LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — Bright Realty has sold a two-acre pad site in the Castle Hills area just off State Highway 121 in Lewisville. The pad site is located at the southeast corner of Josey Lane and Windhaven Parkway. The corner will be anchored by an ALDI grocery store and is adjacent to Nebraska Furniture Mart and The Realm, a planned 1.5 million-square-foot mixed-use Bright Realty development. An unnamed buyer purchased the pad site. Bright Realty was self-represented in the sale by Tim McNutt and Britton Lankford.
INDIANAPOLIS — Thorofare Capital has provided an affiliate of Arciterra Group LLC with a $32.5 million acquisition loan for a retail property in Indianapolis. Castleton Square & Commons is a 256,582-square-foot power center located on Castleton Corner Drive. Tenants at the property include REI, Golfsmith, Dave & Busters, Haverty’s Furniture, Buffalo Wild Wings and DXL Casual Male. The property was 94 percent leased at the time of sale. The seller was an affiliate of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based McKinley Inc. The non-recourse, floating-rate loan is for a period of two years and includes two six-month extension options, a flexible prepayment structure and was priced at a competitive spread over LIBOR.
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — Bright Realty has held a topping out ceremony for its upcoming multifamily project known as Discovery at The Realm. The first of Discovery at The Realm’s 423 apartment units are on track to deliver in April. The topping out party celebrated the completion of the three apartment buildings’ major structural and environmental construction, which includes a lake with promenade pedestrian access. Members of Bright Realty development, leasing and marketing teams, general contractor Andres Construction, project architects from Charlotte, N.C.’s LandDesign, local officials and Bright Realty’s business partners attended the celebration. Bright Realty begins pre-leasing activities for Discovery at The Realm later this month as interior finish work begins. Located south of Windhaven Parkway at Castle Hills Drive in Lewisville, Discovery at The Realm’s first phase features three podium-style buildings on 20.4 acres. All Phase I units should be delivered by October. Total project costs are $75 million. Discovery at The Realm is the first project in The Realm at Castle Hills, a mixed-use project to be built along State Highway 121 frontage. At completion, Discovery at The Realm will include more than 4,000 apartment units, with another 800 units planned within other parts of The Realm at …
WORCESTER, MASS. — Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates has arranged the sale of an industrial building located at 70 Quinsigamond Ave. in Worcester. Lutco Inc. acquired the 65,000-square-foot property from A.M. Castle Metals Co. for an undisclosed price. The buyer plans to make several improvements, including significant electrical upgrades, to the property in January 2016.William Kelleher IV and Matthew Mayrand of Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates brokered the transaction.
MEQUON, WIS. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the recapitalization of Newcastle Place, a 257-unit retirement community located in the affluent Milwaukee suburb of Mequon. Cushman & Wakefield served as an advisor to a venture between Westminster Capital and LCS. ROC Seniors, a private equity real estate fund manager, will replace Westminster Capital in the joint venture with LCS. Terms of that deal were not disclosed. Life Care Services, the management arm of LCS, will continue to manage the community. Newcastle is located on a 48.5-acre campus and consists of 158 independent living units, 36 assisted living units, 16 memory care units and 47 skilled nursing beds. The community was originally built in 2003. Westminster Capital and LCS acquired Newcastle from Milwaukee Protestant Home in late 2012 as a turnaround investment. In addition to the sale, Cushman & Wakefield acted as exclusive debt placement agent to the acquisition group arranging the financing with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The Cushman & Wakefield team involved in this transaction included Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Stuart Kim and Caryn Miller. Faegre Baker Daniels LLP served as legal counsel to the Westminster Capital/LCS venture on this transaction.
HYATTSVILLE AND MT. RAINIER, MD. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $11.9 million sale of a multifamily portfolio in Hyattsville and Mt. Rainier. The three-building portfolio totals 171 units and includes Garfield Court and Castle Manor in Hyattsville and Arundel Apartments in Mt. Rainier. A private investor purchased Garfield Court for $4.4 million, Castle Manor for $4.8 million and Arundel Apartments for $2.7 million. The buyer, which owns other multifamily properties in the north Prince George’s County submarket, plans to improve the portfolio with capital improvements in the next few years. David Weber of Marcus & Millichap’s Washington, D.C., office brokered the transaction.
The office sector in the northern suburbs of Indianapolis shows clear signs of solid growth and stability with new construction and deeper tenant demand for space, particularly in the Class A segment. A number of factors contribute to this trend, including job growth, availability of land for housing and favorable demographics. Decision-makers live in the northern suburbs along with families, empty nesters and educated workers. Nearly 90 percent of all suburban office space in greater Indianapolis is located north of 71st Street in five key submarkets: North/Carmel, Keystone, Northwest, the Fishers/I-69 Corridor and Northeast/Castleton. Five I-465 interchanges define these five northern suburban office submarkets of Indianapolis, providing workers efficient access to 17.5 million square feet of office space. Through the third quarter of this year, overall occupancy in these five suburban submarkets stood at nearly 85 percent. The occupancy rate for Class A space was considerably higher at 89 percent. There are only seven blocks of contiguous office space 100,000 square feet or greater available in the suburbs and downtown — four of which are located in the northern suburbs. These spaces include 133,000 square feet at Two Concourse, 10194 Crosspoint Blvd.; 113,000 square feet at the former Charles Schwab …
DENVER — Jackson Square Properties has acquired The Bluffs at Castle Rock, a 220-unit apartment property in the Denver submarket of Castle Rock, for $37.2 million. The Class B community is located at 483 Scott Blvd. It was built in 1998. Terrance Hunt, Shane Ozment, Jeff Hawks and Doug Andrews of ARA Newmark represented the seller, Lynd Company, in this transaction.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Stockbridge Capital Group and Trinity Capital Advisors have sold Toringdon Office Park, a 519,698-square-foot office park in Charlotte, to an unnamed buyer for $114.4 million. The six-building park is located at 3420, 3430, 3440, 3426, 3436 and 3530 Toringdon Way in the Ballantyne submarket, about 10 miles south of Charlotte’s Central Business District. The buildings were constructed between 2001 and 2008. The park is 87 percent leased. Notable tenants include Selective Insurance, Crown Castle, Heartland Payment Systems and TIAA-CREF. HFF’s Ryan Clutter represented the seller in the transaction. HFF’s Travis Anderson and Cory Fowler also arranged a $79 million acquisition loan through CIBC Capital Markets for the buyer. Clutter notes this was the first core office asset to be marketed and sold in the Ballantyne area since its inception more than 18 years ago. “The Toringdon transaction is a compelling sale for the Charlotte market as larger, non-CBD office trades have been less frequent in most U.S. office markets since the downturn in the economy,” he says. “Institutional capital was drawn to the compelling growth of the area, the considerable rise in rents and the strong leasing activity currently taking place in the park.” San Francisco-based Stockbridge …
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — CH2M has renewed its lease for a 370,485-square-foot office facility in the Denver submarket of Englewood. The space is located at 9191 S. Jamaica Street. The global engineering and project delivery company has leased the three-building property since 2007. This represented the largest office lease in Denver so far this year, according to Savills Studley, which represented CH2M. Monty Harris and Rob Link worked on behalf of the firm. The landlord, Columbia Property Trust, was represented by Jamie Gard and Jeff Castleton of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.