BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Beech Street Capital LLC has provided a $31 million FHA 223(f) loan for the refinance of Parc at Cahaba River Apartments, a 348-unit Class A luxury apartment community in Birmingham. Chad Thomas Hagwood of Beech Street’s Birmingham office originated the loan, which has a 35-year term with a 35-year amortization schedule. The borrower, Parc Cahaba LLC, developed Parc at Cahaba Apartments in 1999.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. — Canada-based H&R REIT purchased The Shoppes at Mission Trace, a Publix-anchored shopping center at 955 State Road 16 in St. Augustine, for $8.9 million. The 61,000-square-foot retail property was built in 2009 and is 93 percent leased. Tenants include AT&T Wireless, China Wok and a liquor store. Cliff Taylor of CBRE Private Capital Group in Jacksonville, Fla., represented the seller, a private development group based in north Florida.
LAUDERHILL, FLA. — Lauderhill Industrial Portfolio, a three-building small bay warehouse portfolio in Lauderhill, has sold for $2.4 million. The portfolio totals 102,641 square feet and was 57 percent occupied at the time of transaction. The buyer was a Plantation, Fla.-based private investor, and the seller was a Miami-based limited liability company. Douglas Mandel and Greg Zeifman of Marcus & Millichap represented both parties. The portfolio is located at 1711 N.W. 38th Ave. in Lauderhill.
LAKE WORTH, FLA. — A 9,600-square-foot Dollar General at 4400 10th Ave. North in Lake Worth has sold for $1.3 million. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented the buyer and seller in the transaction. The buyer was a California-based private partnership and the seller was a local Florida company.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trinity Capital Advisors has sold NASCAR Plaza to Parkway Properties for a reported $100 million. The 20-story, 390,000-square-foot LEED Silver-certified office building is located at 550 S. Caldwell St. in downtown Charlotte. Trinity Capital Advisors purchased NASCAR Plaza in a joint venture with Rubenstein Partners in December 2010. The building’s occupancy grew from 37 to 88 percent under Trinity Capital Advisors and Rubenstein Partners’ ownership. Chiquita Brands International relocated its corporate headquarters to NASCAR Plaza under the former ownership.
ORLANDO, FLA. — A former Hertz rental car facility, which includes 19.44 acres of land for development at 5601 Butler National Dr. off Semoran Boulevard north of Orlando International Airport, has sold for $14.25 million. Los Angeles-based L&R Investment Co. acquired the property and intends to obtain a master plan for the development of retail parcels that front Semoran Boulevard and an off-airport parking facility. Kevin O’Connor and Matt Cichocki of NAI Realvest represented the seller, The Hertz Corp., which moved its operations onto airport grounds at Orlando International Airport.
CHESAPEAKE, RICHMOND AND CHESTERFIELD, VA. — Three absolute net-leased Jiffy Lube retail properties have sold in southern Virginia. The assets commanded sales prices of $1.3 million in Chesapeake, $930,000 in Richmond and $920,000 in Chesterfield. Michael Early and Matthew Greenspon of Marcus & Millichap’s Virginia and Raleigh, N.C., offices represented the sellers. The buyers were unlisted private investors and an unlisted large regional real estate operator. Each Jiffy Lube unit was available for purchase as an investment, operated on absolute net-leased structures by subsidiaries of the parent company, Lucor Inc., which owns and operates more than 165 Jiffy Lube retail properties.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A 23-unit apartment property has sold for approximately $1.5 million in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth submarket. It is located at 3921 Kansas Ave. and was built in 1952. Twenty units were occupied at the time of the sale. Peggy Brooks Smith and Marty Zupancic of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, an unlisted partnership, and also secured the buyer, an unlisted private investor.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Marsh Aviation has purchased an approximately 25,000-square-foot freestanding retail property from Regions Bank for $1 million. Home South, a new home furnishings retail concept, is planned to operate at the site at 7220 Smith Corners Blvd. in Charlotte. Todd Harrelson of Cushman & Wakefield/Thalhimer represented the seller in the transaction.
The uncertainty created by the nation’s current economic and fiscal conditions continues to dampen confidence for both government and private sector tenants resulting in increasing vacancy rates and declining net absorption in the D.C. market. In anticipation of the looming possibility that the government will fail to resolve its budget impasse, and so enforce mandated federal budget cuts (i.e., “sequestration”), companies that rely on federal spending are consolidating operations, discarding excess space and deferring leasing decisions. As a result, the Washington, D.C., vacancy rate, which has been in the mid-single digits for at least the last decade, has steadily increased since 2010 to over 12.5 percent as of the second quarter of 2012. The D.C. market’s leasing activity has been dominated by lease renewals, totaling 87 percent of all leasing activity in 2011 and 70 percent for the first half of 2012. Despite the economic uncertainty, the D.C. market continues to see new development activity, with nearly 2 million square feet currently under construction, and more than 70 percent of this space pre-leased. The 10-acre, mixed-use CityCenterDC project on the former Convention Center site has approximately 500,000 square feet of office space currently under construction, 77 percent of which has …