BENTON, ILL. — Barber Murphy has brokered the sale of a 397,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Benton for an undisclosed price. The property is situated on 39 acres at 451 E. Illinois Ave. Marine Acquisitions Inc. sold the plant to Mincon Rockdrills USA Inc. Barber Murphy represented both parties in the sale.
FOREST LAKE, MINN. — KW Commercial has arranged the sale of A-1 Mini Storage in Forest Lake for $2.7 million. The self-storage facility is located northeast of the Twin Cities metro area. Built in 1997, the 38,450-square-foot property was expanded in 2007 and 2008. It now spans 10 buildings. Tom Flannigan, Alex Ihrke and Corly Wilkerson of KW Commercial represented the undisclosed seller. The buyer has the opportunity to add an onsite office and utilize the 15.5-acre site for additional mini-storage buildings, according to the brokers.
MINNEAPOLIS — Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Cities (BBBS) has purchased an 18,266-square-foot building situated along Washington Avenue in north Minneapolis. The facility will serve as the nonprofit mentoring and youth development organization’s new center of operations. Property renovations are slated for completion in late 2020. Earlier this year, BBBS launched a $5 million capital campaign to fund the purchase and renovation. Jaclyn May, Jeremy Striffler and Paul Donovan of Cushman & Wakefield represented BBBS in its search and acquisition. Gensler will lead design and Greiner will lead construction for the renovation.
ARLINGTON, VA. — Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. (NYSE: PK) has entered into an agreement to acquire Chesapeake Lodging Trust (NYSE: CHSP) in a stock-and-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.7 billion. Both companies are Virginia-based hotel REITs, with Park headquartered in Tysons and Chesapeake headquartered in Arlington, just seven miles apart in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. The deal, which is expected to close during the late third or early fourth quarter of this year, would create a company with an estimated enterprise value of $12 billion. Upon closing, Park stockholders will own roughly 84 percent of the new company, and Chesapeake shareholders will own roughly 16 percent. Park’s current portfolio includes 52 hospitality properties totaling more than 30,000 rooms, mostly located in the U.S. with a handful in South America and the U.K. The company, which spun off from Hilton in 2017, focuses on high-end hotels. Chesapeake’s current portfolio includes 20 properties totaling 6,288 rooms in eight states and Washington, D.C. The company also focuses on “upper-upscale” hotels. Park has secured $1.1 billion in financing from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Proceeds will be used to fund the cash component of the deal, as well as to cover some …
LAUREL, MD. — Sage Management has acquired the 484-unit Modera Westside Apartments in Laurel, according to CBRE, which arranged the sale. Dallas-based developer Mill Creek Residential sold the property for $119 million, or $245,868 per unit. Modera Westside is situated 20 miles northeast of downtown Washington, D.C., and 20 miles southwest of downtown Baltimore. The asset offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, as well as a clubhouse with a coffee bar, business lounge, swimming pool, game room, fireside lounge, pet spa, jogging trail and barbecue grills.
ATLANTA — Americold Realty Trust has acquired Lanier Cold Storage for $82 million. Lanier Cold Storage has two temperature-controlled facilities northeast of Atlanta along Interstate 985. The two facilities total 14 million refrigerated cubic feet and have 51,000 pallet positions. The assets are designed to serve poultry and other products to markets across the country. According to GeorgiaInfo, an online almanac, the poultry industry contributes more than $18.4 billion to the state’s economy each year. Atlanta-based Americold currently has a 3.8 million-cubic-foot facility in Gainesville, one of its 155 temperature-controlled warehouses in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Argentina.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the sale of The Millennium Rainey, a 326-unit multifamily community located at 91 Rainey St. in Austin. Units at the eight-story property, which was built in 2016, feature 10- to 12-foot ceilings, open kitchens and energy-efficient appliances. Amenities include a rooftop pool that overlooks downtown Austin, a fitness center and proximity to a variety of walkable retail and restaurant options. Patton Jones of NKF represented the seller, Houston-based The Dinerstein Cos., in the sale. The buyer was Camden Property Trust, a publicly traded REIT also based in Houston.
HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Hollister Business Park, a 241,427-square-foot industrial development in northwest Houston. The asset, which had a listing price of approximately $9.4 million, offers proximity to Beltway 8 and includes office space. Thomas Costello of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. Other terms of sale were not disclosed.
PLANO, TEXAS —A partnership between Paragon Development and Worldwide Commercial has acquired a 57,000-square-foot office building located at 5501 Independence Parkway in Plano, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. The property includes both traditional office and medical office space. Chris Castillo, Erin Leibfarth and Jerad Rector of Worldwide Commercial represented the buyer in the transaction.
KAPOLEI, HAWAII — Alexander & Baldwin has purchased the ground lease interest in Kapolei Business Park West Lot 31 in Kapolei for $41 million in an off-market transaction. The property is commonly known as the Honolulu Authority of Rapid Transportation (HART) precast yard. The 36.4-acre parcel of I-2 (industrial-zoned) land is licensed to the City and County of Honolulu through 2025. The property is a fabrication facility and storage yard for the precast concrete components of the guideways for the HART rail project. Additional terms of the sale were not released.