Southeast

BALTIMORE — CBRE has signed a 16,000-square-foot lease at 1001 Fleet St., a Class A office building in Baltimore’s Harbor East district. Delivered in 2000, the nine-story office building is owned by Harbor East Management Group. CBRE is relocating its Baltimore office from 100 E. Pratt St. to the eighth floor of 1001 Fleet, with occupancy to occur in January. David Fields, Jonathan Hall and Jordana Pollack represented CBRE in the lease negotiations on an internal basis. The new CBRE office is part of the commercial real estate services firm’s Workplace360 program, which has 100 locations nationwide.

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SUWANEE, GA. — Illinois-based Sherman Residential has acquired Skye Suwanee Town Center, a 233-unit apartment community in the northeast Atlanta suburb of Suwanee in Gwinnett County. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Built in 2020, Skye Suwanee Town Center offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Amenities include a 24/7 wine cellar, two-story fitness center and a rooftop terrace with a retrofitted Airstream lounge. The property also features retail space on the ground level leased to Thrive Coworking and Warm Waves, a coffee shop. Skye Suwanee Town Center is located at 500 Buford Highway, about one north of the city’s town square and about a quarter-mile south of Suwanee Town Center, a mixed-use district anchored by the 10-acre Town Center Park.

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CANTON, GA. — Matthews Real Estate Investment Services has negotiated the sale of Woodmont Village, an 85,639-square-foot shopping center located in Canton, approximately 40 miles north of Atlanta. Kroger anchors the center, which was 75 percent leased at the time of sale. Other tenants at the property include The UPS Store, Anytime Fitness, Pizza Hut, Ace Hardware, Advance Auto Parts, Fabricare Cleaners and Las Palmas Mexican restaurant. Kyle Stonis, Pierce Mayson and Boris Shilkrot of Matthews brokered the transaction. The buyer, Aubuchon Realty Co., purchased Woodmont Village for an undisclosed price. The seller was also not released.

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MEMPHIS, TENN. — Cushman & Wakefield Commercial Advisors has arranged the sale-leaseback of two industrial facilities in Memphis totaling 250,000 square feet. AIC purchased the facilities, located at 2149 Harbor Ave. and 2172 Wharf St., from the tenant, Red Dot Corp. Red Dot designs and manufactures HVAC systems for commercial and military vehicles. Landon Williams and Katie Hargett of Cushman & Wakefield Commercial Advisors, along with Frank Maldonado and Dan Johnsen of Cushman & Wakefield, represented Red Dot in the sale and long-term lease of the two facilities. Terms of the transaction were not released.

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CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — Granite REIT has purchased Coral Springs Logistics Center, a 124,500-square-foot industrial property located at 3850-3872 N.W. 126th St. in Coral Springs, a city in South Florida’s Broward County. A joint venture between Barings Real Estate and Arkadia Property Group sold the property to Granite REIT for an undisclosed price. Luis Castillo, Cody Brais, Taylor Osborne and David Orta Jr. of JLL represented the seller in the transaction. Built in 2021, Coral Springs Logistics Center comprises two rear-load buildings that were fully leased at the time of sale to building materials wholesaler Exclusive Trim Inc. and commercial refrigerator manufacturer Marc Refrigeration.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Coldwell Banker Commercial Realty has brokered the $3.4 million sale of a 3.4-acre, multifamily-zoned parcel at 5703-5707 N. Tryon St. in Charlotte. The buyer, The Annex Group, plans to develop a 200-unit affordable housing community on the site. Capital partners for the project include City of Charlotte, Bank of America and the North Carolina Housing Financing Authority (NCHFA). The construction timeline was not released. Ryan Pilsy of Coldwell Banker represented the land seller, an entity doing business as Kilbros3 LLC, in the transaction. Annex Group was represented internally by Joy Skidmore and Ryan Clark.

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Charlotte: “The Queen City” named after Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, has been on a tear post-COVID with new and expanding retail concepts. Vacancy rates have hovered under 4 percent the last few years, with little signs of changing , according to research from Institutional Property Advisors (IPA). Much of that vacancy has occurred in less desirable markets, or in junior and big-box bankruptcies (JOANN, Big Lots, Party City, etc.) that are being snatched up as quickly as they become vacant. Tenants are desperate and clamoring for new locations to keep up with the strong residential growth (24,000+ new residents in the city limits in 2024 and 46,000 in the CSA), making charlotte the 14th largest city in the country, and 19th-largest CSA in terms of overall population. This factor combined with unemployment hovering in the low 4 percent range, plus household income growth has called for desperate measures to ID new space or weakness in the market. We as local experts have seen a slight uptick, over the past 12 months, in some “shadow inventory.” This occurring when an existing retailer or restaurant might be struggling with sales, or in partial default, and the landlord has the opportunity …

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RINCON, GA. — JLL has negotiated the sale of NFI Distribution Center Savannah, a 1 million-square-foot distribution facility located at 1200 Logistics Parkway in Rincon. The distribution center is fully leased to National Distribution Centers LLC, a major subsidiary of New Jersey-based supply chains solutions provider NFI Industries. Britton Burdette, John Huguenard, Dennis Mitchell, Jim Freeman and Maggie Dominguez of JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between Becknell Industrial and Goldman Sachs Alternatives, in the transaction. Stockbridge purchased the Class A facility for an undisclosed price. Situated within Old Augusta Commerce Center, the cross-dock property is situated 10.7 miles from the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal and within five miles of I-95. The property was completed in 2022 and features 40-foot clear heights, 190-foot truck courts, 270 trailer parking spaces (expandable to 307) and 102 dock levelers.

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CLERMONT, FLA. — GBT Realty Corp. has broken ground on Hammock Ridge Commons, a 30,500-square-foot shopping center located in Clermont, approximately 25 miles east of Orlando. An entity doing business as Shoppes at Hammock Ridge Crossing LLC sold the original 3.7-acre land parcel to the Brentwood, Tenn.-based developer for $2.5 million. A 23,273-square-foot Sprouts Farmers Market will anchor Hammock Ridge Commons, which will be the first store in Lake County for the Arizona-based specialty grocer. Additional tenants will include a dentist and nail salon, and roughly 1,700 square feet of inline space is still available for lease at the center. The general contractor, J. Raymond Construction Corp., plans to deliver Hammock Ridge Commons in spring 2026. 

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LOUISVILLE, KY. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $3.7 million sale of a single-tenant retail property located at 3600 Bardstown Road in Louisville. Chase Bank occupies the 3,176-square-foot property on a triple-net lease, which has more than 11 years remaining on the term and two five-year renewal options with built-in 10 percent rental escalations. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented the buyer, a Midwest-based institution, and the seller, a private family from the Midwest, in the transaction. Both parties requested anonymity. The Chase Bank property serves as an outparcel to a Lowe’s Home Improvement store and is situated within one mile of I-264.

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