Tennessee

MEMPHIS, TENN. — Cooper Commercial Investment Group has arranged the $3.8 million sale of The Shops at Cordova Station, an 18,950-square-foot retail center in Memphis. Bob Havasi and Dan Cooper of Cooper Commercial arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, a private investment group. A New Hampshire-based investor acquired the asset. The Shops at Cordova Station was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Iberia Bank, 3 Guys Pizza Pies, Avis Car Rental, Jenny’s Nails and Game X-Change.

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KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Cincinnati-based Viking Partners III LLC has acquired Parkside Plaza, a 100,340-square-foot office building in Knoxville. The name of the seller and sales price were not disclosed. The building is located within Turkey Creek, a mixed-use development featuring retail, office and entertainment space. Constructed in 2007, the five-story Parkside Plaza features a three-story entry atrium and ample surface parking. Deborah Petrolina of IMS and Matt Fentress of NAI Koella | RM Moore are handling the building’s leasing assignment.

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NASHVILLE, TENN. — Virginia Beach, Va.-based CCP Commercial Real Estate has acquired a five-building office-flex portfolio in Nashville for $41.2 million. The properties are located within the city’s Airport North and Metro Center submarkets. The portfolio, which was 97 percent leased at the time of sale, totals 413,000 square feet and includes a mix of office and warehouse space. The name of the seller was not disclosed. The acquisition brings CCP’s portfolio in the Nashville market to approximately 1 million square feet.

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SEVIERVILLE, TENN. — JMJ Development LLC will deliver Overlook at Allensville Square II, a 144-unit apartment community in eastern Tennessee’s Sevierville. Developers broke ground on the project in January, and expect to wrap up construction in July 2019. Total project costs for the development are projected to be $21.9 million. The three-story community includes a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units and features a clubhouse, resort-style pool with sundeck, playground, business center, car wash and a dog park.

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NASHVILLE, TENN. — Chicago-based Akara Partners has broken ground on Kenect Nashville, a 420-unit apartment community located at 1815 Division St. in Nashville. The community is situated in Nashville’s Midtown neighborhood, two blocks from Vanderbilt University. The 20-story building, designed by Nashville-based Smith Gee Studio and the Chicago office of Perkins + Will, will feature 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and include a mix of studio to three-bedroom units. Community amenities will include food and beverage options throughout the building, social and coworking lounges, a fitness center, outdoor terraces, swimming pool, grills and firepits. Akara Partners expects to wrap up construction on the community in the fall of 2019.

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FRANKLIN, TENN. — CBL Properties, along with its 50/50 joint venture partners TIAA and APG, has received a $155 million, non-recourse loan for CoolSprings Galleria, a 1.1 million-square-foot mall in Franklin, roughly 20 miles south of Nashville. Wells Fargo Bank NA provided the 10-year, CMBS loan with a fixed 4.8 percent interest rate. Proceeds of the loan were used to retire an existing $97.7 million loan, which was scheduled to mature in June. CBL’s share of $29 million in excess proceeds will be used to reduce outstanding balances on its unsecured lines of credit. The Chattanooga-based company owns and manages a portfolio of 117 retail properties totaling 73.4 million square feet, located across 26 states.

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ACWORTH, GA. AND GALLATIN, TENN. — Preferred Apartment Communities (PAC) has acquired two Publix-anchored shopping centers totaling 139,000 square feet in Acworth and Gallatin. Atlanta-based PAC acquired the portfolio through its wholly owned subsidiary, New Market Properties. The name of the seller and sales price were not disclosed. In Acworth, PAC acquired Governors Towne Square, which is located roughly 32 miles northwest of Atlanta. In Gallatin, a suburb located 30 miles northeast of Nashville, PAC acquired Greensboro Village.

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Memphis ended 2017 with an overall vacancy rate of 14.8 percent, which is up slightly from where the year started at 14.5 percent — the highest level in three years. As the saying goes, “don’t judge a book by its cover,” and this especially applies to the Memphis office market. In 2017, 600,000 square feet of office space was absorbed. Developers also started 2017 with more than 1.2 million square feet of new office space in the pipeline, with 800,000 square feet delivered last year and the other 400,000 square feet expected to be delivered by the end of the first quarter this year. So within just six months, nearly 6 percent of Memphis’ total office market size was added to the overall available space. That is more new product being delivered than the city has seen in over a decade. Of this 1.2 million square feet, nearly 80 percent will come from adaptive reuse projects, where previously non-functioning properties located in non-core submarkets have undergone significant repurposing. The Sears Crosstown building was erected in 1927 as a 1.5 million-square-foot, mail-order processing warehouse and Sears retail store. The project was the largest building in Memphis at the time of its …

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SEVIERVILLE, TENN. — Time Equities Inc. (TEI) has acquired Governor’s Crossing, a 140,568-square-foot shopping center in Sevierville, for $13.9 million. The center is located 24 miles southeast of downtown Knoxville. Kyle Stonis and Pierce Mayson of SRS’ Investment Properties Group arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, RCG Ventures Sevierville SPE LLC. Ami Ziff and Adam Levitt represented Time Equities internally in the deal. Governor’s Crossing is home to tenants such as Books-A-Million, Jo-Ann Fabrics, Vanity Fair Outlet, Shoe Carnival, Catherine’s, Workout Anytime and CATO.

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FARRAGUT, TENN. — Ziff Properties Inc. has acquired the former U.S. Golf & Tennis Center in Farragut with plans to convert the building into a 65,000-square-foot self-storage facility. The building is located on six acres, roughly 17 miles west of Knoxville. ExtraSpace Storage will manage the facility, which will include climate- and non-climate-controlled units. A construction timeline was not disclosed.

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