WAUKEGAN, ILL. — Interra Realty has brokered the $7.8 million sale of Sunset Village, an 84-unit multifamily property in the Chicago suburb of Waukegan. Located at 2205-10 N. Butrick St., the community was built over two phases in 1992 and 2001. There are 79 one-bedroom units and five two-bedroom units. Amenities include a secured entrance, lobby and lounge, fitness space, multiple laundry facilities and onsite parking. Patrick Kennelly, Paul Waterloo and Nathan Zito of Interra represented the confidential seller. Waterloo and Zito represented a private local partnership in its acquisition.
Acquisitions
CHASKA, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $4.3 million sale of Townsquare Apartments in Chaska, an outer-ring suburb of Minneapolis. Located at 220 N. Walnut St. and built in 1989, the multifamily property features 30 units in two- and three-bedroom layouts. Abe Roberts and Michael Jacobs of Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller. Jon Ruzicka, broker of record in Minnesota, assisted in closing the transaction. Nate Schammel of MRG Realty Partners represented the buyer, which completed the sale of a 12-unit apartment building in Minneapolis to exchange into this property.
Centennial Acquires 1.6 MSF Annapolis Mall in Maryland from URW, Plans Mixed-Use Revamp
by John Nelson
ANNAPOLIS, MD. — Dallas-based Centennial, along with capital partners Sandeep Mathrani, Waterfall Asset Management and Lincoln Property Co. (LPC), has acquired Annapolis Mall, a 1.6 million-square-foot shopping mall in Annapolis. The mall sits roughly 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., in the Chesapeake Bay region. The property, which formerly operated as Westfield Annapolis, houses 200 shops and restaurants and is listed as the second-largest mall in the state, trailing only the 1.9 million-square-foot Arundel Mills mall in Hanover. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the seller and former operator, Paris-based mall giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), listed in its first-half 2024 earnings results that the company sold Annapolis Mall for $160 million. URW also reported it had received a nonrefundable deposit of $10 million as part of the disposition. According to Steven Levin, founder and CEO of Centennial, there are no other enclosed shopping centers located within a 25-minute drive of Annapolis Mall. “Long term, the property presents a unique opportunity to densify the site with complementary mixed uses that would benefit from retail as the integrated amenity,” says Levin. Annapolis Mall opened in 1980 and over the past few years has lost four anchor tenants — Lord & Taylor, Nordstrom, …
HOUSTON — Edge Realty Partners has negotiated the sale of a 24,000-square-foot retail property located at 5757 Westheimer Road in West Houston. The property is located within the Uptown/Galleria submarket and is home to a mix of national and local tenants. Chace Henke and Micha van Marcke of Edge represented the buyer, Last Mile Investments, in the transaction. Jim Bayne of Investar Real Estate Services represented the undisclosed seller.
HUMBLE, TEXAS — Partners Real Estate has arranged the sale of an 11,475-square-foot industrial building in the northern Houston suburb of Humble. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 304-306 Wilson Road was constructed in 2016 and features a clear height of 16 feet. Darren O’Conor of Partners represented the buyer, an entity doing business as 304 Wilson LLC, in the transaction. Wyatt Huff and Hunter Stockard, also with Partners, represented the seller, Chosen Properties LLC.
MIDDLETOWN, PA. — Atlanta-based investment firm MDH Partners has purchased a 305,870-square-foot industrial building in Middletown, located on the southeastern outskirts of Harrisburg, for $45.5 million. The building features a clear height of 36 feet, 50 dock doors and an ESFR sprinkler system. The building is leased to an undisclosed provider of e-commerce services. John Plower, John Huguenard, Ryan Cottone, Zach Maguire, Paul Torosian and Jeff Lockard of JLL represented the seller, Core5 Industrial Partners, which is also based in Atlanta, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between locally based investment firm Alchemy Ventures and S & A Capital Group, which is a Hong Kong-based family office, has purchased a seven-unit apartment building in Manhattan for $12.5 million. The five-story building at 251 Church St. is located in the Tribeca neighborhood and consists of six four-bedroom units and one two-bedroom unit, as well as two ground-floor restaurant spaces. Maurice Suede, Eric Roth and Brett Seigel of Newmark represented the partnership and the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
AUSTELL, GA. — Hendon Properties has acquired East West Shops, an 85,565-square-foot shopping center located in Austell, a northwest suburb of Atlanta in Cobb County. Concorde Group Holdings sold the property for $15.2 million. OneLife Fitness, Starbucks Coffee and Urgent Team anchor the center, which was 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. Brad Peterson, Scott Israel and Tommy Isola of Colliers brokered the sale on behalf of Concorde Group.
Easterly Government Properties Purchases 193,100 SF VA Healthcare Facility in Jacksonville
by John Nelson
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Easterly Government Properties Inc., a publicly traded REIT focused on the acquisition, development and management of commercial properties leased to the U.S. government, has acquired a 193,100-square-foot outpatient facility in Jacksonville leased to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The property is the final asset to be acquired in Easterly’s previously announced portfolio of 10 properties that are fully leased to the VA under predominately 20-year firm term leases. The sales price was not disclosed. The Jacksonville VA clinic was delivered last November and replaced two smaller regional VA facilities. In addition to primary and specialty healthcare services, the facility also features a domiciliary that provides housing to veterans who are otherwise homeless, require substance abuse treatment or need additional full-time care. Easterly currently owns, directly or through a joint venture, 94 properties totaling 9.2 million square feet.
CHICAGO — Greenstone Partners has brokered the $7.1 million sale of a 24-unit apartment building in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood. The property, located at 2247-49 W. Lawrence Ave., also features 1,950 square feet of ground-floor live-work space along with a rooftop deck. Jordan Multack of Greenstone represented the buyer, Breneman Capital, and the undisclosed seller.