CHICO, CALIF. — SC Student Housing has broken ground on The Urban, a 108-bed student housing community located near the California State University, Chico campus in Chico. The property will offer three-bedroom townhome units with bed-to-bath parity. Shared amenities will include a rooftop deck, spa, plunge pool, barbecue area and arcade. Modern Building Inc. is building the property, which Entwood Property Management will operate. Completion is slated for June 2018.
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has arranged $17 million in financing for 185 Avenue B, a newly constructed apartment property in Manhattan’s East Village. An HFF team, led by Steven Klein, secured a 15-year, fixed-rate loan through Allianz Real Estate of America for the undisclosed borrower. Completed in 2016, the seven-story building comprises 40 studio and one-bedroom apartment units featuring nine-foot ceilings, noise-buffering double-paned windows and intercom systems.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Phillips Realty Capital has arranged $61.5 million in financing for the development of 1401 Penn, a Class A apartment development located at 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E. in Washington, D.C. The financing package included a $44.5 million construction loan through EagleBank and $17 million in preferred equity through EB5 Capital. Phillips Realty Capital arranged both components of the financing package on behalf of the developers, CAS Riegler Cos. and May Development. Neighborhood Restaurant Group (NRG) has preleased and will operate approximately 13,500 square feet of the 19,000 square feet of first-floor retail. The space will house restaurants, beer and cocktail bars, a food market and a coffee shop. The residential portion of the project will feature a mix of studio to three-bedroom apartments, for a total of 167 units. The community will be located roughly 50 feet from the Potomac Avenue three-line Metro Station and within walking distance to Eastern Market and Barracks Row. The project is expected to break ground early this month, with delivery slated for summer 2019. The project team also includes Tishman Construction and Antunovich Associates Architects.
MIAMI — Blue Rock Partners LLC Affiliates, in partnership with institutional investors, has acquired Pinebrook Apartments, a 309-unit multifamily community in Miami. Pinebrook South Ltd. sold the property to the joint venture, known as Pinebrook Property Holdings LP, for $37.3 million. The joint venture comprises a Blue Rock Partners affiliate, a Canadian-based investment firm and a New York-based institutional investor. The company will invest roughly $3 million in exterior and interior upgrades and will rename the property The Park at Sheffield. Evan Kristol of Marcus & Millichap brokered the transaction, and Ladder Capital Finance LLC provided debt financing for the acquisition. At the time of sale, the property was 98 percent occupied.
DAVENPORT, FLA. — NXT Capital has provided $26.8 million in financing for the acquisition of Village at Town Center, a 240-unit multifamily community in Central Florida’s city of Davenport. Elliott Throne and Mona Carlton of HFF secured the acquisition and bridge financing through NXT Capital on behalf of the borrower, Beachwold Residential. Located at 2000 Village Blvd. within the Reunion Resort & Club, Village at Town Center is roughly nine miles south of Walt Disney World. Constructed in 1999, the property features a basketball court, children’s play area, tennis court, swimming pool and a fitness facility. Beachwold plans to renovate the apartment units and install an institutional management team.
SPOTSYLVANIA, VA. — Humanities Foundation, in conjunction with James Doran Co., has broken ground on Keswick Senior Apartments, a 100-unit seniors housing community in Spotsylvania. The $16 million development is located within Keswick, a residential community under development by Jarrell Properties Inc. Located at the intersection of Lake Anna Parkway and Old Robert E. Lee Drive, the community will include 700 townhomes, single-family homes and apartments. Keswick Senior Apartments will features a security system, a community space with a meeting area, business center, exercise room, laundry facility, gazebo and a garden area. The project is being built utilizing Low Income Housing Tax Credits administered by the Virginia Housing and Development Authority. Citi Community Capital provided construction financing for the project with Boston Capital as the syndicator. The project team includes architect Martin Riley Associates, civil engineer Webb & Associates and land broker Coldwell Banker Elite/Coldwell Banker Commercial.
TAMPA, FLA. — BTI Partners has sold a 12-acre parcel of land in Tampa’s Westshore Marina District for $13.2 million. The buyer, Wellington, Fla.-based Bainbridge Cos., plans to build a 351-unit apartment community on the property. Westshore Marina District is a master-planned community under development by BTI Partners. The company is selling portions of the 52-acre property to developers that will build residential communities in phases. Upon completion, Westshore Marina District will include approximately 1,750 residential units, a 200-room hotel, retail, restaurants and office space, 185 to 240 marina slips and a 1.5-mile waterfront park. Bainbridge’s community will feature a public park, game rooms, swimming pool, dog parks, parking garages, fitness center and a clubhouse.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $13.4 million acquisition loan for Valencia Apartment Homes, a 263-unit multifamily asset located at 7301 Ederville Road in Fort Worth. The community offers a pool, laundry facility and resident clubhouse. Suzanne Jones of NorthMarq arranged the 12-year Fannie Mae loan, which features four years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule, on behalf of the borrower, Nicholas Residential.
DALLAS — Affiliates of Virginia-based investment firm Harbor Group International LLC (HGI) have sold five multifamily properties totaling 1,192 units in Dallas. HGI acquired the assets in 2014 as part of a 12-property, 3,100-unit portfolio. Ten of the properties are located in the Dallas area and two in Houston. With this transaction, HGI has now sold all 10 Dallas properties to three different buyers for approximately $295 million.
PHILADELPHIA — Independence Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: IRT) has agreed to acquire a nine-property multifamily portfolio for $228.1 million. The portfolio contains 2,353 units across the U.S. The seller was not disclosed. This acquisition will allow IRT to further develop its presence in core markets like Atlanta, Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio. It will also allow the REIT to enter two new markets, though further information regarding the assets’ locations was not disclosed. IRT maintains a large multifamily portfolio in the South and Midwest, particularly in Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Rents range from $455 per month at Raindance Apartments in Oklahoma City to more than $1,265 per month at Sabal Key in Naples, Fla. The communities within the new portfolio were built or renovated between 2000 and 2011 and feature an average occupancy of 95 percent. Average effective rent per unit was $884 for the three months that ended July 31, 2017. “This acquisition represents another key milestone for IRT, bolstering our current portfolio with a collection of high-quality communities located in amenity-rich, non-gateway markets that are core to our investment thesis,” says Scott Schaeffer, chairman and CEO of IRT. “This is a tremendous …
