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West Palm Beach gave tentative approval to a measure that would pause redevelopment in a waterfront area of the city’s downtown. It will mostly affect the seven apartment and condo projects on S. Flagler Drive and Washington Road. The S. Florida Business Journal reports the measure would halt any new projects in…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plans to spend an extra $100 billion to grow its U.S. business. The company says that money will likely help add four new fabrication plants in Arizona, which would make some of the world’s most advanced computer chips, 2-nanometer and smaller. Those new factories would…

Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation has acquired Lakeland Town Center, a 125,233-square-foot grocery-anchored retail center located in Auburn, Washington, for $69.5 million. Geoff Tranchina, Gleb Lvovich, Dan Tyner, and Tess Berghoff with JLL Capital Markets marketed the property on behalf of the…

It’s taken 10 years for the developers of a River Walk boutique hotel to reach the point where they can announce their opening date. The San Antonio Business Journal reports the Aztec Hotel, at the site of the Aztec Theatre building, will open near the end of August. The owners of the downtown property, led ... The…

Peerless Development is pursuing the construction of a 713-bed student housing project on Crest Road directly behind North Carolina State University’s South Campus. The Triangle Business Journal reports that the site plans show a 7-story mixed-use building — the height would range from 5 to 7 stories due to grade…

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Trinity Capital Advisors and Town Lane kicked off the makeover of the 15-story, 388,657-square-foot office tower at 440 S. Church St. The Charlotte Business Journal reports the $20 million project will focus on the 17-year-old building’s two lobbies and include upgrades to existing tenant amenities, common areas…

The Trepp CMBS special servicing rate increased by 34 basis points in June to 11.20%, reversing May’s decline. Special servicing rates increased in four of the six major property types in June, reported Trepp. Lodging posted the largest increase, rising 44 bps to 8.89%, and office climbed 36 bps to 17.11%, also led…

An affiliate of Equus Capital Partners, Ltd. has acquired the 300,075-square-foot Centech Park North in Shrewsbury MA for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition was completed through a programmatic joint venture. Developed by NorthBridge Partners and completed in 2023, Centech Park North is comprised of two Class A…

Lee & Associates of Illinois has closed a $5.18 million sale transaction for a 39,879 square-foot building located at 1951 Lively Boulevard in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Dustin Albers, senior vice president at Lee & Associates’ Illinois office, represented the buyer, Sonica International, Inc., a global logistics…

Specialty investment bank Ziegler has closed on Fairview’s Vista Point Project, one of the largest senior living tax-exempt bond transactions to date in the state of Connecticut. The $304-million financing will be used to fund construction of the project, repay all outstanding indebtedness of the organization,…

Scoop N Scootery, a rapidly expanding ice cream franchise with 10 locations across seven states, has selected Bleecker Street for its first New York City location. Lee & Associates NYC arranged the 1,325-square-foot retail lease at 162 Bleecker St., where the company signed a 15-year lease for the ground-floor…

Walker & Dunlop arranged a $60-million bridge loan to refinance Bell Works Fort Monmouth,a mixed-use campus in Tinton Falls, NJ. The Walker & Dunlop Capital Markets Institutional Advisory team led by Dustin Stolly, Aaron Appel, Sean Reimer, Keith Kurland, Jonathan Schwartz, Adam Schwartz, Ari Hirt and Stanley Cayre…

The Bascom Group acquired Castlewood Park Apartments, a low-density, 183-unit value-add apartment community in Buena Park. The purchase price was $53,125,000, or $290,301 per unit. Brian Eisendrath, Cameron Chalfant, Jesse Zarouk, and Jake Vitta of IPA Capital Markets arranged the acquisition financing, with…

NewPoint Real Estate Capital has originated a $34.6 million floating-rate bridge-to-agency loan for the acquisition and planned conversion of Clarion Collection Arlington Court Suites, a 187-unit property located in Arlington, Virginia. The bridge loan, which was used to finance the purchase of the extended-stay…

CPC Mortgage Company, a subsidiary of The Community Preservation Corporation, has structured a $42.1 million loan for the preservation and rehabilitation of Parkside Estates and Demby Terraces, a 315-unit affordable housing community in Inkster, Michigan. Developed by Good Housing Partnership in partnership with…

Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP served as real estate and permitting counsel to IPX Power, LLC on the committed financing for the construction and operation of its Darden renewable energy projects in Fresno County, California. The financing encompasses $4.95 billion of construction debt. It includes a $403-million…

First Washington Realty (FWR) has acquired Evergreen Village, a 123,562-square-foot grocery-anchored community shopping center in Bellevue, Washington, expanding the firm’s Pacific Northwest portfolio to 2.3 million square feet. Anchored by a Safeway supermarket, Evergreen Village features a diverse mix of fitness…

BKM Capital Partners has acquired a five-building Metro Seattle industrial portfolio. The assets, located in the market’s premier South King County industrial corridor, were acquired on behalf of BKM Industrial Value Fund III. Totaling 401,000 square feet across approximately 19 acres of infill industrial space,…

Mapletree Investments has broken ground on a 419,520-square-foot best-in-class industrial facility in Chicago’s Joliet submarket. The property sits on a 29.36-acre site at 1851 Brandon Road with delivery scheduled for 2027. “This groundbreaking brings another high-quality logistics asset to one of the most…

Cushman & Wakefield arranged the sale of a three-building industrial portfolio totaling approximately 667,024 square feet (sf) at Interchange Logistics Center in San Bernardino. Jeff Chiate, Rick Ellison, Matt Leupold and Aubrie Monahan represented both the seller, Cabot Properties, and the buyer, EQT. Terms…

The Watermark at Oro Valley, a 101-unit assisted living community at 9005 N. Oracle Road in Oro Valley, sold for $23 million. The buyer was Steller Senior Living. The seller was PGIM Real Estate. Built in 2018, the two-story assisted living facility contains 83,059 square feet on 3.42 acres in the Shadow Mountain…

Gov. Kathy Hochul has selected a team of Gotham Organization, Fisher Brothers and Mural Real Estate Group to develop 1,127 housing units on a state-owned site currently used for parking near the USS Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum on Manhattan’s Far West Side. Thirty percent of the units in the two-tower…

PCCP provided a $61.3 million loan to PGIM and Kennedy Wilson for the refinance of Parc Riverside East, a luxury mid-rise apartment community in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built in 2014 and located at 1011 First Street SE, the 287-unit, 13-story property features studio, one-bedroom, and…

StreetLights Residential has secured $54 million in equity, along with $111.5 million in construction loans, for a new 22-story Plano apartment complex expected to open in 2029. The project will be part of the conversion of The Park of Legacy, a 107-acre office campus into a mixed-use development with apartments,…

A Mesa planning board will consider a nearly 268,000 proposed expansion to an existing Boeing manufacturing facility on the east side of Greenfield Road north of McDowell Road. (Photo courtesy of Todd Photographic Services) AZBEX reports the one-story building is proposed as a Boeing Fabrication Center, adjacent to…

The Signorelli Company announced Commerce District at Valley Ranch, a mixed-use destination that represents the next phase in the evolution of the 1,400-acre Valley Ranch master-planned community in New Caney, Texas. Situated on 55 acres, Commerce District will encompass 400,000 square feet of commercial…

Extant Aerospace broke ground on a new 376,000-square-foot industrial manufacturing facility in Melbourne. Michael Moss II of Lightle Beckner Robison represented Extant Aerospace securing the building. The Orlando Business Journal reports the new facility is part of the Harbour Logistics Center development, an…

JLL has recently been selected as the exclusive leasing team for Heritage Plaza. The 1.15 million-square-foot, 51-story property is located at 1111 Bagby Street JLL’s Jon Dutton, Tyler Garrett, and Paul Frazier will lead leasing efforts on behalf of Brookfield Properties and AEW Capital Management. Heritage Plaza…

Richland Capital Holdings broke ground on Lakeview Corporate Park, a new 310,000-square-foot logistics space, at 6700 Lakeview Center Drive. The Tampa Bay Business Journal reports the project will redevelop a three-story office building into two rear-load distribution buildings designed to serve a wide range of…

LBA Logistics recently purchased two industrial properties in the Union Cross Industrial Park near Winston-Salem for $38.16 million. The seller was Westcore. The Triad Business Journal reports Westcore purchased the two Millennium Drive properties from developer Front Street Capital for a combined $36.9 million in…

Dallas-based Lincoln Property Company (“Lincoln”), a global full-service real estate firm, acquired The Spectrum Companies (“Spectrum”), a Charlotte-based, full-service real estate firm. The acquisition enhances Lincoln’s full-service real estate platform in the Carolinas region, combining complementary…

U.S. wholesale inflation followed the example of consumer price inflation in June with a monthly decline. The Producer Price Index for final demand fell by a seasonally adjusted 0.3% in June after rising 1.1% the previous month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Analysts had expected the June…

SCALE Lending, the debt financing arm of Slate Property Group, has issued a $45-million senior-secured construction loan for a new multifamily project located at 264-272 W. 135th St. in Harlem. The sponsor, Mass Development, will use loan proceeds for the ground up development of an 11-story residential condominium…

Brookfield is in exclusive talks to acquire a stake in Hudson Square Properties in a deal that would value the complex at $3.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. The asset management giant would own 10% of the 13-building, 6.2 million-square-foot portfolio, and would take over as its long-term operating…

CBRE facilitated the $77.5-million sale of Sunterra, a 240-unit multifamily community located at 3851 Sherbourne Dr. in Oceanside. The firm’s Rachel Parsons, Derrek Ostrzyzek, Mike Murphy and Kenji Thomas advised the seller, 29th Street Capital. Debt and Structured Finance support was provided by James Flinn and…

Casa del Rey, a 30-unit mixed-use apartment building, located at 321 Broadway E. in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, has sold for $4.57 million. Matt Johnston, Jerrid Anderson, Matt Laird, and Jack Shephard of Kidder Mathews’ Simon | Anderson Multifamily Team represented the seller, 321 Broadway Associates,…

Slatt Capital arranged a $12,000,000 non-recourse acquisition loan for a 68,094-square-foot multi-tenant office building located at 5900 State Farm Dr. in Rohnert Park. The 1973-vintage property was financed through a life insurance company lender, The Standard, with a structured staggered term and 30-year…

Northern Builders, in partnership with Affinius Capital, announced a long-term lease agreement for a 1,200,000-square-foot industrial facility at Cherry Hill Business Park in Joliet, Illinois. The undisclosed tenant was represented in the transaction by Adam Mitchell and Matt Carolan of JLL, and Northern Builders…

Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King & Kittitas Counties (Habitat SKKC) will celebrate the completion of the 58-home Liberty Commons community in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. Liberty Commons is Habitat SKKC’s largest single-building development to date—and the largest multi-family building in Habitat for…

Finmarc Management, Inc. has completed the $26.36 million sale of an 83,300 square foot flex and office building, as well as an adjacent 6.4-acre parcel located within the Park East Corporate Center in Chantilly, Virginia, to Pulte Homes. Finmarc acquired the three-building business park comprised of nearly 200,000…

Related Beal, Related Affordable, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and MassHousing announced a complete upgrade and renovation of the Loring Towers affordable housing community built in Salem in 1974. With financing secured, Related will begin a comprehensive, multi-phased renovation of the 250-unit property in…

Indianapolis-based Milhaus has completed a merger with one Southern California-based multifamily company and has agreed to acquire another. The merger of Milhaus with SRG Residential forms a national, vertically integrated platform focused on developing, owning, and managing apartment communities in more than 20…

Coworking operator Workbar will open a 10,000-square-foot new location in Somerville’s Union Square, within the new USQ mixed-use development adjacent to the Union Square MBTA station. Housed in the Prospect Union Square residential tower at 50 Prospect St., the company will be the second commercial tenant signed…

Alterra IOS announced the closing of a $400 million refinancing led by Truist Financial Corp. and KeyBank, supporting the continued expansion of its growing industrial outdoor storage platform. Secured by a portfolio of 99 IOS properties spanning 27 states, the financing was executed utilizing an equity pledge…

Knightbridge and Argosy acquired a two-building office portfolio for $14 million. The buildings, Three Maroon, built in 2001, and Maroon Five, built in 2008, combined, make up 174,000 square feet. The 4-story buildings sit on 10 acres in the Meridian International Business Center. Mark IV Capital was the seller.…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed an executive order to create the nation’s first moratorium on new hyperscale data centers. The order temporarily pauses state environmental permits for up to one year in order to build a regulatory framework that protects ratepayers, the environment, the energy grid and…

WareSpace, an operator of micro-bay warehouse space, has acquired 1400 Centre Circle in Downers Grove, Illinois, a 71,689-square-foot industrial property. The site becomes WareSpace’s third location in the Chicago area and second in Downers Grove. Built in 1979 and currently vacant, the property will be…

Congress’ passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which became law this past weekend without President Trump’s signature, marks “one of the most significant federal housing reform efforts in decades, reflecting a bipartisan shift toward addressing the nation’s affordability problem,” Marcus & Millichap…

The Cabana Motor Hotel along Stemmons Freeway was once a go-to destination in Dallas. The Beatles and Monkees stayed there and Raquel Welch once worked the cocktail lounge. After opening in 1963, the property, which has had numerous owners over the years, including the county jail system, is now being transformed…

Cover2 Capital is building a 20-story, $100 million apartment tower close to the border of Highland Park. Dubbed The Savannah, the development will include a rooftop pool and only 100 units. Units are expected to average 1,800 square feet and the Dallas Business Journal reports rents will be on the high end of the…

CBRE arranged the sale of The Tyler, a 320-unit multifamily community in Gilbert, Arizona. CBRE’s Asher Gunter, Matt Pesch and Austin Groen represented the seller, StreetLights Residential. Camden Property Trust acquired the property. The Tyler offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Community…

JLL has secured a $275 million refinancing and a $57 million mezzanine financing for NEMA Chicago, a luxury multifamily tower and the city’s tallest all-rental residence. JLL represented the borrower, Crescent Heights, in facilitating the five-year, fixed-rate loan through New York Life Insurance Company. JLL also…

Younger Partners Investments (YPI) sold Shops at Prosper Trail, an 86,698-square-foot retail center 35 miles north of downtown Dallas in Prosper, Texas, to Phillips Edison & Company. Built in 2016, Shops at Prosper Trail is 100% occupied. The center is anchored by a Kroger Marketplace. The property benefits from…

Grover Corlew has refinanced Hillsboro Center, a 223,716-square-foot office park in Deerfield Beach, Fla. A two-year, $30 million senior loan was originated by BankUnited and arranged by JLL Capital Markets. Commercial Search reports Grover Corlew acquired the two-building office park in 2019 for $32.5 million from…

Amazon leased 1,219,826 square feet at 1305 Highway 42 South, 20 miles southeast of Atlanta. PNK Group USA developed the site that was delivered in March. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports the lease is likely the town’s largest so far this year. In addition to Amazon, PNK Group has attracted other tenants to…

U.S. inflation decelerated in June, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) declining 0.4% after increasing 0.5% in the previous month. A 5.7% drop in the energy index drove the monthly all-items decrease, more than offsetting increases in indexes for shelter and food, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. The…

BayCare Health System has topped out its $563 million hospital in Palmetto. The 463,000-square-foot facility is slated to open near the end of 2028. The Tampa Bay Business Journal reports the hospital will include 154 private patient rooms and can expand to over 200 beds as demand accelerates. Emergency care,…

The massive Nashville hotel-and-entertainment Mecca is getting even more massive. The Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center features 2,888 guest rooms, 20 restaurants, nine acres of indoor atriums featuring lush plants, winding pathways, and waterfalls with flatboat rides inside the hotel. Amenities include…
Glasshouse has signed a long-term lease for 66,436 square feet at 3 World Trade Center. The 30-year agreement for a portion of the ground floor and the entirety of the second and third floors brings the event, hospitality and experiential venue operator to the World Trade Center campus for its fourth Manhattan…