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Gateway At Wynwood Gets $113 Million Refi

Berkadia has arranged a $113 million loan to refinance Gateway at Wynwood, a 220,000-square-foot, Class A office and retail project designed by Kobi Karp in Miami’s Wynwood District. Senior Managing Director Charles Foschini, Managing Director Christopher Apone and Associate Director Robert Iudice of Berkadia South Florida arranged the loan on behalf of New York-based Rose & Berg Realty Group LP (“R&B Realty”), a family-owned real estate management, leasing and construction company. The property is leased to a diverse tenant roster including BoConcept, OpenStore and Veru.

Berkadia also secured the original construction loan for the project in early 2020 through lender 3650 REIT.

This time, A10 Capital, a vertically integrated, full service commercial real estate lender, provided the three-year loan, with two, one-year extension options.

“The volatility in the lending environment made this office refi transaction challenging, but our relationships with the lending community and the strength of this asset helped us secure one of South Florida’s largest office refis in recent times,” said Foschini. “We are proud to have played a key role in helping our client move forward with its plans as it continues to attract strong office and retail tenants to the trophy property in the highly desired Wynwood area north of downtown Miami.”   

Designed by ‘starchitect’ Kobi Karp, Gateway at Wynwood is located at 2616 North Miami Avenue, in the epicenter of Miami’s Wynwood corridor, one of the most desirable 24-hour submarkets in the nation. It features approximately 220,000 square feet of Class A office space encompassing roughly 27,700 square feet of space on each of its floors. It features a private rooftop terrace with panoramic views, as well as 512 on-site parking spaces. The project also features 24,000 square feet of retail space and is centrally located at the convergence of the Midtown and Wynwood submarkets’ high-traffic retail corridor, with immediate access to thousands of new residential units.

Gateway at Wynwood is just minutes away from Miami’s Central Business District (CBD), Midtown, Edgewater, the Arts and Entertainment District, Brickell, Miami Beach, and a variety of mass transit options including I-195, the Miami Metrorail and the new Brightline commuter rail line connecting Miami to Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach.

 

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South Beach Hotels Sell For $335 Per Room

The South Beach Plaza Hotel and the neighboring South Beach Plaza Villas, only a block from famous Ocean Drive, sold for $26.5 million.

Kentucky Zinc LLC, Zaynab Investments, NC Capital LLC and ABH Corp. of New York, respectively managed by Fahr Juneja, Abdul Buridi, Naveed Chowan, and Arif Butt, were the sellers. The 79 hotel rooms at 1401 and 1411 Collins Ave. were purchased by 1401 Collins Avenue LLC, managed by Kenneth Lipschutz, the head of Stamford, Connecticut-based Blue Suede Hospitality Group. Property data firm Vizzda confirmed the buyer and seller information.

The price equated to $335,443 per room.

The hotels last traded for $12.25 million in 2009, more than doubling in value.

Built between 1934 and 1936, the hotels total 32,330 square feet. They’re situated on a 21,000-square-foot lot not far from the beach.

 

Source:  SFBJ

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Rilea Pays $6M For 13K SF Warehouse Property In Wynwood, Plans More Mohawk At Wynwood Loft Apartments

Rilea Group plans more loft apartments at its Mohawk at Wynwood mixed-use project after expanding its site.

The Miami-based developer paid $5.7 million for two warehouses at 31 and 37 Northeast 28th Street, said Rilea President Diego Ojeda. Both lots span 12,750 square feet, enlarging the overall development site at 56 Northeast 29th Street from 1.5 acres to 1.8 acres, Ojeda said.

In an off-market deal, Rilea bought the property from interior designer Michael Wolk, whose studio is based in one of the warehouses, Ojeda said. Alfredo Riascos with Gridline Properties represented Rilea, and Alfonso Jaramillo with Fortune International Realty represented the seller.

In 2002, Wolk paid $350,000 for the industrial buildings, which were completed in 1964 and 1970, records show.

“We negotiated what I think is a fair price and below market,” Ojeda said. “For us, it makes sense because it helps our project’s efficiency. For the seller, it was also good. It’s a small site that without our project didn’t have life for anything else.”

Rilea’s latest acquisition allows his firm to add 35 more loft apartments to a 12-story project originally slated for 225 units, Ojeda said. Mohawk at Wynwood, now spanning almost an entire block, will also have 31,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, 3,500 square feet of office and 337 parking spaces. Knocking down the two warehouses will also improve the design of a paseo planned for the project, Ojeda said.

“Before, the paseo had a big wall on the south side,” Ojeda said. “Now that we own the site, the wall will no longer be there. You will have retail on both sides when you walk the paseo.”

 

Source:  The Real Deal

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Mixed-Use Project Proposed To Replace Parking Lot In South Beach

The owner of the Washington Park Hotel in South Beach is proposing a 7-story mixed-use project on an adjacent municipal surface parking lot.

WPH Properties, LLC submitted the proposal for a 99-year lease of the city property.

The proposal include:

  • 135 structured parking spaces in three levels, including a single subterranean level
    utilizing mechanical lifts (triple the number of spaces in the existing lot)
  • ground level commercial space
  • three levels and thirty-three units of workforce housing units or office space (with the choice made by the city)
  • a top-level office/hotel use level
  • rooftop amenity area for hotel and building tenant use

In a letter, the developer wrote:

Our client has already invested over $52 million in the purchase and extensive renovations to
the Washington Park Hotel complex. We estimate the costs associated with the construction
of the new building at approximately $25 million.

This new project is not viewed by the Proposer as a profitable real estate development project
and the rate of return is not the primary motivation. Rather, because of the location of the
parking lot, the aim is to maximize and optimize the use of the combined properties as a single
unit.

Beilinson Gomez is the architect.

The city’s Finance and Economic Resiliency Committee is scheduled to discuss the proposal at a January 27 meeting.

 

Source: The Next Miami

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9-Story Apartment Tower Proposed Near Aventura

BH Group has a property in the Ojus neighborhood west of Aventura under contract with a pending plan to redevelop it with apartments.

The Aventura-based developer filed a pre-application with county officials for the 1.21-acre site at 18440 N.E. 24th Court, 18451 N.E. 24th Ave., and 2327 N.E. 184th Terrace, which is just north of Greynolds Park. It has the four parcels under contract.

The property currently has eight small apartments and a vacant lot. It would be redeveloped to make way for the project.

BH Group wants to build a nine-story building totaling 232,055 square feet with 132 apartments and 162 parking spaces. There would be 19,254 square feet of amenities, including a rooftop pool deck. The developer would utilize a workforce housing density bonus in exchange for making 10% of those apartments workforce housing.

The apartments would range from 656 to 1,229 square feet. There would be 24 studio apartments, 54 one-bedroom units, 30 one-bedroom units with dens, and 24 two-bedroom units.

In order to build this project, BH Group wants the county to rezone the site from Ojus Urban Area District-Edge to Ojus Urban Area District-Center. The developer’s traffic study estimates the project would generate 583 daily vehicle trips.

Source:  SFBJ

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RFR, Tricap File Dueling Lawsuits For Control Of W South Beach

New York developers Aby Rosen and David Edelstein are in a high-noon standoff over a proposed buyout deal for the W South Beach — with a maturing loan raising the stakes.

Entities controlled by Edelstein, principal of Tricap (formerly Tristar Capital), and Rosen, co-founder and principal of RFR Realty, recently filed dueling lawsuits against each other in Miami-Dade Circuit Court and New York Supreme Court.

The W South Beach co-owners are in a hostile stalemate over Tricap’s $200 million proposal to buy RFR’s interest in the luxury hotel at 2201 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach.

A Tricap spokesperson said Edelstein’s firm sought legal action in Miami-Dade to “enforce a contractually agreed-to process for buying or selling the hotel to each other,” and that RFR followed up with its own complaint in New York, “apparently seeking to avoid litigating the matter in Florida.”

Last week, Tricap’s entity sued RFR’s entity in Miami-Dade, seeking a court order to enforce an agreement the partners allegedly reached in October. The suit also seeks to require RFR to either agree to extend a $157.4 million Citibank mortgage due on Jan. 25, or come up with its share of the funds to pay it off.

RFR has “repeatedly refused” to cooperate with Tricap on the loan issue as a tactic to obtain a more favorable buyout at “an inflated price,” the Miami-Dade lawsuit states. If Tricap refused, RFR threatened to “burn the house down,” the complaint also states.

On Monday, RFR’s entity sued Tricap’s entity in New York, accusing its partner of using the buyout negotiations as a stall tactic to extend the loan’s maturity date, which was originally set to expire in August of last year.

RFR claims it was “ostensibly negotiating in good faith,” while Tricap was “merely stringing [RFR] along in an effort to extract additional concessions,” the New York lawsuit states. Tricap walked away from Tricap’s $200 million offer last month, RFR also alleges.

In 2009, the New York firms co-developed the 395-room W hotel.

 

Source:  The Real Deal

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Wynwood Plaza Project Scores $215M Construction Loan

In yet another sign that lenders are still confident in the South Florida market, a mixed-use office development in Wynwood secured a $215 million construction loan.

Little Rock, Arkansas-based Bank OZK provided the loan to L&L Holding Company, Oak Row Equities, San Francisco-based Shorenstein Properties and Marcelo Claure’s Miami-based Claure Group for the Wynwood Plaza, a 1-million-square-foot office, apartment and retail project planned for 95 Northwest 29th Street in Miami.

The assemblage is anchored by the former Rubell Family Collection properties. Rubell moved its museum to a new space in Allapattah.

Newmark’s Dustin Stolly and Jordan Roeschlaub represented New York-based L&L and Oak Row in finding additional partners, according to a press release. Berkadia’s Scott Wadler and Michael Basinski arranged the construction loan. Bank OZK and other lenders have been providing large loans in South Florida, despite the challenging interest rate environment and the trend of banks pulling back overall.

Construction of the Wynwood Plaza will begin “immediately,” according to the release. The development could be completed in 2025. It includes a 12-story, 266,000-square-foot office building, a 509-unit luxury rental building, 32,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor retail space, and a 26,000-square-foot public plaza. Gensler is the architect and James Corner Field Operations is designing the outdoor spaces.

 

Source:  The Real Deal

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Hotel Development At Miami Beach Convention Center To Move Forward

Construction of a centerpiece hotel for the Miami Beach Convention Center will move forward this year, co-developers Terra and Turnberry announced.

Miami-based Terra and Aventura-based Turnberry said they hired Dallas-based Balfour Beatty as general contractor of the project and site work has already begun. They expect to start vertical construction of the Grand Hyatt Miami Beach Convention Center Hotel later this year and complete the project in 2025.

The 17-story hotel will have 800 rooms, making it the fifth-largest hotel in South Florida and the second-largest hotel in Miami Beach, according to the Business Journal‘s Book of Lists.

The hotel will include four floors of meeting and ballroom space, a resort-style pool deck, a signature restaurant, retail space, a lobby lounge and bar, and a sky bridge with access to the convention center.

It will be developed at the corner of 17th Street and Convention Center Drive.

The project will be privately funded.

 

Source:  SFBJ

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AIRC Buys Miami Beach Apartment Complex For $250M

An affiliate of Apartment Income REIT Corp. acquired the Southgate Towers apartment complex in Miami Beach for a combined $250.47 million.

The Denver-based multifamily company announced in November that it had the property under contract for $298 million. However, the two deeds recently filed in Miami-Dade County indicate the price was $250.47 million.

Southgate Towers LLLP and Gumenick Family Investments No. 2 Ltd., both affiliates of Gumenick Properties in Richmond, Virginia, sold the 495-unit apartment complex at 910 West Ave. and the 219,270-square-foot parking garage at 959 West Ave. to Southgate Towers LLC, an affiliate of AIRC. The buyer assumed a $101.2 million mortgage with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Totaling 554,694 square feet, Southgate Towers was built on the 4-acre site along Biscayne Bay in 1958. Gumenick Properties completed a $40 million renovation of the property in 2016 that included the new parking garage.

 

Source: SFBJ

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Developer Obtains $277M Construction Loan For Hotel And Condo In Miami Beach

Oko Group and Access Industries obtained a $277.2 million construction loan for the Aman Hotel & Residences along the ocean in Miami Beach.

Bank OZK assumed the $34.8 million mortgage from 2020 and boosted it to $277.2 million. The borrower on the 1.7-acre site at 3425 Collins Ave. was 3425 Collins LLC and various affiliates linked to Oko Group, led by billionaire Vladislav Doronin, and Access Industries, led by Len Blavatnik.

Located in the Faena District, the site previously had the historic 16-story Versailles Hotel. It will be renovated and rebranded as the Aman Hotel for this project, plus the developer will build a 16-story condo tower.

The hotel tower will feature 56 rooms and 22 condos, while the stand-alone condo will have 41 units. It was designed by Miami-based Revuelta Architecture and Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

 

Source:  SFBJ

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