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Hilton Garden Inn Bel Air

BEL AIR, MD. — PMZ Realty Capital has arranged a $12 million bridge loan for Hilton Garden Inn Bel Air, an 83-room hotel located in Bel Air, roughly 30 miles northeast of Baltimore. A private lender provided the financing for the new bridge loan, which will replace the previous loan. The Hilton Garden Inn Bel Air features a heated indoor swimming pool, fitness center, complimentary Wi-Fi, free parking, electric vehicle charging stations, the Garden Grill & Bar hotel restaurant and 2,200 square feet of flexible meeting and event space.

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The Learning Experience

DAVENPORT, FLA. — SRS Real Estate Partners has brokered the $5.4 million sale of a single-tenant retail property located in Davenport, roughly 25 miles southwest of Orlando. The Learning Experience, an early childhood education and childcare center, occupies the 10,000-square-foot building on a 20-year lease with 19 years remaining. The building also features a 5,000-square-foot outdoor play area. Built in 2024, the single-tenant property is situated within a larger retail development along U.S. Highway 27. William Wamble and Patrick Nutt of SRS Capital Markets represented the seller, a national commercial real estate investment and development company, in the transaction. The buyer was a Central Florida-based private investor. Both parties requested anonymity.

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GLEN ALLEN, VA. — Colliers has negotiated a 100,125-square-foot industrial lease at Washington Highway Logistics Center in the northern Richmond suburb of Glen Allen. The tenant is Riverside Logistics, a third-party logistics and supply chain management company that manages a 1 million-square-foot warehouse portfolio. This lease joins the company’s recent signing at 200 Orleans St. in Richmond. Rob Dirom of Colliers represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. The landlord was not disclosed. Washington Highway Logistics Center totals 400,500 square feet across two buildings.

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Lincoln Road

MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Ackerman & Co. has secured $117 million in financing on behalf of locally based Comras Co. for the acquisition of five buildings to complement the north end of Lincoln Road, the retail high street of Miami Beach. Dubbed NoLi (North Lincoln Road), the redevelopment will include 150,000 square feet of boutique retail, dining, wellness and lifestyle concepts, as well as 1,700 square feet of street frontage. Completion of the project is anticipated for the first quarter of 2027. Jonathan Rice of Atlanta-based Ackerman & Co. arranged the financing through ACORE Capital. The sellers of the five properties were affiliates of Morgan Stanley and Terranova Corp. “NoLi promises to be another transformative development by Comras in Miami Beach, alongside recently completed projects like the CocoWalk redevelopment in Coconut Grove and the retail component of Miami Worldcenter,” says Jonathan Rice, executive vice president of capital markets at Ackerman & Co. Situated along Lincoln Road and North Lincoln Lane, NoLi will be converted into a new micro-district that will comprise more than 40 inline retail spaces. NoLi will reuse the existing buildings and repurpose the outdated floorplans to create boutique-sized spaces, with layouts ranging in size from 400 square feet …

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NEW YORK CITY — Lument Securities has arranged the $140 million sale of four long-term healthcare communities in West Virginia. Marx Development Group (MDG) purchased the 511-bed portfolio and has selected its subsidiary, Majestic Care, to operate the communities. Laca Wong-Hammond of Lument Securities represented the seller, the State of West Virginia, in the transaction. The properties include Hopemont Hospital in Terra Alta, Jackie Withrow Hospital in Beckley, John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center in Fairmont and Lakin Hospital in West Columbia. In addition to funding the purchase, the closing provides for a minimum of another $80 million that MDG has committed to using for the construction of three to five new long-term care communities in the coming years.

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DORAL, FLA. — Bridge Industrial has recently received approval to redevelop a 16-acre office park located at 7775 N.W. 48th St. in Doral into Bridge Point Doral 826, a 268,702-square-foot, two-building industrial complex. The conversion project will transform the 1970s-era suburban office park in metro Miami’s Airport West submarket into a LEED-certified logistics hub. Bridge Industrial has begun preliminary site preparations at the property and will plan to deliver the project in first-quarter 2027. Bridge Point Doral 826 represents the second office-to-industrial conversion project in South Florida as the company recently redeveloped the former Ryder Systems headquarters into Bridge Point Flagler Station.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Maersk, a global integrated logistics and shipping company, has selected Charlotte for its North American corporate headquarters. The company will invest $16 million in Mecklenburg County and will grow its Charlotte workforce to 1,300 jobs. The location of the company’s new offices and identity of the landlord were not disclosed. Maersk is a subsidiary of Danish firm A.P. Moller-Maersk and was founded in 1904. The new headquarters in Charlotte will house key corporate functions —  including finance, human resources, commercial strategy and technology — for its 10,000 North American employees. Maersk’s lease is the second headquarters relocation for Charlotte within a week as Scout Motors, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, announced its $206 million investment to move its regional headquarters to Charlotte.

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NAPLES, FLA. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Altis Santa Barbara, a 242-unit apartment community located at 4710 Altis Drive in Naples. Northland purchased the property for an undisclosed price. Robert Given, Neal Victor and Chris Smiles of CBRE represented the seller, a joint venture sponsored by Altman, in the transaction. Tracy Kennedy, Tony Stein and Ryan Hall with CBRE assisted Northland with acquisition financing. Delivered in 2024, Altis Santa Barbara offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units, as well as private patios or balconies for all units and direct-access garages for select units.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. economy has added 119,000 jobs in September, according to a report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The latest jobs data was delayed by more than six weeks due to the recently concluded shutdown of the federal government, which lasted 44 days. The September figure exceeded forecasts of 50,000 new jobs by Dow Jones economists, according to CNBC. The BLS will postpone the jobs report data for both October and November, with plans to release the two reports simultaneously on Dec. 16. The September jobs report was originally scheduled to release on Oct. 3; the October jobs report was scheduled for Nov. 7; and the November jobs data was set to debut on Dec. 5. In addition to the delays, the BLS has revised down the jobs data for July and August by a combined 33,000 jobs. The July jobs report was revised from 79,000 to 72,000 jobs, and the August report was downwardly revised from 22,000 jobs to -4,000 jobs. The unemployment rate also increased to 4.4 percent, which is the highest level for the rate since October 2021. For September, employment was led by the healthcare sector (+43,000), bars and restaurants …

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Novartis-Pathway-Triange_N.C

DURHAM AND MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Pharmaceutical developer and manufacturer Novartis (NYSE: NVS) has announced a $771 million expansion of its footprint in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. According to the company, the expansion will create 700 new jobs in Durham and Wake counties and more than 3,000 indirect jobs by the end of 2030. The North Carolina expansion is part of the Swiss company’s pledge to invest $23 billion in U.S. infrastructure over the next five years. Doubling the company’s operational presence to more than 700,000 square feet, the expansion will significantly increase manufacturing capacity. The expansion will comprise new construction as well as the renovation of existing facilities across three sites in Durham and Morrisville. The new hub will include a new site in Durham housing two new facilities for manufacturing biologics and sterile packaging and a new site in Morrisville for the production of solid dosage tablets and capsules, as well as an expansion of an existing Durham facility to support sterile filling of biologics into syringes and vials. One of the new facilities will be located at Pathway Triangle, occupying 202,000 square feet at the 1 million-square-foot campus in Morrisville. CBRE represented both Novartis and the landlord, King …

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