STAFFORD, VA. — The Greysteel Co. has brokered the $6.2 million sale of the Town Center at Aquia, a 25-acre retail development site located at 2848 Jefferson Davis Highway in Stafford. Gil Neuman led Greysteel’s Mid-Atlantic retail investment sales team in representing the seller, Ramco Gershenson Properties Trust. The Greysteel team also procured the buyer, Mosaic Realty Partners LLC. Currently home to Regal Cinemas and Rite Aid and adjacent to a 98,000-square-foot office building and a 256-unit multifamily project, the buyer plans to develop a 160,000-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center on the site.
LAKELAND, FLA. — Ridge Development, the industrial development arm of Transwestern Development Co., has begun construction on a 245,000-square-foot Class A distribution center — the first of two buildings in a new 46.5-acre business park called Lakeland Logistics Center. The speculative building is slated for delivery by year-end, and the second 245,000-square-foot building is being marketed as a build-to-suit opportunity. Located at 2011–2211 W. Memorial Blvd. in Lakeland, the project is owned by a joint venture between Ridge Development and AEW Capital Management. AEW is developing the project on behalf of one of its separate account clients. Lakeland Logistics Center is situated within two miles of Interstate 4 near the intersection of U.S. Highway 92 West and Wabash Avenue. Each building is divisible to 44,000 square feet and features front-load or cross-dock capability, 74 dock doors, 32-foot clear heights, 45 trailer parking spaces and a six-acre staging base for trailer storage or parking. Julia Silva Rettig, Jeff Lamm, Jared Bonshire and David Perez of Cushman & Wakefield are providing leasing services.
SPANISH FORT, ALA. — Passco Cos. LLC has purchased The Arlington at Eastern Shore, a 300-unit, Class A multifamily community located at 10558 Eastern Shore Blvd. in Mobile’s Spanish Fort suburb, for $43 million. Built in 2009, the property was designed to where each multi-unit apartment building resembles a large single-family home. The property features attached garages, an indoor basketball court, stocked fishing pond, pool with a sundeck, resident lounge, car care center and a fitness center. Passco plans to improve the apartment community with new exterior paint and the addition of a dog park. Passco funded its purchase of The Arlington at Eastern Shore using Fannie Mae debt. Rock Apartment Advisors brokered the transaction.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Hyatt Hotels Corp. has opened Hyatt Centric South Beach Miami, a 105-room hotel in Miami Beach’s South Beach neighborhood. The property is the first Hyatt Centric in the region and only the second one worldwide. The 10-story hotel is located at 1600 Collins Ave. and features a central lobby lounge, local artwork, an indoor/outdoor lobby on the third floor, fitness center and an open-air deck with a swimming pool and cabanas. Hyatt Hotels developed the hotel in conjunction with Miami-based Robert Finvarb Cos. and its partner David Martins. Architect Kobi Karp designed the hotel.
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Faith Investment Properties Group has purchased two office buildings known as Venture Center in North Miami Beach for $7 million. The Aventura, Fla.-based investment firm has several medical office buildings in its portfolio in the vicinity, which is close to Jackson North Medical Center. FIP Realty Services LLC, an affiliate of Faith Investment Properties, represented the buyer in the transaction.
MIAMI — Carey Watermark Investors Inc. and Carey Watermark Investors 2 Inc., two non-traded REITs focused on the lodging/hospitality sector, have purchased a majority interest in The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, Miami. The hotel features 302 resort guestrooms and 188 condo-hotel units, 174 of which currently participate in the resort rental program. The REITs purchased their share in the property as part of a joint venture agreement with an affiliate of GB Key Biscayne Holdings LLC, the original developer of the hotel. The hotel was recently renovated to include a new open-style marketplace café known as Key Pantry: Eat.Drink.Shop. The renovations also included upgrades to the lobby and RUMBAR, the hotel’s Havana-style bar/lounge.
ORLANDO, FLA. — AWH Partners LLC and Building and Land Technology have purchased the 1,004-room Doubletree by Hilton Orlando at Sea World in an off-market transaction. The Orlando Business Journal reported that an affiliate firm of Atlanta-based UrbanAmerica Advisors LLC sold the hotel to the partnership for $55 million. The new ownership plans to renovate the hotel’s guest rooms, meeting space, public areas and resort grounds, as well as add 30,000 square feet of upgrade facilities and ballroom space for the hotel’s conference center. AWH Development will oversee the renovations and Spire Hospitality will manage operations under a franchise agreement with Hilton Worldwide. Located in Orlando near global attractions such as Sea World, Universal Studios Orlando and Walt Disney World, the resort features an upscale spa, lagoon pool, two children’s pools, kids’ lounge and game area, miniature golf course, putting green, recreation center and seven dining outlets.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. — Green Real Estate Group LLC, in partnership with DEW UTC LLC, has begun development on a five-story, 68-bed student housing project, VINE 422, located in downtown Chattanooga adjacent to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus. VINE 422 is scheduled to be completed for the 2016 summer semester. Throughout the building, students will reside in one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, all featuring designer kitchens, full appliance packages with washers and dryers and large windows for natural light. Students will also have free access to EPB’s 1 Gigabit Internet services, along with water, trash removal and monthly cleaning services included in the price of rent. Located on the ground floor of VINE 422 will be a sit-down restaurant that offers food made with fresh ingredients from local farms. There will also be a second small commercial space where Green envisions a late-night food walk-up or small convenience store. Green has selected Pointe General Contractors as the builders for VINE 422. Chattanooga-based Caughman & Caughman Architects, along with Knoxville-based interior design firm McAbee Hayes, will provide the project’s design services. Berry Engineering PLLC, Advanced Energy and Engineering Design PLLC and Woods Engineering PLLC will provide all of the project’s …
MEMPHIS, TENN. — Westwood Financial Corp. (WFC) has acquired The Shops at Kirby Gate, a Kroger-anchored shopping center located at 2857 Kirby Parkway in Memphis. The shopping center is the first Tennessee property for WFC, which owns and operates more than 115 shopping centers and retail properties in 27 metropolitan markets. The shopping center was 65 percent leased at the time of sale. The property’s retail tenant roster includes Kroger and a Kroger fuel station, Subway, Cricket Wireless, Pak Mail and Hollywood Feed. Shane Soefker of Commercial Advisors represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
MONROE, LA. AND GARFIELD HEIGHTS, OHIO — Lancaster Pollard has arranged the refinancing of two seniors housing communities: one for Paramount Healthcare Consultants (PHC) in Monroe for $20.2 million and another for The Jennings Center for Older Adults in Garfield Heights for $12.6 million. The PHC refinancing is a HUD loan for three facilities — Avalon Place, a 115-bed skilled nursing facility (SNF); Leslie Lakes, a 150-bed SNF and 19-unit independent living facility; and Princeton Place, a 112-bed SNF. Scott Blount, healthcare banker out of Austin, Texas, led the transaction for Lancaster Pollard. Lancaster Pollard also assisted PHC with a corporate restructuring to ensure compliance with HUD’s single asset entity and master lease requirements. The existing indebtedness and swap termination fee were completely funded through the FHA Sec. 232/223(f) loans and no equity was required from PHC. The Jennings Center is a nonprofit community featuring 174 private suites of skilled nursing, 54 units of assisted living, 10 independent living units, adult day services, child day care, a wellness center, transportation services and community programs. The main campus was founded in 1942 and is sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Spirit. Lancaster Pollard arranged the refinance Jennings’ 2009 bonds using …