MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Plaza Construction (formerly known as KM/Plaza) has been selected by The LeFrak Organization, Starwood Capital Group and Invesco Ltd. for the $100 million redevelopment of the Perry South Beach Hotel, located at 2377 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach. The 17-story, 345-room hotel will be re-branded following completion. The hotel also offers 259 condominium units. HKS is the lead architect for the project and Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Assocates will restore the facade. Completion is slated for late 2013.
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NASHVILLE, TENN. — A portion of the 700,000-square-foot Nashville West, an upscale, open-air shopping center located in west Nashville, has sold for $73.2 million. The sale includes the inline section from Dick's Sporting Goods to Books A Million, as well as Staples, Party City and PetSmart. Costco, Target and the outparcels were not included in the sale. Parkes Cos. and Newton Oldacre McDonald, the developers, were the sellers in the transaction. The buyer was Delaware-based Nashville West LLC.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CBRE Group has secured $119.8 million in acquisition financing for the 678,715-square-foot Fifth Third Center, a Class A office building located at 201 N. Tryon St. in Charlotte. The property is 98 percent leased to tenants that include Bank of America, McGuire Woods, Fifth Third Bank and Carousel Capital. Charles Foschini, Christian Lee and Christopher Apone of CBRE Group secured the two-part financing on behalf of the borrower, Miami-based Parmenter Realty Partners. SunTrust provided a three-year loan and Redwood Commercial Mortgage Corp. provided a mezzanine loan.
MARGATE, FLA. — North American Development Group (NADG) has acquired the 236,679-square-foot Lakewood Shopping Center, located on West Atlantic Boulevard in Margate, for $31.5 million. Marshalls, Ross Dress For Less and Staples anchor the center. Also included in the sale were outparcels occupied by Walgreens, Burger King, Applebee's and Bank of America. A Walmart Supercenter, TD Bank, Boston Market, Denny's and a McDonald's on the property are separately owned and were not included as part of the sale. Casey Rosen, Dennis Carson and Nikolas Kozy of CBRE Group's Atlanta office represented the seller, a wholly owned subsidiary of Inland American Real Estate Trust, in the transaction.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — The 106-unit San Marco Village Apartments, located at 2165 Dunsford Terrace in Jacksonville, has sold for $3.73 million. Jim Sewell and Steve Mack of Hilton Head, S.C.-based Coastal Apartment Advisors represented the seller, 2165 Dunsford Terrace Holdings, in the transaction. The buyer was Aspen Square Management.
RALEIGH, N.C. — The 87,000-square-foot WakeMed Health & Hospitals' Diagnostic Center, located at the corner of New Bern Avenue and Sunnybrook Road in Raleigh at the WakeMed Raleigh Medical Park, has opened. Duke Realty owns and developed the property and will also lease and manage the medical park. The three-story building offers outpatient imaging, lab services and pre-anesthesia testing. It is the first of several healthcare services to be offered in the medical park. Perkins+Will was the architect for the project, and Brasfield & Gorrie was the general contractor.
BATON ROUGE, LA. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged $32.2 million in financing for the 330-unit Indigo Park Apartments, a Class A, garden-style apartment complex located in Baton Rouge. Steven Farnsworth of Walker & Dunlop arranged the seven-year loan with two years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization through Freddie Mac's CME program.
ALEXANDRIA, LA. — Arbor Commercial Mortgage has arranged a $14.51 million FHA-insured 221(d)(4) loan for the development of the 169-unit Mason Estates, an adaptive re-use and historic preservation project in Alexandria. The former Masonic Home orphanage will be converted into 25 loft units and an additional six buildings containing 144 apartment units will be constructed. Jay Porterfield of Arbor's Plano, Texas, office originated the loan on behalf of Roger Landry, the developer.
As the economy picks up in Columbia, South Carolina, the area’s multifamily market shows improvement. Columbia’s unemployment rate has declined steadily over the last year to its current rate of 8 percent. The largest employers in Columbia — which is the largest MSA in the state of South Carolina — are the state government, the University of South Carolina, Fort Jackson, Palmetto Health Baptist, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina. Columbia also showed an increase in manufacturing jobs over the past year. The area also benefits from recent economic development announcements. In May 2011, Michelin North America announced a $200 million dollar investment in its Lexington facility with 270 new jobs. Nephron Pharmaceuticals plans to build a $313 million manufacturing and research campus in Cayce’s Saxe Gotha Industrial Park, creating 700 new jobs. The University of South Carolina plans to build a state-of-the-art $91 million Moore School of Business to be located downtown at Assembly and Green. The former business school location will be leased to the Department of Justice for 20 years, which will bring in an additional 250 jobs. Amazon.com built a distribution facility in Columbia, which currently employs 600 workers, will eventually create up …
ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLA. — Archstone, in a joint venture with FUTURA Acquisitions Group, has started construction on the 268-unit Enclave at Wellington, a new apartment community located at Highway 441 and Anthony Groves Road in Royal Palm Beach. Amenities will include a recreational trail with fitness stations encompassed by a new park and lakefront, a dog park and substantial green spaces. Bank of Ozarks provided construction financing, and HFF served as financial advisor and secured construction financing for the joint venture. ARA brokered the joint venture transaction between the two development partners.