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COVINGTON, GA. — Brook Farm Group, along with capital partners Emory Equity and SilverCap Partners, plans to develop The Sinclair at Callaway Farm, a 388-unit apartment community in Covington. The 37-acre property will be situated at the intersection of Alcovy and City Pond roads, which is adjacent to the 180-acre Covington Town Center and about 35 miles east of Atlanta via I-20. First Horizon Bank and TrustMark Bank provided construction financing for the project, and Emory Equity and SilverCap provided equity. Sinclair at Callaway Farm will feature two separate neighborhoods encompassing 11 residential buildings, a 9,000-square-foot clubhouse, resort-style pool, two-story gym, coworking space, dog park and pet spa, electric vehicle charging stations and the first rooftop lounge in the Covington market. Additionally, four of the buildings will have elevators. Brook Farm Group expects to break ground on the project this quarter.

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TAMPA, FLA. — Carter Multifamily, a division of locally based Carter Funds, has purchased Mode at Ballast Point, a 276-unit, garden-style apartment community located at 6306 S. MacDill Ave. in Tampa. The undisclosed seller sold the property, formerly known as Solis at Ballast Point, for $57.5 million. Situated on 21.5 acres near MacDill Air Force Base, the community features a resort-style pool, private lake and park, onsite pet park and proximity to a waterfront walking/biking path along Bayshore Boulevard. Carter Multifamily plans to execute capital improvements at the property that will include operational improvements, upgrades to amenities, renovations to interiors and exterior building improvements.

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ALEXANDRIA, VA. — JLL has brokered the sale of Courthouse Square, a 120,031-square-foot office building located at 510 King St. in the Old Town Alexandria neighborhood. The historic, five-story property is situated near the Potomac River and a Metro station. Melrose Solomon Enterprises acquired Courthouse Square for an undisclosed price. The seller was also not disclosed, but Washington Business Journal reports that Brookfield Properties is the seller. Stephen Conley, Matt Nicholson, Kevin Byrd, Andrew Weir, Jim Meisel and Dave Baker of JLL represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. Drake Greer of JLL arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer.

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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Power Train Industries Inc., an automotive firm and subsidiary of Dorman Products Inc., has signed a 101,000-square-foot industrial lease in Virginia Beach. The property is located at 464 Progress Lane, a 10-acre property within Oceana East Industrial Park. Located one mile south of I-26, the property features 28-foot clear heights, seven loading docks, 6,000 square feet of office space and 233 parking spaces. Power Train Industries expects to move into the facility around January 2024. John Lee of John Lee & Associates represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. The landlord is The Miller Group.

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HUNTSVILLE AND MADISON, ALA. — Colliers has arranged the sale of two retail strip centers in the Huntsville area totaling nearly $10 million. The properties include Magna Carta, a 22,378-square-foot property located at 11310 Memorial Parkway SW in Huntsville, and Madison Corners, a 14,400-square-foot center located at 1079 Balch Road in Madison. Magna Carter’s tenant roster includes Results Physiotherapy, Bedzzz Express, Marco’s Pizza, T-Mobile and Great Clips. Madison Corners is home to tenants including Stretch Zone, Tropical Smoothie and Firehouse Subs. Pacific West Land, an investment firm based in Washington, purchased Magna Carta, and a private family office based in Montgomery, Ala., purchased Madison Corners. Joe Montgomery, Henry Kushner and Scott Israel of Colliers represented the sellers in the transaction.

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KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Ziegler, a Chicago-based investment bank, has arranged $212.9 million in bond financing for Seafields at Kiawah Island, a seniors housing project in coastal South Carolina. The borrower and developer is a local entity doing business as Kiawah Life Plan Village Inc. BRP Senior Housing Management will operate the property. Sitework is underway, and the development team expects to open the community in fall 2025. Seafields at Kiawah Island will be located on an eight-acre site about 25 miles south of Charleston. This site is adjacent to Freshfields Village, an open-air pedestrian village with a variety of stores, restaurants and entertainment options. The community will feature 90 independent living units and 16 assisted living units. In addition to full-service dining, amenities will include a bar, bistro, outdoor pool, fitness center, yoga studio, salon, wellness center, theater and various multipurpose rooms. The South Carolina Jobs-Economic Development Authority issued the bond financing. Specifically, the package consists of $87.1 million of long-term, fixed-rate bonds and $125.8 million of tax-exempt and taxable securities with mandatory paydown requirements. “Ziegler is very proud to help provide construction financing for Seafields at Kiawah Island in a very challenging capital markets environment,” says Rob Gall, Ziegler’s …

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Dudley Benoit Walker & Dunlop LIHTC HUD

New income limits for low-income and very-low-income housing in 2023 represent a mixed blessing for the industry’s providers, who gain more potential renters but face ubiquitous caps that restrain their ability to adjust rents. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) publishes the income limits annually based on changes in each housing area’s median income, and typically places caps on outlier markets to prevent wide year-to-year swings. From 2010 through 2021, about 10 percent of areas were capped each year. Also in that period, the caps predictably checked the increase in an area’s qualifying income levels to no more than double the annual percent change in national median income. HUD published national median income based on three-year-trailing American Community Survey (ACS) data that HUD adjusted forward using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). In 2022, however, HUD omitted the CPI factor and based limits on historical survey data alone, producing lower results for median incomes and a smaller percentage change to be doubled into a cap. Even so, calculated incomes rose significantly, spurring HUD to cap increases in 57 percent of areas. Industry experts had predicted HUD would add the CPI adjustment back into its calculations in 2023, resulting …

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Akridge and National Real Estate Development (National Development) have topped out Phase I of The Stacks, a 2.7 million-square-foot mixed-use development in Washington, D.C. Situated in the city’s Capitol Riverfront district and within the Buzzard Point neighborhood, Phase I of the project is dubbed Building B, which is one of three 14-story residential towers coming to the development. The first phase will feature 1,100 apartments, 35,000 square feet of retail space, 300,000 square feet of below-grade parking and loading and a 15,000-square-foot public park. General contractor Clark Construction has finished vertical construction on Building B and will now pivot to finishing concrete operations on Buildings A and C. Bank OZK provided construction financing for the project. The Stacks is jointly owned by Akridge, National Development, Bridge Investment Group, Blue Coast Capital and institutional funds managed by National Real Estate Advisors. The project team expects to fully deliver The Stacks by the end of 2025.

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MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Cronheim Hotel Capital (CHC) has arranged an $85 million loan for the refinancing of Grand Beach Hotel, a 424-room hotel in Miami Beach. The 21-story property is situated near the entrance to the Miami Beach boardwalk and one block from the Fontainebleau, a hotel/resort. The unnamed borrower, which developed the Grand Beach Hotel in 2009, is in the midst of a full renovation to the hotel’s lobby, bar, coffeeshop, boutique restaurant, spa and guest rooms. David Poncia, Dev Morris, Allison Villamagna and Andrew Stewart of CHC arranged the financing through an unnamed life insurance company. The five-year loan features a fixed interest rate and interest-only payments for the full term.

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INDEPENDENCE, KY. — Kroger has opened a new “spoke” industrial facility in Independence that will grow the grocer’s delivery presence in Northern Kentucky. The new facility will work in concert with Kroger’s existing customer fulfillment center in Monroe, Ohio, which is roughly 45 miles north of the spoke facility via I-75. Kroger associates will assemble orders at the Monroe facility, which will then be trucked to the Independence property and sorted and shipped out to customers in refrigerated delivery vans. At full operating capacity, the Independence facility will employ 100 associates. The property is the second spoke facility in Kentucky, joining a Louisville property that opened in May 2022.

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