Partners represented the unnamed seller in the transaction, which is the largest deal thus far this year in Richmond’s apartment market.