SOUTHFIELD, MICH. — Princeton Enterprises, a privately held real estate investment company based in Bloomfield Hills, has acquired a 108,634-square-foot office building in Southfield for an undisclosed price. The property is located at 26600 Telegraph Road. First Mercury Insurance Co., a member of national property and casualty insurer Crum & Forster, was the seller. Anne Galbraith Kohn of CBRE represented the seller, while Jordan Friedman of Friedman Real Estate represented the buyer.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — SRS Real Estate Partners’ Investment Properties Group has arranged the sale of Freedom Town Center, a 350,838-square-foot shopping center in Fayetteville. The seller, an entity doing business as NC Fayetteville Skibo LLC, sold the property for $72.5 million to an undisclosed buyer. Kyle Stonis, Pierce Mayson and Boris Shilkrot of SRS’ Atlanta office represented the buyer in the transaction. Tyson Glasser of RealtyLink represented the seller. Built in 2017, Freedom Town Center was 99.7 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Field & Stream, Sprouts Farmers Market, HomeGoods, Hobby Lobby, Five Below, Dick’s Sporting Goods, buybuy Baby, Petco, Cost Plus World Market, Burkes Outlet and Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW). Located at 2000 Skibo Road on 38.3 acres, the property is situated five miles from downtown Fayetteville and 8.3 miles from the Fayetteville Regional Airport.
HOUSTON — Wolf Capital Partners has acquired Heights Medical Tower, a 120,000-square-foot medical office building in Houston’s Heights neighborhood. The location at 427 W. 20th St. puts the property across the street from The Heights Hospital. The new ownership will renovate the property to feature a new lobby, elevator cabs, spec suites, MEP systems and restrooms, while also rebranding the building as HeightsMED. Heins Properties’ Anthony Heins represented Wolf Capital Partners in the deal. Matthew Putterman of JLL arranged acquisition financing through Origin Bank. The seller was not disclosed. Transwestern has been tapped to lease the property. Completion of the capital improvement program is slated for mid-2023.
KENOSHA, WIS. — Physician Real Estate Capital Advisors (PRECAP) has brokered the sale of the Advocate Aurora Health Medical Building in Kenosha for $6.2 million. Aurora Medical Group Inc. (AMG) and MH Imaging fully occupy the 19,678-square-foot medical office building. Scott Niedergang of PRECAP and Nathan Glaisner of Verde Investments LLC represented both parties in the sale. The seller was a physician partnership that developed the facility for its private practice prior to its acquisition by AMG. A commercial real estate company focused on net lease retail, logistics and medical facilities was the buyer.
TUKWILA, WASH. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged a $23.4 million acquisition loan for Park Place, a regional strip mall located at 17501 Southcenter Parkway in Tukwila. Ray Allen of IPA’s Seattle office secured the 10-year financing, which features a loan-to-value ratio of 65 percent and a 3.5 percent interest rate, for the undisclosed tenant. Built in 1996, the property features 153,454 square feet of retail space. Current tenants include JoAnn Fabrics, K&G, HomeGoods, Ashley Homestore and PetSmart. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Kansas City-based Hunt Midwest has sold Blankenbaker Logistics Center, a 322,831-square-foot, cross-dock industrial facility, for $43 million. Newport Beach, Calif.-based Bixby Land Co. purchased the property. Piston Automotive signed a lease for the whole building prior to construction completion. Chris Riley and Kevin Grove of CBRE represented Hunt Midwest, and Bixby Land Co. was unrepresented in the transaction. Blankenbaker Logistics Center is located within Blankenbaker Station, a Class A, mixed-use business park in eastern Jefferson County. The property offers access to Interstates 64 and 265, UPS Worldport, Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant, GE Appliance Park, Ford’s Kentucky Assembly Plant and an adjacent 300,000-square-foot FedEx Ground terminal.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Newmark Zimmer has arranged the sale of a 340,000-square-foot office building in Kansas City’s central business district for an undisclosed price. AT&T formerly occupied the property, which is located at 500 E. 8th St. and now sits vacant. Michael VanBuskirk, Chris Robertson, John Hoefer and Raegen Root of Newmark represented the seller, Maxus Properties. The buyer, Washington, D.C.-based The Bernstein Cos., plans to convert the building into apartments.
PHOENIX — ABI Multifamily has negotiated the sale of The Vicinity Apartments, a multifamily community located at 6131 N. 16th St. in Phoenix. The property traded for $37.5 million, or $300,000 per unit. The undisclosed buyer and seller are both based in Arizona. Built in 1975 on 4.3 acres, The Vicinity Apartments features 125 units in 10 two- and three-story buildings. The community features a mix of 49 one-bedroom units, 26 two-bedroom townhome-style units and 50 two-bedroom/two-bath units. Units feature air conditioning/heating, hardwood-style flooring, walk-in closets, a patio or balcony, extra storage and a fully equipped kitchen with oven/range, refrigerator, garbage disposal, microwave and pantry. Community amenities include a swimming pool and spa, fitness center, business center, laundry facility, clubhouse, open courtyard, barbecue grills, picnic area, mature landscaping, controlled access and onsite covered and open parking. Alon Shnitzer, Rue Bax, Eddie Chang and Doug Lazovick of ABI Multifamily’s Phoenix-based Institutional Apartment Group handled the transaction.
DENVER — Monfort Cos. has completed the sale of 1946 Market Street, a retail building located in Denver’s LoDo neighborhood. Jim Blumenthal, a local real estate investor, acquired the asset for $24 million. Monfort Cos. and Riot Hospitality Group will continue to lease and operate Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row, which recently opened in the 22,000-square-foot property following a renovation of the original building, including a 6,000-square-foot addition. Whiskey Row opened in New Year’s Eve.
ROCKWALL AND MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Locally based developer SWBC Real Estate has sold two apartment communities totaling 566 units in the Dallas area. The Royalton at Rockwall Downes is a 295-unit property located east of Dallas that SWBC built in 2021 and that offers one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom units with an average size of 1,006 square feet. Amenities include a resort-style pool and spa, fitness center and spin studio, dog grooming facility and a gaming center. Central Park at Craig Ranch is a 271-unit community located north of Dallas within the Craig Ranch master-planned development in McKinney that was completed by SWBC in 2019. This property offers the same types of floor plans and a similar amenity package as Royalton at Rockwall Downes. Affiliates of Lightbulb Capital Group, the family office of Los Angeles-based Jay Schuminsky, purchased both properties for undisclosed amounts. Will Balthrope, Drew Kile, Joey Tumminello, Michael Ware and Taylor Hill of Marcus & Millichap’s Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) brokered the deals on behalf of SWBC.
