Leading developer acquires 1.26-acre property with plans to develop
67-unit luxury condominium property

HOUSTON (Jan. 3, 2019) — Mission Capital Advisors announced that its Debt and Equity Finance Group has arranged a $7.3-million non-recourse land loan for the acquisition of 5656 San Felipe Street, a 1.26-acre development site in Houston. The borrower, Houston-based Pelican Builders, is working to finalize plans for an as-of-right, 17-story condominium project, which will include 67 luxury residences and 191 parking spaces. The Mission Capital team of Jason Parker, Steven Buchwald and Alex Draganiuk arranged the financing from a national real estate finance company.

Located at the nexus of the highly desirable Galleria/Uptown and Tanglewood neighborhoods, the 322,708-square-foot property will provide the area with much-needed luxury residential product. Current plans for the development call for 67 well-appointed residences with on-site amenities that include a pool deck, resident lounge, state-of-the-art fitness center and a dog park. The project is expected to break ground in October 2019.

“Pelican is one of most seasoned condo developers in the region, and we received a lot of interest from capital providers interested in providing them with the land loan that will pave the way for the condo development,” said Parker. “With the property’s strong location and the unmet demand for luxury condos in this prime area of Houston, we were able to structure favorable financing with a national real estate finance company.”

With its central location near leading commercial and residential neighborhoods, the development will offer residents easy access to a wide range of shopping and cultural / entertainment options, including Whole Foods, iPic Theater and the Houston Country Club. It is within 1.5 miles of The Galleria, the fourth largest retail complex in the country, with high-end tenants including Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus.

Houston-based Pelican Builders has been active in residential development for more than 40 years. Led by Robert F. Bland, Robert F. Bland, Jr. and Derek Darnell, the company’s portfolio includes more than 2,000 residences, spread across high-rise and mid-rise buildings, townhomes and apartment projects.

About Mission Capital Advisors

Founded in 2002, Mission Capital Advisors, LLC is a leading national, diversified real estate capital markets solutions firm with offices in New York City, Florida, Texas, California, and Alabama. The firm delivers value to its clients through an integrated platform of advisory and transaction management services across debt, mezzanine, and JV equity placement; commercial and residential loan sales; and loan portfolio due diligence and valuation. Mission Capital Advisors is extremely active in arranging financing for office, industrial, multifamily, retail and self-storage properties across the country. Since its inception, Mission Capital has advised a variety of leading financial institutions and real estate investors on more than $65 billion of financing and loan sale transactions, as well as in excess of $14 billion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac transactions, positioning the firm strongly to provide unmatched loan portfolio valuation services for both commercial and residential assets. Mission Capital’s seasoned team of industry-leading professionals is committed to achieving clients’ business objectives while maintaining the highest levels of integrity and trust. For more information, visit www.www.missioncap.com.

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Well-situated within Amarillo, Texas, existing hotel will be converted into the first dual-branded Marriott and Starwood property

AMARILLO, Texas (Jan., 2019) — Mission Capital Advisors today announced that its Debt and Equity Finance group has arranged a non-recourse, floating-rate loan for the acquisition and renovation of a 229-key hospitality property at 1911 East I-40 in Amarillo, Texas. The existing property, which currently operates as an unflagged hotel, will receive extensive upgrades and be re-created as a dual-branded hospitality property comprising a 106-key Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites and a 123-key Four Points by Sheraton.

The property renovations will convert the existing hotel into the market’s leading lodging facility, replete with amenities including an outdoor pool, patio deck with grills and a fire pit, and a 24-hour fitness center. Property improvements will include removing the existing atrium, giving a complete facelift to the property’s exterior and large-scale improvements to each guest room.

The Mission Capital team of Raymond Salameh, Ari Hirt, Steven Buchwald, Alex Draganiuk and Jamie Matheny represented Ram Hotels in securing the three-year loan from Stonehill Strategic Capital. In Stonehill, Mission Capital identified a hospitality lender specializing in value-add deals, which was also attracted to the sponsor’s local market expertise. With the lender drawn to the deal’s strong debt yield, Mission Capital was able to structure very strong terms, including 80-percent leverage.

The largest city in the Texas Panhandle, Amarillo is a major transportation hub with the lowest unemployment rate in Texas and a strong economy that is projected to grow in the years ahead. The city also features a significant amount of tourism, with visitors from Texas and beyond flocking to Amarillo for the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo and other cultural events.

The Project will be the first dual-brand conversion between Marriott- and Starwood-branded hotels. With the property’s strong location off of I-40, both hotels are poised to benefit from their proximity to Amarillo’s downtown business district and Amarillo International Airport.

Founded 34 years ago, Ram Hotels is an experienced hotel developer and operator. Since its inception, Ram Hotels has built eight hotels totaling 700 keys throughout Texas, including more than 500 keys in the Amarillo market. Ram currently owns and manages nine hotels totaling 1,500 hotel rooms.

About Mission Capital Advisors

Founded in 2002, Mission Capital Advisors, LLC is a leading national, diversified real estate capital markets solutions firm with offices in New York, Florida, Texas, California, and Alabama. The firm delivers value to its clients through an integrated platform of advisory and transaction management services across commercial and residential loan sales; debt, mezzanine and JV equity placement; and loan portfolio valuation. Since its inception, Mission Capital has advised a variety of leading financial institutions and real estate investors on more than $65 billion of loan sale and financing transactions, as well as in excess of $14 billion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac transactions, positioning the firm strongly to provide unmatched loan portfolio valuation services for both commercial and residential assets. Mission Capital’s seasoned team of industry-leading professionals is committed to achieving clients’ business objectives while maintaining the highest levels of integrity and trust. For more information, visit www.www.missioncap.com.

First-Ever Marriott, Sheraton Hotel Takes Shape in TX

January 14, 2019

The dual-branded hotel in Amarillo, Texas, will be converted from an existing 229-key property. Mission Capital arranged financing for the project on behalf of developer Ram Hotels.

Ram Hotels has secured acquisition and renovation financing to convert an existing hotel in Amarillo, Texas, into the first-ever dual-branded Marriott and Starwood property. The developer will transform the existing 229-key property into a 106-key Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites and a 123-key Four Points by Sheraton.

Located at 1911 E. Interstate 40, the site is in close proximity to Amarillo’s downtown business district and Amarillo International Airport. The city is the largest in the Texas Panhandle and draws tourists for its events that include the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo.

Amenities at the converted property will feature a 24-hour fitness center, an outdoor pool, patio deck with grills and a fire pit. Additional improvements will include removing the existing atrium, large-scale upgrades to guestrooms and a complete facelift to the property’s facade.

Mission Capital Advisors arranged the non-recourse, floating-rate loan. The team of Raymond Salameh, Ari Hirt, Steven Buchwald, Alex Draganiuk and Jamie Matheny represented Ram Hotels in securing the three-year mortgage from Stonehill Strategic Capital.

Most recently, Marriott rebranded and opened a 186-key Four Points by Sheraton in Toronto.

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Mission Capital Arranges Acquisition Financing for 229-Room Hotel in Amarillo

January 14, 2019

AMARILLO, TEXAS — Mission Capital Advisors has arranged an undisclosed amount of financing for the acquisition and renovation of a 229-room hotel in Amarillo. The new ownership will rebrand the property as a dual-branded asset consisting of a 106-room Marriot Fairfield Inn & Suites and a 123-room Four Points by Sheraton. Renovations will deliver upgraded amenity spaces, as well as a facelift to the property’s exterior and each guestroom. Raymond Salameh, Ari Hirt, Steven Buchwald, Alex Draganiuk and Jamie Matheny of Mission Capital arranged the financing through Stonehill Strategic Capital on behalf of the borrower, Ram Hotels.

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Thorofare Capital provides non-recourse, floating-rate financing
for leading Chicago developer

CHICAGO (Nov. 13, 2018) — Mission Capital Advisors announced that its Debt and Equity Finance Group has arranged $13 million of non-recourse, floating-rate financing on behalf of an affiliate of the Sterling Organization to recapitalize 110 East Pearson Street, a 9,000-square-foot vacant retail property in the heart of the Magnificent Mile section of Chicago.

Jonathan More, Alex Draganiuk, Lexington Henn, and Justin Hunt of the Mission Capital team secured the loan from Thorofare Capital, a Los Angeles-based national commercial real estate loan origination and servicing company. The loan features a competitive leverage level with flexibility for future capital expense funding and leasing terms and will be used to capitalize the property, lease up the available space and implement significant capital improvements.

Currently vacant, the property consists of 7,303 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 1,789 square feet of retail space on the mezzanine level. For Mission Capital Advisors, the transaction reflects the firm’s ability to find appropriate capital providers for innovative developers across the country.

Thorofare’s willingness to provide financing stemmed from the firm’s recognition of the sponsor’s strong track record in value-add retail, as well the property’s desirable location, according to Felix Gutnikov, Thorofare’s Head of Origination.

“As a trusted lender, Thorofare has enjoyed a very positive relationship with Mission Capital Advisors and has completed several transactions with the firm and its clients,” Gutnikov said. “We were able to offer Sterling Organization a structured financing solution for a well-located retail asset within one of the most recognized shopping districts in the country.”

The property is ideally situated in the heart of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, the city’s largest and most vibrant shopping district, which has approximately $1.9 billion of annual retail sales. Over the past year, the district has seen retail vacancies decline, while rents have grown by nearly seven percent, further underscoring the property’s latent potential.

About Mission Capital Advisors

Founded in 2002, Mission Capital Advisors, LLC is a leading national, diversified real estate capital markets solutions firm with offices in New York, Florida, Texas, California and Alabama. The firm delivers value to its clients through an integrated platform of advisory and transaction management services across commercial and residential loan sales; debt, mezzanine and JV equity placement; and loan portfolio valuation. Since its inception, Mission Capital has advised a variety of leading financial institutions and real estate investors on more than $65 billion of loan sale and financing transactions, as well as in excess of $14 billion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac transactions, positioning the firm strongly to provide unmatched loan portfolio valuation services for both commercial and residential assets. Mission Capital’s seasoned team of industry-leading professionals is committed to achieving clients’ business objectives while maintaining the highest levels of integrity and trust. For more information, visit www.www.missioncap.com.

About Thorofare Capital

Thorofare Capital, Inc. is a national commercial real estate loan origination and servicing company. The firm focuses on $5 million to $100 million financing transactions, targeting value-add and opportunistic acquisitions, recapitalizations, and distressed debt secured by transitional properties. Its affiliate, Thorofare LLC, is an SEC Registered Investment Adviser specializing in alternative fixed-income opportunities through US commercial real estate debt investments. With a national presence, Thorofare has invested more than $1.6 billion structured as senior secured short and intermediate-term loans, across 10+ property types throughout 28 states. For more information, visit www.thorofarecapital.com.

Sterling lands $13M refi for retail space at Near North Side tower

The Thorofare Capital loan will help Sterling renovate and lease the former Bar Toma space

November 9, 2018

The Sterling Organization landed a $13 million refinancing on the retail space in a tower just off Michigan Avenue on the Near North Side.

The Palm Beach-based equity fund earlier this year bought the 9,000-square-foot retail portion at the base of the 57-story tower at 110 East Pearson Street for $15.2 million. The space is best known as the former home of Bar Toma, a restaurant that opened in 2011 and shuttered in January 2017.

Thorofare Capital supplied the non-recourse, floating-rate loan, which was arranged by Mission Capital Advisors’ Jonathan More, Alex Draganiuk, Lexington Henn, and Justin Hunt. Part of the proceeds will be used to find tenants and make “significant” capital improvements.

Now vacant, the property consists of 7,300 square feet on the ground floor and 1,800 square feet on the mezzanine level.

Sterling paid $1,616 per square foot for the space at the base of the tower, which was built in the 1970s.

It was the company’s second Downtown retail deal in a few months, following April’s $8.1 million purchase of the 87,100-square-foot office building at 219 South State Street, which also includes street retail currently occupied by three Foot Locker-brand shoe stores. It took out an $18.3 million loan from Los Angeles-based Karlin Real Estate to finance that purchase and planned renovations of the building.

In September, Sterling paid $20 million to acquire Hillside Town Center, a nearly 165,000-square-foot retail park in west suburban Hillside. It also bought the 101,000-square-foot Prairie Market shopping center in far west suburban Oswego, but would not disclose the purchase price.

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Mission Capital’s Jordan Ray discusses life-cycle of a transaction. Jordan is a principal on the Debt & Equity Finance desk at Mission Capital.

ABOUT JORDAN RAY
Jordan Ray is the Principal of The Debt & Equity Finance Group at Mission, which he founded in 2009. Jordan has been honored with such industry awards as the 2016 Real Estate Finance and Investment Magazine – Mortgage Broker of the Year Award, the 2013 and 2012 Observer Top 20 under 35 and the 2017 NYU Schack Institute Financing Deal of the Year. Jordan sits on the board and co founded EquityMultiple – an online marketplace real estate finance company – in 2015. Jordan is also actively involved in UK/European real estate financing.

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Mission Capital’s Jordan Ray discusses our joint venture with UK-based firm, Brotherton. Jordan is a principal on the Debt & Equity Finance desk at Mission Capital.

Jordan Ray is the Principal of The Debt & Equity Finance Group at Mission, which he founded in 2009. Jordan has been honored with such industry awards as the 2016 Real Estate Finance and Investment Magazine – Mortgage Broker of the Year Award, the 2013 and 2012 Observer Top 20 under 35 and the 2017 NYU Schack Institute Financing Deal of the Year. Jordan sits on the board and co founded EquityMultiple – an online marketplace real estate finance company – in 2015. Jordan is also actively involved in UK/European real estate financing.

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Mission Brotherton is an alliance between Mission Capital and Brotherton Real Estate. Combining Mission’s institutional reach with Brotherton’s deep knowledge of the UK and European markets, allows us to provide real estate capital solutions to our clients, globally.