Thursday, May 8, 2008

Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. Arranges $2.37M Loan for Texas Retail Center


ROUND ROCK, TX– Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation (MMCC) has arranged a $2.37 million fixed-rate loan for the acquisition of the Center at Cat Hollow, a 10,869-square foot retail center located at 16420 North FM 620.

Travis Fite, an associate in the firm’s Houston office, arranged the financing package for the Center at Cat Hollow.
A pad site was also included in the sale of the Center at Cat Hollow.
“MMCC was able to obtain 78 percent loan-to-cash on the cash-flowing portion of the property, excluding the pad site.”

Financing for the property was provided by a portfolio lender at a 5.66 percent interest rate. Terms of the loan were five years with a 30-year amortization schedule. The loan-to-value was 67 percent.

“MMCC brought in a new lender that was able to close this transaction within the seller’s timeframe, thus satisfying both parties,” Fite said.
(Photo at bottom right shows a residential property in Cat Hollow, TX for sale at a listed price of $1.189 million.)

CONTACTS:

Stacey Corso
Public Relations Manager
Marcus & Millichap
2999 Oak Road
Suite 210
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
Office: 925.953.1716
Mobile: 415.672.6460
Fax: 925.953.1710

Press Contact:

Kathy Molitor
Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation
(925) 953-1704

Pollack Partners’ First Project Nears Completion

ATLANTA, GA– Pollack Partners, a new multifamily development firm, is completing its first project. Two Blocks Apartment Homes, (rendering above) a $59 million suburban Atlanta apartment community, welcomes its first residents this month.

Pollack Partners developed the community in a joint venture with BHC Property Group. The mid-rise development includes 400 one and two bedroom luxury apartment homes on 10 acres in Dunwoody near the fast-growing Perimeter area.

Amenities include a pool, courtyards, elevators, state-of-the-art fitness center, business center, conference room, furnished guest suite, clubroom with TV lounge, media room with widescreen TV, coffee bar/cyber café and billiards room with bar.

The Web site, http://www.2batlanta.com/, lets visitors place furniture icons into interactive floorplans so they can see which works best. The Worthing Companies will lease and manage the community. The equity partner is Westplan Investors Inc.

This is just one of several communities Pollack Partners now has underway. Construction starts within a few weeks on a new $35 million luxury rental community in a prime in-town Atlanta location – I-85 and Shallowford Road. Groundbreaking is expected this summer on a $42 million luxury apartment community in Tampa.

Many more projects are also in the pipeline. Last year the firm entered into a partnership with an affiliate of Goldman Sachs to start a new real estate co-investment fund that, coupled with capital from other investors, will provide for some $1 billion in new developments and acquisitions across a wide geographic region.

Pollack Partners (http://www.pollackpartners.com/) focuses on the development, acquisition, finance and investment of high quality, community-enhancing multifamily, residential and mixed-use real estate projects. Founded in 2006, it is committed to the highest standards in all facets of its business. Its leadership team has more than 50 years combined experience on real estate projects in a dozen states.

Media contact for Pollack Partners:

Terri Thornton
404-932-4347

Greg Coxon Joins Grubb & Ellis Company as President, Transaction Services--Western Region

SANTA ANA, CA, May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE:GBE), a leading real estate services and investment firm, today announced that Greg Coxon (top right photo) has been named President, Transaction Services -- Western Region, a newly created position that expands the Company's management team and reinforces its commitment to strengthen its brokerage platform.

Based in Phoenix, Coxon will be responsible for overseeing the Company's offices west of the Mississippi. In addition, he will play an integral role as part of the Transaction Services management team, and in executing Grubb & Ellis' strategy to expand its brokerage footprint and the integrated services it provides its clients.

"Greg has a long and successful track record in the brokerage industry. His appointment as President of our Western Region significantly strengthens our management team and reinforces our commitment to expanding our Transaction Services platform," said Scott D. Peters, top left photo) Chief Executive Officer of Grubb & Ellis Company.

Coxon joins Grubb & Ellis from CB Richard Ellis, where he was Senior Managing Director in the company's Arizona region. He began his 20-year brokerage career at Grubb & Ellis in 1980 and has considerable experience in the leasing, disposition and acquisition of properties, property management and real estate tax equity assurance.

CONTACT:
Janice McDill of Grubb & Ellis,
+1-312-698-6707,

Terranova Signs Deals Valued Over $1.6M at Westfork Plaza in Pembroke Pines, FL

MIAMI BEACH, FL–– Terranova Corporation has negotiated three commercial leases at Westfork Plaza, (top right photo) a 252,154 square foot shopping center located at 15825 Pines Boulevard in Pembroke Pines, FL 33127.

A new Seafood/Italian Restaurant concept leased 3,214 square feet for 10 years. The restaurant is being developed by the Vilarino family, long term successful operator of the Las Vegas Cuban Restaurants. Executive Vice President Mindy McIlroy represented the landlord in the lease.

Play N Trade leased 1,496 square feet for 5 years. Play N Trade is the largest and fastest-growing video game franchise in the country. Their diverse product lineup includes new and used video games, accessories and consoles from leading manufacturers. This will be the second opening for the franchise in Broward County. Commercial Associate Eric Sadkin represented the landlord in the lease.

Performers Playhouse leased 2,187 square feet for 3 years. The performing arts studio will offer a variety of professionally instructed classes for all ages including dance, acting, musical theater and theater magic. Classes will remain small allowing for more individualized attention.



The playhouse will also offer weekday after-school transportation from school to the studio for students participating in the After-School Performer’s Workshop, a program designed to integrate music, movement and imagination. Sadkin represented the landlord in the lease.


Westfork Plaza is one of the largest power centers in the Pembroke Pines/Miramar market, located on the major retail corridor Pines Boulevard in Broward County.


The shopping center includes national tenants 13 screen Regal Theater, Winn Dixie, Costco, Office Max, GNC, Prudential Realty, Party City, State Farm Insurance, The UPS Store, Mattress Giant, Countrywide Loans, Hertz Rent A Car, Payless, Walgreens and KFC.

Arbor Closes $1.92M Fannie Mae Small Mortgage Loan for Townview Apartments in Zephyrhills, FL


UNIONDALE, NY, May 8, 2008-- Arbor Commercial Funding, LLC (“Arbor”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Arbor Commercial Mortgage, LLC, announced the recent funding of a $1,920,000 loan under the Fannie Mae Small Mortgage Loan product line to refinance the 46-unit complex known as Townview Apartments (above photo) in Zephyrhills, FL.

The 5-year loan amortizes on a 30-year schedule and carries a note rate of 5.75 percent. DUS and 3MaxExpress are registered marks of Fannie Mae.

The loan was originated by Ronen Abergel, (top right photo) Director, in Arbor’s full-service New York, NY lending office. “The borrower was very pleased with the terms and pricing of the loan and looks forward to closing more deals with us in the future,” said Abergel.

Arbor Commercial Funding, LLC, Arbor Commercial Mortgage, LLC, and Arbor Realty Trust, Inc., have extensive experience in mortgage origination, servicing and securitization and have built a reputation for service, quality and flexibility.
Arbor’s seasoned management team specializes in debt and equity financing for multifamily, office, retail, hotel and various other commercial real estate properties. The company offers a broad array of financing options including Fannie Mae DUS®, FHA, CMBS, Bridge and Mezzanine products. Currently, Arbor services approximately $3 billion in loans. Arbor is a rated Standard & Poor’s third-party commercial loan and special servicer.

CONTACT:

Arbor Commercial Mortgage, LLC
Arbor Realty Trust, Inc.
333 Earle Ovington Blvd, Suite 900
Uniondale, NY 11553
Ingrid Principe
Tel: (516) 506-4298

Cambridge Provides $7.26M Loan to Refinance Community Nursaing and Rehab Center in Naperville, IL

CHICAGO, IL--Cambridge Realty Capital Companies has provided an insured $7.26 million first mortgage loan to refinance Community Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a 153-bed skilled nursing home facility in Naperville, Illinois.

Cambridge Chairman Jeffrey A. Davis said the HUD Section 232 pursuant to Section 223(f) loan was arranged for the owner, an Illinois limited liability company, by Cambridge Realty Capital Ltd. of Illinois, an FHA/MAP-approved HUD lender. Interest rate for the 30-year, fully-amortized loan was not disclosed.

Privately owned since its founding in 1983 as a real estate investment banker specializing in commercial real estate properties, Cambridge emerged in the 1990s as one of the nation’s leading senior housing and healthcare debt and equity capital providers, closing more than 300 such transactions totaling more than $2.75 billion since then.

The company is one of the nation's leading HUD 232 FHA / MAP-approved lenders and also has an integrated debt / equity financing strategy that includes direct property acquisitions and joint ventures; sale / leasebacks for clients; conventional and mezzanine debt financing; and acquisition of distressed debt. Additionally, Cambridge offers a wide array of conventional lending options for senior housing / healthcare owners, including permanent construction and interim loans on either a floating or variable rate basis.

Cambridge is the creator of The Signature Experience™, a four-step process designed to transform the traditional lender / borrower relationship and identify “ideal” capital solutions for worthy projects. The company has created four separate processes for customer groups that are designed to build and enhance long-term relationship potential and speed the way loans are processed and closed.

Contact:

Evan Washington
Phone: (312) 521-7603
Fax: (312) 357-1611

Cambridge Companies
(312) 357-1601

HFF Secures $80M Financing for North Bethesda, MD Class A Office Buildings



WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Washington, D.C. office of HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) has secured $80 million in financing for Rockwall I and II, Class A office buildings (above photo) totaling 345,885 square feet in Bethesda, Maryland.

Working exclusively on behalf of The JBG Companies, HFF senior managing directors Bob Donhauser and Bill Asbill and director Cary Abod (top right photo) placed the five-year, fixed-rate loan with ING Real Estate for the acquisition of the properties.

Headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, The JBG Companies is an active developer, owner and operator of office, residential, hotel and retail properties with more than $10 billion in assets under management and development.
Founded in 1960, JBG has established a reputation as one of the leading real estate companies in the Washington metropolitan area.

Rockwall I and II are located at 11400 Rockville Pike and 5515 Security Lane across from the White Flint Mall (photo at left) and close to the Montgomery County Convention Center in North Bethesda. The properties are 89% leased with the largest tenant, the Food and Drug Administration, leasing 40% of the space.

“Tight conditions in Bethesda are increasing rental rates and driving additional demand in the North Bethesda submarket,” said Donhauser. “Rockwall I and II are ideally positioned on the Rockville Pike, a major Washington, D.C. thoroughfare, as well as being located close to a Metro station stop and adjacent to the North Bethesda Market, a to-be-built premier lifestyle center.”

CONTACTS:

Laurie Fish McDowell
HFF Associate Director, Marketing
One Post Office Square, Suite 3500
Boston, MA 02109
tel 617.338.0990
fax 617.338.2150

Robert F. Donhauser
HFF Senior Managing Director
202 533 2500

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Regency Centers Reports First-Quarter Results



JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regency Centers Corporation (NYSE:REG) reports financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008.


(Martin E. "Hap" Stein Jr., chairman, Regency Centers Corp., is at top right photo. Mary Lou Fiala, president and chief operation officer, is at top left). Hap and Joan Stein founded Regency Centers in 1963)

Funds From Operations (FFO) for the first quarter was $61.2 million, or $0.87 per diluted share, compared to $79.1 million and $1.13 per diluted share for the same period in 2007.


The change in FFO per share is primarily related to transaction profits of $2.6 million in the first quarter of 2008 compared with profits of $22.8 million in the first quarter of 2007.


Regency reports FFO in accordance with the standards established by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) as a supplemental earnings measure. The Company considers this a meaningful performance measurement in the Real Estate Investment Trust industry.


Net income for common stockholders for the quarter was $26.7 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, compared to $52.1 million and $0.75 per diluted share for the same period in 2007.


(For a detailed copy of the company's news release, please contact Lisa Palmer, Regency Centers Corp., 904-598-7636)

Interstate Hotels & Resorts Reports First-Quarter 2008 Results

ARLINGTON, Va., May 7, 2008—Interstate Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: IHR), a leading hotel real estate investor and the nation’s largest independent operator of full and select-service hotels, today reported operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008.

(Thomas F. Hewitt, top left photo, is president and chief executive officer, at Interstate Hotels & Resorts.)

(For a detailed copy of the news release, please contact Carrie McIntyre, senior vice president and treasurer, 703 387 3320 or Julie Tullbane at Daly Gray Public Relations, 703 435 6293.)

Highlights for the first quarter include:

· Completed acquisition of four-hotel portfolio from The Blackstone Group for $209 million through our joint venture with Harte Holdings of Ireland;

· Formed joint venture with FFC Capital which then acquired 22 select-service hotels;

· Formed joint venture with JHM Hotels to operate and invest in hotel properties in India, signed first management contract in April 2008;

· Committed to invest $6.3 million in Duet India Hotels Limited, a U.K.-based, real estate investment fund dedicated solely to the investment of hotels in India;


· Recorded a gain of $2.4 million from the sale of a joint venture hotel. This gain is classified as a non-recurring item and has been excluded from Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted net income, and Adjusted diluted EPS;

· Added a total of 34 management contracts, including those listed above.

Industrial Team at Southern Commercial Completes New 36,994-SF Lease at Crownpoint VI in Orlando

ORLANDO, FL.Principals Tom McFadden, SIOR and William “Bo” Bradford, CCIM, SIOR of Southern Commercial Real Estate Advisors completed a 36,994 square foot new lease at 7272 Kingspointe Parkway (Crownpointe VI) in Orlando.

McFadden and Bradford represented the landlord, McDonald Development Company. The tenant, Europa Sports Products was represented by Wilson McDowell with Colliers Arnold. The Crownpointe VI building was completed in September 2007, and as a result of this new lease is now 100% occupied.

CONTACT:

Celeste MacKenzie
Southern Commercial Real Estate Advisors
20 N. Orange Ave., Suite 605
Orlando, FL 32801

HFF Arranges Loan for Chicago CBD Class A+ Office Building



CHICAGO, IL, May 7, 2008– The Boston and Chicago offices of HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) announced today that it arranged financing for 550 West Washington,(photo above) a Class A+ office building located in Chicago’s West Loop.

HFF director Tim Joyce (top right photo) and senior managing directors Mike Kavanau (photo at left) and Fred Wittmann (photo at left below Kavanau) (Boston) led the debt placement team that secured $72.1 million for an affiliate of Beacon Capital Partners, LLC.

The 5.84%, five-year fixed-rate loan was provided by Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen Girozentrale (Helaba). Based in Boston, Beacon Capital Partners sponsors real estate investment funds that focus on office property investments in a select number of target markets throughout the United States and Western Europe.

550 West Washington is 97.5% leased to investment grade tenants. The 371,415-square-foot, 16-story property is located in the west loop submarket of Chicago’s CBD.

“550 West Washington generated huge interest from the lender community given the superior sponsorship and strong tenancy,” said Joyce.

CONTACTS:

Laurie Fish McDowell
HFF Associate Director, Marketing
One Post Office Square, Suite 3500
Boston, MA 02109
tel 617.338.0990
fax 617.338.2150

Michael A. Kavanau
HFF Senior Managing Director
312 528 3650

Timothy J. Joyce
HFF Director
312 528 3650

SchenkelShultz Architecture Designs Edison College's New Early Childhood Development Center in Naples, FL

ORLANDO, FL – SchenkelShultz Architecture, Orlando, announced the firm designed Edison College’s new $3.4 million, 10,000-square-foot Early Childhood Development Center (photo at left below) at its Collier County Campus in Naples, FL.

Designed to be the college’s first LEED®-certified facility, the environmentally-friendly building will serve the childcare needs of staff and students as well as provide for the needs of underprivileged children in Collier County.

The center’s mission is to provide students pursuing early developmental and elementary education with the opportunity to work with the facility’s staff and children on an internship basis.

Sources of funding for the project include $1.65 million from the Naples Children and Education Foundation and $1.65 million from state matching funds. Kraft Construction Company, Naples, FL, serves as construction manager for the center which is slated for completion in November 2008. The Orlando office of SchenkelShultz is located at 200 East Robinson Street, Suite 300, Orlando, FL, phone 407-872-3322.

Also commemorating 25 years in Florida under the leadership of J. Thomas Chandler, (top right photo) AIA, President and COO, the firm established its Orlando office in 1983 and subsequently expanded with five additional offices in Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Naples, Tampa and West Palm Beach.

“At SchenkelShultz,” said Chandler, “our focus is on architecture but our passion transcends excellent design. Our firm,” he added, “is continuously evolving to anticipate and adapt to ever-changing market trends, and is dedicated to building positive, successful relationships with our valued clients, employees and communities.”

CONTACT:

Kenneth H. Cristol, President,
Cristol Marketing Company
237 Hunt Club Blvd., Suite 102,
Longwood, FL 32779 USA
PH 407-774-2515
FX 407-774-6647
Strategic Marketing, Brand Management,
Publicity and Advertising,
and Corporate Communications

Grubb & Ellis|Commercial Florida Secures Exclusive Landlord Representation Assignment in Tampa

TAMPA, FL – Grubb & EllisCommercial Florida has secured the exclusive landlord representation and marketing assignment for Interstate Business Park located in Tampa, Florida.

Chuck Bohac (top right) and Kostas Stoilas, (photo at left) in the company’s Industrial Group secured the assignment for the 176,000-square-foot Interstate Business Park, located at 8402 Laurel Fair Circle in Tampa.

Directly across from the Florida State Fairgrounds and the Ford Amphitheatre, International Business Park offers office, flex, and distribution warehouse space. “Excellent amenities, ample parking and easy access to the major highways and roadways connecting Tampa Bay’s industrial submarkets make International Business Park a prime location for tenants of all types.” Stoilas stated.

Bohac added, “We believe Interstate Business Park is an excellent opportunity for companies to pull from the extensive labor pools available in Brandon, Riverview, and North Tampa.”

International Business Center boasts a central location and offers unparalleled access to both Tampa and Orlando. Both brokers cite competitive lease rates and available incentives to be a major factor in attracting tenants to the business park.

For more information, contact:
Chuck Bohac, Grubb & EllisCommercial Florida 813-830-7881, cbohac@commercialfl.com;
Kostas Stoilas, Grubb & EllisCommercial Florida 813-830-7524, kstoilas@commercialfl.com
Larry Lietzman, Grubb & EllisCommercial Florida, 813-639-1111