Southeast

Reliant Real Estate Brokers $9.9M Sale of 201,403 SF Distribution Center in Metro Atlanta

by John Nelson December 15, 2015

CONYERS, GA. — Atlanta-based Reliant Real Estate Partners has brokered the $9.9 million sale of Conyers Logistics Center, a 201,403-square foot distribution facility in Conyers. The property is located at 2107 Eastview Parkway. Conyers Logistics Center was 100 percent leased at the time of sale to Cellofoam North America and Pioneer Plastics. An affiliate of STAG Industrial Inc. purchased the distribution center from Kansas City-based Block Real Estate Funds. Bob Burdell and J.R. Wright of Reliant Real Estate Partners represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction.

December 15, 2015

524 West Peachtree Street Midtown Atlanta

Georgia Office Southeast

Avison Young Brokers $4.4M Office Sale in Midtown Atlanta for Hotel Conversion

by John Nelson December 15, 2015

ATLANTA — Avison Young has brokered the $4.4 million sale of a 63,000-square-foot office building at 524 W. Peachtree St. in Midtown Atlanta. The new owner, 524 Peach LLC, plans to convert the office building into a 175-room, upper midscale hotel. Originally built in 1928, the new eight-story hotel is expected to be operational in the summer of 2017. Matt Tritschler, Phil Barry and Hilton Barry of Avison Young represented the sellers, Marconi Park LLC and Quarry LLC, in the transaction.

December 15, 2015

Loans Mixed-Use North Carolina Southeast

Medalist Capital Arranges $345.6M Loan with MetLife for Ballantyne Corporate Park

by John Nelson December 14, 2015

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Medalist Capital has arranged a $345.6 million loan through MetLife Inc. for the 535-acre Ballantyne Corporate Park in Charlotte. The 2.5 million-square-foot property features Class A office space, retail, restaurants, healthcare and two hotels. Don Williams and Mary Neill McKie of Medalist Capital’s Charlotte office arranged the long-term, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, The Bissell Cos. Ballantyne Corporate Park’s tenant roster includes the headquarters of MetLife’s U.S. retail business. The loan did not involve MetLife’s offices in Charlotte.

December 14, 2015

Office Southeast Virginia

Columbia Property Trust Sells Office Property in Suburban Virginia for $65M

by John Nelson December 14, 2015

RESTON, VA. — Columbia Property Trust has sold a 244,565-square-foot office property in Reston, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., for $65 million. The Class A office building is located at 1881 Campus Commons. Columbia Property Trust sold the office property to a real estate advisor based in Boston. Columbia Property Trust acquired the office building as part of a portfolio in January 2015 and since has increased the property’s occupancy from 79 percent to 91 percent. Columbia Property Trust, a publicly traded REIT, has a roughly $5 billion portfolio spanning 27 office properties in San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C.

December 14, 2015

Georgia Office Southeast

Parkside Partners to Redevelop Boutique Office Property in Midtown Atlanta

by John Nelson December 14, 2015

ATLANTA — Parkside Partners plans to redevelop a 40,000-square-foot property located at 1280 W. Peachtree St. in Midtown Atlanta. The new $12 million project, known as 16th Station, will be a Class A, boutique office asset located at the southwest corner of West Peachtree and 16th streets. The property will feature exposed brick and concrete beams, large floor-to-ceiling warehouse windows, concrete floors, covered and outdoor patio space and a rooftop terrace with a lounge and firepit. MTSD Inc. designed the loft-style office project, which is schedule for an early 2017 completion. The property’s location within the Midtown Opportunity Zone gives tenants the opportunity to receive job-creation credits of $3,500 per year for each new job created for five years.

December 14, 2015

North Carolina Retail Southeast

Baum Realty Group Arranges $7.6M Sale of Single-Tenant Walgreens in North Carolina

by John Nelson December 14, 2015

DENVER, N.C. — Baum Realty Group has arranged the $7.6 million sale of a single-tenant net-leased Walgreens located in Denver, roughly 26 miles north of Charlotte. Patrick Forkin and Brad Teitelbaum of Baum Realty represented the buyer, a private international investor, in the transaction. The seller was a private East Coast developer. Walgreens has a 20-year lease at the store, with rental increases every 10 years.

December 14, 2015

North Carolina Retail Southeast

Lincoln Harris Arranges Two Retail Leases for Phase II of Patterson Place in Durham

by John Nelson December 14, 2015

DURHAM, N.C. — Lincoln Harris has arranged two retail leases that will kick off new construction at Phase II of Patterson Place, a mixed-use property located at 5324 McFarland Drive in Durham. Kaler Walker and John Mikels of Lincoln Harris’ Raleigh office represented the landlord, BP Phase2 LLC, in both transactions. The deals included Blaze Pizza signing a 2,650-square-foot lease and Phenix Salon Suites signing a 3,842-square-foot lease. Additionally, Laboratory Corp. of America has signed a 1,545-square-foot lease at an existing medical office building in the development. Existing tenants include Moe’s Southwest Grill, Applebee’s, AT&T, Five Guys Burgers and Fries and Duke Medicine.

December 14, 2015

Industrial Kentucky Market Reports Southeast Southeast Market Reports

Leasing is Up 40 Percent from 2014 in Louisville’s Industrial Sector

by John Nelson December 14, 2015

Louisville’s industrial market continues to impress as it has successfully navigated recessionary times to the now current brisk market with solid activity. Even within those leaner times of 2009 and 2010, Louisville grew its occupied footprint by approximately 1.6 million square feet with perhaps a recipe that includes its beneficial geographic location and infrastructure, diverse manufacturing and logistics economy buffeted by UPS Worldport and Supply Chain Logistics, and aggressive state incentives provided by Kentucky and adjacent neighbor Indiana. The I-65 corridor is currently, and has been, white hot over the last 15 years. Louisville, like many similarly sized cities with populations over 1 million, has developed to its outer edges and industrial development is now spilling into smaller adjacent communities such as Shepherdsvillle, Ky., and Jeffersonville, Ind., both of which no longer resemble their former industrial selves. National and international developers like Prologis, USAA, Dermody, Exeter, DCT, Pinchal and Welsh, along with local developers such as Main Street Realty, Capstone, America Place and Crossdock, have found these communities and the I-65 corridor not only ripe with opportunity, but flush with tenants. On the Louisville side of the Ohio River, current speculative construction along the corridor includes more than 1.4 million …

December 14, 2015

Loans Multifamily Southeast Virginia

Capital One Leads Group Providing $5.1B Freddie Mac Warehousing Facility for Lone Star’s Acquisition of REIT

by John Nelson December 11, 2015

MCLEAN, VA. — Capital One served as a co-lender and the administrative and collateral agent for a $5.1 billion, adjustable-rate Freddie Mac warehousing facility. The borrower, Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, will use the loan to bridge the timing gap between the origination of 107 individual loans needed to fund Lone Star Funds’ acquisition of Home Properties Inc., a multifamily REIT, and the sale of these loans to Freddie Mac. Home Properties’ 107 communities are located in Illinois and on the East Coast from Maine to Virginia, and total 38,965 units. TD Bank and Wells Fargo participated alongside Capital One in the facility.

December 11, 2015

Georgia Multifamily Southeast Tennessee

Alliance Residential Breaks Ground on Two Apartment Projects in Atlanta, Nashville

by John Nelson December 11, 2015

ATLANTA AND NASHVILLE, TENN. — Alliance Residential Co. has started construction on two luxury apartment developments in Atlanta and Nashville. The projects include Broadstone Ridge, a five-story development within walking distance of the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area and the new Atlanta Braves stadium, and Broadstone 8 South in Nashville’s 12South/8th Avenue neighborhood. Since 2012, Alliance Residential’s pipeline has totaled more than $350 million with projects in Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. The company recently delivered The Haynes House and Broadstone Court in Atlanta and Broadstone Seaside in Charleston. Current projects in the company’s pipeline include Broadstone Midtown in Midtown Atlanta, Broadstone Springs in Sandy Springs, Ga., and Broadstone Germantown in Nashville.

December 11, 2015

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