KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Stan Johnson Co. has brokered the $9.9 million sale of a 59,748-square-foot office building leased to CVS/pharmacy in Knoxville. CVS houses its call center at the property, which is situated at 2401 Cherahala Blvd., 17 miles west of downtown Knoxville. The Woonsocket, R.I.-based company has occupied the space since it was built in 2002. Jonathan Ameen and Jeff Hughes of Stan Johnson Co., along with John Adams III of Avison Young, represented the seller, New York-based Lexington Realty Trust. Concord Capital LLC, a group of investors based in Jackson, Miss., acquired the asset.
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NASHVILLE, TENN. — The Pizzuti Cos. has opened The Joseph, a 21-story, 297-room hotel in Nashville’s SoBro district. The hotel is part of Marriott International’s Luxury Collection line. The hotel offers indoor and outdoor meeting space, a fitness center, spa and salon, rooftop lounge and restaurant Yolan. The Joseph, named after Pizzuti family patriarch Joseph Pizzuti, is located at 401 Koreans Blvd., less than one mile from downtown Nashville. Miami-based Arquitectonica designed the hotel. New York City-based INC Architecture & Design was the interior designer.
The Memphis industrial market was off to another record-setting year for the third straight time. Then, the Mike Tyson punch no one could have ever expected came: the shutdown of the entire country. Even after sheltering in place for months and nonessential businesses out of the office until further notice, our industrial market is holding firm. The Memphis industrial market holds over 285 million square feet of useable space and offers the basic tenets for distribution. Memphis International Airport is the second largest cargo airport in the world. Additionally, Memphis is home to 400 trucking companies; it is the third-busiest trucking corridor (Interstate 40 spans from East Coast to California); it is one of only four cities to be served by five long-haul Class 1 rail systems; it has the fourth largest inland port in the country; and it has the second largest stillwater port. Memphis is also home to the FedEx worldwide hub and also houses UPS and US Postal Service hubs. All these companies operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Because of this, Memphis provides the most cost-effective distribution and logistics operations in the country. And in the midst of a worldwide pandemic and shelter-in-place …
NASHVILLE, TENN. — JLL has arranged the $41.2 million sale of Axis and Mosaic, two multifamily properties totaling 363 units in Nashville. Bond Cos. acquired the portfolio in an off-market transaction from Archway Equities LLC, an affiliate of Archway Holdings. Ian Anderson and Peter Chacon of JLL brokered the transaction. Axis comprises 130 units, offering one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities include a clubhouse, fitness center, pool and laundry facilities. The property was built in 1969 and is situated at 307 Glengarry Drive, seven miles southeast of downtown Nashville. Mosaic, which was built in 1967, totals 233 units and offers two-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities include a courtyard, package services, grilling area and a picnic area. The asset is located at 1019 Patricia Drive, seven miles southeast of downtown Nashville and one mile from Axis.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Third & Urban and FCP have opened Sylvan Supply, a 194,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project in Nashville’s Sylvan Park neighborhood. The property offers 162,000 square feet of office space and 32,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Sylvan Supply is located at 401 Charlotte Ave., three miles west of downtown Nashville. The site is home to the former Madison Mill. Office tenants include consulting firm Accenture, Keller Williams Realty Nashville and consulting firm FortyAU. Retail and restaurant tenants include Radish Kitchen, fitness center Row House, Woodland Wine Merchant, Bearded Iris Brewing, Pure Barre and Otaku Ramen. Bill Adair and Ashley Albright Marshall of JLL handle the office leasing efforts at Sylvan Supply, while Elliott Kyle of Equitable Property Co. oversees retail leasing. Centric Architecture designed the property, and Hodgson Douglas was the landscape architect.
Amid the uncertainty this year has brought, the Memphis office market’s fundamentals have continued to be stable through the end of the second quarter of 2020. Net absorption posted negative gains, recording 53,389 square feet of negative net absorption this quarter. While occupiers seeking rent relief was of minimal consequence, the steady demand allowed the total vacancy rate to decrease 80 basis points from the first quarter to 14.5 percent in the second quarter of 2020. Office tenants are continuing to pay rent on time, with less than 4 percent attrition on overall rent collection, which is no different than normal. In Memphis and the Southeast overall, leasing activity in this latest quarter was driven almost exclusively by near-term lease expirations. Similar to years past during various cycles of economic slowdowns, we are again seeing the overwhelming majority of new lease prospects limited to those companies who “have to” move, versus those companies that “want to” move. This is understandable, given the myriad of hardships caused by the pandemic and the limitation it has imposed on travel, group meetings and overall workplace usage. In fact, many companies have paused to assess their future space utilization, and whenever possible are delaying …
KeyBank Provides $163M Refinancing Loan for Six-Property Multifamily Portfolio in Three Southeastern States
by Alex Tostado
CLEVELAND — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $163 million Fannie Mae refinancing loan for a six-property multifamily portfolio in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Dirk Falardeau, Steven Hamm and Matt Purtell of Cleveland-based KeyBank structured the 15-year loan with 10 years of interest-only payments on behalf of the borrower, Boston-based Panther Residential Management (PRM). In Tennessee, the portfolio comprises the 278-unit Integra Hills Apartments and the 270-unit Integra Hills Preserve Apartments in Ooltewah, as well as the 238-unit Villas at Houston Levee East and the 226-unit Villas at Houston Levee West in Cordova. The portfolio also includes the 280-unit Panther Riverside Parc in Atlanta and the 276-unit Huntsville Parc Apartments in Huntsville, Ala. The six properties were all built between 2008 and 2015.
GALLATIN, TENN. — Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has broken ground on an $800 million data center located roughly 18 miles north of Nashville in Gallatin. The company acquired the 809-acre development site earlier this year for $20 million under the name Woolhawk LLC, according to reports by local news site Gallatin News. The 982,000-square-foot campus will be built to LEED Gold certification standards, using 80 percent less water than the average data center. The development will also be supported by 100 percent renewable energy. Facebook has signed contracts for 220 megawatts of solar energy in Tennessee in support of the project. The company anticipates more than 1,100 construction workers will be onsite at the peak of construction, and the completed development will support approximately 100 new jobs in the form of technicians, engineers, facility managers, logistics professionals and security personnel. “We’re excited about Facebook in Gallatin because of the advantages we think it is going bring to our community,” says Paige Brown, the city’s mayor. “We’re confident in the brightest of futures for both Facebook and the city of Gallatin.” Facebook unveiled plans to build another $800 million data center 65 miles west of Chicago in Dekalb, Illinois, earlier this year. …
MEMPHIS, TENN. AND DENVER — Envolve Communities LLC and Ross Management have merged their multifamily operations. Memphis-based Envolve Communities owns more than 33,000 multifamily units in 17 states. Denver-based Ross Management owns 53 properties in Colorado and Oklahoma. Envolve Communities says the day-today-operations at Ross Management will see little change, and executive vice president Brooke Akins will stay on and serve in the same role. Ross Management will rebrand as Ross — A Division of Envolve Communities. Terms of the merger were not disclosed.
Welker Properties-Led Partnership Acquires Multifamily Community in Memphis for $25M, Begins $13.5M in Renovations
by Alex Tostado
MEMPHIS, TENN. — A partnership between Welker Properties, Think Multifamily, Bullseye Investments and Tactical Asset Management has acquired The Woods at Ridgeway, a 568-unit multifamily community in southeast Memphis. The partnership has begun a $13.5 million renovation plan, which includes installing new roofs, painting the building exteriors and adding gate-controlled access. Communal amenities such as the screening room, fitness center, business center and multisport court will also be upgraded. Unit interiors will receive new kitchens, flooring, bathrooms and paint jobs. A timeline for completion was not disclosed. ROCO Real Estate sold the property, which is situated at 6277 Lake Arbor Drive, 15 miles southeast of downtown Memphis.