Atlanta

A new large-scale Class A industrial distribution park called Lambert Farms Distribution Center is coming to Henry County.

STORE Capital – an Institutional REIT, bought Advanced Control Systems Building a 49,436 square foot office/warehouse facility located in Norcross, enlisting the services of Stan Johnson Company. The transaction was worth $4.12 million and the property is leased back to Advanced Control Systems, Inc.

Loehmann’s Plaza gets a facelift and a new name soon with site works beginning in June and continuing through January 2015. The redeveloped retail facility at the corner of North Druid Hills and Briarcliff Roads in Atlanta will be called Brighten Park. Regency Centers Corporation will redevelop the property and has already secured a lease with The Fresh Market grocery.

Centre at Peachtree Corners and Summit at Dawson obtained a $22 million bridge loan that will facilitate the exterior and interior renovation, as well as the reposition of the two residential properties into affordable Class A assets. Pembrook Capital Management LLC closed the transaction on behalf of the borrowers, Five Mile Capital’s joint venture with Audubon Communities.

Freeway Junction will change hands in the near future as Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust Inc. announced that it has assumed the contract to acquire the shopping center for $10.5 million, or $66.63 per leasable square foot.

Located in the Buckhead submarket of Atlanta at 3575 Piedmont Road NE, Piedmont Center North Buildings 1-4 and 15 have earned LEED certification under the USGBC’s Existing Buildings: Operation and Maintenance standard, according to the property manager, Cushman & Wakefield’s recent announcement.

Resource Real Estate recently announced that one of its investment trusts, Resource Real Estate Opportunity REIT, Inc., has picked up two residential properties. Both Berkeley Run and Berkeley Trace are located in the residential submarket along Glenridge Drive Northeast in Atlanta, less than a mile from Atlanta’s Perimeter Center.

Hyatt House Atlanta/Cobb Galleria in Atlanta’s northwest corridor received LEED certification according to a written announcement released recently by Noble Investment Group and Hyatt Hotels and Resorts.

Pointe at Lenox Park, a 271-unit garden-style community in the Brookhaven submarket recently changed hands for $24.9 million. The previous local private owner sold the apartment homes to Cortland Partners.