BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. — Magnus Development Partners has completed Access 77, a 210,600-square-foot speculative industrial facility in Blythewood, a city near Columbia in Richland County. Situated near I-77, the property is located adjacent to the Scout Motors facility underway and within Northpoint Industrial Park, a county-owned park spanning 340 acres and housing companies including Coca-Cola, Constantia, Koyo and Spirax Sarco. Access 77 is a tilt-up facility that can house a single or multiple users. Features include a minimum clear height of 32 feet, 54- by 50-foot bay spacing, 130-foot truck court, LED lighting, trailer parking, 13 dock doors (expandable to 48) and two drive-in doors. Chuck Salley, Thomas Beard and John Peebles of Colliers are marketing Access 77 for lease.
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ROSWELL, GA. — Hardware retail chain Ace Hardware has opened its 5,000th domestic store. Dubbed Fixit Ace Hardware, the store is located in Roswell, roughly 20 miles north of Atlanta. Additionally, the Oak Brook, Ill.-based retailer opened its 100th new store of the year in Henderson, Nev., last month. Ace Hardware, which operates more than 5,800 outposts globally, plans to open an additional 200 stores by the end of this year, which marks 100 years of business for the brand.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Skyline Developers has topped out a 97-unit multifamily project at 18 W. 55th St. in Midtown Manhattan. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the building rises 25 stories and spans 152,000 square feet, including 10,000 square feet of amenities and 5,265 square feet of retail space. Construction began in mid-2023, and delivery is slated for 2025. Goldman Sachs financed construction of the project.
SAN DIEGO — GPI Cos., in partnership with the University of California, San Diego, has completed the development of 8980 Villa La Jolla Drive, an academic facility in at the corner of La Jolla Village and Villa La Jolla drives in San Diego. The nine-story, 114,000-square-foot building is directly across from the university and serves as a gateway to the main campus. The building includes academic, administrative and research space and will be a hub for students, faculty and patients, as well as the home for various programs offered by UC San Diego Health Sciences and UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies. Additionally, Bird Rock Coffee Roasters will occupy ground-floor retail space at the building. The project team included Gensler’s San Diego office as architect and Swinerton Builders as general contractor. JLL will manage the building.
CHESTERFIELD, MO. — Tutera Senior Living & Health Care and Shelbourne Healthcare Development Group have opened The Lumiere of Chesterfield, a $55 million senior living community in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield. The 193,000-square-foot development, situated near Chesterfield Mall, features 96 independent living units, 37 assisted living units and 17 memory care units. The independent living units are now open, while the assisted living will open in late July and the memory care will follow in August. Amenities include libraries, bistros, a wine room, dog park, bocce ball, putting green, gardens and pedestrian pathways. Moseley Architects served as the project architect, while Faulkner Design Group was the interior designer. The project gets its name from the French word for light, “lumiere.” The development features large windows for letting in daylight.
BOLINGBROOK, ILL. — Chicago-based Invenergy, a privately held developer, owner and operator of sustainable energy solutions, has broken ground on its Center of Excellence, a $30 million clean energy training and manufacturing facility in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook. Located at 790 Remington Blvd., the property will total 135,000 square feet and is slated to open in the fourth quarter. The build-out of the site will employ over 250 local construction workers. The Center of Excellence will be comprised of four main components: a 35,000-square-foot machine shop designed to refurbish and assemble key clean energy components; a 30,000-square-foot central warehouse to manage and store infrastructure, including long-lead wind turbine and solar components; a 35,000-square-foot training center and learning lab with the capacity to support over 1,300 clean energy trainees annually; and a 20,000-square-fot generation control center to monitor and control Invenergy’s energy generation assets.
DALLAS — Developer IAC Properties has broken ground on an approximately 435,000-square-foot industrial project in South Dallas. IAC Beckleymeade will be a two-building speculative development that will be situated on a 28.2-acre site. The buildings will total 234,900 and 199,800 square feet and will include 81 dock doors and 5,500 square feet of office space. Azimuth Architecture designed the project, and Krusinski Construction Co. is serving as the general contractor. A tentative completion date was not disclosed.
DALLAS — Locally based developer Mintwood Real Estate has begun leasing Oakhouse, a 219-unit mixed-income residential project in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas. Mintwood developed the project in partnership with Mirasol Capital and New York City-based MSquared. Approximately half the units are reserved for households earning 80 percent or less of the area median income. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, dog park, children’s play area and a resident lounge. WDG Associates designed the project, and Rogers O’Brien served as the general contractor. Independent Financial provided construction financing.
FORT LEE, N.J. — Regional developer UNLMTD Real Estate has begun leasing FIAT House, a 300-unit multifamily project in the Northern New Jersey community of Fort Lee. The site is located at the foot of the George Washington Bridge. Units come in studio, one- and two-bedroom formats, and the property houses more than 30,000 square feet of amenity and social gathering spaces. The developer is constructing the project in partnership with Italian automaker FIAT, and residents will have access to a car-sharing program of FIAT electric vehicles. Rents start at $2,400 per month for a studio apartment.
NEW YORK CITY — Sagard Real Estate, the Denver-based firm formerly known as EverWest Real Estate Investors, has broken ground on 1 Nassau Place, a 332,000-square-foot warehouse on Staten Island. The site is located less than a mile from State Route 440, and the design calls for two points of ingress/egress. The building will feature a clear height of 36 feet, 60 dock doors, 175 car parking spaces, rooftop solar panels and an ESFR sprinkler system. Delivery is slated for late 2025.