- An aerial perspective of the procured website at 203-215 Northeast 3rd Road in Fort Lauderdale with Countrywide Realty Investment Advisors CEO Rey Grabato (LinkedIn, Google Maps)
Embattled Countrywide Realty Financial commitment Advisors scooped up a enhancement internet site in Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village.
The Secaucus, New Jersey-primarily based developer compensated $9.3 million for .7 acres at 203-215 Northeast 3rd Road, according to resources familiar with the deal. The promoting entity, led by Jeff Smith of Fort Lauderdale, had amassed the assemblage for a merged $1.2 million in two promotions in 2012 and 2017, information display.
NRIA also owns the enhancement web site right throughout the street. Approximately a yr ago, NRIA paid $9.8 million for the .7 acres at 200-210 Northeast 3rd Road. The vendor of that assemblage also was an entity led by Smith.
Jaime Sturgis and Dan Ross of Native Realty represented the vendor in both bargains. Greg Greer of CRR of South Florida represented the buyer in both of those discounts.
The preliminary system is for a pair of 43-tale, 388-unit “sister towers” on each individual of the internet sites, Greer claimed.
NRIA’s wager on booming Flagler Village comes as the company and its CEO, Rey Grabato, are embroiled in legal woes. In Oct, prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging Grabato in relationship to an alleged plan to fleece $650 million from buyers in an NRIA fund in a Ponzi-like ploy, in accordance to court documents. The prison prices arrived at about the very same time the Securities and Exchange Fee filed a complaint towards Grabato, NRIA and 3 other firm executives, also alleging a Ponzi-like plan. This thirty day period, a choose granted a continue to be in the civil SEC case, while the federal case continues.
An lawyer for NRIA in the SEC situation declined comment. Grabato and his attorney in the prison scenario didn’t promptly respond to a request for remark.
Grabato reportedly has stepped down as NRIA’s CEO, though his LinkedIn nevertheless lists him as primary the business. He reportedly remains at massive.
In June, NRIA filed for Chapter 11 individual bankruptcy reorganization.
Launched in 2006, NRIA had $1.3 billion of belongings below administration as of 2020 in Florida, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Grabato’s LinkedIn demonstrates.
Its other South Florida initiatives include the 19-unit Ocean Delray condominium at 1901 South Ocean Boulevard. Past year, NRIA and its partner on the undertaking, U.S. Construction, completed the creating, which experienced a sellout of approximately $126 million.
Grabato has experienced a existence in South Florida considering that at minimum 2017, when an affiliated entity paid $6.5 million for an oceanfront teardown in Delray Beach. Grabato bought the new spec dwelling he constructed on the web-site, at 707 North Ocean Boulevard, for $16 million in 2020.
Flagler Village has caught the eyes of builders, whose ideas assure to rework the district into a booming residential and industrial hub.
Previous 12 months, Aimco assembled a 9-acre advancement internet site in three offers totaling $100 million. The house enables for up to 1,500 models, much more than 300 resort keys, and in excess of 100,000 sq. toes of retail for a merged 3 million sq. toes, according to an August submitting by Aimco to the SEC. Aimco strategies to acquire the project by means of joint enterprise financing.
