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COLUMBUS, OHIO — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has arranged $59.8 million in debt and equity financing for the construction of Green|House, an apartment project in the Short North Arts District of Columbus. The seven-story development will feature 158 units and 3,700 square feet of retail space. Amenities will include a fitness center, outdoor pool, spa, sauna and community room. The project is the adaptive reuse of an existing building. Kaufman Development is the developer. Jeff Morris, Chad Kiner and A.J. Mangan of Walker & Dunlop arranged the debt through a regional bank and secured a national insurance company as the equity partner. The loan features a fixed interest rate and a three-year term.

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NASHVILLE, TENN. — JLL has arranged the sale of Stocking 51, a five-building adaptive reuse campus in Nashville’s The Nations neighborhood. The buyer, an institutional investor advised by Stockbridge, purchased the property, which was originally built in 1927 as the Belle Meade Hosiery Mill. Richard Reid, Ryan Clutter and Huston Green of JLL, along with Trent Yates of Sagemont Real Estate, represented the seller, Vintage South Development, and procured the buyer. The sales price was not disclosed. Situated on a 6.2-acre site, the property is now roughly two-thirds creative office space and one-thirds retail space. The property was fully leased at the time of sale to coworking providers, tech and financial services firms, interior designers, restaurants and fitness users.

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PORT ROYAL, S.C. — Vivo Living has purchased a hotel located at 1660 Ribaut Road in Port Royal, a coastal town situated north of Hilton Head, S.C. The California-based buyer plans to convert the hotel into an apartment community named Vivo Port Royal. This will be Vivo’s third adaptive reuse multifamily project in South Carolina. The property will feature a living room lobby with complimentary Wi-Fi, lounge areas, a pool and a fitness center. Vivo Living says that the property will command a 10 to 20 percent discount compared with market-rate rents in the trade area. The seller was not disclosed.

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ALEXANDRIA, VA. — St. Louis-based Twain Financial Partners has plans to redevelop Hotel Heron, an approximately 90,000-square-foot hotel redevelopment in Alexandria. Construction on the $76.5 million adaptive reuse project is set to begin in June and wrap by November 2023. Twain Financial provided $59.2 million in financing through a mixture of sale-leaseback financing and both federal and state historic tax credit equity on behalf of the developers, May Riegler Properties and Potomac Investment Properties. The Hotel Heron project will restore the original George Mason Hotel building, which was constructed in 1925. The hotel will contain 134 rooms and 30,000 square feet of amenities, meeting space, restaurant space and ground-floor retail. Aparium Hotel Group will manage the hotel and restaurant upon completion. The property is currently being used as an office building and parking garage.

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Ponce City

ATLANTA — Jamestown has begun construction on the expansion of Ponce City Market by more than 700,000 square feet in the adaptive reuse project’s next phase of development. The addition will include a four-story office building, 405-room hospitality building and a 163-unit multifamily property. The office and hospitality components are expected to open in 2024, and the multifamily component is slated for completion by the end of 2023. At the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Glen Iris Drive, 619 Ponce will be an office building that will feature 90,000 square feet of office space and 23,000 square feet of ground-level retail space. Additionally, the 21-story hospitality building will be located at the corner of Glen Iris Drive and Glen Iris Way and will offer fully furnished units with flexible short-term and long-term stays, including by-the-night stays and one-year terms. The property will also include 12,000 square feet of retail space. Located directly adjacent to the Atlanta BeltLine at North Avenue, Signal House will be a 21-story, 163-unit multifamily building with 3,300 square feet of retail space. The property will be designed for active adults and the 55-plus community. The floorplans will range in size from one- to three-bedrooms. …

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MINNEAPOLIS — CEDARst Cos. is completing the adaptive reuse of five historic warehouses in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis into two apartment developments. The first project, named The Duffey, is slated to open in April. The $71.1 million project features 188 units along with 24,000 square feet of retail space. Amenities include a fitness center, resident coworking space and rooftop deck. The second project, which is yet to be named, is set to begin construction in the coming months. Development costs are estimated at $160 million for the 358-unit project, which will feature 38,500 square feet of retail space. Amenities will include a rooftop lounge, coworking suite, 8,000-square-foot fitness center, game room with bowling lanes and 293 parking spaces. Construction is scheduled to last 18 months.

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Mixed-use

ATLANTA — Origin Investments and Kaplan Residential have acquired a 40-acre parcel in Atlanta, for $31.5 million. The property was purchased through Origin Investments’ $300 million Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund II. Pierce Owings and Matt Hawkins of Cushman & Wakefield represented the undisclosed seller for the land. The joint venture plans to develop a master-planned, mixed-use project that will be the largest mixed-use project along the Atlanta BeltLine’s Southside Trail. Located within Chosewood Park at 500 Sawtell Ave. SE, the project’s first phase will feature approximately 700 build-to-rent townhomes and multifamily units. Once completed, the project will have more than 2,000 multifamily residences, activated park space and up to 150,000 square feet of commercial space. Plans also include a variety of local restaurants with outdoor seating, coffee shops, a wellness center, dedicated areas for food trucks, pet amenities, coworking centers, office areas and entertainment space. The property will also have a resident-only club experience called Club Sawtell that will include fitness, wellness, coworking and lifestyle amenities. Experiential retail consultants at Revel will spearhead the concept origination of the commercial and adaptive reuse component. Additionally, HGOR and The Beck Group will lead the architecture and construction for Club Sawtell. Lancaster Associates …

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SPRINGDALE, OHIO — MarketSpace Capital and Park Harbor Capital, two private real estate investment and development firms based in Texas, have officially closed on their purchase of Tri-County Mall, an enclosed, 1.3 million-square-foot regional shopping center in the Cincinnati suburb of Springdale. The co-developers plan to transform the mostly vacant mall into a $1 billion redevelopment project housing residences, offices, restaurants, shops, a school, entertainment venues and green space. The redevelopment received unanimous approval from the Springdale City Council about 10 weeks ago. MarketSpace and Park Harbor are set to begin construction later this year on Phase I, which will include 450 apartments, 40,000 square feet of retail space and restaurants and 110,000 square feet of recreational space, including a 38,000-square-foot fitness center. Several health and wellness amenities will also feature in the initial phase, including walking and cycling trails and a park. Several local companies are involved in this project, including THP as the structural engineer and The Kleingers Group as the civil and traffic engineer. BHDP, whose founders designed the original mall in the late 1950s, will serve as the prime architect, with Human Nature serving as the landscape architect. BSB Group International will lead branding and marketing …

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Ascent South End

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charleston-based Greystar, in partnership with Charlotte-based White Point (WP), have broken ground on Ascent South End, a 24-story multifamily building in Charlotte. The project will have 324 apartments and approximately 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Ascent South End is slated to open in early 2024. The property will offer floor plans ranging from micro units/studios to three-bedrooms. Unit features will include custom closets, appliance and fixture packages and modern kitchens. The building will also feature more than 20,000 square feet of amenity space. Additionally, the development will focus on minimizing onsite waste and maximizing indoor environmental quality using smart thermostats, lighting control strategies and safer materials. The property will also include EV charging stations. The building will be next door to WP’s planned office tower and adjacent to Dilworth Artisan Station, a three-story adaptive reuse property owned by WP.

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The metro Minneapolis retail real estate market is healthy overall coming out of 2021, with suburban submarkets on fire in many cases and urban submarkets generally subdued. A major overhang of supply was absorbed across the region last year as construction slowed dramatically, pushing retail vacancies down, rents up and sales prices of single and multi-tenant assets higher overall.  It’s a testament to the market’s overall stability and resilience given the multiple waves of COVID, and events surrounding the George Floyd case that was prosecuted last year in the city. Work-from-home effect With many white-collar professionals still working from home and the center-cities tougher on mask mandates and vaccine requirements, the suburbs have shone the brightest. Vacancies were as low as 6 percent in some areas, with the overall market at 8.2 percent at year-end, according to the Minnesota Commercial Association of Real Estate/Realtors (MNCAR). Among the strongest performing submarkets have been Apple Valley, Maple Grove, Coon Rapids and Woodbury. The metro’s eight regional malls are generally faring well, unlike in some other markets across the U.S. that are more over-supplied. That said, there’s some adaptive reuse going on, including in the northwest suburb of Maple Grove where a freestanding …

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