Southeast

SARASOTA, FLA. — Benderson Development has acquired a portfolio of 15 retail properties throughout the country that were formerly leased to Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us. The sales price was not disclosed for the 600,000-square-foot portfolio. Locations in the Southeast include five stores in Florida — Miami, Palm Beach Gardens, Naples, Fort Lauderdale and North Miami Beach — and one asset in Cary, N.C. In March, Toys ‘R’ Us announced it was closing all 735 of its stores in the United States and Puerto Rico. Founded in 1949, Benderson Development owns a real estate portfolio comprising more than 40 million square feet of retail, office, medical, industrial, lodging and residential properties in 39 states.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

COLD SPRING, KY. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) has brokered the $26 million sale of Cold Spring Crossing, a 325,383-square-foot retail center in Cold Spring, a Kentucky town about eight miles southeast of Cincinnati. The center was built in 2004 and is anchored by Kroger, Home Depot and Kohl’s. Craig Fuller and Erin Patton of IPA represented the seller, a private Cincinnati based-developer, in the transaction. Ashish Vakhariya of Marcus & Millichap’s Detroit office represented the buyer, a private investor, in a 1031 exchange. Cold Spring Crossing was 99 percent leased at the time of the sale.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

TAMPA, FLA. — Bayside Ventures V LLC has sold The Avenue Apartments in Tampa for $23.3 million. The Avenue Apartments LLC, a partnership led by a local investor with Canadian equity partners, purchased the 216-unit property. The Avenue Apartments was built in 1984 and is situated about three miles from the University of South Florida. Amenities include a swimming pool, fitness center, laundry facility and a resident clubhouse. Darron Kattan, Kevin Kelleher, Zachary Ames and Robert Goldfinger of Franklin Street Real Estate Services in Tampa represented both parties in the transaction.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

GREENVILLE, S.C. — An affiliate of Arkansas-based CapRocq has sold 14,414 square feet of retail space and 22 multifamily units within the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Greenville for $9.4 million to an undisclosed buyer. The retail and multifamily space is situated on the second and third floors. The Wells Fargo Center is a mixed-use development leased to Charles Schwab, Sully’s Steamers, Sticky Fingers and Port City Java. The selling entity, CapRocq Greenville LLC, still owns the remainder of Wells Fargo Center. Scott Burgess and Lance Byars of Colliers International represented the seller in the transaction. Furthermore, Colliers retains the leasing and property management of the portion of the center still owned by CapRocq Greenville.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

ROSSLYN, VA. — WeWork has signed an 83,294-square-foot lease for office space at CEB Tower at Central Place in Rosslyn. WeWork will occupy the 25th through 28th floors. The 31-story mixed-use tower was delivered earlier this year and is now 93 percent leased to tenants including Gartner and Accenture. CEB Tower is located about three miles east of downtown Washington, D.C., and includes 45,000 square feet of dining and retail space along with an outdoor public plaza. Greg Lubar, Andy O’Brien and Zach Boroson of JLL represented WeWork in the lease transaction. Jill Goubeaux, Terry Reiley, Caroline Bour and Anna Faktorow of CBRE represented the landlord, JBG Smith. WeWork plans to open its space in the second quarter of 2019.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Crescent Communities and Pearl Street Partners have sold Novel Bellevue Place, a 337-unit multifamily community in Nashville’s Bellevue neighborhood, to The Praedium Group for an undisclosed price. The partnership also sold Novel Music Row in downtown Nashville to The Dinerstein Cos. for an undisclosed price, but media reports have the price tag at $79.2 million. Bellevue Place is located within One Bellevue Place, a mixed-use redevelopment of Bellevue Mall that is situated on 87 acres about 14 miles southwest of downtown Nashville. When complete, the site will also house the Nashville Predators’ practice facility. Amenities include a fitness center, pool and clubroom. Music Row is situated in Nashville’s Gulch neighborhood. Amenities include an outdoor kitchen area, dog park, pool, fitness center, clubroom and a performance stage. Both communities opened in summer 2017. Fifth Third Bank provided the construction financing for Bellevue Place, and RBS Citizens Bank provided construction financing for Music Row. Russ Oldham, Brett Kingman and Steve Massey of CBRE represented Crescent Communities in both sales transactions. Crescent Communities is currently developing two additional Nashville-area Novel communities with Pearl Street Partners. Lockwood Glen in Franklin is currently leasing, and Crescent recently announced plans for Nashville West, a 436-unit community set to deliver in spring …

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — Investment Grade Loans has sold a 554,416-square-foot industrial building in Little Rock. The property sits on 27.6 acres and sold to New York City-based Eliken Property Management for an undisclosed price. The single-story facility has 29-foot, 9-inch ceiling heights, 5-inch reinforced concrete floors, 40 dock doors and 5,616 square feet of office space. Holmes Davis of Binswanger’s Dallas office represented the seller in the transaction.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — RealOp Investments has purchased Arrowpoint II and III in Charlotte. The portfolio consists of two four-story buildings spanning 163,687 square feet. The properties are located about nine miles south of Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Greenville, S.C.-based RealOp Investments specializes in value-add acquisitions. The sales price and seller were not disclosed.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

SANFORD, N.C. — Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Hutton has broken ground on two adjacent retail development projects in Sanford. One project is a 10,400-square-foot, multi-tenant building that will include retail and restaurant space. The other project is a 3,200-square-foot standalone Zips Car Wash. Hutton has already signed Jersey Mike’s, Mattress Warehouse and Sport Clips to leases at the multi-tenant building, which currently has 1,500 square feet available for lease. Sanford is located about 40 miles southwest of Raleigh.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail

HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — Leidos Inc., a defense, aviation and biomedical research company, has signed a 61,358-square-foot lease at 915 Explorer Blvd. in Huntsville. The company occupies multiple locations in the city but plans to consolidate much of its operations to the single-story flex building. The property is located within Cummings Research Park, the second-largest research park in the United States, trailing only Research Triangle Park in Raleigh. Carter Burwell of JLL’s Birmingham office, and Doug Seale and Mateo Diachok of JLL’s Washington, D.C., office, represented Leidos in the transaction.

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmail