LEXINGTON, KY. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $31 million sale of The Fountains at Andover, a 318-unit apartment community in Lexington. The Wilkinson Group acquired the property, rebranded it as Reserve at Hamburg and plans to upgrade individual units. Amenities include a car care center, fitness center, sports court, swimming pool, tennis court and two lakes with fountains. Mike Kemether and Craig Collins of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Miami-based balance sheet lender 3650 REIT has originated an $87.9 million construction loan for 48 East, a 33-story condominium project that will be located in the Rainey Street district of Austin. The property will feature 249 units ranging in size from 456 to 851 square feet. Amenities will include a rooftop pool, viewing deck and a fitness center. The borrower was a joint venture between Austin-based Pearlstone Partners and Miami-based Newgard Development Partners. Mike Guterman of Highland Realty Capital and John Ghiselli of Waterloo Real Estate Investments placed the nonrecourse loan, which carried a 75 percent loan-to-cost structure.
FORT WAYNE, IND. — Vermillion Development, a Chicago-based real estate firm, has opened Silver Birch Fort Wayne, an affordable seniors housing community in Fort Wayne. Design and engineering firm HED partnered on the project. The 97,000-square-foot community sits on 4.2 acres and features 119 units. The assisted living facility offers studio and one-bedroom units for older adults in need of supportive housing. Silver Birch Fort Wayne is the eighth facility opened by Silver Birch Living, which is the operational arm of Vermillion. The property is adjacent to a golf course, which was recently acquired by a nearby university to be repurposed as a fitness center.
DETROIT — Arbor Realty Trust Inc. has provided a $4 million Freddie Mac small-balance loan for the refinancing of Van Dyke Apartments located at 1780 Van Dyke St. in Detroit. The 40-unit multifamily property was built in 1928 and renovated in 2018. Michael Jehle of Arbor originated the 20-year loan, which features a 30-year amortization schedule.
AURORA, COLO. — Nexus Commercial Realty has negotiated the sale of Colony House, an apartment building located at 152 Del Mar Circle in Aurora. Colony House Denver LLC sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for $3.8 million. Developed in 1967, the building features 34 one-bedroom units and two two-bedroom units, as well as 36 parking spaces. The buyer plans to take over the operations of the property and make upgrades, while increasing rents to market value. Sean Holamon of Nexus represented the seller in the transaction.
STAYTON, ORE. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Stayton Apartments, an apartment property located at 1340 W. Locus St. in Stayton. An Oregon-based buyer acquired the property for $1.7 million in an exchange. Built in 1998, the property features 16 two-bedroom/one-bathroom flats. Danalee Corso and Whitney Rhoades of Marcus & Millichap’s Portland, Ore., office represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — A pair of real estate lenders provided a $664.1 million construction loan that will allow JDS Development Group to build the tallest building in Brooklyn. Situated at 9 DeKalb Ave. in the borough’s downtown district, the tower will rise 1,066 feet and will include 425 rental apartments, 150 for-sale condominiums and 120,000 square feet of retail space. JDS and development partner The Chetrit Group expect to deliver the 73-story residential tower in 2022. About 30 percent of the rental units at 9 DeKalb will be capped below market rates. The lenders include New York-based Silverstein Capital Partners and Montreal-based Otera Capital Inc., a subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), one of Canada’s leading institutional fund managers. Aaron Appel, Keith Kurland, Jonathan Schwartz, Michael Diaz, Mark Fisherand, Matthew Collins and Sean Bastian of JLL arranged the financing, details of which were not disclosed. SHoP architects is designing the residential tower’s façade to be clad in bronze and glass. New York-based JDS and Chetrit Group originally acquired the 9 DeKalb site in 2016 for $90 million, including air rights for the future development. On the site is a 70,000-square-foot, five-story property that once housed …
What is the economic outlook for the year, and what does that mean for the student housing industry? Hessam Nadji, president and CEO of Marcus & Millichap/Institutional Property Advisors, answered just that in the keynote speech that kicked off the 2019 InterFace Student Housing Conference, which was held in Austin earlier this month and drew approximately 1,400 attendees. Nadji began by laying out the basics on where the industry is today economically in comparison to before and during The Great Recession. “We’ve added 21 million jobs since the bottom of The Great Recession, and that has caused a 120 basis point reduction in the unemployment rate at a time when inflation is 200 basis points below where we were in 2007,” he says. “That is the crux of why everything in our industry as a whole — commercial real estate, and student housing in particular — has done so well. The combination of really good growth with very little inflation, and therefore low interest rates. “We have 7.6 million job openings today,” continues Nadji. “That is a record number of employers looking for qualified employees and about one-third of those employers are having a hard time finding qualified workers. That …
ELGIN, OKLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Kensington Rental Estates, a 26-unit multifamily community in Elgin, located southwest of Oklahoma City. Derek Wilson of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and buyer, both of which were private investors, in the transaction. The property was built in 2013 and offers two- and three-bedroom units.
BOLINGBROOK, ILL. — CA Senior Living LLC, the senior housing investment and development division of Chicago-based CA Ventures, has completed the development of Atria at River Trail, a 128-unit seniors housing community in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook. The Chicago office of Harley Ellis Devereaux designed the property. Located on 5.8 acres, the two-story community offers 86 assisted living units and 42 memory care units in a 123,482-square-foot building. Louisville, Ky.-based Atria Senior Living will operate the community. Atria operates approximately 200 communities across the United States and Canada.
