GREER, S.C. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged the $10 million refinancing of Halcyon at Cross Creek Apartments, a 152-unit multifamily community located at 1200 Halcyon Circle in Greer. Bill Matone of NorthMarq’s Charlotte office arranged the 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization schedule through Freddie Mac.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — DNA Partners has purchased The Gallery, a 142,000-square-foot retail center located on Haywood Road in Greenville. The Gallery is leased to Gabe’s and Conn’s and features a Chick-fil-A at its entrance. DNA Partners plans to add outdoor seating and update the landscaping of the center’s courtyard. The firm is also planning to redesign the center’s side building to accommodate active outdoor lifestyle tenants.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Shopping Center Group (TSCG) has brokered the $16.5 million sale of The Shoppes at Centre Pointe, a 140,000-square-foot shopping center located in North Charleston. An affiliate of Monarch Investments purchased the retail property from an unnamed private real estate investment firm. Anchored by Staples and Ashley Furniture, the shopping center’s other tenants include Dollar Tree, McAlister’s Deli, Qdoba Mexican Eats, Cici’s Pizza, Sally Beauty Supply, GameStop, Cricket Wireless and Dunkin’ Donuts. IHOP and Chick-fil-A also operate at the shopping center but were not included in the sale. Walmart and Sam’s Club shadow-anchor the center. Anthony Blanco, Lenard Williams and Mallory Ham of TSCG’s investment sales team, along with Jeff Yurfest and Michael Silverman of TSCG’s Charleston office, represented the seller in the transaction.
HILTON HEAD, S.C. — HFF has secured $13.4 million in acquisition financing for Fresh Market Shoppes, an 86,694-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center in Hilton Head. Redeveloped in 2004, the shopping center was 91.2 percent leased at the time of financing to 16 tenants, including anchor The Fresh Market, Bonefish Grill, Dollar Tree, Massage Envy and West Marine. Situated on 9.7 acres at 890 William Hilton Parkway, the shopping center is bounded by two golf courses: Long Cove Golf Club and Shipyard Plantation Golf Course. Travis Anderson and Cory Fowler led HFF’s debt placement team to arrange the loan through Synovus Bank on behalf of the borrower, Ferncroft Capital.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Atlanta-based Haven Campus Communities will develop a $55 million, six-building student housing project in the Bull Street development near the University of South Carolina in Columbia. The 234-unit project will go up on nearly 6.5 acres in the proposed BullStreet Common development and feature apartment residences and townhomes. The project includes a 608-space parking deck and 104 street spaces, as well as a pool, courtyard and covered pavilion. The site is adjacent to a city-owned baseball stadium that will open this year.
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Capstone Capital has closed the $32.5 million cash-out refinancing of Kilnsea Village Apartments, a 313-unit multifamily property located at 5300 Patron Place in Summerville, roughly 26 miles west of Charleston. The unnamed borrower, a Southeast-based developer, refinanced an existing $20 million loan and withdrew approximately $12.5 million from the new financing. Jackson Howard of Capstone Capital arranged the Fannie Mae loan at a fixed interest rate of 4.45 percent. The loan features three years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.
DUNCAN, S.C. — Exeter Property Group has purchased a 307,132-square-foot, Class A industrial building located at 1375 Howell Road in Duncan. Exeter purchased the asset from TIC Properties for an undisclosed price. Located within Hillside Industrial Park, the property is leased to Benore Logistics, a third-party logistics and sequencing provider for BMW. Givens Stewart, Garrett Scott and Brockton Hall of Colliers International represented Exeter in the transaction.
SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. —McCrory Construction Co., a South Carolina-based general contractor, has broken ground on The Crossing at Five Forks, an independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Simpsonville, located in Upstate South Carolina. Virginia-based developer Smith/Packett Med-Com LLC is developing the 197,702-square-foot community, which will feature 100 independent living units, 48 assisted living units and 24 memory care units. Development costs are estimated to be $19 million. More than 15 percent of the population in Greenville County, where the community will be located, is above 62 years of age. Studies project that in 10 years, one of every four residents in Greenville will be over 55, according to McCrory. The Crossing at Five Forks is the second seniors housing community McCrory is building in South Carolina for Smith/Packett and its subsidiary Harmony Senior Services. The Crossings at Wescott Plantation, located in Charleston, is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2016.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Colliers International has brokered the $3.5 million sale of a 133,240-square-foot industrial facility located at 2641 New Cut Road in Spartanburg. Reger Holdings LLC purchased the former Faurecia manufacturing facility from Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies LLC. Faurecia is a manufacturer of automotive seating, interior systems, automotive exteriors and emissions control technologies and is major supplier for BMW, which has a major presence in South Carolina. Colliers is the global real estate services provider for Faurecia, which has 238 production facilities and 38 research and development centers in 33 countries. Chuck Salley, Dave Mathews, Givens Stewart, Sam Myers, Garrett Scott and Brockton Hall of Colliers represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction. Reger Holdings has retained Colliers to lease and manage the facility.
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $5 million sale of a single-tenant property net leased to Walgreens at 4300 Highway 17 South in North Myrtle Beach. Walgreens has operated at the store, located at the intersection of Highway 17 and Windy Hill Road, since 2002 and has seven years remaining on its lease agreement. Randy Blankstein and John Feeney of The Boulder Group represented the buyer, a Midwest-based private investor, in the 1031 transaction. The seller was a private investor based in California.