Acquisitions

MELROSE PARK, ILL. — NewMark Merrill Cos. Inc. has sold a 90,000-square-foot building at Winston Plaza, a 400,000-square-foot shopping center in the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park. Cermak Fresh Market acquired the building for an undisclosed price and plans to open a new grocery store by the end of this year. Sandy Sigal and Brad Pearl represented NewMark Merrill on an internal basis alongside Joe Parrott and Sean McCourt of CBRE. Dino Geroulis and John Roberson of Axis Realty represented Cermak. Kostas Kavayiotidis of Pacific Southwest Realty structured financing. Anchor tenants at Winston Plaza include Best Buy, Ross Dress for Less, Marshalls, Dollar Tree, Five Below and Office Max.

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CHICAGO — Interra Realty has brokered the sale of a 30-unit multifamily property in the Buena Park section of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood for $4.7 million. Built in 1912, the property is located at 755 W. Buena Ave. In addition to five studios, 24 one-bedroom units and one two-bedroom units, the building features onsite laundry facilities and bike storage. Joe Smazal of Interra represented the seller, a local private owner and operator that made select updates to the property. Smazal also represented the local private buyer.

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DES PLAINES, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of Bainbridge Plaza in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines for $2.1 million. The 15,042-square-foot retail center is located at 611 W. Golf Road and is fully leased. Anchor tenants include Domino’s Pizza and Suburban Family Dental, which has operated at the property for over 30 years. Mitchell Kiven of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a local private investor. Craig Fuller, Erin Patton and Scott Wiles of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, an Ohio-based limited liability company.

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BOULDER, COLO. — BioMed Realty, a San Diego-based owner-operator of healthcare real estate and a Blackstone portfolio company, has acquired Flatiron Park, a 1 million-square-foot office and life sciences campus in Boulder, a northwestern suburb of Denver. The sales price was not disclosed, but The Wall Street Journal reports that BioMed Realty paid more than $600 million for the property. JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between Crescent Real Estate, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Lionstone Investments, in the transaction. BioMed Realty plans to invest about $200 million in capital improvements to the campus, an endeavor that is expected to create about 400 local construction jobs. Flatiron Park consists of 22 buildings that were approximately 90 percent leased at the time of sale. The buildings range in size from approximately 15,000 to 133,000 square feet. BioMed officials say that the campus will “anchor” its presence in the greater Denver area, which the company says has an exceptionally talented workforce “Boulder has always been a market to watch, driven by highly educated talent, robust capital flow, an existing base of life sciences and tech pioneers and great quality of life,” says Mike Ruhl, vice president of leasing at BioMed Realty. …

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Kewaunee Scientific Corp.

STATESVILLE, N.C. — CBRE has brokered the sale-leaseback of a 416,300-square-foot manufacturing facility in Statesville. Nevada-based CAI Investments purchased the property for $30.3 million. Patrick Gildea, Trey Barry, Matt Smith, Grayson Hawkins and John Christenbury of CBRE represented the seller and tenant, Kewaunee Scientific Corp., in the sale-leaseback transaction. Kewaunee Scientific Corp. is a designer and manufacturer of laboratory, healthcare and technical furniture products. The Statesville building serves as Kewaunee Scientific’s primary manufacturing facility. Situated on 21.3 acres at 2700 W. Front St., the property is located within three miles of the Interstates 40 and 77 and about 41.6 miles north of Charlotte.

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MCLEANSVILLE, N.C. — CN Investors LLC, an affiliate of Raleigh-based APG Capital, has purchased a 176,778-square-foot office building in McLeansville. The Class A property sold for $17 million. Patrick Gildea of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller. Daniel Walser and James Anthony III at APG were responsible for sourcing the deal and closing the acquisition. Originally built in 2004 to house Citibank, the three-story office building is situated on 21 acres. Today, the property’s tenant includes LabCorp, a Burlington, N.C.-based lab test provider. Located at 5450 Millstream Road, the property is situated 36.2 miles from Winston-Salem and 45 miles from Durham.

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PIEDMONT, S.C. — Atlanta-based MDH Partners has acquired 301 Grove Reserve, a 158,886-square-foot industrial building in Piedmont, about 12.5 miles from Greenville. Joe DeHaven served as the acquisition lead for MDH Partners. Clay Williams and Grice Hunt of NAI Global represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The sales price was also not disclosed. Built in 2021, 301 Grove Reserve is fully leased to an undisclosed pharmaceutical company that uses the facility to distribute cosmetic and pharmaceutical goods across the country. Situated in the Upstate’s I-85 West submarket, 301 Grove Reserve is located off Grove Reserve Parkway and is located only 16 miles southwest of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport and 22 miles southwest of Inland Port Greer.

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The American Hotel

ATLANTA — The Radco Cos. has purchased The American Hotel, a 315-room, full-service hotel in downtown Atlanta. Legacy Ventures sold the property for an undisclosed price but will stay on to manage the property. Opened in 1962 as the American Motor Hotel, the property was the first racially integrated hotel in downtown Atlanta. In the past, The American Hotel also hosted meetings of influential civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Ventures completed a $16 million renovation program in 2017, including rebranding the property as The American Hotel, to restore and revitalize the property. The Radco Cos. plans to build on these upgrades and rebrand the asset to Hilton’s new Tapestry Collection brand. Located at 160 Ted Turner Drive NW, The American Hotel is situated 12.1 miles from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The hotel is also directly across the street from the AmericasMart, a wholesale trade show center.

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HOUSTON — Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has sold its 2 million-square-foot former office and industrial campus in Houston. Built between 1984 and 1988, the campus comprises five office buildings, two manufacturing/distribution buildings and four structures that house maintenance and/or amenity space. Amenities include a cafeteria, fitness center, employee lounges, conference rooms, coffee/snack bars and an outdoor covered pavilion with a kitchen area for events. The property also features five parking garages, which along with surface lots total 5,229 spaces. Kevin McConn, Rick Goings, Ronnie Deyo, Beau Bellow and Ethan Goldberg of JLL represented HPE, which recently relocated to CityPlace at Springwoods Village. Boyd Commercial represented the buyer, an affiliate of Florida-based alcoholic beverage wholesaler Mexcor International that owns an adjacent building and will occupy a portion of the campus.

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ADDISON, TEXAS — Colliers has arranged the sale of a 117,173-square-foot office building located at 3939 Belt Line Road in the northern Dallas suburb of Addison. The seven-story building was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Truist Bank and A&O Enterprises. Cody Payne of Colliers brokered the off-market transaction. Both the locally based seller and the buyer, a private investor specializing in multifamily acquisitions, requested anonymity.

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