Southeast

NAP, Hoar Complete $400M Redevelopment of Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta

by Julia Sanders July 19, 2021

ATLANTA — North American Properties (NAP) and Hoar Construction have completed the redevelopment of Colony Square, a mixed-use development located at the intersection of 14th and Peachtree streets in the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta. The project comprised four phases and the total development cost was $400 million. Over the past four years, the developers have completed a 200,000-square-foot renovation of two existing buildings, the ground-up construction of a new building featuring a movie theater and food hall and two new Class A office buildings with street-level retail. General contractor Hoar broke ground on Phase I of the multi-phase project in October 2017. The firm demolished 240,000 square feet of existing enclosed mall space. Hoar topped out on Buildings 200 and 300 in August 2019, and finalized upgrades to Building 400, which received lobby enhancements and exterior retail additions in 2018. In total, Colony Square offers 940,000 square feet of Class A office space and 160,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space. NAP, Colony Square’s owner and developer based in Cincinnati, opened Politan Row at Colony Square, the new food hall in Building 200, as well as Building 500, which includes 115,000 square feet of office space fully occupied …

July 19, 2021

Florida Hospitality Loans Southeast

Madison Realty Capital Provides $105M Acquisition Loan for Four Seasons Hotel Miami

by Julia Sanders July 19, 2021

MIAMI — Madison Realty Capital, a New York City-based private real estate equity firm, has provided a $105 million loan to Miami-based developer Fort Partners for the acquisition and renovation of the Four Seasons Hotel Miami located in the city’s Brickell district. Located at 1435 Brickell Ave., Four Seasons Hotel Miami is a 221-room hotel that anchors a 70-story, mixed-use tower. The tower also features Class A office space, residential condominiums, an Equinox health club, retail space and a parking garage. Fort Partners plans to renovate the property by enhancing room configurations, the pool deck and lobby, as well as upgrading the food and beverage options. Millennium Partners developed the property in 2003 and Handel Architects led the design. The acquisition marks the fourth Four Seasons property in Fort Partners’ South Florida portfolio alongside hotels located in Surfside, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach. In 2019, Madison Realty Capital provided a $210 million loan to Fort Partners for its construction of the Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Fort Lauderdale. Jim Dockerty, Kevin Davis and Mark Fisher of JLL arranged the financing on behalf of Fort Partners.

July 19, 2021

Acquisitions Florida Retail Southeast

SRS Arranges Sales of Two Crunch Fitness-Occupied Properties in Florida Totaling $12.1M

by Julia Sanders July 19, 2021

LAKELAND AND MELBOURNE, FLA. — SRS Real Estate Partners has arranged the sale of two Crunch Fitness-occupied properties located in the Central Florida cities of Lakeland and Melbourne. The sales totaled $12.1 million. Matthew Mousavi, Patrick Luther and Patrick Nutt of SRS represented the seller, a Florida-based development firm, in the disposition of both properties to two separate buyers. Mousavi and Luther also represented the undisclosed buyers in the transactions, both of which are private investors based in California. The 18,000-square-foot Lakeland property is located at 5218 Florida Ave. S and sold for $5.9 million. Located at 1257 W. New Haven Ave., the 45,487-square-foot Melbourne property sold for just under $6.2 million.

July 19, 2021

Acquisitions Affordable Housing Multifamily South Carolina Southeast

Standard Communities Buys 108-Unit Affordable Housing Property in North Charleston

by Julia Sanders July 19, 2021

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Standard Communities has acquired Osprey Place Apartments in North Charleston. Built in 2004, the 108-unit affordable housing property located at 2390 Baker Hospital Blvd. North comprises five garden-style apartment buildings situated on 19 acres. Community amenities include a laundry room, playground and off-street parking. The total capitalization of the transaction exceeded $22 million, including over $82,000 per unit in renovation costs. Standard Communities purchased the property on a long-term ground lease in a public-private partnership with nonprofit organization Housing on Merit and South Carolina State Finance and Development Authority (SC Housing). Regions Bank provided Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) for the transaction in partnership with SC Housing. Gene Levental of SVN Affordable | Levental Realty represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The deal brings Standard Communities’ affordable housing portfolio in the Charleston area to more than 500 units. Based in New York and Los Angeles, Standard Communities has a national portfolio exceeding 15,500 apartment units, including approximately 11,500 affordable and workforce housing units. The firm has completed more than $3 billion of affordable housing acquisitions and rehabilitations nationwide.

July 19, 2021

District of Columbia Retail Southeast

NRF: June Retail Sales Increase Following a Dip in May

by Julia Sanders July 19, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Retail Federation (NRF) reports retail sales rose 0.8 percent in June over the prior month on a seasonally adjusted basis — not including automobile dealers, gas stations and restaurants — and were up 12.1 percent unadjusted year-over-year. The NRF’s June report confirms the organization’s revised predictions made at the beginning of July. NRF revised its retail sales forecast for 2021 retail sales to increase between 10.5 and 13.5 percent over 2020 to a range of $4.44 trillion and $4.56 trillion. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that retail sales have increased year-over-year every month since June 2020, including May, which had a decline of 1.7 percent month-over-month and a growth of 27.6 percent year-over-year. The Washington, D.C.-based trade association also reports that there was a big increase in sales during the yearly Amazon Prime Day promotion on June 21 and 22, but that hot temperatures and tropical storms like Hurricane Elsa may have negatively impacted retail sales. The NRF expects an increase in back to school shopping as children head back to school, some for the first time since before the pandemic. Clothing and accessory stores increased 2.6 percent month-over-month and increased 49.4 percent year-over-year. Also, …

July 19, 2021

Florida Market Reports Multifamily Southeast Southeast Market Reports

South Florida’s Reliable, Robust Apartment Market is a Safe Haven for Investors

by John Nelson July 18, 2021

South Florida multifamily fundamentals are, and will continue to be, the single biggest driver of performance in the market. Strong rent collection and occupancy performance through the pandemic, population and household growth, low homeownership rates, increasingly expensive home prices, an improving job market, higher wage growth, limited land and a wonderful lifestyle all contribute toward sustainable long-term growth. Demand for multifamily rentals will increase post COVID-19 as South Florida becomes a hotbed of population growth from people migrating from other states due to the business-friendly environment and tele-workers who are choosing South Florida as their new home. In fact, household formations in South Florida are expected to increase more than 44,000 each year over the next five years. Assuming this projection materializes, at 60 percent homeownership rate (consistent with historic homeownership rates) represents over 17,000 new renters per year in South Florida. Investment sales skyrocket In the span of less than 12 months, the South Florida multifamily market went from near-record sales activity to virtually none before rebounding again to close the year. Last year ended with 254 multifamily sales totaling $3.1 billion. Despite almost six months of virtually no investment activity from April through September, total sales volume was …

July 18, 2021

Development Georgia Office Southeast

Roam to Open Coworking Space at Town at Trilith Development in Fayetteville, Georgia

by Julia Sanders July 16, 2021

FAYETTEVILLE, GA. — Roam, a coworking operator, will open a new location in September inside the Two-Ten office building within Town at Trillith in Fayetteville. The mixed-use project is located adjacent to Trilith Studios, a 1,000-acre movie studio formerly known as Pinewood Atlanta Studios that has produced movies such as Avengers: Endgame and Ant-Man. The Town at Trilith space will be Roam’s seventh and newest location, and it will include offices and desks for rent, as well as meeting spaces designed to accommodate varying group sizes. The space will also include a boardroom with seating for up to 16 individuals, four large training rooms that can accommodate groups of up to 60, a screening room and a podcast room. Roam offers a variety of membership options, including two and three-month terms, flexible month-to-month agreements and daily passes. Tenants at Town at Trillith that have already opened include Amici Italian Café, The Piedmont Wellness Center, Honeysuckle Gelato, Green p.s., Amici Café, Barleygarden Kitchen and Craft Bar and Hop City. Trilith has announced other retailers including Leyland Blue, Trilith Food Hall, Native Collective, The Skin Society, Sugarcoat, Premiere Hair Studio, Woodstone Bakery & Café, Braise, Archer Paper Goods, The Funky Shack and …

July 16, 2021

Acquisitions Development Industrial North Carolina Southeast

Silverman Group Buys 198 Acres, Plans Spec Industrial Park in Metro Charlotte

by Julia Sanders July 16, 2021

CHINA GROVE, N.C. — The Silverman Group has purchased approximately 198 acres located in China Grove for a speculative industrial park known as 85 North Logistics Center. The land seller was not disclosed, but the sales price was approximately $10.4 million. The project is slated for delivery in the third quarter of 2022. The project has the potential for upwards of 1.8 million square feet of Class A industrial space across two buildings. Silverman Group could potentially deliver one building spanning 1.5 million square feet as well as a second 414,000-square-foot building. The project could include trailer and auto parking, as well as ceiling heights of 40 feet and greater should it be desired by a prospective tenant. The Silverman Group is a privately owned and operated private equity and real estate development firm based in Basking Ridge, N. J. Avison Young has been chosen to lease the property.

July 16, 2021

Development Georgia Industrial Southeast

Robinson Weeks Breaks Ground on 1.3 MSF Spec Industrial Development Near Atlanta

by Julia Sanders July 16, 2021

FOREST PARK, GA. — Robinson Weeks Partners has broken ground on Gillem 1100 and Gillem 1200, a pair of Class A speculative distribution centers in metro Atlanta totaling nearly 1.3 million square feet. The facilities sit within Gillem Logistics Center in Forest Park. Construction on Gillem 1100 is scheduled to finish in the beginning of 2022, while Gillem 1200 is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2022. The 909,509-square-foot Gillem 1100 will be a cross-dock facility featuring 40-foot clear heights, 300 auto parking spaces, 171 dock high doors and 318 trailer storage spaces. The 377,520-square-foot Gillem 1200 will feature 32-foot clear heights, 267 auto parking spaces, 70 dock high doors and 86 trailer storage spaces. Formerly the Fort Gillem Army Base, Gillem Logistics Center is a 1,168-acre master-planned industrial development featuring more than 8 million square feet of industrial space and 500,000 square feet of mixed-use facilities. The logistics center is approximately 11 miles from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and houses tenants including Kroger, Cummins, HD Supply, XPO, Kuehne + Nagel and Kalera. Robinson Weeks Partners is an Atlanta-based development and acquisitions firm. The firm was selected to be the master developer for the project in 2007 and …

July 16, 2021

Acquisitions Development Florida Georgia Multifamily Southeast

Kaplan Buys Three Land Sites for a Total of $17.3M, Plans to Develop Build-to-Rent Townhomes

by Julia Sanders July 16, 2021

MIAMI AND ATLANTA — Kaplan Residential, a multifamily developer with offices in Miami and Atlanta, has acquired three land sites in Georgia and Florida for the development of three build-to-rent townhome communities. The firm acquired two sites in metro Atlanta totaling more than $11 million and a 30-acre parcel in Venice, Fla., for nearly $6 million for a total of approximately $17.3 million. The first metro Atlanta acquisition is located at 3960 Redan Road in Stone Mountain, about 15 miles east of downtown Atlanta. Paideia School sold the land to Kaplan for $6.5 million. Shea Meddin of Cushman & Wakefield facilitated the sale. Brock Built Homes will serve as Kaplan’s co-general partner and general contractor for the new development. The other metro Atlanta property is located at 9570 Dallas Acworth Highway in Dallas, 37 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta. An entity doing business as AHA-Paulding LLC sold the land to Kaplan for $4.8 million. Patrick Taylor of ACI Capital Partners Inc. arranged the sale. New Wave Loans provided an undisclosed amount of financing to Kaplan. Lastly, the Southwest Florida site is located at 2201 Knights Trail Road in Venice. Rowco Development Co. LLC sold the land for approximately $6 million. …

July 16, 2021

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