NEW YORK CITY — Newmark Group has hired Chad Lavender as president of capital markets for the firm’s operating businesses in North America. Lavender will serve on the company’s executive committee and corporate management steering committee. In this role, Lavender will oversee the strategy and revenue growth of Newmark’s capital markets business assets, including multifamily, office, industrial, retail and alternative investment classes. Lavender previously served as Newmark’s vice chairman and co-head of healthcare and alternative real estate assets group. Prior to joining Newmark, Lavender held roles as co-head of HFF’s national …
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Northmarq is opening a debt and equity office in West Palm Beach, which will be led by new hire David Gahagan. Gahagan’s title will be managing director, and he will collaborate with Northmarq’s Miami and Fort Lauderdale offices. Gahagan previously served as senior director at Walker & Dunlop for nine years and senior vice president of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s South Florida office. Earlier in his career, he held production roles with Legg Mason Real Estate Services.
TAMPA, FLA. — Colliers has hired Matt Siegel as executive managing director and brokerage market leader for West and Central Florida. Siegel will oversee the team that serves Tampa Bay, Orlando and Fort Myers, which includes 95 brokers and 50 support staff. Siegel comes to Colliers from CBRE Tucson, where he served as managing director. Previous roles included vice president and market director for NAI Robert Lynn, where he specialized in office and industrial brokerage. Siegel will replace Danny Rice, who held the Florida position for five years. Rice has …
DALLAS, ARLINGTON AND GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — NeuRock Capital has sold a three-property, 782-unit portfolio in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Wesley Racht, Nick Fluellen and Bard Hoover of Marcus & Millichap’s Dallas office represented NeuRock Capital and procured the undisclosed buyers. The portfolio comprises Mercer Park, a 248-unit community in Arlington; Timber Oaks, a 264-unit affordable housing asset in Grand Prairie; and Plum Meadow, a 270-unit market-rate property in the Redbird neighborhood of Dallas.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Greystone has provided a $257.2 million, fixed-rate Freddie Mac loan for The Beacon, a six-building complex with 1,155 apartment units. The borrower, Stamford, Connecticut-based Building and Land Technology (BLT), will use the loan to refinance construction debt from the redevelopment of the site. The Beacon was an adaptive reuse of a historic hospital in Jersey City. It opened as the Jersey City Medical Center Complex in 1936 before its conversion to high-end apartments between the early 2000s and 2016, according to Jersey Digs. Greystone’s Judah Rosenberg …
MESA, ARIZ. — Scottsdale, Arizona-based Talos Holdings has broken ground on The ONE at Mountain Vista in Mesa, Arizona, which is 19 miles east of Phoenix. Northmarq’s debt and team of Brandon Harrington and Tyler Woodard secured $85.3 million in construction financing for the development, including a $59.2 million senior construction loan from a life insurance company and $26 million of preferred equity from a real estate private equity firm. The combined senior construction loan and preferred equity is 80 percent loan-to-cost. The ONE at Mountain Vista is expected to …
DALLAS — The NRP Group, a Cleveland-based affordable housing developer, has broken ground on Ascent at Mountain Creek, a 324-unit mixed-income community in Dallas. Fifty percent of units will be reserved for households earning at or below 80 percent of the area median income (AMI). Ascent at Mountain Creek will comprise 14 three-story buildings and offer one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. The development is scheduled to be complete in September 2024, with early lease-up beginning in October 2023.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Palladium USA and the Fort Worth Housing Finance Corp. (HFC) will break ground on April 6 on Palladium Oak Grove in Fort Worth. The total cost of the project is approximately $60 million. Funding sources include $25.6 million in tax-exempt bonds purchased by Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust and issued by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. PNC Bank provided more than $23 million of equity. The property was designed by Cross Architects. Treymore Construction is the general contractor teaming up with the Fort …
ALLEN, TEXAS — Locally based Wolverine Interests is moving ahead on Allen City Center, a mixed-use development in the central business district of Allen, 26 miles north of Dallas. The project has been in the planning phases since at least 2019, when zoning was approved for the 12-acre site according to the Dallas Morning News. In addition to retail, office and parks, Allen City Center will include 392 apartments. Construction will begin this summer and is expected to be complete by the summer of 2024.
WEATHERFORD, TEXAS — TruLife Communities and Advenir Oakley Capital have started construction on LEO at Bethel Place, a 200-unit build-to-rent (BTR) development in Weatherford, which is 30 miles west of Fort Worth, Texas. TruLife Construction, an affiliate of TruLife Communities, is the general contractor. The community was designed by Gaylen Howard Laing Architects of Arlington, Texas, and will be managed by Advenir Living. LEO at Bethel Place is expected to be completed by December 2024, with the first units delivering in the fourth quarter of 2023. Monthly rentals rates are …