The Steele Creek apartment building in Cherry Creek sold for $142 million. (ARA Newmark)
A deal for a 2-year-old apartment building in Cherry Creek is one for the record books.
BMC Investments CEO Matt Joblon said Monday he sold his firm’s tony Steele Creek apartment building for $141.5 million to local real estate fund UDR, which now lists the property on its website.
The 218-unit Steele Creek at 3222 E. First Ave. traded hands for about $570,000 per unit (not including $1,000 per square foot for the 17,200-square-foot retail space).
That tops Golden Triangle tower 1000 Speer (formerly Joule), which sold in 2016 for $525,000 per unit.
UDR, which declined to comment, provided $90 million of financing when the project was being built, and also lists 17-story Acoma at 816 Acoma St. on its website.
BMC CEO Matt Joblon said Steele Creek was his company’s first development, and the first one it is selling.
“It’s one of those once-in-a-career things,” he said, calling it “a five-year journey.”
Notable recent apartment sales
- Steele Creek – $570,000 per unit*
- 1000 Speer (formerly Joule) – $535,714 per unit
- Uptown Square – $467,706 per unit
- Kent Place – $424,667 per unit
- Moto – $395,000 per unit
- Line 28 – $359,000 per unit
*Not including retail space at $1,000 per square foot
BMC has gone to develop other major properties in Cherry Creek, including the Halcyon and Moxy hotels and pending mixed-use building St. Paul’s Collection.
ARA Newmark brokers Terrance Hunt, Shane Ozment, Jeff Hawks, Doug Andrews and Chris Cowan represented BMC in the Steele Creek deal.
The development’s website lists one-bedroom units starting at $2,095 per month. UDR is promoting two weeks of free rent with a lease.
Amenities include 24-hour concierge, a rooftop deck outfitted with an infinity pool, and a resident clubroom with billiards and a virtual golf simulator, according to ARA Newmark.
Joblon said the building has about 450,000 square feet between residential and retail space and parking. He said the property maintained occupancy rates around 90 percent.
Just less than half the 17,200 square feet of commercial space is occupied by restaurant Matsuhisa. AT&T and salon Drybar also have a presence in the building. Joblon said one remaining commercial space is unoccupied, but that he believed a lease has been signed.
BMC purchased the 1-acre lot at the corner of East First Avenue and Steele Street for about $16 million in September 2012.
Joblon said the site previously housed a dry cleaner, a small parking garage and three office buildings.
BMC broke ground on Steele Creek in October 2013 with Centennial-based Haselden Construction as the general contractor. The first residents moved in April 2015.
Joblon said the plan was always to take a look at the market two years after residents moved in.
The Steele Creek apartment building in Cherry Creek sold for $142 million. (ARA Newmark)
A deal for a 2-year-old apartment building in Cherry Creek is one for the record books.
BMC Investments CEO Matt Joblon said Monday he sold his firm’s tony Steele Creek apartment building for $141.5 million to local real estate fund UDR, which now lists the property on its website.
The 218-unit Steele Creek at 3222 E. First Ave. traded hands for about $570,000 per unit (not including $1,000 per square foot for the 17,200-square-foot retail space).
That tops Golden Triangle tower 1000 Speer (formerly Joule), which sold in 2016 for $525,000 per unit.
UDR, which declined to comment, provided $90 million of financing when the project was being built, and also lists 17-story Acoma at 816 Acoma St. on its website.
BMC CEO Matt Joblon said Steele Creek was his company’s first development, and the first one it is selling.
“It’s one of those once-in-a-career things,” he said, calling it “a five-year journey.”
Notable recent apartment sales
- Steele Creek – $570,000 per unit*
- 1000 Speer (formerly Joule) – $535,714 per unit
- Uptown Square – $467,706 per unit
- Kent Place – $424,667 per unit
- Moto – $395,000 per unit
- Line 28 – $359,000 per unit
*Not including retail space at $1,000 per square foot
BMC has gone to develop other major properties in Cherry Creek, including the Halcyon and Moxy hotels and pending mixed-use building St. Paul’s Collection.
ARA Newmark brokers Terrance Hunt, Shane Ozment, Jeff Hawks, Doug Andrews and Chris Cowan represented BMC in the Steele Creek deal.
The development’s website lists one-bedroom units starting at $2,095 per month. UDR is promoting two weeks of free rent with a lease.
Amenities include 24-hour concierge, a rooftop deck outfitted with an infinity pool, and a resident clubroom with billiards and a virtual golf simulator, according to ARA Newmark.
Joblon said the building has about 450,000 square feet between residential and retail space and parking. He said the property maintained occupancy rates around 90 percent.
Just less than half the 17,200 square feet of commercial space is occupied by restaurant Matsuhisa. AT&T and salon Drybar also have a presence in the building. Joblon said one remaining commercial space is unoccupied, but that he believed a lease has been signed.
BMC purchased the 1-acre lot at the corner of East First Avenue and Steele Street for about $16 million in September 2012.
Joblon said the site previously housed a dry cleaner, a small parking garage and three office buildings.
BMC broke ground on Steele Creek in October 2013 with Centennial-based Haselden Construction as the general contractor. The first residents moved in April 2015.
Joblon said the plan was always to take a look at the market two years after residents moved in.
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