WINSTON SALEM, NC—The Annex at Brookstown, LLC has obtained a $4.6-million construction and permanent loan for its proposed conference center at the Brookstown Inn project here. First American Realty Associates secured the financing for the owner. The loan was arranged through a Southeastern regional bank with an SBA 504 component that was provided through the Neus River Development Authority, Inc. of New Bern, NC. The new conferene center will be owned by the same principals who own the adjacent Brookstown Inn, which First American also helped originally finance. Southeastern Hospitality will operate the new facility.