Southeast

MORRISVILLE, N.C. — CEVA, a logistics company, has signed a lease for 102,381-square-foot of space at Globe Center, a Class A industrial park in Morrisville. Globe Center is a master-planned park composed of eight uniformly designed buildings, located adjacent to the Raleigh-Durham International Airport and I-540. Ann Stewart Patterson and Butch Miller of CBRE|Raleigh and Deborah Royale and Daniela Neukam of CBRE represented the tenant in the transaction. Craig Davis Properties represented the landlord.

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MIAMI — Blanca Commercial Real Estate has been named the exclusive leasing agent for The Building on Ponce Circle, a 58,000-square-foot, Class A office building at 2990 Ponce de Leon Blvd. in Miami's Coral Gables business district. AJP Ventures developed the building in 2012 on behalf of a joint venture between Mas Group of Cos. and TAZ Partners LLC. The property is 62 percent occupied and tenants include Zubi Advertising, Mas Group of Cos., FirstBank Florida and LBI Media. The property includes floor-to-ceiling windows, an on-site bank and drive-thru teller and a rooftop terrace. Tere Blanca and Alison Pages of Blanca Commercial Real Estate will lead the marketing and leasing of the property.

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YORK COUNTY, VA. — Commonwealth Green has acquired 50 acres near the Kiln Creek subdivision on Commonwealth Green Boulevard in York County for $6.4 million. The buyer plans to develop a mixed-use project on the site named Commonwealth Green, which will include 334 upscale apartments, 94 townhomes and 40,000 square feet of retail. Chris Rouzie and Ken Penrose of Cushman & Wakefield |Thalhimer represented the seller, JLK Family LLC, in the transaction.

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BUFORD, GA. — Blue Ridge Capital LLC has acquired two value-add retail centers in Buford, approximately a half-mile from I-985 along Lanier Islands Parkway, for $2.5 million. The sale included the 23,750-square-foot Friendship Village, a neighborhood center that includes tenants such as All Eyes Vision, Lanier Dental and La Cazuela, a Mexican restaurant. The second property is the 23,450-square-foot Shoppes at Friendship, with tenants such as Subway, Vinny's New York Pizza and Ark Veterinary Hospital. State Farm also finalized a 1,050-square-foot lease at the property at the close of the deal. Blue Ridge plans to renovate the properties, which were approximately 60 percent vacant at the time of sale.

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BETHESDA, MD. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged $98 million in financing for six multifamily properties in the Southeast, consisting of 1,708 units. The firm arranged a 10-year acquisition loan for Polo Glenn Apartments in Rockledge, Fla., through Freddie Mac on behalf of the borrower, Pollack Shores Real Estate Group. In Georgia, Walker & Dunlop arranged refinancing loans through Freddie Mac for Sinclair Apartment Homes and Springdale Glen Apartments on behalf of the borrower, Cortland Partners. Priderock Capital Partners secured a 10-year acquisition loan through Walker & Dunlop, which arranged the loan through Fannie Mae. The borrower used the funds to acquire Park Place Apartments in Louisville, Ky. In the last deal, the firm arranged two, 10-year loans for multifamily properties in Louisiana — Palmetto Creek Apartments and Regency Club Apartments — on behalf of the borrower, Favrot & Shane Cos.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Berlin Packaging, a North American packaging supplier, has signed a 40,000-square-foot lease at a new spec distribution building located at 9682-9689 Premier Parkway in Fort Lauderdale. The new lease at the 87,540-square-foot property brings the building to full occupancy, just one month after Sunbeam Properties brought the spec building to market. The remainder of the building is occupied by a manufacturing company. Steven Medwin, Chris Watts and Nick Wigoda of Jones Lang LaSalle represented the tenant in the transaction.

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ATLANTA — Northside Hospital Inc. has signed a 10-year lease renewal for 43,051 square feet at Meridian Mark Plaza in Atlanta, a 160,000-square-foot medical office building developed and owned by Cousins Properties Inc. The property is located along the Glenridge Connector in the “Pill Hill” area — a cluster of the region's major hospitals and doctors' offices near Georgia State Route 400 and I-285. The space primarily houses Northside Hospital's Outpatient Surgery Center in addition to its pharmacy and ancillary services. George Olmstead of Olmstead Realty LLC represented Cousins in the transaction. Joseph Krumdieck of Realty Trust Group represented the tenant.

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LEXINGTON, KY. — VerTex Student Housing Partners, a joint venture of Vermilion Development and Dallas-based TEXLA Housing Partners, has acquired a 182-unit, 676-bed student housing development near the University of Kentucky from McKinney Properties. The acquisition marks the first transaction in a partnership with Chicago-based Harrison Street Real Estate Capital. The acquisition in Lexington has a total cost of $19.3 million and will be financed by a $16.9 million loan assumption with Bank of America. Known locally as The Courtyards, the 676-bed student apartment community was originally constructed in 1996. It consists of eight three-story residential buildings and a one-story clubhouse and leasing office. In addition to re-branding the property, the partnership will invest roughly $3.5 million in capital improvements. Both the buyer and the seller were represented by Dorothy Jackman and Travis Prince of Colliers International Student Housing Group.

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NASHVILLE, TENN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $1.8 million sale of Murfreesboro Road Storage, a 54,250-square-foot self storage facility at 4211 Hurricane Creek in Nashville. The facility includes 406 climate and non-climate controlled units. Anne Williams of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company. Williams and Chico LeClaire, also of Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer, a private investor.

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HUNTSVILLE, ALA. AND CORDOVA, TENN. — Boston-based Panther Properties Investment LLC has acquired a three-property multifamily portfolio, totaling 740 units, for $75 million. The three Class A apartment communities include the 276-unit Huntsville Parc at the Arsenal in Huntsville, the 238-unit Villas at Grays Creek in Cordova and the 226-unit Carrington at Houston Levee in Cordova. The acquisition marks Panther's first investment in Alabama and second and third in Tennessee. The private equity real estate firm acquires, develops and manages Class A apartment communities in the Southeast.

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