NEW YORK CITY — New Empire Corp. has broken ground on a 12-story apartment building at 58-01 Queens Blvd. in the New York City borough of Queens. The building was designed by Tang Studio Architect and Whitehall Interiors. The property will offer amenities such as a children’s playroom, lounge, outdoor terrace and a fitness center. A construction timeline for the project was not disclosed.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — The NRP Group has opened The Sinclair Apartment Homes, a $40 million affordable housing community in Columbus. The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority helped fund the project’s development by issuing $27.7 million in tax-exempt and taxable bonds. Tax-credit funding support from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency and Huntington National Bank also helped fund the transit-oriented project. The Sinclair Apartment Homes is affordable to households earning between 30 and 80 percent of the area median income. The community consists of three four-story buildings with one, two-, three- and four-bedroom …
LAKEWOOD, COLO. — Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors has arranged the purchase of a building located at 8447-8449 W. Dakota Ave. in Lakewood. The eight-unit property traded hands for $2.1 million in an all-cash transaction. Josh Newell, Connor Knutson and Jake Waxter of Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors represented the undisclosed buyer in the deal. The name of the seller was also not released.
SANTA MARIA, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $42.7 million in construction take-out financing for Elements Apartments in Santa Maria. JLL represented the borrower, The Vernon Group, to secure a senior loan through Limekiln Real Estate Investment Management. Matt Stewart, Alex Olson, Chad Morgan and Jacob Michael led the debt advisory team. Construction on Elements Apartments began in summer 2021, and the 167-unit community was 80 percent complete when the loan closed. The complex comprises six buildings. The project is slated for completion by January 2024.
LANSING, MICH. — Eastham Capital and Bender Cos. have acquired Briarcliffe Apartments and Townhomes, a 308-unit community located in Lansing. Eastham Capital invested in the deal through its current fund, Eastham Capital Fund VI. Bender Cos. has co-invested and will oversee the day-to-day management. Briarcliffe was built in 1976. The property was 94.8 percent occupied at the time of sale. Amenities include an indoor/outdoor pool, fitness center, sauna, garden, playground, dog park, business center and bike share program. The community also borders the South Lansing Pathway, a paved hiking trail …
PHOENIX — Greenlight Communities has sold Cabana Happy Valley, a 292-unit community in Phoenix, to Ideal Capital Group for $79.2 million. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer. Cabana Happy Valley was built in 2023 on nine acres. Amenities include a two-story leasing office and clubhouse, fitness center, lounge, coworking space, pool, EV charging stations, bike storage, mail room and covered parking.
FEDERAL WAY, WASH. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) has arranged the sale and financing of Trellis, a 111-unit property in Federal Way. An investment fund sponsored by Prime Residential acquired the asset from CEP Multifamily for $32.4 million. Trellis was built in 1985 on 8.6 acres. The community offers 33 one- and two-story duplexes and fourplexes. Units come in two- and three-bedroom floor plans with an average size of 1,000 square feet. IPA’s Ryan Harmon, Giovanni Napoli, Philip Assouad, and Nicholas Ruggiero represented the seller and procured the buyer. Brian Eisendrath, …
ENGLEWOOD, FLA. — Kaplan Residential has acquired a 20-acre site in Engelwood to construct Generation Englewood, a 306-unit community in Southwest Florida. The developer purchased the site from a private investor for $5.2 million. Hunter McCarthy of SVN Commercial Partners brokered the land transaction. The property will include a 10,000-square-foot clubhouse with a dog park, outdoor TVs, lounge seating areas and a bar. Architecture Alliance, the project’s landscape architect, is designing walking trails, seating areas, benches and outdoor grilling stations at the community. Kaplan plans to break ground on Generation Englewood …
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Gateway Jax has acquired 22 acres within Jacksonville’s downtown area to develop a $2 billion mixed-use project aimed at revitalizing the city’s urban core. The Jacksonville Downtown Development Review Board has approved the conceptual plan for the $500 million first phase of the project, which is called Pearl Street District. Phase one include three buildings in the North Core district of Jacksonville’s downtown, which will offer more than 1,000 multifamily units and 120,000 square feet of grocery-anchored retail space. Gateway Jax plans to break ground midway through …
DORAVILLE, GA. — Rangewater Real Estate will break ground on Camino, a 304-unit community in Doraville, 15 miles northeast of Atlanta. The development will feature micro, studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments ranging from 474 to 1,411 square feet in size. Amenities will include a dog park and spa, pool courtyard, coworking offices with a dedicated podcast recording space, an outdoor grilling station, fitness center, rooftop lounge and a private speakeasy. The project is scheduled for completion in spring 2025.