Southeast

WESLEY CHAPEL AND PLANT CITY, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $28.4 million sale of two affordable housing communities in the Tampa Bay metro area. The properties include Pasco Woods Apartments, a 200-unit community in Wesley Chapel, and Park Springs, a 200-unit community in Plant City. The assets sold for cap rates of 5.9 percent and 5.34 percent, respectively. Both properties were built in 2000 under the Section 42 Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, and both properties were 100 percent occupied at the time of sale and have long histories of high occupancy. Ray Turchi, Chris Travis and Kristin Boekhoff of Marcus & Millichap’s Orlando office represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The trio also secured the out-of-state institutional buyer.

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ROSWELL, GA. — Griffin Fine Living has opened The Georgian Lakeside, a 95-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Atlanta suburb of Roswell. KTGY Architecture + Planning designed the project, which Griffin manages. Canyon Partners Real Estate LLC provided the investment capital. The Georgian is a resort-style community featuring 70 assisted living and 25 memory care units. Amenities include multiple dining options, a private dining room, theater, hair salon, library, physical therapy and private doctors’ examination rooms, along with numerous activity rooms and an exercise facility. Griffin Fine Living provides design, construction, development, marketing and operational management services for seniors housing and multifamily communities. Canyon Partners Real Estate is the real estate direct investing arm of Canyon Partners. The Los Angeles-based company provides debt and equity capital for commercial real estate in primary and secondary markets across the U.S. KTGY Architecture + Planning is an architecture firm with offices in Chicago, Denver, Irvine, Los Angeles, Oakland, Pune and Tysons.

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GAINESVILLE, GA. — NXT Capital has provided a $17 million acquisition loan for Park Creek Apartments, a 200-unit, garden-style apartment community in Gainesville. Situated near Lake Lanier, the Class B property features gated access, a business center, laundry facility, fitness center and a swimming pool. Park Creek also offers a playground, two lighted tennis courts, car care center, grilling/picnic areas and 20 garage spaces. Melissa Marcolini Quinn of NorthMarq Capital’s Orlando office arranged the loan through NXT Capital on behalf of the borrower.

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MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Slate Retail REIT, a Toronto-based owner and operator of U.S. grocery-anchored properties, has acquired Mooresville Town Square, a Lowes Foods-anchored retail center in Mooresville, a northern suburb of Charlotte. The publicly traded REIT purchased the asset for $16.7 million, or $186 per square foot. The shopping center was 88 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Famous Toastery, Jimmy Johns, Firestorm Pizza and Fusion Bowl. Mooresville Town Square is the sixth property in North Carolina for Slate Retail REIT.

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FAYETTEVILLE, GA. — Hay Creek Hotels, an Exeter, N.H.-based developer and manager of boutique hotels, plans to build its first hotel in the metro Atlanta area in Pinewood Forrest, a 234-acre master-planned development situated adjacent to Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayetteville. Scheduled to open in 2018, the 95-room hotel will feature meeting and function space, an upscale restaurant, bar, spa, pool and special suites for celebrity guests of Pinewood Atlanta Studios. HCH Pinewood Forrest LLC will develop the hotel, and Hay Creek will operate the property upon completion. Led by Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy, the development team behind Pinewood Forrest has also selected the metro Atlanta real estate brokerage firm Ansley Atlanta to provide residential sales and marketing for the development’s single-family homes. The first home sites will be available for reservation in the coming months.

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ASHLAND, VA. — Devon USA plans to develop a 320,853-square-foot distribution center at 11600 N. Lakeride Parkway in Ashland, roughly 18 miles north of Richmond. Known as Building D, the spec project will be situated within Enterchange at Northlake Industrial Park. Set for completion in summer 2017, the property will feature 32-foot clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system, cross-dock loading, dock-high doors and drive-in doors. The property’s sustainable features will include a white reflective roof, skylights, LED lighting and a R30 insulated roof. Richmond-based Devon USA has selected Evan Magrill and N. Dean Meyer of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer to handle Building D’s leasing responsibilities.

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ATLANTA — PGi, an Atlanta-based software provider, has renewed its lease at the company’s corporate headquarters at the Terminus 100 office tower in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. The company also renewed and expanded its lease at the GA 400 Center office building in Alpharetta. The two 12-year lease deals total roughly 70,000 square feet. PGi signed its lease renewal at Terminus 100 with Cousins Properties and signed its lease renewal and expansion at GA 400 Center with TPA Group. PGi has also selected architect Gensler to redesign the company’s office space at the two locations. Patrick Duffy and Taylor Senter of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank advised PGi on the lease deals and the redesign project.

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MOBILE, ALA. — Wool Finance Partners has arranged a $7.9 million construction loan for the development of a 101,000-square-foot Publix-anchored shopping center in Mobile. The shopping center is a joint venture between Charlotte-based MAB American Retail Partners LLC and Oak Brook, Ill.-based Inland Retail Centers LLC. Publix will occupy a freestanding, 39,000-square-foot store within the development. Matt Lebenson of Wool Finance arranged the two-year construction loan through an unnamed regional bank. The loan features a 55 percent loan-to-cost ratio and an extension option for the joint venture.

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Bigger — and strategically located — continues to be better in the Baltimore metropolitan region when it comes to the industrial real estate product sector. Blink your eye these days in Charm City, and you might miss the latest 100,000- to 500,000-square-foot transaction that transpired, fueled by the seemingly insatiable appetite among retailers to warehouse consumer products near large population areas and maintain same-day or next-day delivery models. Companies involved with the production and distribution of food products and home goods are the next most prolific users of warehouse and industrial space. The avalanche of large-scale logistics-related leases first started in 2014 when Amazon.com leased a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center with Duke Realty in Baltimore City. Recent notable activity includes RPM Warehouse (435,000 square feet at Baltimore Crossroads in White Marsh); Pier 1 Imports (644,000 square feet in Harford County); Ikea (300,000 square feet with Federal Capital Partners in Halethorpe); Canusa Corp. Fiber Group (320,000 square feet in Dundalk); Sephora Americas (320,000 square feet of renewal space in Harford County, plus an additional 620,000 feet of new space); FedEx Ground (300,000 square feet at TradePoint Atlantic); US Lumber (260,000 square feet with MCB Real Estate and One Liberty Properties); Capital …

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