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HOUSTON — Dallas-based Civitas Capital Group has topped out UNITi Montrose, a 238-unit multifamily and coliving project in Houston. The site spans a full acre, and the building rises six stories atop a three-story parking garage. Floor plans consist of 190 studio, one- and two-bedroom units as well as 48 private suites that house a total of 161 private rooms. Amenities will include a pool, coworking space and a courtyard, as well as 4,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Meeks + Partners designed the project, and Arch-Con Corp. is serving as the general contractor. Completion is slated for next summer.

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FARGO, N.D. — Kraus-Anderson has completed the third and final phase of the $45.2 million Nodak Insurance Football Performance Complex for North Dakota State University in Fargo. The new facility is located along University Drive adjacent to the Shelly Ellig Indoor Track and Field Facility and the Sanford Health Athletic Complex. The final phase of the project added football locker rooms, sports medicine with hydrotherapy pools, team meeting rooms and equipment and laundry rooms. Designed by Foss Architecture & Interiors and Crawford Architects, the 144,400-square-foot complex features a 90,000-square-foot multi-sport indoor practice facility, regulation sized outdoor field with a 4,600-square-foot equipment warehouse and a nearly 50,000-square-foot operations and training building. The indoor practice facility, large enough to hold a full football field, provides a state-of-the-art training facility for the football program as well as for women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf, baseball, softball and men’s and women’s track and field. The indoor field has multiple netting systems to accommodate various sports.

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NEW YORK CITY — LMXD, an affiliate of New York City-based L&M Development Partners, has topped out the National Black Theatre & Ray Harlem, a 21-story residential and civic project. Designed by Frida Escobedo Architects and Handel Architects, the development will house 222 mixed-income apartments, commercial space along 125th Street and a multi-purpose living room that will be open to the community. In addition, the site will feature a 27,000-square-foot home for National Black Theatre. This space will house offices, classrooms, a 250-seat performance space, a 99-seat flexible studio theater and a set-building shop to support workforce development in theatrical trades. The building is scheduled to open in late 2024, with the theater coming on line in early 2026. 

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NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Simone Development Cos. has purchased a retail building in the Morris Park area of The Bronx with plans to convert the property into a 186,298-square-foot industrial facility. The site at 1720 Eastchester Road, which previously housed a 63,000-square-foot Stop & Shop grocery store, liquor store and a Subway restaurant, is adjacent to Hutchinson Metro Center, Simone’s 1.4 million-square-foot mixed-use development. Jonathan Squires and Josh King of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Madison International Realty, in the transaction. Megan Guy, Brian Reardon, Josh Gopan, Dina Gupta and Sean Heneghan represented Simone Development on an internal basis.

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CYPRESS, TEXAS — Caldwell Communities has opened Cadence Creek at Towne Lake, a 250-unit active adult complex in Cypress, a northwestern suburb of Houston. The community features one- and two-bedroom apartments that range in size from 760 to 1,230 square feet and cottages that range in size from 900 to 1,200 square feet. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, library, theater room, arts and crafts room, gaming area and a dog park. Rents start at $1,500 per month for a one-bedroom unit.

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WAREHAM, MASS. — Pennrose will develop a 93-unit affordable housing project in Wareham, located in southern Massachusetts near the base of Cape Cod. The development will consist of a 49-unit complex with a mix of workforce and affordable apartments and a 44-unit affordable development for seniors aged 62 and older. Units will come in one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and will be reserved for renters earning between 30 and 100 percent of the area median income. Completion is slated for summer 2024.

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OWATONNA, MINN. — Kraus-Anderson has completed a new $99 million high school in Owatonna, about 65 miles south of Minneapolis. The project is part of a $112 million district bond referendum, which voters passed in November 2019. Construction began in May 2021. Designed by Wold Architects and Engineers, the three-story school totals 317,000 square feet and accommodates 1,600 students. In addition to classrooms, there are industrial arts labs, tech shop spaces, an 825-seat auditorium and a large commons and cafeteria space in the center of the building. Additionally, the school features a main gymnasium and auxiliary gymnasium with walking track, a 3,451-seat football stadium, eight tennis courts, two grass multipurpose fields, two synthetic turf multipurpose fields, two softball fields, two baseball fields and a full track. Located on 90 acres with parking for 890 vehicles, the development also includes four storage buildings for athletics.

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MICHIGAN CITY, IND. — StorSafe is expanding its self-storage facility in Michigan City by 10,665 square feet with an additional 82 climate-controlled units. The project also includes a new onsite water management system to collect and clean stormwater coupled with a loading dock for semi-trucks and moving vans. After the expansion, the facility will include 384 climate-controlled units. The property is located at 2600 S. Franklin St. in Northwest Indiana. StorSafe, established in 2021, offers mobile technology, advanced management software, online tools, facility automation and state-of-the-art security equipment.

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ELGIN, ILL. — Principle Construction Corp. is building a 22,245-square-foot warehouse for Alvil Trucking in Elgin. The trucking company will use the building at 2450 Millennium Drive for maintenance and repairs of its fleet. The project will feature a clear height of 24 feet, 48 parking spaces, six docks and two drive-in doors. Harris Architects is the project architect, and Jacob & Hefner is the civil engineer. The project marks the second building that Principle has constructed for Alvil.

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YOUNGSVILLE, N.C. — Summit Real Estate Group has broken ground on US-1 North Commerce Center, a $164 million industrial park underway in Youngsville, about 25 miles north of Raleigh. The St. Louis-based developer is planning to build the nearly 1.4 million-square-foot campus in three phases. Situated off U.S. Highway 1 along Long Mill Road, US-1 North Commerce Center will span five multi-tenant warehouse buildings upon full build-out. Phase I, which will comprise two facilities, is expected to be delivered in first-quarter 2024. Summit Real Estate Group purchased the 106-acre site in fourth-quarter 2022 on behalf of its Arrowrock US Industrial Fund IV. Matthew Lederman, managing director of capital and investor relations at Summit, says that the project has had strong civic support since its inception. “Franklin County government has been a strong supporter of the project since the beginning,” says Lederman. Foundry Commercial is marketing US-1 North Commerce Center for lease. — John Nelson

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