SPARTANBURG, S.C. — SunCap Property Group has acquired 18 acres on Tyger Lake Road in Spartanburg, with plans to develop a 213,200-square-foot industrial building. Dubbed Spartan Exchange, the Class A facility will feature 32-foot clear heights, 22 dock doors, two drive-in doors and trailer parking. The building will be divisible to 54,080 square feet to accommodate a range of tenant sizes. Garrett Scott, John Montgomery and Brockton Hall of Colliers International represented SunCap in the land transaction, and will be responsible for the leasing and management of the project. Edifice is the general contractor, and Ware Malcomb is the project architect. Spartan Exchange will be located roughly 10 miles from the Inland Port Greer and Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport.
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Big Rock, Kiawah Partners to Develop $125M Seniors Housing Community Near Charleston, South Carolina
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Big Rock Partners, in a joint venture with Kiawah Partners, has unveiled plans to develop a $125 million seniors housing community on Kiawah Island, a barrier island located 21 miles southwest of Charleston. The 200-unit community will be for residents ages 55 and older and will include independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The unnamed project will be built overlooking a lake next to the Freshfields Village shopping center. “There’s been exponential growth in the active senior population in the Charleston area,” says Richard Ackerman, senior managing partner at Big Rock. “We wanted to bring a state-of-the-art senior living experience to the Lowcountry.” The community will feature its own movie facility, multiple pools, a fitness center with a yoga studio, and multiple food and beverage options. “There are current Kiawah homeowners who are aging, who want to downsize and require higher degrees of service levels,” says Chris Randolph, partner at Kiawah Partners. “They don’t want to lose touch with their social circles by moving off the island. Senior living on Kiawah allows them to keep their ties to the island, and for many, to the Kiawah Island Club.” Kiawah Partners is the master developer …
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Red Rock Developments will soon break ground on the first phase at Smith Farms Industrial Park in Spartanburg County. The Columbia, S.C.-based developer first unveiled plans for the 5.9 million-square-foot project, located at the intersection of Highway 101 and Reidville Road, in March. Phase I will include two speculative buildings totaling 610,000 square feet. Building I will be a 400,000-square-foot, cross-dock facility that will suit the needs of warehouse/distribution users. The second building will be a rear-load facility totaling 210,000 square feet. The building will be suited for non-distribution or smaller tenants, according to Red Rock. Smith Farms is located roughly three miles from Interstate 85, providing access to BMW’s Spartanburg plant, Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport and the Greer Inland Port. Red Rock expects to wrap up construction on the first two buildings in the second quarter of 2019. NAI Earle Furman is handling the project’s leasing assignment.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — LandSouth Construction, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based general contractor, has broken ground on The Merchant, a $37 million apartment community located at 15 Huguenin Ave. in Charleston’s NoMo district. Atlanta-based Pollack Shores Real Estate Group is developing the 231-unit community, which will include 10 buildings with a mix of one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Community amenities will include a resort-style pool, clubhouse with gaming area, fitness center, yoga studio, pet spa and a bike lounge. Raleigh, N.C.-based Cline Design Associates is the architect for the project, which is scheduled for completion in December 2019.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. AND MT. PLEASANT, S.C. — Go Store It has broken ground on two new self-storage developments in Asheville and Mt. Pleasant. The Charlotte, N.C-based company specializes in the acquisition, development and management of self-storage assets throughout the country. The project in Asheville will feature more than 600 units and will be fully climate controlled. The development is located in the Woodfin submarket, just north of the city’s downtown. Go Store It owns three existing facilities in Asheville and is underway on another along Hendersonville Road. The self-storage facility in Mt. Pleasant is Go Store It’s third facility in the city and its fifth in the greater Charleston market. Located at the corner of Gregorie Ferry Road and Highway 17 North, the three-story building will be fully climate controlled and will feature more than 400 units. Go Store It’s other Charleston locations include a recently opened facility at Long Point Road, as well as facilities under construction at Johnnie Dodds, Folly Road, Maybank Highway and downtown Charleston. A construction timeline for the new facilities was not disclosed. Go Store It plans to break ground on five more developments this year in Charlotte, Cary, Louisville, Ky., and Fredericksburg, Va.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Dominion Realty Partners (DRP), a full-service real estate firm, has acquired The Ogletree Building, a 61,047-square-foot office property located at 300 N. Main St. in downtown Greenville. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. The property underwent renovations and updates in 2016, and was fully leased at the time of sale to financial services and law firms. The Ogletree Building features a dedicated, adjacent parking garage and is located near various hotels, restaurants, retailers, entertainment venues and public parks.
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Healthcare Systems, Physicians are ‘More Sophisticated’ When it Comes to Real Estate, Says InterFace Healthcare Panel
by John Nelson
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Healthcare systems and physicians groups once viewed their real estate operations as a line item on a ledger and not as high a priority as staffing, education or equipment. In the years since reimbursements from Medicare began tightening as it went from a fee-for-service model to an outcome-based one, healthcare systems and physicians are getting more savvy when it comes to their real estate strategies. “With respect to real estate, healthcare systems used to be naïve,” said Mark Curtis, director of Greenville Health System, a not-for-profit system serving the Upstate South Carolina area. “Now they’re far more sophisticated than they were five years ago.” Curtis was one of five healthcare real estate experts on stage at a panel entitled “What Do Hospitals & Systems See Coming in 2018?” Rex Noble, senior vice president of asset management at Flagship Healthcare Properties, moderated the discussion. The panel was the closing act at the eighth annual InterFace Healthcare Real Estate Carolinas show, which took place on May 31 at the Hilton City Center hotel in Uptown Charlotte. The event drew 160 attendees in the healthcare real estate space from across North and South Carolina. Operations are Under the Microscope Spurred …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Capital One Multifamily Finance’s Chad Thomas Hagwood kicked off with a fastball. When prompted with the often used “what inning are we in?” question, Hagwood’s response was indicative of how competitive commercial real estate lending is today. “I don’t know what inning we are in of the cycle, but I know I want to play ball,” says Hagwood, senior vice president of Capital One Multifamily Finance. “People are after it, and we intend to fight it out tooth and nail.” Hagwood’s commentary came during the closing capital markets panel of the ninth annual InterFace Carolinas, a half-day event that drew 212 attendees from North and South Carolina’s commercial real estate community. Bryson Thomason, senior director of Greenville, S.C.-based PMC Real Estate Capital, moderated the panel. The most intense competition for financing is in the multifamily space because of the proliferation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their designated lenders. The two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) have been competing against each other as well as other lenders. Hagwood describes the competition between the two agencies as a “bloodbath.” “It’s all out brutal warfare competition the two,” says Hagwood. “I do expect Fannie and Freddie to be very competitive …
‘Broadening’ Economy on Track for Longest Expansion Cycle in U.S. History, Says Wells Fargo’s Mark Vitner
by John Nelson
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It’s been nine years since the Great Recession ended, and if the economy can make it to June 2019 without suffering a relapse, it will be the longest business cycle in U.S. history. Mark Vitner, managing director and senior economist of Wells Fargo Securities, believes that will happen because of how broad-based the recovery has been. “For the most part, over the last nine months to a year all 50 states have been growing, which is something that hasn’t happened before,” says Vitner, who is based in Wells Fargo’s Charlotte office. “Typically, when the economy broadens it makes for a more durable expansion. When the strength of the economy begins to narrow, with fewer industries and states expanding, that’s usually a sign that a recession is a year to 18 months ahead.” Vitner’s commentary came during his keynote address at the ninth annual Carolinas InterFace conference. The half-day event, which took place on Thursday, May 31 at the Hilton Charlotte City Center hotel in Uptown Charlotte, drew 212 attendees from across the commercial real estate industry in North and South Carolina. The veteran economist says that the United States is currently at full employment with a majority …
HANAHAN, S.C. — Stockbridge Capital Group has acquired a newly constructed industrial facility in the north Charleston suburb of Hanahan for $30.5 million. The 350,856-square-foot facility is located at 1025 N. Pointe Industrial Road, five miles from the Port of Charleston’s North Charleston terminal and nine miles from Charleston International Airport. The building features an ESFR sprinkler system, 32-foot clear heights, LED lighting, 180-foot truck courts and on-site trailer storage. The facility is fully leased to AmerCare and ManTech International. Chris Norvell and Patrick Nally of HFF arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, SunCap Property Group and WestRock, which developed the facility in 2016.