Southeast

Cafe Milano 3521 Prospect Street NW Washington DC Georgetown

WASHINGTON, D.C. — GFI Realty Services LLC has arranged $21 million in financing for retail and office space located in Washington, D.C.’s historic Georgetown district. Located at 3521 Prospect St. N.W. and 3222 North St. N.W., the properties total 54,500 square feet and comprise 42,500 square feet of retail space and 12,000 square feet of office space. One of the tenants includes Café Milano, an upscale Italian eatery. Daniel Lerer and Will Watkins of GFI Realty’s finance group arranged the long-term, fixed-rate financing in two separate loans through an Indianapolis-based life insurance company on behalf of the borrower, Robert Elliott.

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Panera Bread 101 Cynthia Drive Nicholasville

NICHOLASVILLE, KY. — Cypress Property Group has brokered the $2.6 million sale of a 4,850-square-foot Panera Bread restaurant located at 101 Cynthia Drive in Nicholasville. The single-tenant restaurant building is leased to Panera Bread on a triple-net basis. Cypress represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The asset sold at a 5.76 percent cap rate, according to Cypress.

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Reisterstown Shopping Center

REISTERSTOWN, MD. — Greenberg Gibbons has purchased Reisterstown Shopping Center, a 167,212-square-foot shopping center in Reisterstown, for $34.5 million. The property’s tenant roster includes Mars Supermarket, Planet Fitness and a mix of national and regional stores and restaurants. Greenberg Gibbons purchased the center from a partnership including Chesapeake Realty Partners for an undisclosed price. Greenberg Gibbons plans to remerchandise the property and bring new stores and restaurants to the retail lineup.

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Pinebrook Pointe Apartment Homes Memphis

MEMPHIS, TENN. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided two loans totaling $20 million for the acquisition of two affordable housing apartment communities in metro Memphis. The financing included a $4.1 million loan for Pinebrook Pointe Apartment Homes in Memphis and a $15.9 million loan for Angelo’s Grove Apartments in Marion, Ark., a suburb of Memphis. These communities are two of the five properties that the borrower, Peak Capital Partners LLC, is planning to buy in the Memphis area. Irena Edwards and Alex Buecking of KeyBank’s community development lending division arranged the financing.

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Gallatin Center

GALLATIN, TENN. — BC Wood Properties has sold Gallatin Center, a 138,238-square-foot shopping center located in Gallatin, for $9 million. The center’s tenant roster includes Burke’s Outlet, Ollie’s, Tractor Supply, Hibbett Sports and Goodwill. BC Wood increased the property’s occupancy from 80 percent to 99 percent during the life of its ownership of the center. The Lexington, Ky.-based shopping center owner and manager sold Gallatin Center through BC Wood Properties Fund I, an investment vehicle that BC Wood launched in 2013.

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MORGANTOWN, W.VA. — Campus Evolution Villages has refinanced Campus Evolution Villages Morgantown, a 924-bed, 280-unit student housing property located minutes away from West Virginia University. Each unit is fully furnished and features private bedrooms and bathrooms for each resident. Amenities at the center include a newly renovated clubhouse with a 24-hour fitness center, resort-style pool with hot tub, volleyball court, sun deck, basketball court, 24-hour computer lounge, tanning beds and a free shuttle bus service to West Virginia University’s downtown, Evansdale and Health Sciences campuses. Steven Vornea with JL Hunter arranged the financing for CEV.

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Rajeev Dhawan Georgia State University

ATLANTA — China’s “sloppy” attempt to manage the devaluation of its currency, the renminbi, and the declining demand for Chinese products from the United States and Europe are the main culprits behind the stock market’s woes, says economist Dr. Rajeev Dhawan of Georgia State University (GSU). “Who got to the stock market bull?” asked Dhawan during the quarterly forecast conference held at GSU on Wed., Feb 24. “Just like in old Chuck Norris movies, the chief villain is the Chinese economy.” For the second time in six months, China’s attempt to manage the devaluation of its currency sent shockwaves through global equity markets. Year-to-date through Feb. 24, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 940 points, or 5.4 percent. What would lead China to devalue its currency? Dhawan says that China could be attempting to impress the United Nation’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the currency manipulation. Countries try to devalue their currencies in order to combat trade imbalances, point out industry experts. A weaker currency could help a country like China to boost trade exports, shrink trade deficits and reduce sovereign debt burdens, since a “weaker currency makes debt payments effectively less expensive over time,” according to Investopedia. Whatever …

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Daniel Island Town Center Publix

DANIEL ISLAND, S.C. — Crossman & Co. has brokered the sale of Daniel Island Town Center, a Publix-anchored, 68,688-square-foot shopping center located on Seven Farms Drive in Daniel Island in metro Charleston. The property was 98 percent occupied at the time of sale. Publix Super Markets Inc. purchased the shopping center from an unnamed institutional group based in the Northeast for nearly $14 million.

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Fremaux Town Center Slidell

SLIDELL, LA. — Stirling Properties and CBL & Associates Properties Inc. have added four new retailers to Phase II of Fremaux Town Center, a regional shopping and entertainment destination totaling more than 630,000 square feet in Slidell, a suburb of New Orleans. The project is located on more than 80 acres at the southwest corner of I-10 and Fremaux Avenue. The new tenants joining Fremaux this spring include Books-A-Million (7,500 square feet), Allure Nail Spa (1,944 square feet), LensCrafters (3,830 square feet) and 5 Below (8,024 square feet). Additionally, Springs at Fremaux Town Center, a 296-unit apartment complex, is expected to deliver in March. Other previously announced tenants joining this year include Pier 1 Imports, Capital One, Aveda, Goodyear and Chico’s. Tesla Motors has also completed installing eight charging stations at the development. Existing tenants of Phase II include Red Robin, Zales, Francesca’s, Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse, Victoria’s Secret, Buckle, Charlotte Russe, LOFT, Bath & Body Works, Journeys, Claire’s and Which Wich.

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JACKSON, MISS. — Capital One has provided an $11.8 million, fixed-rate Freddie Mac loan for the acquisition of Tracewood Apartments, a 280-unit apartment community in Jackson. Chad Thomas Hagwood of Capital One Multifamily’s Southeast office arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, StoneRiver Co. Brandon Pate of Capital One’s Birmingham office managed the deal on behalf of Capital One. The loan structure includes two years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule.

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