AUBURN, ALA. — SiO2 Materials Science will invest $163 million to expand its Auburn plant that will produce vials and syringes to aid a potential COVID-19 vaccine. Construction is underway on the 70,000-square-foot project, which is located at 2425 Innovation Drive, less than one mile from SiO2’s current plant located at 2250 Riley St and seven miles southwest of Auburn University. SiO2 expects to create 220 jobs when the expansion is complete. In June, SiO2 announced a $143 million contract with federal government agencies for a production scale-up of the company’s packaging platform for storing coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics. Auburn-based SiO2 applies a patented glass-like coating to plastic surfaces.
ATLANTA — Alliance Residential will develop Broadstone Upper Westside, a 314-unit apartment complex in Atlanta’s Upper Westside neighborhood. The complex will offer studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities will include a community kitchen, clubroom, fitness center, courtyard and a saltwater pool. The Phoenix-based developer closed on the 12-acre site in late June and expects to break ground this year. Alliance plans to open the community in fall 2021. Located at 2167 Bolton Drive NW, the asset is situated seven miles northwest of downtown Atlanta adjacent to the city’s West Midtown district. Dynamik Design is the architect of Broadstone Upper Westside.
IRVING, TEXAS — Sunwest Real Estate Group will redevelop 2901 Kinwest Parkway, a 160,000-square-foot office building in Irving’s Las Colinas district. The project will upgrade the tenant lounge, which will now feature a café, as well as the lobby area, conference center and various exterior spaces. Entos Design is the project architect. Completion is slated for late 2020.
VANCOUVER, WASH. — EJF Capital and Holland Partner Group (HPG) are developing Block 10, a mixed-use property located in downtown Vancouver. Situated on a one-acre opportunity zone, the project will feature 110 apartments, 79,000 gross square feet of office space on top of a podium deck with roughly 10,100 square feet of retail space and 113 parking spaces. Twenty percent of the multifamily units will be set aside as workforce housing. Building amenities, which will be shared between office users and residents, will include a fitness center, co-working space, bike room and amenity deck on the third level. Holland Construction, HGP’s construction division, expects to break ground this month, with completion slated for spring 2022. Bank of the West is providing construction financing for the development.
LAS VEGAS — Brass Cap Development has completed the construction of SanTico, an industrial property located at the intersection of South Rainbow Boulevard and West Sunset Road in southwest Las Vegas. Situated on 2.5 acres, SanTico features 40,000 square feet of mid-bay industrial space that is divisible to two 20,000-square-foot buildings. Each building features two dock-high doors, one grade-level loading door, 24-foot clear heights, an ESFR fire suppression system, 277/480 volt, 800 amp and three-phase, as well as four wire service. LM Construction handled design, planning and construction of the property, which is located at 6825 W. Teco Ave.
WILBERFORCE, OHIO — Central State University has received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior for the conversion of the university’s historic campus power plant into a student career services facility. The grant agreement will fund a portion of the planned $3 million project. The new center will be named the Frank Murphy Student Success Center. The project will provide classrooms, meeting spaces and technology to support academic programs and events. The federal grant is part of $7.7 million in grants given to 18 projects in 12 states for the preservation of historic structures on campuses of historically black colleges and universities. It is administered by the National Park Service. Central State University is located in Wilberforce, which is between Columbus and Cincinnati.
MIAMI — East End Capital has received civic approval to build Foyer Wynwood, a 12-story multifamily project planned for Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. The project marks the debut of the developer’s co-living brand Foyer, which will operate the co-living segment of the 375,000-square-foot development. The property will feature 236 multifamily residences in both micro-unit and co-living floor plans, as well as coworking space. The City of Miami’s Urban Development Review Board recently approved Foyer Wynwood, which will front North Miami Avenue from 24th and 25th streets. The development will be situated near attractions in Wynwood such as Veza Sur Brewery, The Wynwood Arcade, Oasis, The Salty and the planned Arlo Hotel. Designed by Kobi Karp Architecture & Design, Foyer Wynwood’s community amenities will include a gym, juice and coffee bar, pool deck, chef-kitchen and entertainment space, art studio areas and rooms for recording podcasts and green-screen filming. Monthly rents for co-living bedrooms at the project — which include the furnishings, electricity, common area cleaning and WiFi — are expected to start around $1,500 per month. East End Capital expects to break ground in early 2021.
ATLANTA — Brookfield Properties Retail Group has submitted initial plans for the redevelopment of the eastern portion of Cumberland Mall, a 1 million-square-foot regional mall in northern Atlanta’s Cumberland-Galleria submarket. Cobb County submitted the proposal on behalf of the Chicago-based developer to the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) to review as a Development of Regional Impact (DRI), which is a distinction for projects that have outsized impact on civic functions such as schools and traffic. Brookfield hopes to reshape the mall into a town center with 445,000 square feet of office space, 312 multifamily residences, 31,200 square feet of retail and restaurant space and 10 bus bays. Additionally, What Now Atlanta reported that Cobb County recently issued permits for a new Round 1 Bowling & Amusement attraction to begin construction for a new 80,000-square-foot venue at the former Sears, which closed in 2018. The initial action that Brookfield is proposing for Cumberland Mall is for the 14-acre site at 2940 Cobb Parkway to be rezoned as mixed-use. According to the filing with the GRTA, the developer hopes to complete the phased redevelopment in 2025. The Cumberland-Galleria submarket has been transformed in the past four years with the addition of the …
POOLER, GA. — McShane Construction Co. has delivered Parc at Pooler, a 280-unit apartment community located at 2200 Old Quacco Road in the Savannah suburb of Pooler. The property is situated on 21 acres and features 19,000 square feet of amenities, including a pool, sundeck, outdoor kitchen, car care center and a dog park. Indoor amenities include a clubhouse with a fitness center, coffee bar, café and a resident’s lounge. Units include granite countertops, sunrooms or balconies, stainless steel appliances, wood cabinetry and wood-finished flooring. The design team includes developer Equity Resources LLC and architect Dynamik Design. McShane also handled the site work for the project, including eight standalone garages, landscape and parking lots.
CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, COLO. — MIG Real Estate has acquired a one-acre development site in Denver for construction of The Clarkson, a 114-unit multifamily community located in Cherry Hills Village, a suburb of Denver. A private seller sold the site for $3.4 million. Slated to break ground in 2021, The Clarkson will feature 23 studios, eight junior one-bedroom, 56 one-bedroom and 27 two-bedroom layouts. The property’s 2,600 square feet of amenities will include a roof deck, courtyard with swimming pool, club room and gym. Additionally, the community will offer 160 parking spaces. The project team includes MIG Real Estate as developer, TCA Architects as design architect and Kimley-Horn Associates as civil engineering and landscape architect. Occupancy is scheduled for 2023. The transaction is the first acquisition for MIG’s Qualified Opportunity Zone Business Fund, which recently raised more than $100 million in equity to invest in Opportunity Zone development sites throughout the Western United States.