CLEVELAND — Pennrose and nonprofit partner MidTown Cleveland have broken ground on the $64 million redevelopment of the former Warner & Swasey factory in Cleveland. In October 2025, Pennrose acquired the building at 5701 Carnegie Ave. from the City of Cleveland. The development team, working on this project since 2017, drew on 24 capital sources to bring the plans to fruition, including contributions from the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland Foundation, among other public and private partners. Constructed in the early 1900s, the 194,000 square-foot, five story …
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Berkadia Arranges $82.1M Refinancing for Crescent Communities’ Render Legacy Trail in Sarasota County
NOKOMIS, FLA. — Berkadia has arranged an $82.1 million refinancing loan for Render Legacy Trail, a 450-unit property that borrower Crescent Communities completed in 2024. Berkadia D.C. Metro’s Patrick McGlohn, Brian Gould, Hunter Wood, Natalie Hershey and Patrick Cunningham arranged the financing through lender Benefit Street Partners. Render Legacy Trail is situated on approximately 18 acres at 15560 Render Way. The property offers a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Amenities include a resort-style saltwater pool with cabanas, outdoor grilling and dining areas, a clubroom with coffee bar, …
MOUNT PROSPECT, ILL. — Interra Realty has arranged the sale of 20West, a six-story, 71-unit community at 20 W. Northwest Highway in Mount Prospect. Locally based Wingspan Development, which opened the property in 2019, sold the asset for $23 million to Wheeling, Illinois-based Anemone Real Estate. Interra represented both buyer and seller. The property, made up of studios and one- and two-bedroom floor plans, was 94 percent occupied at the time of the sale. Amenities at 20West include a fitness center, yoga studio, lounge, demonstration kitchen and a two-story restaurant …
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — A joint venture between PCCP and Alliance Residential Co. has acquired The Hawthorne at 9170 Indiana Ave. in Riverside. An undisclosed seller sold the 184-unit property for $65.3 million. Situated on 6.7 acres and consisting of 16 three- and two-story buildings and one single-story amenity building, The Hawthorne was delivered in 2023 and is a garden-style community. The property offers a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans averaging approximately 873 square feet. Amenities include a resort-style pool and hot tub with cabanas, multiple landscaped courtyards …
Mega Development Group, Ametrine Group Begin Construction of $147M Mixed-Income Redevelopment in Poughkeepsie, New York
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Mega Development Group and Ametrine Group have broken ground on Wallace Campus, a $147 million redevelopment of a vacant former department store in Poughkeepsie. Developed in partnership with on-site social services provider Mental Health America of Dutchess County, the project will convert the former Wallace Department Store, constructed in the 1870s, into 69 apartments while creating an additional 118 units across two new buildings. Wallace Campus will be affordable to households earning up to 80 percent of area median income. The unit mix is comprised of studios, …
ELK GROVE, CALIF. — Hudson Valley Property Group (HVPG) has acquired Mosa Apartment Homes, a 387-unit affordable housing community in Elk Grove, 14 miles south of Sacramento, for $83.6 million. Completed in 2025, Mosa is a 14-building, garden-style community offering a mix of unit types serving a broad range of household income levels. The property is structured across three Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) partnerships, each subject to its own regulatory agreement, that cover 100 percent of units, with HVPG acquiring the general partner interests in all three. Approximately 8 …
Insight Property Groups Starts $174M Apartment Phase of Northern Virginia Office Redevelopment
FAIRFAX, VA. — Locally based Insight Property Group has begun construction of a 452-unit apartment community on the site of the former Hunters Branch office complex in Fairfax, 20 miles west of Washington, D.C. The Hunters Branch site is home to two vacant office towers totaling 400,000 square feet. Insight acquired the site for $28.9 million in a real estate owned (REO) transaction in November 2024. In March of this year, Insight sold a portion of the Hunters Branch property to Toll Brothers for $17 million. Toll Brothers will demolish …
NEW YORK CITY — Haussmann Development has obtained a construction loan for approximately $40.8 million and broken ground on an 84-unit building at 16-20 Convent Ave. in North Manhattan. Affinius Capital provided the construction loan in partnership with Axonic Capital. The building will include ground-floor community space that will serve as the third location of Little Legacy Village, the childcare practice that Haussmann co-founded. Completion of the ground-up Opportunity Zone project is slated for early 2028. The project will include an unspecified number of permanently affordable units. It is being …
Merchants Capital Provides $99M for General Electric Adaptive Reuse Project in Fort Wayne, Indiana
FORT WAYNE, IND. — Merchants Capital has secured a Freddie Mac loan and provided equity totaling approximately $99 million for The Elex, a 296-unit mixed-use, mixed-income community now leasing in Fort Wayne. The Elex is part of Electric Works, the multiphase redevelopment of Fort Wayne’s former General Electric industrial campus. The 296-unit residential phase opened in April. The Elex was developed by Biggs Group in partnership with Ancora, the master developer of Electric Works; Weigand Construction; the project’s construction partner; and MSquared, a development partner focused on mixed-income and affordable …
Dinerstein Cos. Buys Three Communities in Colorado and Texas, Plans $18.7M in Improvements
HOUSTON — The Dinerstein Cos. (TDC) has completed three acquisitions consisting of two multifamily properties and one student housing property. The Houston-based firm has acquired the 218-unit Aspire Cherry Creek in Denver, the 325-unit Aspire Park Lane in Dallas and Sterling College Station, a 1,128-bed student housing community in College Station, Texas. TDC is planning $18.7 million in capital improvements across the three assets. TDC has developed properties in Denver, but Aspire Cherry Creek marks the firm’s first acquisition in the market. The asset was built in 2015 and includes …