The lender, Prime Finance, "didn't waiver once until we got to the finish line," says JLL's Maxx Carney.

There has been considerable interest in the fund's projects with the flow of traffic actually increasing, says co-founder Edmond Rakipi.

Self-storage facilities are starting to see a slowdown in development, according to C&W's Mike Mele.

"The closing took place in the midst of the current unrest in the financial markets and both Taurus and Prime worked diligently through those challenges to get the transaction closed."

Many cruise lines have entire buildings for their growing office operations under construction, according to JLL.

Brian Grassa, Cedarwood's director of development, says the company has a similar project under construction in Clearwater.

The biggest obstacle people have is getting their lender comfortable, says John Bell of Transwestern.

The deal closed as the coronavirus swept the US, forcing participants to do workarounds.