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Walker & Dunlop Secures $33M Refinancing for Massell Apartments in Cartersville, Georgia

by John Nelson

CARTERSVILLE, GA. — Walker & Dunlop has secured a $33 million loan for the refinancing of The Massell, a newly delivered apartment community located at 1230 Joe Frank Harris Parkway in Cartersville, a northwest suburb of Atlanta. Stephen Farnsworth and Hanes Dunn led the Walker & Dunlop team that arranged the loan through ACRE on behalf of the borrowers, Norhaven Partners and Coro Realty. The non-recourse loan features a floating interest rate, five-year term and full-term interest-only payments. The Massell is a 210-unit, garden-style community that features a clubhouse with a coworking area, 24/7 fitness center, resort-style swimming pool with sundeck, grilling stations and a pet park.

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Berkadia Arranges $60.8M in Construction Financing for Mosaic Pooler Apartments Near Savannah

by John Nelson

POOLER, GA. — Berkadia has arranged $60.8 million in construction financing for Mosaic Pooler, a 333-unit multifamily community located within the Mosaic Town Center mixed-use development in Pooler, a western suburb of Savannah. The borrower, an affiliate of Bayline Group, acquired the 12-acre site at 800 High Ave. in 2023. Bank OZK provided a $47.5 million, three-year, floating-rate loan to Bayline Group. Berkadia also lined up $13.3 million in preferred equity through FCP. Mitch Sinberg, Scott Wadler, Bryan Brown, Robert Falese and Jake Adoni of Berkadia arranged the financing on behalf of Bayline Group. Upon completion, which is slated for May 2026, Mosaic Pooler  will offer a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units, as well as three-story carriage houses with garages. Amenities at the property include a fitness center with a yoga room, game room and resident lounge, coworking spaces, a dog park and pet spa, package locker system, electric vehicle charging stations and a resort-style pool with a large outdoor patio, cabanas and grilling stations.

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Atlanta Multifamily Market: Overcoming Historic Supply and Still a Winner

by John Nelson

Five years after the world shut down, the national multifamily market is still on a roller coaster ride. After the highs of 2021 quickly turned into the lows of 2023, the dust settled in 2024. Today, the market has begun to reactivate while continuing to grapple with the aftereffects of the run-up.  While national multifamily transactions soared 22 percent in 2024, Atlanta transaction volume was flat year-over-year as the investment community shifted a favorable view of Atlanta toward ambivalence. Perceptions surrounding new supply and non-paying tenants contributed to the city falling out of vogue with some investors, but Atlanta is a resilient market.  With new deliveries having peaked in 2024 and property-level fundamentals rapidly turning the corner, Atlanta may be beaten up, but the light at the end of the tunnel is coming into focus: Atlanta is still a long-term winner.  Days of peak supply are over While Atlanta experienced a record 24,000 units delivered in 2024, that figure represents just 4 percent of its total inventory. When compared to other Sun Belt markets like Charlotte (10 percent of total inventory delivered in 2024), Nashville (8 percent) and Dallas (5 percent), the number doesn’t seem as jarring.  Looking ahead to …

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High Street, Third & Urban Plan Mixed-Use Development in Sandy Springs, Georgia

by John Nelson

SANDY SPRINGS, GA. — A partnership between High Street Residential (HSR), the residential subsidiary of Trammell Crow Co. (TCC), and Third & Urban have announced plans for the development of Hillcrest, an 8.1-acre mixed-use development located in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs. Scheduled to break ground this month, the project will feature 362 apartment units, 30 for-rent townhomes and more than 18,000 square feet of retail space. In collaboration with the seller, Sandy Springs United Methodist Church, proceeds from the sale will fund capital improvements to the church’s primary campus. Improvements will also be made to the surrounding street infrastructure, adding on-street parking and connected walkability to the area. The project team will include Cooper Carry (architect), Square Feet Design (retail consultant and interior designer), New South Construction (general contractor), Citizens Bank (lender) and Wesley Community Development (church advisor). Amy Fingerhut of CBRE is handling leasing negotiations. The townhomes will offer two- and three-bedroom floorplans with two-car garages and rooftop patios, while the apartment building will measure up to five stories tall and feature a parking garage with more than 100 public parking spaces. Amenities at the apartment will include a rooftop swimming pool and clubroom, golf simulator lounge, …

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Patterson Secures Refinancing for 161-Room Bellyard Hotel in West Midtown Atlanta

by John Nelson

ATLANTA — Patterson Real Estate Advisory Group has secured the refinancing for Bellyard, a 161-room Marriott Tribute Portfolio hotel located in Atlanta’s West Midtown district. Delivered in 2021, the hotel serves as an anchor for The Interlock, a $450 million mixed-use-development by SJC Ventures that was sold to Armada Hoffler in 2023. Patterson arranged the loan through Connecticut-based LoanCore Capital on behalf of the borrower, Bellyard Partners LLC, the hotel’s ownership entity comprising West 14th Hospitality LLC and Atlantic American Partners.

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CP Group Purchases 2.2 MSF Piedmont Center Office Campus in Atlanta’s Buckhead District

by John Nelson

ATLANTA — CP Group has purchased Piedmont Center, a 2.2 million-square-foot office campus located off Piedmont Road in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. The Boca Raton, Fla.-based investor and landlord acquired the 14-building campus in an all-cash transaction. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that CP Group purchased the 46-acre office park at a foreclosure auction in partnership with Austrian bank Bawag Group for $200 million. The news outlet reported that former owner, Ardent Cos., defaulted on its loan tied to Piedmont Center from Morgan Stanley. The previous owner announced unfulfilled plans in 2023 to develop a concentration of food-and-beverage offerings at Piedmont Center dubbed Oxton, named after the “O” and “X” shape of two of the office buildings on the campus. CP Group plans to offer more food-and-beverage options at Piedmont Center, as well as expand amenities including conference facilities, fitness centers, lobbies and outdoor common areas. The firm also plans to install its suite of high-end speculative suites branded “worCPlaces” at the campus.

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JLL Negotiates 150,000 SF Cold Storage Lease in West Atlanta

by John Nelson

ATLANTA — JLL has negotiated a 150,000-square-foot lease with locally based Porter Logistics at Logistics Pointe, an industrial facility located at 605 Selig Drive on Atlanta’s west side. Porter Logistics already occupies 266,813 square feet of dry storage at the facility, bringing the third-party logistics firm’s footprint in the building to 412,513 square feet. Austin Kriz of JLL represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. The landlord was Covington Group Inc. Porter Logistics is backfilling recently vacated space at the 650,259-square-foot industrial facility, which features 20 exterior dock doors, four drive-in bays and clear heights ranging from 24 to 27 feet.

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Competition for Prime Office Space Intensifies in Atlanta

by John Nelson

Tenants are battling it out for Atlanta’s top-tier office space as trophy availability tightens and new office construction draws to a halt. With no end to the flight-to-quality trend in sight, Class B assets accounted for a whopping 70 percent of the market’s overall negative absorption (-736,682 square feet total net) in the first quarter of 2025, while Trophy assets recorded positive absorption (+114,579 square feet). Furthermore, office buildings that delivered between 2016 and 2021, which amount to almost 14 million square feet of space, currently average 92 percent occupancy. This underscores the growing divide between the haves and have-nots in Atlanta’s office market. Premium space in demand As office leasing activity reaches its highest level since 2019, decision-makers face a rapidly evolving landscape where securing the right space requires a highly motivated and strategic approach. With rising attendance mandates, workforce expansion and a limited supply of premium office space, competition for the best locations is intensifying. In Atlanta, submarkets like Midtown and Central Perimeter continue to outperform. Mini submarkets surrounding mixed-use districts like Avalon and The Battery (i.e. “urban-edge” in the suburbs) are also in high demand among tenants craving walkability and upscale amenities in the metro’s most sought-after …

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Georgia Tech Repositions Biltmore Building in Midtown Atlanta as Strategic Hub in Tech Square

by John Nelson

ATLANTA — The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) has launched The Biltmore at Tech Square, a 286,931-square-foot mixed-use building located within the larger 2.5 million-square-foot Tech Square innovation district of Midtown Atlanta. The Biltmore building originally opened in 1924 as a grand hotel before transitioning to office space in the 1990s. The property housed the first radio station in Atlanta. Georgia Tech purchased the property in 2016. The school has tapped Collaborative Real Estate, helmed by David Tyndall, an original co-developer of Tech Square, to oversee the Biltmore’s redevelopment. The reimagined Biltmore houses more than 100,000 square feet of Georgia Tech’s innovation sector, including the CREATE-X headquarters (Georgia Tech’s flagship student startup accelerator); Quadrant-i (Georgia Tech’s gateway for launching research-driven ventures); Office of Technology Licensing; VentureLab (home of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Southeast hub); Startup Scaling Platform; Corporate Engagement Office; and the Venture Investment Hub, as well as additional strategic partners. “Atlanta is becoming the startup capital of the South, and this next chapter for The Biltmore strengthens our momentum,” says Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. “We are bringing together the people, places and resources to accelerate Atlanta’s growth as a world-class tech and innovation ecosystem.” Upon completion, …

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Hines Acquires Three East Coast Industrial Assets for $309M

by Hayden Spiess

HOUSTON — Hines Global Investment Trust (HGIT), a real estate investment trust (REIT) sponsored by Houston-based global asset manager Hines, has acquired three industrial assets located on the East Coast for a total $309 million.  The acquired properties include two distribution facilities situated within the Georgia International Trade Center (GITC) in the Savannah market and two warehouse/distribution facilities located in Upton Crossing, a warehouse campus in Wilmington, Mass. The Davis Cos., a real estate investment and development firm based in Boston, sold both assets, which total 2.5 million square feet. Additionally, HGIT acquired I-85 Logistics Center, an industrial property in the Greenville-Spartanburg metro in South Carolina’s Upstate region. The seller of I-85 Logistics Center was not disclosed. The properties in Savannah total 2.2 million square feet and were fully leased at the time of sale. A joint venture between Davis and Atlanta-based Stonemont Financial Group developed GITC, which comprises a total 7.7 million square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space across 10 buildings. The site is located roughly 10 miles from the Port of Savannah.  Totaling 215,000 square feet, the properties at Upton Crossing in Wilmington were 81 percent leased at the time of acquisition. Davis acquired Upton Crossing in …

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