ATLANTA — Cushman & Wakefield’s equity, debt and structured finance group in Atlanta has arranged a $90 million joint venture recapitalization of a five-property multifamily portfolio. The borrower, Peak Capital Partners, owns and operates the portfolio, which spans 1,249 units in Atlanta, Charlotte, Denver and Dallas. Mike Ryan, Telly Fathaly, John Alascio, Jeff Walker and Brian Linnihan of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the financing, which includes joint venture equity provided by an institutional investor and debt from GSE and conduit lenders.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — VW Multifamily has purchased Haddon Hall Apartments, a 71-unit multifamily community located in Charleston’s West Ashley submarket, for $8 million. The property is located at 1801 Haddon Hall Drive within the Grand Oaks Plantation development. The value-add multifamily investor plans to upgrade Haddon Hall’s units with plank hardwood flooring, stainless steel appliances, washer and dryer units and upgraded fixtures.
ELGIN, S.C. — Mississippi-based seniors housing developer Cardinal Ventures has hired Frampton Construction Co., a South Carolina-based construction firm, to build The Blake at Woodcreek Farms, an assisted living and memory care community in the Columbia suburb of Elgin. The Class A community will be a two-level, 100-unit facility when completed. This will be the first South Carolina location of The Blake, which has other locations in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi. Frampton Construction broke ground on the community in September, and expects to open The Blake in the fall of 2016.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — NAI Avant has brokered the $7 million sale of Broad River Commons, a 135,675-square-foot office building located at 2340 Broad River Road in Columbia. The property is located one block from I-20 and a quarter mile from I-26. Denver-based Northstar Commercial Partners was the buyer. Jeff Hein and Roger Winn, Jr. of NAI Avant brokered the sale. NAI Avant recently represented an undisclosed tenant in leasing 63 percent of Broad River Commons’ available space.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Charleston Board of Architectural Review has approved the conceptual plan for Spandrel Development Partners’ apartment development at 511 Meeting St. in Charleston. The property will be located at the foot of the dismantled John P. Grace Memorial Bridge over Cooper River. The project will contain approximately 200 apartment units, 15 percent of which will be designated for workforce housing. The property will also have retail space and on-site parking.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charlotte-based Ferncroft Capital has acquired a 14,000-square-foot, Class A medical office building located at 163 Rutledge Ave. in Charleston, for $5.3 million. The Medical University of South Carolina anchors the fully leased property. Bank of North Carolina provided the acquisition loan on behalf of Ferncroft Capital. Ferncroft has tapped CBRE to manage the medical office building. Colliers International’s Charleston office represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
GRAY COURT, S.C. — Binswanger has brokered the $3.1 million sale of a 91,264-square-foot, single-story industrial building located at 100 ISO Parkway in Gray Court. The facility is situated on a 20-acre lot roughly two miles south of I-385. The property features a six-foot concrete floor, insulated metal walls and roof, ceiling heights ranging from roughly 26 feet in the warehouse to more than 50 feet in the production area, metal halide lighting, sprinkler system, 4,900 square feet of office space, seven dock-high doors and one drive-in door. In addition, the property includes an on-site rail spur provided by Rail America via a short line connection to CSX. Mogul Novwovens, a Turkish producer of medical and personal wet wipes, purchased the facility for manufacturing and to expand its product line. Mogul plans to hire 38 employees and begin operating out of the facility in the second quarter of 2016. The company purchased the asset from Polymer Group Inc. Shaun Kirchin and Doug Faris of Binswanger represented Polymer Group in the transaction.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The University of South Carolina is seeking a private developer to build and operate a residential village on the south side of its campus that includes new student housing towers, according to Wes Hickman, a spokesman for the school. The developer would have the ability to lease the property for up to 40 years, and the school would share in the profits from renting rooms to students. To build the towers, four residence halls with 1,200 beds — Bates House, Bates West, Cliff Apartments and Carolina Gardens — would need to be demolished. Plans call for replacing these halls with three- to six-story towers that could have as many as 4,000 beds. USC hopes to have 1,500 beds on line by July 2018. According to Hickman, the school would likely put little to no money upfront toward the project. The 18-acre village would also include dining facilities, recreation space and parking.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. AND ATLANTA — Dallas-based Covington Group Inc. and its affiliates have sold more than 900,000 square feet of industrial property in Spartanburg and Atlanta. The real estate development and investment firm sold the 240,000-square-foot Logistics Pointe: Spartanburg to Austin, Texas-based AIC Ventures. Grice Hunt of NAI Earle Furman represented Covington in the sale. Covington also sold the 657,000-square-foot Logistics Pointe: Atlanta to an affiliate of San Francisco-based Glen Una Management. The former SUPERVALU grocery distribution center was 95 percent leased at the time of sale. Brian Budnick of CBRE Capital Markets Atlanta represented Covington in the transaction. The sales prices for both transactions were undisclosed.
GREER, S.C. — Avison Young has brokered the $5.8 million sale of Pelham Place, a 57,158-square-foot shopping center located at 3093 S. Highway 14 in Greer. Built in 2007, the shopping center was 94 percent leased at the time of sale, but the 38,003-square-foot anchor space is currently vacant. Realop Investments LLC purchased the grocery-anchored asset from Torchlight Investors. Michael Fay led Avison Young’s team in representing the seller in the transaction. David Duckworth, AJ Belt III and John Odom of Avison Young assisted in the transaction.