Finance

Colony Square

Atlanta Mixed-Use Development Lands $278M Loan

North American Properties and Lionstone Investments will use the financing to develop the next phases of Colony Square. The project is set to include entertainment, retail, restaurants and office space.

Duke Energy Issues $1B Green Bond Offering

The bonds will be used to finance renewable energy projects in the Carolinas. Duke expects to add 1,800 megawatts of built and purchased solar capacity over the next five years.

Berkadia Secures $45M Loan for CT Portfolio

The firm worked on behalf of Delaware Commerce to arrange the permanent refinancing of a collection of 17 industrial and warehouse buildings in Danbury.

121 Spring St.

Newmark Knight Frank Secures Refi for Soho Retail Assets

Oaktree provided the floating-rate loan to a partnership led by 60 Guilders to upgrade two interconnecting spaces encompassing more than 4,000 square feet.

Atlanta Marriott Gets $57M Refi

Integrated Capital has nearly finished $14 million of renovations at the 344-key hotel. The new loan retires a $52.8 million prior mortgage held by Emigrant Bank.

Anne Kinsella Thompson

How Big Data, Machine Learning are Shaping CRE Finance

A new white paper from the MIT Center for Real Estate examines changes and trends in commercial real estate financing that are being driven by these technologies.

Eric Jordan

Health-Care Financing Considerations

Calmwater Capital’s Eric Jordan analyzes the trends generating demand for the specialty asset category and the factors leading lenders to reassess risk.

Hiring Trends Buoy Suburban Rent Growth

Transwestern’s Jim Cardellicchio offers his perspective on why office and industrial properties outside of urban hubs are becoming increasingly attractive to investors and lenders.

Randy Blankstein, president & founder of The Boulder Group

Why Is Drugstore Transaction Volume Plunging?

The Boulder Group President Randy Blankstein details how recent events in the sector are pushing investors to adjust their strategies.

Greysteel Arranges Financing of Houston-Area Storage Asset

The firm’s Dallas-based office secured the interest only non-recourse bridge loan for the acquisition of a 572-unit facility located in Conroe, Texas.