South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Greystone has arranged $27.1 million in financing for Merrill Gardens at Columbia, a 120-unit seniors housing community in Columbia. The five-year loan for the independent living and assisted living community featured a floating interest rate, 30-year amortization schedule, three years of interest-only payments and a mid-200 basis point loan spread. Tyler Armstrong of Greystone worked with the client in placing the regional bank loan on behalf of the borrowers, AEW Capital Management and Merrill Gardens, a seniors housing owner-operator based in Seattle.

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ROCK HILL, S.C. — The Keith Corp., with partners Springsteen Properties and Capitol Broadcasting Co., will break ground Tuesday, Jan. 17 on The Thread, a 400,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project located in Rock Hill, roughly 30 miles southwest of Charlotte. Built in 1946, the property originally housed a textile mill and warehouse. Upon completion, the first phase of development will feature 170,000 square feet of office space and 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Delivery is scheduled for January 2024. Horizon Bank is providing construction financing. A second phase — construction of which will commence upon completion of the first — will include 200,000 square feet of residential and retail space, with apartments in one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Aventon Cos. has broken ground on Aventon Bees Ferry, a 394-unit apartment community located on a 30-acre site in Charleston’s West Ashley submarket. The development is the first project in South Carolina for the Raleigh-based developer. Situated near the intersection of Bees Ferry Road and Savannah Highway, Aventon Bees Ferry will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as a community clubhouse with a fitness center and coworking spaces and two courtyards that will feature a resort-style pool, gaming lawn, pet spa and a dog park. Aventon expects to open Aventon Bees Ferry in early 2024. Other members of the development team include Watts Leaf Architects, Studio 5 Interiors Inc. and Thomas & Hutton.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Atlanta-based SJC Ventures has announced plans to break ground on the second phase of West Ashley Station, a retail center in Charleston, later this month. The first phase was built in 2016 with a 45,062-square-foot Whole Foods Market as the anchor tenant. Phase II of the development will add 20,000 square feet of shopping, dining and fitness space. Demolition of a building that formerly housed a Doscher’s IGA Supermarket will occur this month, with vertical construction scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2023. Planned tenants include Hollywood Feed, Hand & Stone, Another Broken Egg, MADabolic, Pacific Dental and GoodVets. The center is currently 93 percent leased.

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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Edgewater Ventures plans to develop a 164,850-square-foot build-to-suit distribution facility in North Myrtle Beach for Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC (PBV). Located in Palmetto Coast Industrial Park, the project will break ground in January of next year. Constructed on 25 acres, the PBV facility will feature tilt-up concrete construction, 30-foot minimum clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system and expansion capability up to 217,000 square feet. PBV marks the first tenant at the park, which will comprise 720,000 square feet upon completion and includes a dedicated interchange at Highway 31.

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GREENWOOD, S.C. — An affiliate of Phoenix Investors has purchased the Fujifilm North American Campus in Greenwood, which has been home to Fujifilm Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc. since 1988. The 11-building property spans more than 2.7 million square feet over 500 acres. Fujifilm has leased back approximately 50 percent of the campus from the buyer and plans to keep over 300 employees at the site for manufacturing and administrative purposes. Phoenix Investors plans to market approximately 1.4 million square feet of space for lease to new tenants. James Medbery, Doug Faris and Shaun Kirchin of Binswanger brokered the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed.

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SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Frampton Construction has delivered a 204,000-square-foot speculative industrial facility within Portside Distribution Center in Summerville, about 25 miles northwest of Charleston via I-26. Randolph Development is the developer of the facility, the second building within the industrial park. Colliers is leasing the property for lease. The rear-load, tilt-wall facility features clear heights of 32 feet, 38 dock doors, four drive-in doors, 142 car parking spaces and 52 trailer parking spaces. The design-build team includes civil engineer Thomas & Hutton and architect McMillan Pazdan Smith.

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $78.4 million sale of two adjacent multifamily communities in Myrtle Beach’s Little River submarket. The assets include The Banks at Bridgewater, a new 252-unit multifamily community, and Stepping Stone at Bridgewater, a 44-unit build-to-rent community. Tai Cohen, John Phoenix and Louis Smart of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Wakefield Residential, in the transaction. PassiveInvesting.com, a private equity real estate investment firm based in the Carolinas, was the buyer. Craig Davis Properties developed Banks at Bridgewater earlier this year. The property’s amenities include a coffee bar, on-demand yoga, saltwater pool, walking trails and units featuring built-in workspaces. Built in 2020, Stepping Stone at Bridgewater comprises two-bedroom/two-bath duplexes with attached garages in a neighborhood, cul-de-sac-style setting.

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Monday Properties, a multifamily developer with offices in New York City and Arlington, Va., and partner Glenmont Capital Management have broken ground on The Willow, a 338-unit apartment community located at 7562 Plantation Road in North Charleston. Monday Properties purchased the site in November 2021 and secured $48 million in construction financing from Sandy Spring Bank. The Class A multifamily community is expected to deliver in late first-quarter 2024. Amenities will include a zero-entry, saltwater pool, grilling cabana, pickleball court, outdoor fitness area, courtyards, 24-hour fitness center and yoga studio, a lounge and game room and a covered patio overlooking the pool, as well as coworking and conference spaces and a community room. The pet-friendly community will also feature a half-acre dog park.

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Bahadir Yetki, Kontrolmatik Technologies

COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. — Kontrolmatik Technologies, a construction and engineering firm based in Istanbul, has unveiled plans for a $279 million plant in coastal South Carolina’s Colleton County that will manufacture lithium ion batteries. Pomega Energy Storage Technologies, a subsidiary of Kontrolmatik, will operate the facility, which is scheduled for completion in 2024. At that time, Kontrolmatik, whose U.S. headquarters are based in Northern Virginia, expects to employ about 575 people at the facility. The exact site was not disclosed, but the southern portion of the county touches the Atlantic Ocean and offers proximity to the Port of Charleston. This aspect of the location, along with access to a qualified workforce, should help address domestic reliance on foreign supply chains for these critical devices, according to the site selection team. Keith Stauber and Meredith O’Connor of JLL led the site selection efforts for Kontrolmatik, a process that involved touring more than 200 locations. The factory will have a three-gigawatt hour capacity, meaning its annual energy consumption is enough to power about 2.3 million American homes. “South Carolina and Colleton County were aggressive in their pursuit of this exciting project and put forth compelling economic, supply chain and workforce reasons why …

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