Business Specialties
Unique Plan for 211-Acre SoCal Mixed-Use Community
Brea, Calif.–Ground has broken on La Floresta Brea, a mixed-use residential community in Brea, Calif., designed to emerge as an open, multi-generational neighborhood.
Paul Dincin: Multifamily Workout Specialist
Catapult’s Paul Dincin and Brian Columbus specialize in assisting banks, special servicers and other financial institutions deal with their distressed multifamily properties, fractured condominium developments and other broken CRE assets.
When NIMBY Attacks
NIMBY opposition doesn’t always turn out against multifamily projects, but when it does, it typically puts a viable project on the defensive, which at the very least increases risk and costs. At worst, the project fails to receive political approvals. How you respond to the crisis will determine the project’s fate.
MacFarlane Buys SF Site for Apartment Tower
San Francisco–MacFarlane Partners has acquired a development site at 1844 Market Street in San Francisco on which it intends to build an eight-story multifamily residential building. According to the developer, which specializes in urban revitalization, the building will consist of 113 rental apartments–99 market-rate and 14 affordable units–along with 5,500 square feet of street-level retail and an underground garage with 81 parking spaces.
The Smooth Expansion from Apartments to Extended-Stay Hotels
Witchita, Kan.–In the commercial real estate world, the multifamily market and the lodging market are essentially two different animals, but they don’t have to be. Nick Esterline, a Wichita, Kan.-based real estate owner and developer, has found that there are similarities between apartments and extended-stay hotels, that can allow owners of the former property type to easily make a foray into the latter sector.
Upper West Side Property Shifts Gears to Rental
New York–The nine full-floor residences at 208 West 96th Street, developed by Manor Properties Group LLC, are no longer for sale. Instead, according to Manor Properties, the three-bedroom, three-bath units will be for rent, with the decision to go rental made in response to feedback during the initial marketing stages of the property’s sales campaign.
Ground Breaks on Southern California Community Designed for 21st-Century Seniors
Long Beach, Calif.–Work has gotten underway on the Long Beach Senior Arts Colony, a 200-residence affordable housing community in Long Beach, Calif., designed by architectural firm Studio One Eleven to tailor to the demands of today’s seniors.
New Jersey Mixed-Use Property Recognized for Brownfield Redevelopment
Stafford Township, N.J.–Brownfield Renewal magazine recently honored the developer of Stafford Park, a mixed-use development in Stafford Township, N.J., with a Brownfield Renewal Award at the 14th National Brownfields Conference held in Philadelphia. The Stafford Park development, which was undertaken by the Walters Group, has a major multifamily component in the form of Stafford Park Apartments.
Woodfield Buys 32 Acres for 258-Unit Apartment Project in Suburban Charleston, S.C.
Mt. Pleasant, S.C.–Woodfield Investments LLC is well aware that there is a gap between supply and demand in the apartment market in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., a highly sought-after Charleston suburb, and the company has made a major move toward filling the void.
Marketer’s Partnership with Furniture Retailer Closes Condo Deals
Brooklyn, N.Y.–Many people have to “see it to believe it,” and for some prospective buyers at Oro in downtown Brooklyn, seeing the curved-wall condominium residences decked out by trendy upscale furniture retailer BoConcepts made them believe they could see themselves making a home in one of the architecturally unique units at the rounded glass and brick tower designed by Ismael Leyva Architects.