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PORTLAND, MAINE — A partnership between Confluent Senior Living and Harbor Retirement Associates has broken ground on HarborChase of South Portland, a 123-unit seniors housing community in Portland. Located at 165 Running Hill Road, the 116,000-square-foot community will offer 83 assisted living units and 40 memory care apartments in one- and two-bedroom floorplans. Amenities will include multiple restaurants, a barbershop and a fitness center. EGA Architects is designing the project, and Whiting-Turner is the general contractor. The community is slated to open in summer 2021.

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PATCHOGUE, N.Y. — Renaissance Management, a New York-based investment firm, has acquired La Bonne Vie, a 915-apartment community on Long Island for $232.5 million. The property features 626 market-rate apartments and 289 age-restricted (55-plus) apartments and amenities such as indoor and outdoor pools, a gym, libraries and tennis courts. The buildings were completed in the mid-1970s and 1980s and have been preserved in their original conditions. Jeffrey Dunne, Jeremy Neuer and Gene Pride led a CBRE team that represented the building owners, an undisclosed consortium of partnerships, in the transaction. Shawn Rosenthal, Jason Gaccione and Thomas Didio of the Midtown Manhattan Debt & Structure Finance group arranged the financing for Renaissance Management’s acquisition and future planned renovations of La Bonne Vie. The team secured a $200.7 million senior loan from TPG Real Estate Finance. The three-year loan includes the option for three one-year extensions.

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CEDAR PARK, TEXAS — Locally based developer RedLeaf Properties has entered into a public-private partnership with the City of Cedar Park, located north of Austin, to redevelop an area along Bell Boulevard into a mixed-use destination. The project, which will be branded The Bell District, is expected to have a total price tag of $350 million. The first phase of development is expected to include multiple acres of communal green space integrated with the new public library and restaurants, as well as two blocks of high-density residential buildings with ground-floor retail space. The second phase will feature residential and office development. RedLeaf plans to begin demolishing the existing structures on the site following the completion of the realignment of a section of U.S. Highway 183, a project that is expected to run through 2021.

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HOUSTON —A joint venture between Dallas-based Trammell Crow Co. and New York-based Clarion Partners has begun construction on Rankin 45 Distribution Center, a 352,000-square-foot industrial project in Houston. Designed by Powers Brown Architecture, the Class A property will be located at the northeast corner of Rankin Road and Interstate 45 on the city’s north side. Building features will include 32-foot clear heights, 259 parking spaces and 23 trailer parking spaces. Other project partners include A&F General Contractors and CBRE as the leasing agency. Completion of Rankin 45 Distribution Center is scheduled for August.

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JENKS, OKLA. — Simon Property Group Inc. has broken ground on Tulsa Premium Outlets, a 340,000-square-foot, open-air retail and dining destination. The property is located just off the Creek Turnpike in Jenks, a southern suburb of Tulsa, and will be Simon’s 91st Premium Outlets development. Construction of the property is expected to generate 400 jobs, and the opening of the center is anticipated to create 800 new full- and part-time jobs. A completion date was not released.

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CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. — Keystone Property Group has topped out its 520,000-square-foot SORA West mixed-use development in Conshohocken, a northwestern suburb on Philadelphia. The development will include a 13-story, 429,000-square foot office building, which will house the corporate headquarters of AmerisourceBergen. The office building will also include a fitness center, a 16,000-square-foot rooftop terrace and an 80,000-square-foot parking facility. Other components of the development include a 165-room hotel with restaurant space and a 467,000-square-foot parking structure. The Harman Group is serving as structural engineers of the project. Gensler and The DLR Group are serving as the project architects, and Intech Construction Inc. is the general contractor. Keystone expects to complete construction in 2021.

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EWA, HAWAII — Alaka’i Development, a Hawaii-based developer, has awarded Moss Construction an $82 million contract for The Element, a multifamily community located in Ewa in West Oahu. Designed by KTGY Architects, the 325,000-square-foot project will include 13 three-story residential buildings, offering a total of 318 units. Amenities will include a clubhouse with leasing and maintenance offices, a swimming pool and two-story fitness center. The Element will also have affordable housing options and easy access to the new Honolulu Authority Rapid Transportation (HART) station at the University of Hawaii West Oahu, which will allow residents to commute via rail to downtown Honolulu. The project is scheduled to begin leading in fall 2010 with completion in 2021. The Element is one of the first two rental apartment projects planned for D.R. Horton’s 11,750-home master-planned community called Ho’opili, which is located on 1,550 acres in Ewa.

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PHOENIX — ViaWest Group has broken ground on Superior Logistics Center, which will occupy a 9.2-acre land site at the northwest corner of Superior Avenue and 44th Street just south of Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. Superior Logistics Center will consist of two mid-bay industrial buildings: 71,500 square feet and 79,200 square feet, with divisibility down to 15,000 square feet. The development team includes Alliance Bank of Arizona, Deutsche Architecture Group, Kimley-Horn and Nitti Builders. John Werstler and Cooper Fratt of CBRE’s Phoenix office are handling the leasing of the project.

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CHICAGO — Skender has completed interior construction of the 23,000-square-foot headquarters for Paragon Biosciences LLC in Chicago. The life science innovator, which invests in, builds and advises bioscience companies, has relocated to the 35th floor of 330 N. Wabash from its current office in Northbrook. Components of the new office include open office workstation areas, private offices, conference rooms, two reception areas, a warming pantry and large café. Skender collaborated with Gensler and CBRE to complete the project.

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MIAMI — Locally based investment and development firm The Treo Group has broken ground on VOX Miami, a $125 million mixed-use project in South Florida. Treo Group will develop the transit-oriented site, which is located at the corner of U.S. Highway 1 and Sunset Drive, adjacent to the South Miami Metrorail station, in multiple phases. Phase I will feature an eight-story student housing building with 326 beds across 99 units that will serve undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Miami. Amenities will include study lounges, a rooftop terrace, fitness center and a pool. The building is scheduled for completion before the 2021-2022 academic year. The second phase of VOX Miami is a 195,000-square-foot office building. Perkins + Will is designing the Class A property, which will also house ground-floor retail space. A start and completion date for that component has not yet been released. “VOX Miami is designed to fulfill the needs of various community sectors, from University of Miami students to local businesses, while providing convenient accessibility via the Metrorail and bolstering the overall appeal of public transportation,” says Otto Boudet-Murias, Treo Group principal. Treo Group is also developing Regatta Harbour, a 9.5-acre mixed-use project in Miami’s …

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