OKLAHOMA CITY — Developer HarborChase has completed HarborChase of South Oklahoma City, an upscale seniors housing community. The property offers assisted living and memory care services, as well as respite stays. Amenities include a full-service bistro, exhibition kitchen, bar and cocktail lounge, fitness and wellness center and a fine dining restaurant. Residents have already begun moving into the building.
CROSBY, MINN. — Kraus-Anderson Construction has completed a $17 million expansion of Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby in central Minnesota. The facility serves approximately 30,000 people in the Brainerd Lakes area. Designed by HDR Architects, the 52,376-square-foot project features a new outpatient Orthopaedics, Spine & Interventional Pain Clinic as well as a rehabilitation department. To make room for the new clinic, Kraus-Anderson consolidated underutilized areas of the care center and relocated the cancer care center. In addition, Kraus-Anderson added a new dining room, patio and activities center. Nurse stations, resident rooms and offices were remodeled.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) has opened a 500,000-square-foot expansion of Westfield Valley Fair, the French developer’s $1.1 billion retail destination in San Jose. The retail center is part of a redevelopment project that replaced two 1950s-era shopping centers. The project now encompasses 2.2 million square feet in total, with more restaurant and store openings planned for 2021. A three-level flagship Bloomingdale’s luxury apparel department store anchors the new expansion, alongside other apparel retailers including Anthropologie, Club Monaco, Fabletics, Indochino, Jimmy Choo, John Varvatos, Longchamp, Rodd and Gunn, Urban Outfitters, UNTUCKit and Zadig & Voltaire. “We envisioned Westfield Valley Fair as a place where prestigious luxury brands, digitally native start-up retailers, and best-in-class dining and entertainment all come together to create a true lifestyle destination and the perfect place to shop, dine and play,” says Larry Green, executive vice president of development at URW. The developer recently partnered with the San José Museum of Art to curate and commission artwork for the property, starting with an outdoor sculpture at the new grand entrance on Stevens Creek Boulevard, which will be unveiled this fall. Entertainment offerings include the recently opened ShowPlace ICON Theatre and the soon-to-open PLAYlive Nation social gaming lounge. Future additions to the retail center this year and into …
PROSPECT, KY. — Civitas Senior Living has opened the doors at The Grand Senior Living in Prospect, a suburb of Louisville. The property totals 191,832 square feet near Norton Commons, a massive mixed-use development with restaurants, retail services, annual festivals and single-family homes. The development was completed approximately 10 years ago on 600 acres of vacant farmland. The Grand features 91 independent living, 62 personal care and 24 memory care residences. Guttman Properties, based in nearby Cincinnati, developed The Grand, which Civitas is operating.
LAKELAND, FLA. — Summit Consulting LLC will develop its planned 135,000-square-foot office headquarters in downtown Lakeland. The company closed on the land sale at 117 Massachusetts Ave. on Tuesday, March 3 and plans to begin construction later this month. Summit expects to deliver the new building in fall 2021. The property backs up to the shore of Lake Mirror. Summit, which was founded in Lakeland in the late 1970s, has approximately 750 employees, nearly 500 of whom will be located in the new facility. The company specializes in providing workers’ compensation insurance coverage in the Southeast.
PLANO, TEXAS — Cawley Partners and Rosewood Property Co. will develop a 1 million-square-foot office project at Heritage Creekside, a 156-acre mixed-use development in Plano. The four-building project will be developed in phases and will include a central courtyard and an amenity hub. Phase I will feature a six-story, 250,000-square-foot building with a fitness center, conference center and a rooftop deck. The development team hopes to begin construction by the first quarter of 2021.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Locally based general contractor KWA Construction has topped out The Cooper, a 390-unit apartment project located in Fort Worth’s Medical District. Designed by architecture firm GFF and developed by Dallas-based Lang Partners, The Cooper will feature studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units, as well as townhomes. Amenities will include a pool, fitness center with a yoga studio, outdoor grilling area, media center, clubhouse, business center and a coffee bar. Completion is slated for this fall.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — Houston-based development and management firm Allied Orion Group has begun leasing Riverhaus Creekside, a 281-unit apartment community in the San Antonio suburb of New Braunfels. Floor plans feature one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging in size from 722 to 1,440 square feet. Riverhaus Creekside offers amenities such as a pool, fitness center, dog park and a resident clubhouse with a cyber lounge. Move-ins are expected to begin later this month.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS — JK & JY Development LLC has broken ground on The View Condominiums, a 268-unit residential project in the northern Dallas suburb of Carrollton that will also include 31,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Designed by locally based firm Humphreys & Partners Architects, the property will offer amenities such as a pool, social lounge, fitness center, game room, business center and a fully equipped kitchen and bar. Construction is expected to be complete by early 2022.
CHICAGO — Lendlease Development, along with co-developer The John Buck Co. and partner Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., have begun pre-leasing at Porte, a two-tower apartment development in Chicago’s West Loop. Designed by G|R|E|C Architects, the community is scheduled to welcome its first residents in late spring. Porte offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging in size from 546 to 1,591 square feet. Monthly rents start at $2,170. Two-bedroom townhomes measure 1,469 to 2,036 square feet with monthly rents starting at $7,240. Each tower will have its own ground-floor lobby and amenity suite, including a fitness center, entertainment lounge, game room, communal kitchen, coworking space and dog run. The towers will be connected by a two-story podium topped with a pool deck. The word “porte” means door in French. “Porte is designed to serve as a door to all the West Loop has to offer,” says John Buck.