CROSSVILLE, TENN. — Newmark has arranged the sale-leaseback of a five-building industrial portfolio in Crossville, about 70 miles west of Knoxville via I-40. The portfolio spans 920,000 square feet across two property sites: four buildings at 297-349 Sweeney Drive and a 570,745-square-foot facility at 301 Porcelain Drive. The properties are situated about 2.5 miles apart and both have direct access to I-40. Andrew Sandquist, J.C. Asensio and Briggs Goldberg of Newmark represented the seller and tenant, flooring manufacturer AHF Products, in the transaction. The tenant will continue to occupy the portfolio on a long-term master lease. TPG Angelo Gordon purchased the portfolio for an undisclosed price. Jordan Roeschlaub and Christopher Kramer of Newmark arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing through Citi Group on behalf of TPG Angelo Gordon.
CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. — CF Warehouse LLC, an affiliate of The Eisenberg Group based in Coral Springs, Fla., has acquired a 73,000-square-foot industrial building located at 6072 Cinderlane Parkway in Orlando. Derek Riggelman of Lee & Associates represented the undisclosed seller in the $9.8 million transaction. The buyer handled the deal in-house. According to LoopNet Inc., the facility was built in 1991.
HARTSELLE, ALA. — MAG Capital Partners has purchased a 105,986-square-foot manufacturing facility located at 1101 Young Drive SE in Hartselle, a city in northern Alabama. The Dallas-based investor purchased the single-story asset from the tenant, Excel Interior Door, a manufacturer of interior wooden doors. Daniel Macks and Phil DiGennaro of Stream Realty Partners represented the seller in the sale-leaseback transaction, the terms of which were not released. Situated on a 10-acre site, the facility features 20-foot clear heights, four loading docks and 22 grade-level doors.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Total commercial real estate lending is estimated to have totaled $429 billion in 2023, according to a year-end report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). This figure represents a 47 percent decline from 2022 when lending volume totaled $816 billion and a 52 percent decrease from the record $891 billion set in 2021. Jamie Woodwell, MBA’s head of commercial real estate research, attributes the drop-off in loan volume last year to a combination of higher interest rates and uncertainty with property values and operating fundamentals in some property sectors, namely office. “The declines were broad-based, covering every major property type and capital source,” says Woodwell. “Much of the drop in originations was driven by a decline in borrower demand stemming from slowdowns in sales transactions and refinances. If property owners had the ability to sit pat, they generally did.” According to MBA, depositories such as banks were the leading capital source of mortgage debt for commercial real estate loans, followed by life insurance companies and pension funds, government-sponsored enterprises (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), private label CMBS and investor-driven lenders. Among different property types, multifamily properties saw the highest volume last year, with an estimated $264 billion …
ORLANDO, FLA. — The City of Orlando has given final approval for the development of the sports and entertainment district situated on 8.5 acres adjacent to the Kia Center (formerly Amway Center), home arena of the NBA’s Orlando Magic. The co-developers, SED Development LLC, JMA Ventures LLC and Machete Group, recently named the project Westcourt. The developers plan to break ground on the 900,000-square-foot mixed-use development later this year. The Orlando Sentinel reports the project will cost roughly $500 million to develop. The development will include a 260-room hotel, 270 residential units, 3,500-seat live entertainment venue, Class A offices, restaurants, shops, 1,140-space parking garage and a 1.5-acre outdoor green space. The development team expects to deliver the project by March 2027 and create approximately 3,400 jobs for the region.
ATLANTA — A partnership between locally based developer The Benoit Group and Atlanta Housing, the city’s housing authority, has secured financing for the development of Englewood Senior, a $72 million affordable seniors housing project. Located on Atlanta’s southeast side near Grant Park and Zoo Atlanta, the property is a component of Phase I of the Englewood Development Plan, a $200 million overhaul of the former 30-acre Englewood Manor public housing site. Funding for Englewood Senior includes federal and state equity tax credit investment by Raymond James and JP Morgan, a Sterling Bank construction loan, permanent HUD-insured loan financing from Berkadia, Atlanta BeltLine tax allocation district (TAD) funds and a secondary priority loan from Atlanta Housing. Englewood Senior will feature 160 units reserved for households age 62 and older with income restrictions set at 60 percent of area median income (AMI) and will include over $2.5 million in rental subsidies for low-income families using Home Flex vouchers provided by Atlanta Housing. Amenities at Englewood Senior will include outdoor courtyards, movie theaters, fitness centers, a community room, 213-space parking garage and 15,000 square feet of retail space. Other components of Phase I include a mixed-income midrise building comprising 160 affordable housing units, …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marx Realty has completed renovations at One Glover, a 110,000-square-foot office building located at 2121 Wisconsin Ave. in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown/Glover Park neighborhood. Additionally, the firm has signed a 10-year, 6,650-square-foot retail lease with Water Street Gym, a boutique fitness concept. John Schlagel of Transwestern represented Water Street Gym in the lease negotiations, and Mark Wooters and James Collins of Cushman & Wakefield represented Marx Realty. Updates to One Glover included an overhaul of the façade and the addition of an outdoor gathering area with seating options, lobby lounge and a garden room. Other updates include a uniform doorman and atmospheric music and scents throughout the building’s common areas. Marx Realty’s in-house design team partnered with Studios Architecture for the One Glover project. Office tenants of the building include Nexstar Media Group, George Sexton and Associates and DispatchHealth. Language immersion preschool CommuniKids occupies nearly 9,000 square feet on the ground level.
ATLANTA — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a new 164,221-square-foot office lease with locally based health system Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. The tenant will occupy space at 271 17th St., a 25-story office building within the Atlantic Station mixed-use campus in the city’s West Midtown district. Aileen Almassy and John Zintak of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Lionstone Investments, in the lease negotiations. Bo Keatley, David Rubenstein, John Flack and Michael Broome of Savills represented Piedmont Healthcare.
MIAMI — New York City-based ASG Equities has sold a 4,500-square-foot retail building located at 70-74 N.E. 40th St. in Miami’s Design District. Dacra acquired the property, which was fully leased to luxury brands Ksubi and Orlean at the time of sale, for $14 million. The transaction marks the final step for ASG’s three-property portfolio that it has sold in recent months, the others being buildings at 80 and 101 N.E. 40th St. The company is actively developing a 500,000-square-foot mixed-use development nearby called Parterre 42 with co-developer Helm Equities.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. AND CHARLESTON, S.C. — Berkadia has arranged the sale of a multifamily portfolio comprising 2,164 units in South Carolina. The portfolio includes eight communities — Ivystone at Palmetto Pointe in Myrtle Beach; Mallard Pointe and Deerfield Apartments in Rock Hill; Deerfield Run, Waterford Apartments and Ivy Ridge in Easley; and Heritage Trace and Heatherstone Apartments in Piedmont. Caleb Troop of Berkadia’s Charlotte office, along with Mark Boyce of the firm’s Charleston office, represented the private buyer in the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Brookside Properties has taken over property management at the communities on behalf of the buyer, which plans to renovate all units over the next three years and upgrade amenities.