Friday, May 3, 2024

JLL Capital Markets secures development capital for the 440-unit multi-housing project located at 200 Quannapowitt Parkway along Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield, MA

200 Quannapowitt, a 440-unit, transit-oriented
multi-housing community planned
 in Wakefield, MA

BOSTON, MA  JLL Capital Markets has arranged a capitalization for 200 Quannapowitt, a 440-unit, transit-oriented multi-housing community to be built in Wakefield, Massachusetts, on Lake Quannapowitt. Financial details were not disclosed.

Brett Paulsrud


 

JLL worked on behalf of the developer Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, to secure the joint venture equity with Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR).

 

The JLL Capital Markets Advisory team was led by Senior Managing Director Brett Paulsrud, Managing Director Andrew Gray and Director Mike Shepard.

 

 Upon completion, the property will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans with 18% of the units designated as affordable.

Andrew Gray

200 Quannapowitt will feature market-leading amenity options, including coworking spaces, an outdoor pool, an expansive fitness center, grilling areas on the lake, a skydeck clubhouse, commuter rail shuttle and multiple courtyards.


 Residents will benefit from the natural lake setting with walking and biking trails, as well as sailing and windsurfing opportunities.

 

Ideally located along I-95 in Boston’s thriving 128 North corridor, residents will enjoy convenient access to suburban Boston’s leading employers and amenity options while also enjoying tranquil and relaxing outdoor activities right at one’s doorstep.


 

 Mike Shepard.

“Greater Boston multi-housing fundamentals remain strong and leading institutional investors continue to focus on quality investment opportunities in the space,” said Paulsrud.

 

 “The Cabot, Cabot & Forbes team worked tirelessly with the community to prepare a project that incorporates the feedback from a wide array of stakeholders and will offer much needed rental housing to Boston’s suburbs.”

 

JLL Capital Markets is a full-service global provider of capital solutions for real estate investors and occupiers.


 The firm's in-depth local market and global investor knowledge delivers the best-in-class solutions for clients — whether investment sales and advisory, debt advisory, equity advisory or a recapitalization. The firm has more than 3,000 capital markets specialists worldwide with offices in nearly 50 countries.

 

For more news, videos and research resources on JLL, please visit our newsroom.

 

CONTACT:

 Kristen Murphy

Director, Public Relations

JLLkristen.murphy@jll.com

 

 

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Peachtree Group Announces Senior-Level Promotions

Jenelle Zadik 

  ATLANTA, GA, May 2, 2024 – Peachtree Group announces several senior-level promotions to support its strategic business initiatives. 

“We are delighted to announce our latest promotions, recognizing these team members as senior leaders within our company," said Greg Friedman, managing principal and CEO of Peachtree Group. "Investing internally in our people is key to our success, and their expertise, strong leadership, innovative thinking, and commitment represent the best of our firm."

Greg Friedman

Team members promoted to assistant vice president or above include:

Investment Team

  • Kendall F. Burrus - Assistant Vice President, Debt Asset Management
  • Nicholas G. Huddleston - Vice President, Loan Servicing
  • Matthew C. Larre - Vice President, Portfolio Management
  • John R. Schellhase - Assistant Vice President, Development Investments
  • Matthew Weatherford - Assistant Vice President, Dispositions & Acquisitions

Investment Services Team

  • Daniel R. Puglisi - Senior Vice President Corporate Operations, Hospitality Management
  • Lee A. Shuman - Senior Vice President, Hospitality Development
  • Jenelle Zadik - Senior Vice President People, Culture & Workplace Initiatives

  • Lee A. Shuman 
  • Katherine T. Atkinson - Controller
  • Eugene Barber III – Assistant Vice President, Construction and Design
  • Zachary T. Bollinger - Assistant Vice President, Debt Capital Markets
  • Allison Frazier - Vice President of Revenue Management
  • Sean E. Hondorf - Assistant Vice President, Renovation Program
  • Sophia Koehl - Vice President of Hotel Accounting

  • Charles Talbert
    - Vice President,  Corporate Communications

In early April, Peachtree Group recently elevated three senior executives to strengthen the firm’s executive leadership team: Michael Harper, president of hotel lending; Jared Schlosser, executive vice president of hotel lending and head of CPACE; and Michael Ritz, executive vice president of investments.


Daniel R. Puglisi

About Peachtree Group


Peachtree Group is a vertically integrated investment management firm specializing in identifying and capitalizing on opportunities in dislocated markets, anchored by commercial real estate.

Today, the company manages billions in capital across acquisitions, development and lending, augmented by services designed to protect, support and grow its investments. 

 

CONTACTS

 

Charles Talbert

678-823-7683

ctalbert@peachtreegroup.com

 

 

Chris Daly

President

DG Public Relations

(703) 864-5553

chris@dalygray.com

www.dalygray.com

 

www.peachtreegroup.com.

 

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Western Retail Advisors Will Bring Whole Foods to the Heart of Scottsdale, AZ


Rachel Bliss 

PEORIA, AZ – On behalf of Miller Plaza LLC, Phoenix-based retail brokerage specialist Western Retail Advisors has completed a 35,222-square-foot lease that will bring a new Whole Foods store to Downtown East Shopping Center, located at Indian School and Miller roads in the heart of Scottsdale.

The store will become the fifth metro Phoenix location for Whole Foods, a leading natural and organic foods retailer.

 

Jack Jakosky

Downtown East is located at 7628 E. Indian School Rd., minutes from historic Old Town Scottsdale and the upscale Scottsdale Fashion Square. The 93,000-square-foot center is presently 75% leased.

Western Retail Advisors is currently working with several national tenants to take 16,000 square feet adjacent to Whole Foods, with those lease announcements expected soon.

Eric Termansen 

“The demographics of Old Town Scottsdale and its surrounding submarkets are exceptional, and they continue to improve,” said Jakosky Properties President, Jack Jakosky.

 “Tenants have recognized this and, as a result, are actively competing for opportunities to locate here. We are thrilled to welcome Whole Foods and expect to have more announcements like this over the next few months.”

Neil Board

 Whole Foods will replace an existing Fry’s Food Store, which has leased 50,000 square feet at the center for the past 48 years.

 Western Retail Advisors Founding Partner Eric Termansen and Partner Neil Board represented Whole Foods in the lease negotiations. Ryan Desmond and Rachel Bliss of Western Retail Advisors are the center’s new listing brokers and will actively pursue shop tenants and creative office users for the remaining 8,900 square feet of vacant space.

Ryan Desmond

 “This trade area has experienced a rapid increase in high-end residential density,” said Termansen. “As each new luxury vertical residential project comes online, demand rises for top-notch prepared foods, restaurants and specialty retailers.

Rendering of new Whole Foods store, Scottsdale, AZ

"The Whole Foods at Downtown East will serve this growing demographic and give shoppers from Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Arcadia and other nearby communities a more convenient way to access the Whole Foods brand.”

 Austin-based Whole Foods operates more than 530 stores across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. This includes ten stores in Arizona – four of which are located in metro Phoenix (Tempe, Chandler, the Camelback Corridor and Paradise Valley).

  For more information on Downtown East leasing, please contact Desmond and Bliss at (602) 778-3747.

 CONTACT

Stacey Hershauer

480.600.0195

stacey@focusaz.com

 

 

The Real Estate Capital Institute® notes liquidity is back in the realty capital markets.

  

John Oharenko

Chicago, IL, May 1, 2024 – The Fed holds rates steady at the most recent meeting, noting a lack of progress on inflation.  Meanwhile, rates moved higher by about 30 basis points in April. 

  Despite eleven rate hikes since the end of the pandemic, liquidity is back in the realty capital markets.   Sidelined investors have grown impatient in waiting for commercial real estate prices to drop with increased interest rates. 

 

The absence of higher-quality acquisition opportunities forces investors to reenter the market based on the following realities cautiously:




Changing Benchmark Rate Expectations:   As rising consumer prices and tight employment levels continue to fuel inflation, investors brace for less relief from the Fed for lower rates.  Last month, benchmark rates nearly hit a half-year high, settling at about 4.70%.  As a result, funding sources adopt the "new normal" mortgage rates roughly double those seen a few years earlier.

 

Well-Capitalized Banks:  Unlike previous economic cycles, many banks, including the major money-center institutions, are well-capitalized with ample loan-loss reserves.  As a result, banks maintain more staying power in patiently working out distressed property loans.  Avoiding "panic selling," banks give well-heeled borrowers more latitude to stabilize cash flows to realize better pricing.




 Investment Rating Metrics:  Investors often consider BAA-rated bonds to have risk profiles similar to CRE debt investments.  These bonds are nearly equally priced with comparable CMBS debt, indicating that current [tighter] mortgage spreads align with yield expectations.   Current mortgage spreads range from 120 basis points to about 200 basis points over comparable benchmark treasuries for most types of stabilized properties.




 

Negative Leverage Expectations:  Prime CRE properties (mainly multifamily) often trade at capitalization rates with lower yields than mortgage rates.  However, investors believe more in returns during longer holding periods based on limited new construction and inflation protection expectations. 

 

The Real Estate Capital Institute's® director, John Oharenko, notes, "At the end of the day, the real estate capital markets behave like any other commodity with supply and demand fundamentals favoring a sellers' market.  Adding, "Institutional quality realty assets are always in high demand, based on a very sparse supply."

 

 

The Real Estate Capital Institute® is a volunteer-based research organization that tracks realty rates data for debt and equity yields. 

 

CONTACT

John Oharenko, Executive Director

director@reci.com / www.reci.com

The   Real Estate Capital Institute®

Chicago, Illinois USA 60622

 

CrossMarc Services Named Exclusive Site Selection Representative for Tide Cleaners Laundry Chain in Central Florida and Tampa

 

Flavia Kanyago

WINTER PARK, FL – CrossMarc Services, has been named exclusive site selection representative for Tide Cleaners locations throughout Central Florida and Tampa.  The dry-cleaning and laundry services stores feature drive-through windows, order tracking, delivery service and fast check-out.  

 

Flavia Kanyago, Vice President of Sales and Leasing for CrossMarc, negotiated the exclusive representation agreement with local entrepreneurs Harry Mirpuri and Girish Mirpuri.  The brothers recently signed a development deal with Tide Services, a subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) to bring its Tide Cleaners concept to Central Florida.


John Crossman


“The laundry and dry-cleaning service is emerging as one of Florida’s dominant retail concepts,” said John Crossman, president of CrossMarc. 

 

Crossman said Kanyago will assess potential locations for site attributes that will facilitate the perks the service offers, including superior visibility, ingress/egress, signage, square footage for inline stores and acreage for free-standing units. 

 

The Mirpuris’ development agreement with Tide Services plans for 10 stores to open in Orlando and 10 in the Tampa region within the next five years. They are open to leasing or owning the locations and hope to have the first one operating by the first quarter of 2025 or sooner. 





 Currently 20 Tide Cleaners stores are operating in Florida, largely in the Southwest, South Florida and two in Tampa.  Customers can place orders to have clothes washed or dry-cleaned and other services using a smartphone app. 


 About CrossMarc Services


Founded in 2020, Winter Park-based CrossMarc Services specializes in commercial real estate services, including advisory, investment, brokerage, tenant rep and property management.  Clientele ranges from private clients and corporations to large institutional companies. For additional information visit

 

CONTACTS:

Flavia Kanyago, Vice President of Sales and Leasing, CrossMarc Services, LLC 407-794-9393 or Fkanyago@crossmarcservices.com

John Crossman, CCIM, CRX, President CrossMarc Services, LLC -

 407-794-9393 or jcrossman@crossmarcservices.com

 

Beth Payan, Managing Director, Larry Vershel Communications;

 407-461-3781 beth@larryvershel.com


  www.crossmarcservices.com