SAN DIEGO — Chelsea Investment Corp. and Sudberry Properties have opened Siena affordable apartments for seniors and Stylus affordable apartments for families in Civita urban village, located in the Mission Valley area of San Diego. The adjacent properties are located on Russell Park Way between Civita Boulevard and Friars Road. The $155 million project is one of the largest new affordable housing projects in San Diego County and brings the total of affordable apartments in Civita to 456. Civita is the redevelopment of a 79-year-old sand and gravel quarry into a sustainable, transit-oriented village. Siena features 103 apartments for seniors in earning 30 percent to 60 percent of area median income (AMI). The one- and two-bedroom units range from 540 square feet to 783 square feet, with rents starting at $468 per month. Stylus offers 203 two- and three-bedroom apartments for families earning 50 percent to 60 percent of AMI. The units range from 770 square feet to 1,040 square feet, with rents starting at $1,037 per month. Additionally, Stylus features 37,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, which LA Fitness will occupy. Each apartment community has its own clubroom with kitchen, on-site management, computer lab, laundry facilities on each …
Multifamily
NorthMarq Arranges $31M Refinancing for Seniors Housing Property in Rancho Cucamonga, California
by Amy Works
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIF. — NorthMarq has arranged $31 million in refinancing for Merrill Gardens Rancho Cucamonga, a seniors housing property located at 9942 Highland Ave. in Rancho Cucamonga. Built in 2018 on 4.2 acres, the property features 112 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Stuart Oswald and Gordan Mickelson of NorthMarq secured the permanent, fixed-rate loan for the borrower through its relationship with a correspondent life insurance company. The loan, structured prior to stabilization, was structured with a five-year term on a 30-year amortization schedule. The property is a joint venture between Merrill Gardens and AEW Capital Management LP.
MIAMI — Melo Group has started construction of Downtown 1st, a transit-oriented multifamily development at 22 SW 1st St. in Miami’s central business district (CBD). The 57-story tower will include 560 market-rate apartments, 10,000 square feet of office space and 3,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Completion is slated for 2022. Downtown 1st will include one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Units will feature glass balconies with bay and city views. Building amenities will include two swimming pools, a fitness center, business center, social room/game room, 24-hour concierge/security and a multi-level garage with valet service. The site for Downtown 1st is in close proximity to Miami-Dade County’s Government Center, the Main Public Library, the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, Miami-Dade College’s Wolfson Campus, the New World School of the Arts and Brightline’s MiamiCentral Melo is also building Downtown 5th, twin 52-story apartment towers in Miami’s CBD. Pre-leasing is underway for the 1,042 units, which are slated for completion this summer. The firm is planning a third multifamily project nearby dubbed Downtown 6th that will total roughly 800 units. All told, Melo Group is expected to deliver nearly 2,500 residential units to Miami’s CBD over the next two years. “We’re bullish on downtown Miami’s CBD,” says Carlos Melo, co-principal of …
MADISON, ALA. — Novare Group and Batson-Cook Development Co. (BCDC) plan to develop a new apartment community in Madison. Synovus Bank provided construction financing to the co-developers, and Marble Capital provided equity for the 290-unit, mid-rise community. The Synovus loan was not disclosed but reportedly totaled $31.5 million. The unnamed project will include three, four-story residential buildings with two ground-floor retail spaces totaling 5,000 square feet. Each building will have conditioned corridors and elevators, and there will be 483 surface parking spaces and 25 detached garages. The property will offer studios, one- and two-bedroom units. Community amenities will include a resort-style swimming pool, private coworking lounge with private rooms and a conference room, fitness center with a yoga and spin room, dog park, clubroom with demo kitchen and fireplace and direct access to the Singing River Trail, a 70-mile-long Northern Alabama trail system. The project will also include eight live/work units. Located at 375 Lime Quarry Road, the community will be adjacent to Town Madison, a 563-acre mixed-use urban, walkable community. Niles Bolton Associates is the architect, Walter Schoel Engineering Co. is the civil engineer and Doster Construction Co. is the general contractor. Construction will commence in April, with the …
Link Senior Development, Insight Senior Living Start Construction of Ativo Senior Living of Prescott Valley, Arizona
by Amy Works
PRESCOTT VALLEY, ARIZ. — Link Senior Development and Insight Senior Living have started construction of Ativo Senior Living of Prescott Valley. Located near Bob Edwards Park, the 5.3-acre campus consists of 130 residences across more than 117,000 square feet. The community will include a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care units ranging from studio apartments to two-bedroom cottages. The community is scheduled to open in summer 2022. Link Senior Development leads the project as the developer. Ankrom Moisan is serving as the architect on the project, Seabold Construction as the general contractor and Insight Senior Living as the management company.
CLERMONT, FLA. — Penler, an Atlanta-based multifamily real estate investment and development firm, has broken ground on a 288-unit apartment community in Clermont, which is a western suburb of Orlando. Penler expects the project to be open for residents in the spring of 2022. Located directly behind the Publix at East Town Center on West Colonial Drive, the unnamed apartment community will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans within two-story buildings. The garden-style apartments will allow residents to enter their units directly from the outside without passing through hallways or common stairwells, which is meant to limit exposure to contagions, according to Penler. Outdoor amenities will include a lawn, pool deck, grilling area, dog park and a pond facing the South Lake Trail. The nine-mile trail connects to the 22-mile West Orange Trail. The community will also have a 6,000-square-foot clubhouse with a fitness center, resident lounge, leasing center and a bike shop with storage. Interiors will feature open floor plans, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, vinyl plank flooring, high-end lighting and washers and dryers. Average rents are projected to be $1,568 per month, with one-bedroom units starting at $1,367, two-bedrooms at $1,593 and three-bedrooms starting at $1,931.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Walker Real Estate and Chalk Hill Ventures have completed construction of an active adult community in Georgetown, a northern suburb of Austin. Located on a 12-acre site near Rabbit Hill, NorthStar Georgetown includes 298,800 square feet of active adult living comprising 210 apartments. Roscoe Property Management is the operator. Other project partners include Pi Architects, Square One Consultants, Pat Berry Design and Skybeck Construction.
PORTLAND, ORE. — San Diego-based Pathfinder Partners has completed the acquisition of FortyOne 11 Apartments, a multifamily property in northeast Portland. An undisclosed seller sold the property for $27.4 million. FortyOne 11 features 112 apartments and was 76 percent occupied at the time of sale. The investment was made from Pathfinder Partners Opportunity Fund VIII, which was raised in 2020 to make opportunistic multifamily investments. Pathfinder Fund VIII also invests in Seattle, Sacramento, Southern California, Phoenix and Denver.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — NorthMarq has provided a $2.7 million Freddie Mac acquisition loan for Village Flats, a 48-unit apartment complex located at 8930 Galewood Drive in North Austin. According to Apartments.com, the property was built in 1980 and offers one-bedroom units. Chase Johnson of NorthMarq originated the financing through Freddie Mac’s Small Balance Loan program on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
ATLANTA — Community Solutions and Atlanta-based Partners for Home have purchased Centra Villa, a 132-unit apartment building in Atlanta that will be reimagined to provide affordable housing for veterans experiencing homelessness. The project is expected to cost $12 million. Located at 1717 Centra Villa Drive SW, Centra Villa is situated 2.8 miles from the Fort McPherson Veteran Affairs Clinic, providing its tenants with close access to medical services and other community resources, including long-term, permanent housing. Centra Villa will increase the number of units available to house veterans. The current tenants will continue to stay, and the project aims to have 50 percent of the units set aside for vulnerable veterans, which will be accomplished through natural attrition. The City of Atlanta provided a HomeFirst grant to the co-developers. The Atlanta Affordable Housing Fund provided a social impact subordinate loan, and Fannie Mae provided the mortgage. The Home Deport Foundation also provided an undisclosed amount of funding. The property is being built as part of Built for Zero, Community Solutions’ national initiative comprising 80 cities and counties to measurably end homeless. The City of Atlanta joined the initiative last year.