Development

320 South St.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Capital Square plans to develop a 20-story multifamily tower at 320 W. South St. in Raleigh’s Warehouse District. The 297-unit development is slated for completion by June 2024. Capital Square plans to break ground on the approximately $121 million project in April 2022. The development will offer studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units. The apartment community will also feature 8,384 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, as well as an adjacent, standalone parking tower with 437 parking spaces. Community amenities will include a swimming pool, rooftop lounge, coworking space and a fitness center. The property is situated at the intersection of the Boylan Heights neighborhood, Dorothea Dix Park and downtown Raleigh. The apartment community will be close to the RedHat Amphitheater and Raleigh Convention Center and will be situated adjacent to U.S. Highway 70. CSRA Opportunity Zone Fund VI, Capital Square’s project-specific fund seeking to raise $48.5 million from accredited investors and a minimum investment of $100,000, will provide part of the financing for the project.

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CHICAGO — Lendlease has broken ground on The Reed, a 41-story residential tower at 234 W. Polk St. in Chicago’s Printers Row neighborhood. Designed by Perkins + Will, The Reed will feature 216 condominium units on floors 23 through 41 and 224 apartment units on floors nine through 22. Completion is slated for 2023. The project represents the second residential tower and the first for-sale offering within Lendlease’s Southbank development, which encompasses seven acres along the south branch of the Chicago River. Condos will range in size from 630 to 1,670 square feet and will be priced from the low $400,000s up to $1.4 million. Residents will have access to two amenity suites and a private garage parking. The eighth floor will feature a 12,000-square-foot outdoor deck with a pool, cabanas, grilling stations, dining areas and fire pits. Indoor amenities on this floor will include a lounge room, pool table, virtual sports simulation room, salon and massage room, screening room and fitness centers. The Southbank master plan includes Southbank Park, a two-acre green space designed by Hoerr Schaudt. Both Southbank Park and the Riverwalk, which will provide a pedestrian connection between Harrison and Polk streets upon completion of The Reed, …

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MINNEAPOLIS — Lingerfelt CommonWealth Partners (LCP) has completed the renovation of Two22, a 42-story office tower located at 222 S. 9th St. in downtown Minneapolis. LCP acquired the 727,170-square-foot building in 2019 and hired Cushman & Wakefield for leasing, NELSON Worldwide for design and Gardner Builders for construction. The scope of the renovation project included a new lobby, atrium, tenant amenity space, elevator modernization and building automation system upgrades. Tom Tracy and Katie Tufford of Cushman & Wakefield are the leasing agents for the property.

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OMAHA, NEB. — R&R Realty Group and MD West One are partnering to build a 38,000-square-foot medical facility on the east side of 192nd Street in Omaha. MD West One provides orthopedic, neurosurgery and spine care services. The project will be part of Fountain Ridge West, R&R Realty’s business park. Site work, including grading and the installation of utilities, is scheduled to begin in the next few weeks. Construction of the building will kick off this fall, and the facility is expected to be completed over a period of about 16 months.

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FRISCO, TEXAS — Hillwood has opened The Cadence at Frisco Station, a 322-unit apartment community located within the 242-acre Frisco Station mixed-use development on the northern outskirts of Dallas. The property features studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans, as well as townhomes. Each residence is furnished with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and custom cabinetry. Amenities include a pool with cabanas, fitness center, pet washing facility, resident lounge with a coffee bar and coworking space with private offices and a conference room. Rents start at approximately $1,500 per month for a studio apartment.

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HUTTO, TEXAS — Locally based owner-operator Aspen Heights Partners has acquired 36 acres in the northern Austin suburb of Hutto for the development of Bell Yard, a 219-unit single-family rental (SFR) community. The property will offer two-, three-, and four-bedroom homes with attached garages, modern interiors and designer finishes, as well as an assortment of resort-style amenities. Construction is scheduled to begin in May of next year and to be complete in late 2023.

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TRACY, CALIF. — CBRE Global Investors has purchased a 29.3-acre site located at 1205 E. Grant Line Road in Tracy for the development of a logistics center. The investment firm will partner with Trammell Crow Co. to develop the 606,343-square-foot facility. Construction is slated to begin in early 2022, with completion scheduled for first quarter 2023. The distribution facility will feature 40-foot clear heights, 185-foot truck courts, 56-foot by 60-foot column spacing, LED and sky lighting and an ESFR sprinkler system. HPA is serving as architect of record and Big-D Construction is the general contractor.

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GLENDALE, ARIZ. — St. Louis, Mo.-based US Capital Development has broken ground on its first development in Arizona. The first phase of Falcon Park 303 will comprise a 599,468-square-foot speculative industrial building on 36.7 acres along Camelback Road at 152nd Avenue in Glendale. The building will feature 40-foot clear heights, 92 dock-height loading doors and four drive-in loading doors. The building, which is divisible by half, is slated for completion by August 2022. The project team includes Willmeng Construction, Gray Design Group and Hilgart Wilson. Andy Markham, Mike Haenel and Phil Haenel of Cushman & Wakefield are handling leasing for the development.

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NEW YORK CITY — Edward J. Minskoff Equities Inc. (EJME) and J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives have broken ground on a 240,000-square-foot office project at 29 Jay St. in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. The site originally housed the distribution operations of Arbuckle Coffee & Tea and was rezoned in 2018 to allow for higher-density office use. Architecture firm Marvel designed the building, which will also house 12,000 square feet of retail space. Construction is expected to last about two years.

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NEW YORK CITY — Google has announced plans to acquire St. John’s Terminal, a 1.3 million-square-foot office redevelopment underway in Manhattan that will anchor the search engine giant’s Hudson Square campus. Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) intends to purchase the development site at 550 Washington St., which the company signed a lease agreement for in 2018, for approximately $2.1 billion. The company is exercising its purchase agreement with the landlord and developer, an ownership group comprising Toronto-based Oxford Properties Group and CPP Investments, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal also reports the transaction is the most expensive sale of a single U.S. office building since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing data from research firm Real Capital Analytics. The sale is also among the priciest for a single office property in U.S. history. Google plans to open its offices at 550 Washington by mid-2023. Although the company expects to operate the office with a flexible hybrid approach to in-office versus work-from-home concepts in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google says that “coming together in person to collaborate and build community will remain an important part of our future.” The St. John’s Terminal transaction is expected to close in …

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