CHICAGO — Developer Fifield Cos. will break ground on 740 Aberdeen on Tuesday, July 16. The 11-story, transit-oriented development will offer 188 luxury apartment units in Chicago’s River West neighborhood. The project is scheduled to open in fall 2020. The building will be located less than a block from the CTA Chicago Blue Line station and includes a public park designed by Hitchcock Design Group. Units will range from 540 to 1,513 square feet. Amenities will include a party room, coffee bar, coworking space, fitness center, bike storage, sun terrace, pool and grilling stations. Plans also call for an 80-space parking garage and 2,400 square feet of ground-floor retail space. FitzGerald Associates Architects is the project architect with interiors designed by Morgante Wilson Associates. McHugh Construction is the general contractor.
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COLUMBUS, OHIO — Six new retailers have been confirmed as part of the $500 million expansion of Easton Town Center in Columbus. The retailers include Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce Café & Speakeasy, Arhaus Furniture, Pins Mechanical Co., The Beeline, Forbidden Root Restaurant and Brewery and Crimson Cup Coffee & Tea. At Forty Deuce, the ground floor will include a café serving burgers and desserts while the upstairs will incorporate a hidden speakeasy. The new Arhaus store will span 17,500 square feet. Ohio-based Pins Mechanical has already opened with 30,000 square feet of bowling, foosball, pinball, duckpin bowling and ping pong. The Beeline is a 3,000-square-foot bar with outdoor entertainment space. Forbidden Root’s 12,000-square-foot location will be its first outside of Chicago and is scheduled to open late this month. Crimson is a Columbus-based coffee roaster. The expansion of Easton will encompass 140,000 square feet of new retail and restaurant space, 125,000 square feet of office space and 750 residential units, all set to open in late 2019 and early 2020. Co-developed by The Georgetown Co., L Brands and Steiner + Associates, Easton is a 1,300-acre mixed-use development in northeast Columbus.
PAPILLION, NEB. — Darland Construction Co. is underway on a new Chrysler, Dodge, Ram and Jeep dealership near I-80 and Highway 370 in Papillion, a southwest suburb of Omaha. The project spans more than 59,000 square feet, including a showroom, service center, customer lounge, car wash and storage. The dealership will be one of the first in the area to include a hail protection system. The 135,000-square-foot hail netting is designed to protect inventory from hail, heat and ultraviolet rays. Construction began in April and completion is slated for spring 2020. Carlson West Povandra is the project architect.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Southpace Properties will develop Macaroni Lofts, a mixed-use building in Birmingham’s Parkside District that will include 35 residential units and 6,000 square feet of retail space. Birmingham Business Journal reports the project will cost $11 million to complete. The residential units will span in size from 347 square feet to 1,750 square feet. Situated at the corner of 4th Avenue and 14 Street, Macaroni Lofts is a redevelopment of the former Birmingham Macaroni Co. warehouse, which was built in 1902. The building’s existing structure will remain intact with the addition of rooftop penthouse units with private terraces. The design also incorporates 12 newly constructed residential units on an adjacent lot with a community terrace between the two structures. The development team includes Fifth Dimension Architecture, Commerce One as the lender, Southpace Properties for the commercial space listing(s) and H2 Real Estate for the residential units. Completion is scheduled for summer 2020 with units becoming available for pre-sale this month.
PEARLAND, TEXAS — California-based Drever Capital Management has broken ground on Larkspur at Shadow Creek, a 257-unit multifamily community in the southwestern Houston suburb of Pearland that will be marketed to seniors age 55 and above. The property will be situated on 12 acres and consist of a 215-unit primary apartment building with 18,000 square feet of amenity space, as well as 42 private cottages. The first units are expected to be complete in the second half of 2020. Drever also recently completed Larkspur at Twin Creeks, a 243-unit age-restricted community in metro Dallas, and is planning another age-restricted project in New Braunfels, a suburb of San Antonio.
George Smith Partners Arranges $67.2M Financing for High-Rise Multifamily Development in Phoenix
by Amy Works
PHOENIX — George Smith Partners has secured $67.2 million in senior construction financing for the ground-up development of a multifamily property in Phoenix. Located immediately north of Phoenix’s central business district, the 17-story high-rise will feature 254 apartments. The non-recourse loan represents 80 percent of the total project cost. Scott Meredith and John Thrall of George Smith Partners advised the undisclosed borrower in the financing.
PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Henry Ford Health System has unveiled plans to revitalize the site of a former Kmart property in Plymouth Township with a new outpatient medical center. The multi-story, 120,000-square-foot center will offer specialty care services, as well as an emergency department and ambulatory surgery center. Kmart closed its doors at the site in November 2017. Henry Ford is expected to close on the purchase of the property in mid-August. Construction is slated to begin shortly thereafter and be completed in 2021. Gensler and Hobbs + Black Associates Inc. are the project architects. With the new facility, Henry Ford’s footprint in western Wayne County will expand to three outpatient facilities.
CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. — General contractor Legacy Builders has completed the renovation of Apogee Co-Op, a 30-story multifamily high-rise at 250 Gorge St. on New Jersey’s Gold Coast. The property includes 315 units. As part of the facelift, Legacy overhauled and modernized the aesthetics of the entranceway, lobby and amenities of the property, which was originally built in 1972. Rental prices have appreciated more than 20 percent since renovations began in 2014. New York City-based Steven Kratchman Architect served as the project designer.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Local developer Diversified Properties LLC has broken ground on a 480 Flatz, a 35-unit multifamily property in East Rutherford. The four-story property will offer one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments that will range in size from 700 to 1,100 square feet. Units will feature quartz countertops and stainless steel appliances, as well as proximity to public transit lines and retail hubs. Thomas J. Brennan Architects is designing the project.
ATLANTA — WRS Inc. will bring a 351-room Yotel-branded hotel to Underground Atlanta, a four-block redevelopment in south downtown Atlanta. The hotel will offer 234 rooms for short-stay guests and 117 rooms, known as YotelPad, for long-stay guests. Construction is slated to begin in summer 2020 with delivery scheduled for fall 2022. The new Yotel will offer a grab-and-go café, swimming pool, rooftop terrace and bar, self-check-in kiosks and SmartBeds. When complete, Underground Atlanta will have more than 400,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, entertainment, office and residential space, according to WRS.