GLEN BURNIE, MD. — MidCap Financial has provided a three-year, $20 million acquisition loan for Quarterfield Crossing, a 200-unit, garden-style multifamily community located in Glen Burnie, about 13 miles south of Baltimore. MidCap Financial provided the financing to Blackfin Real Estate Investors and limited partner Capital Solutions. Dan Martin of Walker & Dunlop arranged the financing.
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MIAMI — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has closed a $17.3 million loan for a 375,000-square-foot industrial facility in Miami. The three-building complex was 98 percent leased at the time of financing. Philip Carroll of Grandbridge’s Miami office arranged the seven-year loan with a sub-4 percent fixed interest rate and a 30-year amortization schedule through an unnamed life insurance company.
FORT MYERS, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $11.4 million sale of Candlewood Suites Fort Myers-Sanibel Gateway, a 120-room hotel located at 9740 Commerce Center Court in Fort Myers. Built in 2009, the hotel is situated near several beaches including Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel and Captiva. AD1 Global purchased the asset from an undisclosed private investment group. Jonathan Ruprai and Krone Weidler of Marcus & Millichap’s Tampa office represented the seller in the transaction and procured the buyer. Noam Kaminetzky of Meridian Capital Group arranged a $9.5 million, three-year acquisition loan on behalf of AD1 Global.
DUNWOODY, GA. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Aspire Dunwoody, a more than 500-unit multifamily community located at 7150 Peachtree Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody, part of Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket. Affiliates of Harbor Group International purchased the asset from Lincoln Property Co. for an undisclosed amount. Prior to the sale, Lincoln invested $6.3 million to renovate Aspire Dunwoody’s interior units and community amenities. Kevin Geiger, Malcolm McComb, Paul Berry and Shea Campbell of CBRE’s Southeast Multifamily Group represented the seller in the transaction.
Robust population and job growth are fueling a resurgence across all sectors of Nashville’s commercial real estate market, pushing vacancies lower, boosting rental rates and attracting strong interest from investors. With increasing demand for office space in the central business district (CBD), a rush of both in- and out-of-state developers and equity have descended on Nashville to deliver Class A product. That delivery timeline has subsequently pushed the demand for existing space to the adjacent Midtown, Wedgewood-Houston and MetroCenter submarkets. These satellite areas are benefiting from the positive absorption with existing space back-filled in record time, and some deliveries of conversions of older warehouses to hip office and retail space. CBD Construction Perhaps predictably, after the city climbed higher among the nation’s top job markets, (ranking third on NerdWallet’s list based on top cities’ unemployment rates and increase in working-age population between 2010- 2015), Nashville ranked sixth among the nation’s top cities for real estate investing in 2017, one spot higher than last year, in the annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate report put together by PricewaterhouseCooper and the Urban Land Institute. These accolades are a testament to Nashville’s crane-filled skyline, confirming that new construction is the dominant force in …
NEW CARROLLTON, MD. — Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States plans to open a new 176,000-square-foot administrative and IT building in New Carrollton, roughly 12 miles east of Washington, D.C., in Prince George’s County. The facility will have room for approximately 850 employees. The office building will anchor a mixed-use development adjacent to the New Carrollton Transit Center, a transit station that services the Washington Metro, MARC and Amtrak lines. Other components of the transit-oriented development, which is being developed by Urban Atlantic and Forest City Realty Trust, will include retail, residential and a community park. Construction of the Kaiser Permanente building will be complete in November 2018.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bluerock Residential Growth REIT Inc. has purchased Wesley Village Apartments, a 301-unit, Class A multifamily community located in Charlotte’s FreeMoreWest submarket. The REIT acquired the property from KBS Legacy REIT for $56.9 million using $16.5 million in equity and a Freddie Mac, fixed-rate loan totaling $40.5 million. Built in 2010, Wesley Village features studio, one- two- and three-bedroom units averaging 1,025 square feet. Community amenities include a resort-style saltwater pool with grilling area and wet bar, fitness center, game room with a billiards table, business center with Wi-Fi and a dog park.
LOXLEY AND BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has arranged three loans totaling $37.4 million for industrial facilities in Alabama. The financing includes a $13.1 million loan for I-10 Business Park, a 977,520-square-foot industrial/bulk warehouse complex in the Mobile suburb of Loxley; a $12.8 million loan for Oxmoor South, a 528,428-square-foot warehouse in Birmingham; and a $11.5 million loan for a 515,000-square-foot distribution center in Birmingham. William Silsbee of Grandbridge arranged all three loans through unnamed life insurance companies.
Lincoln Property Co. Southeast Brokers Sale of 106,561 SF Office Building in Alpharetta
by John Nelson
ALPHARETTA, GA. — Lincoln Property Co. Southeast has arranged the sale of a four-story, 106,561-square-foot office building located within Brookside Office Park at 3925 Brookside Parkway in Alpharetta. The property is situated near Ga. 400 via Old Milton Parkway. Built in 1998, the asset is currently leased to NCR Corp., an Atlanta-based financial technology firm, through the end of the year. Cousins Properties is currently developing a new office campus in Midtown Atlanta for NCR. Hunter Henritze of Lincoln Property Co. Southeast represented the seller, Equity Office, in the transaction. Jay Dowlen and Charles Beard of CBRE represented the buyer, AmTrust Group, which has retained Lincoln Property Co. Southeast to manage the office building. The sales price was not disclosed.
Love Funding Provides $10.8M HUD Loan to Convert Mill in Upstate South Carolina into Loft Apartments
by John Nelson
GREER, S.C. — Love Funding has provided a $10.8 million loan to convert a former textile mill into Lofts by the Lake at Apache Mill, a proposed 97-unit apartment community in Greer. The development team is led by real estate veteran Dale Goodrich. Tammy Tate of Love Funding arranged the loan through HUD’s 221(d)(4) loan insurance program, which provides low-rate financing during construction and for a subsequent 40-year term. The transaction also makes use of federal and state historic tax credits, as well as state textile mill credits. Since the majority of the tax credits aren’t available until final completion, Tate also helped arrange a bridge loan for the borrower through Love Funding’s parent company, Midland States Bank. The 7.2-acre property was originally developed in the mid-1830s, and the first modern mill was constructed as a brick facility in 1988. The proposed apartment community will feature two-story windows, pine columns, exposed historic brick walls, lake views in 51 of the units and communal resources including lake access and kayak shoots. The project team includes architect Joe W. Hiller Jr. and general contractor Triangle Construction Co. Blue Ridge Property Management will manage Lofts by the Lake at Apache Mill upon completion.