SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — Stockdale Capital Partners has acquired Sugar Creek I and II, a 409,168-square-foot office complex in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land. The property was 96.1 percent leased at the time of the sale by tenants including Noble Drilling Corp. and United Healthcare. On-site amenities include a fitness center, deli and conference rooms. Rusty Tamblyn and Trent Agnew of HFF represented the sellers, Granite Properties and MetLife. Jeremy Womack of HFF arranged acquisition financing.
CYPRESS, CALIF. — Stockbridge has purchased the Cypress Distribution Center, a 543,431-square-foot industrial project, for $60 million. The Class A center is located at 6550 Katella Ave. and 11130 Holder Street in the Orange County suburb of Cypress. The project contains two buildings that are separately parceled. Notable tenants include Empire Warehousing, ILAD, VF Outdoor, Inc. (Vans) and Integrated Alarm Services. CBRE’s Kevin Shannon, Darla Long and Barbara Emmons represented the seller, Colony Realty Partners, alongside Cushman & Wakefield’s Rick Ellison and Tom Sheets.
NEW YORK CITY — Brixmor, which had been planning to go public since Blackstone Group acquired it in 2011, began trading Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BRX” as part of an $825 million initial public offering (IPO). Brixmor’s stock price, which began trading at $20 per share, finished the day at $20.57 per share, a 2.85 percent increase. The retail landlord is selling 41.25 million shares, up from 37.5 million shares the company originally plan to offer as part of the IPO. The offering is expected to close on Nov. 4. With more than 520 properties in its portfolio, Brixmor has no immediate plans to expand. Michael Carroll, CEO of New York-based Brixmor, says the company’s investors support Brixmor’s strategy to continue to invest in its existing portfolio.
FORT MILL, S.C. — Phillips Edison-ARC Shopping Center REIT Inc. has acquired Stockbridge Commons, a 99,473-square-foot shopping center located in Fort Mill, about 18 miles south of Charlotte, N.C., for $15.3 million. Harris Teeter anchors the center, which is 96 percent leased. Harris Teeter is the No.1 grocer by market share in Charlotte, according to Phillips Edison-ARC Shopping Center REIT Inc. The Stockbridge Commons acquisition, along with the public non-traded REIT's purchase of the Dyer Crossing shopping center in Dyer, Ind., brings the REIT's portfolio to 55 properties in 20 states totaling about $801.5 million.
DALLAS — Stockdale Investment Group has purchased The Shops of Highland Park, a 45,000-square-foot retail property located at 4200 Oak Lawn Ave. in Dallas. The center is home to retailers and restaurants including La Duni, Carbone’s, Flywheel and The Dry Bar. The property also includes an adjacent 50,000-square-foot parking lot. The Shops of Highland Park has undergone two major renovations since its original development in 1940. The seller was Corrigan Properties, the original owner of The Shops for more than 70 years.
CHICAGO — Real estate investment firm Aviv has closed its initial public offering of 13.2 million shares of its common stock at an offering price of $20 per share. Including the overallotment option, Aviv sold 15.1 million shares in the offering and received net proceeds of approximately $278.8 million. The company’s common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “AVIV.” Aviv intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay certain indebtedness and for general corporate purposes, including the potential acquisition of additional properties. Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as joint book-running managers of the offering, and Citigroup, RBC Capital Markets, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, RBS and CSCA acted as co-managers. Chicago-based Aviv REIT owns 258 post-acute and long-term care skilled nursing facilities and other healthcare properties.
STOCKBRIDGE, GA. — A joint venture between Strategic Capital Partners LLC and Atlanta-based Kodiak Ventures has acquired South 75 Center, which includes two flex office buildings, in Stockbridge for an undisclosed price. It is 84 percent occupied and was purchased from the lender, which foreclosed on the property in 2011. The strategy is to stabilize the property at 90 percent occupancy as well as renew the largest tenant, which expires in 2017. Third-party medical suppliers and distributors occupy much of the nearby office space due to the proximity of Henry Medical Center, a 215-bed hospital.
WOODSTOCK, GA. — The LaSalle Group is planning a nearly 28,000-square-foot, $9.8 million memory care community called Autumn Leaves of Towne Lake and located at 1962 Eagle Dr. in Woodstock. It will be the second Autumn Leaves memory care community in metro Atlanta, and it will exclusively care for residents with Alzheimer’s, dementia and memory impairment. Autumn Leaves of Towne Lake is expected to open in fourth quarter of 2013.
STOCKBRIDGE, GA. — Ackerman Medical, a division of Atlanta-based Ackerman & Co., has broken ground on its newest medical office building, the 60,000-square-foot Piedmont Physician Center in Stockbridge. The $11 million, three-story Class A building will be located at the entrance of Piedmont Henry Hospital at the intersection of Eagle’s Landing Parkway and Rock Quarry Road. It is set to open in October 2013 and is 60 percent leased. Piedmont Healthcare has taken 15,000 square feet on the second floor and OrthoAtlanta has secured the entire third floor. Henry Physician Center is being privately developed and is owned by a venture of Ackerman Medical, Commercial Assets Group and local physicians on long-term ground leases. John Willig of Ackerman Medical and Mike Tallant of Commercial Assets Group are leasing the property.
FRISCO — Alliance Architects has completed interior design services for 63,269 square feet of office space at 5300 Town & Country Blvd. in Frisco for Comstock Resources, which occupies three floors of the office building. The redesign included a new internal grand stair that connects all three floors, updated elevator lobby, new catering/serving kitchen, revisions to the storage area, renovations of offices, new breakroom with patio access, remodeled board room and the addition of an executive coffee bar. Highland Builders was the general contractor, Facilities Management and Construction provided construction management services, Brockette Davis Drake provided structural engineering services and Dale Caffey & Associates provided MEP engineering services.