HORSHAM, Pa., Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE: TOL) (www.TollBrothers.com), the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, through its Toll Brothers Apartment Living® rental subsidiary, and JD Capital USA have announced the formation of a new joint venture to develop Motto, a 290-unit luxury apartment community in Decatur, the well-known suburb of Atlanta. The joint venture has secured a $45.7 million construction loan from Santander Bank, N.A. The debt and equity financing were arranged by Toll Brothers’ in-house Finance Department. Toll Brothers Apartment Living will manage the development, management, and marketing of Motto.
The community is a 5- and 6-story building with a structured parking garage situated on a 3.2-acre site. Motto is part of a larger mixed-use site that will be anchored by a Publix grocery store and additional service-oriented businesses. Motto will offer 290 apartment homes with floor plan styles including studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments. Amenity features will include a resort-style pool, luxurious clubroom and coffee bar, state-of-the-art fitness center, community-wide WiFi, courtyards, pet spa, bicycle storage, and more. Residents will enjoy a mix of urban walkability and suburban lifestyle while being located nearby top-rated restaurants, bars, entertainment, and shopping.
Motto, located on East Ponce De Leon Avenue, is within a five-minute walk to the Avondale MARTA station that offers easy rail access to Buckhead, Downtown Decatur and Downtown Atlanta. Decatur is nearby major healthcare and university employers, including Emory University and Emory Healthcare, The Centers for Disease Control, Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Children’s Hospital of Atlanta. Atlanta’s easily accessible Midtown and Downtown neighborhoods offer numerous additional employment opportunities, including Fortune 500 companies such as Delta Air Lines, The Home Depot, UPS, and the Coca-Cola Company.
Charles Elliott, President of Toll Brothers Apartment Living, said, “Motto is the third community and newest project Toll Brothers Apartment Living has started in the Atlanta market. We’re excited to grow in this market as we see a significant amount of employer and population growth. Our community will be a great addition to the Decatur neighborhood, offering an elevated suburban living experience with the conveniences of urban living.”
Fred Cooper, Toll Brothers’ Senior Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations, said, “We are thrilled to be teaming up again with JD Capital and Santander Bank to develop another unique project in the vibrant Atlanta market. We have a pipeline of future communities in an around Atlanta, a market that continues to attract renters and home buyers as well as investment due to its quality of life and dynamic economy.”
Patrick Chen, CEO of JD Capital USA, said, “Located in Decatur, one of the top-rated places to live in Georgia and the nation, Motto offers the unique combination of a suburban lifestyle and easy access to major employment centers as well as downtown Atlanta. Given its proximity to various leading healthcare and medical research facilities, we’re confident in the continuing growth momentum of the Decatur neighborhood. We are also honored to once again partner with Toll Brothers and Santander Bank.”
Please visit TollBrothersApartmentLiving.com for future updates and information regarding the community.
ABOUT TOLL BROTHERS
Toll Brothers, Inc., A FORTUNE 500 Company, is the nation's leading builder of luxury homes. The Company began business over fifty years ago in 1967 and became a public company in 1986. Its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “TOL.” The Company serves first-time, move-up, empty-nester, active-adult, affordable luxury and second-home buyers, as well as urban and suburban renters. It operates in 24 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as in the District of Columbia.
Toll Brothers builds an array of luxury residential single-family detached, attached home, master planned resort-style golf, and urban low-, mid-, and high-rise communities, principally on land it develops and improves. The Company acquires and develops rental apartment and commercial properties through Toll Brothers Apartment Living, Toll Brothers Campus Living, and the affiliated Toll Brothers Realty Trust, and develops urban low-, mid-, and high-rise for-sale condominiums through Toll Brothers City Living. The Company operates its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, land development and land sale, golf course development and management, and landscape subsidiaries. Toll Brothers operates its own alarm monitoring company through TBI Smart Home Solutions, a complete home technology division. In addition to providing security monitoring, TBI Smart Home Solutions offers homeowners a full range of low voltage options, allowing buyers to maximize the potential of technology in their new home. The Company also operates its own lumber distribution, house component assembly, and manufacturing operations. Through its Gibraltar Real Estate Capital joint venture, the Company provides builders and developers with land banking, non-recourse debt and equity capital.
In 2020, Toll Brothers was named World’s Most Admired Home Building Company in Fortune magazine’s survey of the World’s Most Admired Companies®, the sixth year in a row it has been so honored. Toll Brothers has won numerous other awards, including Builder of the Year from both Professional Builder magazine and Builder magazine, the first two-time recipient from Builder magazine. The Company sponsors the Toll Brothers Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, bringing opera to neighborhoods throughout the world. For more information visit www.TollBrothers.com.
ABOUT TOLL BROTHERS APARTMENT LIVING®
Toll Brothers Apartment Living is the apartment development division of Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE: TOL). Toll Brothers Apartment Living is bringing the same quality, value, and service familiar to luxury home buyers throughout the country to upscale rental communities in select markets, including Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, DC. Toll Brothers Apartment Living was ranked 11th largest apartment developer in the U.S. in 2020 by the National Multi-Family Housing Council. The firm has developed more than 6,200 units, has more 4,000 units under management and controls a national pipeline of more than 16,700 units. Toll Brothers Apartment Living communities combine the energy of vibrant locations with unparalleled amenities, resident services, design, and the expertise of the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes. For more information visit TollBrothersApartmentLiving.com
ABOUT JD CAPITAL USA
Founded in 2014, JD Capital USA is a privately held investment manager, with origin in Asia. JD primarily focuses on investments in rental apartment development across major metropolitan areas in the US, including New York City, Washington DC, Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Francisco. The firm’s total investment consists of over 2,000 apartment/hotel units and over 2.0 million square feet of apartment and retail space.
