Southeast

Echo Street West

ATLANTA — Lincoln Property Co. has broken ground on the next phases of Echo Street West, a 19-acre mixed-use property located at intersection of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway and Northside Drive in Atlanta. The multi-phase project includes 300,000 square feet of creative office space, 50,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 292 multifamily units, an events venue, artist colony and 3.4 acres of outdoor entertainment and green space. Future phases will bring additional office, retail, residential and hotel components to the site. The total Phase I development is expected to cost $265 million. Echo Street West will have several new community amenities, including the now-open event venue Guardian Works, the soon-to-open artist colony Guardian Studios and CoLab, a neighborhood creative office and venue space led by Joan Vernon, community organizer and director of Neighborhood Engagement at Westside Future Fund. Guardian Studios is an adaptive reuse of an early 1900s-era warehouse at Echo Street West. The first phase will feature 14 rentable art studios ranging in size from 200 to 500 square feet, a 3,000-square-foot open gallery space and outdoor wall murals. The second phase will add another 26 studios, bringing the total creative community to over 40 artists. Black …

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PORT ST. LUCIE, FLA. — Watermark Residential, a wholly owned affiliate of Thompson Thrift, will develop Boardwalk at Tradition, a 214-unit build-to-rent multifamily community in Port St. Lucie. Watermark acquired 17.5 acres of land to develop the property, which will be a residential community featuring one- and two-story paired villa-style homes. The project is slated for completion in December 2022. Boardwalk at Tradition will be located at the southeast corner of SW Stockton Place and SW Community Boulevard. The property will offer a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts that average 1,100 square feet. Community amenities will include gourmet bar-kitchens with quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, full-size washers and dryers, private backyard patios, resort style pool, professionally design and appointed clubhouses, a pickleball court, fire pits, outdoor kitchens, several dog parks and a 24-hour fitness center. Boardwalk at Tradition is part of the 8,200-acre master planned Tradition community, which has $365 million in new development in the works. The apartment community is situated close to Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital and sits one mile west of Interstate 95.

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Post Ridge

PHENIX CITY, ALA. — Trillium Capital Resources has arranged $14 million in refinancing for The Gardens Apartments and Post Ridge Apartments, which are both multifamily communities located in Phenix City. The Gardens Apartments has 190 units and Post Ridge Apartments has 152 units. Located at 501 16th Ave. N., Post Ridge includes one-, two- and three-bedroom units. HUD’s A7 refinance program allowed Trillium to procure a fixed interest rate of 2.75 percent for The Gardens. The 25-year loan reduces the undisclosed borrower’s mortgage insurance premium (MIP) from 0.60 percent to 0.25 percent.

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LOUISVILLE, KY., WINTER PARK, FLA., AND TOLDEO, OHIO — In a massive blockbuster deal for seniors housing, the seventh-largest operator of seniors housing in the United States (Atria Senior Living) will acquire the third-largest (Holiday Retirement), with the largest owner in the country (Welltower) buying up a large portfolio of the affected assets. Atria, a privately held seniors housing operator based in Louisville, has agreed to buy the operations business of Winter Park-based Holiday Retirement. Meanwhile, Toledo-based REIT Welltower (NYSE: WELL) will buy the 86 properties that Holiday owns and self-manages for slightly less than $1.6 billion. Holiday currently manages 240 communities in 43 states, largely in the independent living sector. The combined company will employ more than 19,000 staffers to serve over 45,000 residents. The new firm will manage 447 communities across 45 states and seven Canadian provinces. The newly combined entity will be the second-largest seniors housing operator in the country, behind only Brookdale Senior Living. After the transaction, Atria will manage more than 250 “nearly identical” communities and higher end properties such as the recently opened Atria Newport Beach in Southern California, as well as luxury urban properties that Atria is co-developing in a joint venture with …

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ATLANTA — Newmark, on behalf of McKinley Homes, has secured an $82 million loan for the refinancing of 788 West Midtown, a 279-unit luxury condominium building located in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood. Jordan Roeschlaub, Dustin Stolly, Chris Kramer, Nick Scribani and Ben Kroll of Newmark arranged the financing through Cerberus. Located close to Georgia Tech and Atlantic Station, 788 West Midtown is located at 788 W. Marietta St. NW. Roughly 40 percent of the condos at 788 West Midtown are sold and sales velocity is averaging more than four per month, according to Newmark. Based in Peachtree Corners in metro Atlanta, McKinley Homes is a land developer and builder specializing in real estate development and vertical construction.

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Richmond apartment

COLUMBIA, S.C. AND RICHMOND, VA. — Chicago-based Alliant Credit Union has provided a total of $55.4 million in loans to finance two properties in Columbia and Richmond. The financing included a $32 million acquisition loan for a newly constructed, 285-unit apartment complex in Columbia. The undisclosed borrower was a private owner and operator of multifamily properties. The loan structure includes interest-only payments, minimal reserves and flexible exit options. Ira Zlotowitz and Michael Wyne of Eastern Union referred the transaction to Alliant Credit Union. Completed in 2019, the apartment property features a resort-style swimming pool, courtyard, clubhouse, fitness center and a media room. The average square feet of the apartment units is 1,033 square feet, and the average monthly rent price is $1,390. For the Richmond property, Alliant funded a $23.5 million refinance loan for a recently constructed multifamily property featuring 128 apartments and 8,000 square feet of retail space. The borrower was a private real estate investor, developer, operator and advisor with operations in the Southeast. The loan structure featured a seven-year term with an interest-only period, a step-down in interest rate, an earn-out provision and flexible exit options. Charles DuBose and Harmon Handorf of Phillips Realty Capital referred the …

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VA Clinic

SUMTER, S.C. — Berkadia has arranged a $14.3 million construction loan for the development of a Veterans Affairs clinic located at 245 Bultman Drive in Sumter, just east of Columbia. Michael Weinberg, Rebecca Van Reken and Alec Fox of Berkadia secured the financing on behalf of the developer, Central Florida-based Blue Cord DevGroup LLC. Berkadia secured a non-recourse, construction-to-perm loan with a 20-year term following construction of the property. The debt facility was sourced through an unnamed global investment manager. Located at 245 Bultman Drive near U.S. Highway 76 and Broad Street, the Sumter VA clinic will encompass over 26,000 square feet throughout the single-story structure. The development is slated to be completed in June 2022.

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Microtel Inn

BROOKSVILLE, FLA. — DSH Hotel Advisors has brokered the sale of a 57-room Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham hotel in Brooksville. Dennis Hopper of DSH represented the seller, an entity doing business as L&H LLC, and the buyer, Aarush Hospitality LLC. The sales price was not disclosed. The Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham is located at 6298 Nature Coast Blvd. near Interstate 75 and State Route 98. The hotel is located adjacent to Croom ATV Park, which has 2,600 acres of trails. According to its website, the hotel offers free breakfast and complimentary Wi-Fi, as well guest laundry services, an onsite gym and an outdoor pool. DSH Hotel Advisors is a Tampa-based hotel brokerage and advisory firm.

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Towne Plaza Medical Office

TAMARAC, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $4.4 million sale of Towne Plaza, a 28,600-square-foot medical office property located at 7443-7495 N University Drive in Tamarac. Quinn Sousa and Ryan Shaw of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, John Loeffler Trustee of Lillian Loeffler Trust, in the transaction. The buyer, a private doctor doing business in the sale as Evergreen 3 LLC, plans to occupy 10,000 square feet of the property and lease out the remaining space. Built in 1988, Towne Plaza has frontage on North University Drive and is accessible from the Florida Turnpike and Sawgrass Expressway. The multi-tenant medical office property is located next to the University Hospital and Medical Center. The property was 43 percent leased at the time of sale.

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Among Maryland’s hardest hit submarkets the past 12 months is the Baltimore Central Business District (CBD), where the vacancy rate has risen to 16 percent, according to CoStar Group. Notable departures from companies such as T. Rowe Price and Legg Mason have accelerated during the pandemic due to aging infrastructure and rising crime, coupled with the expansion of sexy nearby submarkets, Inner Harbor East and Harbor Point. Combined these factors have stressed property owners and businesses trying to survive. Downtown restaurants in particular have suffered even more from the double whammy of the area’s rising pre-pandemic vacancies followed by the crushing hit from the spread of COVID-19 and government shutdowns. State government swoops in But Baltimoreans just received some good news from Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan that is sure to spur economic and social revitalization of its CBD. Over time the State of Maryland will be relocating 12 agencies and approximately 3,300 employees to available properties throughout the CBD from an aging Midtown office complex known as State Center. The first agency on the move will be the Department of Human Services (DHS), which has an RFP out for approximately 105,000 square feet of office space. The Department of Health …

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