Winter & Company has structured a $104,000,000 loan package to complete the development of a 497,000 SF shopping center in Mesa, Arizona.

The loan package has several components including senior, subordinate and mezzanine financing, as well as an 18-month forward commitment for a 10-year, fixed-rate loan to take out the senior construction financing. In addition, Winter & Company was able to arrange for the Borrower to rate-lock the permanent loan several weeks prior to closing the development package - just before the recent run-up in interest rates.

Henry Berliss, Executive Vice President, and Gerald Drogin, Director of Winter & Company, arranged the loan package with the Phoenix office of a major commercial bank. Berliss and Drogin had previously arranged a $34,000,000 development loan for a Chandler, Arizona shopping center for the borrowers, an active Scottsdale-based retail development firm.

This 497,000 SF center is shadow-anchored by a Super WalMart. Major tenants include Kohl’s, Best Buy, Bed Bath & Beyond, Staples, Ross Dresses For Less, PetsMart, Babies R Us, LA Fitness, and Dickenson Theatres.

Winter & Company specializes in providing advisory services as well as both institutional and private mortgages to commercial real estate owners and professionals nationwide. Its affiliate, W Financial is a direct private bridge and mezzanine lender providing short-term, special situation financing to developers, owners and investors.