SECAUCUS, N.J. — Ripco Real Estate has brokered three new leases at the newly renovated 101 Plaza Center in Secaucus. Habanero Halal Grill, USA Wine Trader’s Club and Dollar Plus have joined the 53,000-square-foot neighborhood shopping center. Additional tenants include CVS/pharmacy, KFC, T-Mobile, Bagel Buffet, Plaza Pizza and Jon Giacomo Hair Salon. Daniel Zappala and Michael Rawlins of Ripco represented the undisclosed landlord in the deals.
SCIO TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Signature Associates has negotiated the sale of 104,590-square-foot office building located at 7322 Newman Blvd. in Scio Township, west of Ann Arbor. The sales price was not disclosed. The building was vacant at closing. The purchaser, Ari-El Enterprises, has hired Signature Associates to begin securing tenants for the complex. John Fricke of Signature Associates represented both the buyer and the seller, Thomsen Reuters.
NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO — Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions has arranged the sale of a single-tenant retail property occupied by a 46,000-square-foot Levin Furniture store in North Olmsted, a western suburb of Cleveland. The sales price was not disclosed. The property is located at 23300 Lorain Road. The property has been 100 percent occupied by Levin Furniture since 1996. The seller, LNR Partners LLC, sold the building at auction to Basem Haddad for investment purposes. Rich Deptula of Friedman represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
ROANOKE, VA. — Donohoe Real Estate Services/CORFAC International has arranged the $7.3 million sale of Holiday Inn Valley View, a 153-room hotel in Roanoke. Originally built in the 1980s as a Sheraton, the hotel is situated on 10 acres near the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport. The buyer, Roanoke Airport Hotel Partners LLC, plans to make renovations and brand updates to the hotel, which will continue to operate as a Holiday Inn. Bill Moyer and Charlotte Seale of Donohoe Real Estate Services/CORFAC International represented the seller, and Seale procured the buyer. Donohoe Real Estate Services/CORFAC International is a member of Hotels Brokers International.
SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. — New York-based Toro Real Estate Partners has purchased Enclave Grandview, a 240-unit apartment community in the Greenville suburb of Simpsonville. Toro plans to rename the asset Stillwater at Grandview Cove. The property is the second acquisition in the Greenville area for Toro in the past six months. Ryan Duff of Arbor Commercial arranged a 12-year Fannie Mae acquisition loan on behalf of Toro, which used a 1031 exchange and private capital to fund the equity side of the transaction. Toro owns roughly 1,200 multifamily units in the Southeast and Midwest with over $70 million in managed assets. Blue Ridge Cos. will manage Stillwater at Grandview Cove on behalf of Toro.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Hold-Thyssen Inc. has brokered the $3.7 million sale of Mid Point Plaza, a 21,816-square-foot retail strip center located at 6203 W. Sand Lake Road in Orlando. Built in 1999 at the northwest corner of West Sand Lake Road and Universal Boulevard, Mid Point Plaza’s tenant roster includes Wildside Clothing, Giordano’s Italian Restaurant and Light Bulbs Unlimited. The buyer, a private investor based in Orlando, purchased the property from the estate of the developer of the asset. Martin Forster and N. Joelle Forster of Hold-Thyssen represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Muskin Commercial has arranged the sale of The Place at West Village Apartments, an apartment building located at 793 W. William Cannon Drive in Austin. 739 W. William Cannon LLC acquired the 255-unit property from Cooper’s Hill Apartments LLLP for an undisclosed price. The community features a variety of one- and two-bedroom units averaging 699 square feet, as well as a fitness center, swimming pool, laundry facilities and a dog park. IBC Bank of Austin provided acquisition financing for the purchase.
HOUSTON — NAI Partners has arranged the lease of an industrial office and warehouse building located at 5808 Hamblen Road within Logistics Park at World Houston in Houston. Winchester Source Technology LLC will occupy the 12,000-square-foot speculative building. John Ferruzzo and Nick Peterson of NAI Partners represented the landlord, Adkisson Development, while John Ginder of Caldwell Cos. represented the tenant in the transaction.
HOUSTON — Lee & Associates has brokered the lease of an 8,000-square-foot industrial and office building at 3023 Farrell Road in Houston. Eurochem International Corp. will occupy the single-tenant facility. Reed Vestal, Cameron Hicks and Taylor Schmidt of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, while Mike Spears and Robert Noack, also of Lee & Associates, represented the undisclosed landlord in the deal.
BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Investcorp has expanded its U.S. real estate portfolio with $250 million in acquisitions in Boston and Denver. The five investments include 20 buildings totaling 1.8 million square feet of office, industrial, flex and laboratory space. The company’s Boston acquisitions include the four-building Boston Metro Industrial, a 900,000-square-foot development in Boston that is 95 percent leased, and Blackstone Science Square, a 99 percent-leased, 76,038-square-foot office and laboratory property in Cambridge.