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NEW YORK CITY — Tishman Speyer has topped out The Spiral, a 2.8 million-square-foot office tower located within Manhattan’s Hudson Yards mixed-use development. The 1,031-foot, 65-story building encompasses an entire city block between West 34th to West 35th streets and from 10th Avenue to the four-acre Bella Abzug Park. The Spiral, which was designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and is expected to open in 2022, is the future site of the global headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which will occupy 746,000 square feet. Law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is also relocating its headquarters to The Spiral with a footprint of 531,000 square feet, while asset management firm AllianceBernstein has also committed to 166,000 square feet, bringing the building’s preleased occupancy rate to 51 percent. Tenants on every floor will have access to outdoor space as part of a series of spiraling landscaped terraces and hanging gardens that wrap around the façade of the tower. The building will also house 25,000 square feet of retail space.

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NEW YORK CITY — Locally based real estate private equity firm Madison Realty Capital has broken ground on a 478-unit multifamily project in the Woodside area of Queens. Roughly 30 percent (143 residences) of the units in the building, which will also include 15,000 square feet of retail space, will be designated as affordable housing. Residential amenities will include a fitness center with a separate yoga room, a media lounge, laundry room, storage room, parking lot, bike storage, tenant lounge, rooftop terrace with a recreation kitchen and onsite parking. As part of the larger project, Madison Realty Capital is also developing a 78,000-square-foot public elementary school in partnership with the New York City School Construction Authority and Department of Education. The school will serve about 475 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. A tentative completion date was not released.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Citimark has acquired the former headquarters of hhgregg Inc. and announced plans to redevelop the 27-acre property on the far north side of Indianapolis. Citimark hasn’t unveiled full plans yet, but says it is considering single or multi-tenant flex, industrial and last-mile uses while preserving the flexibility for some retail out-lots. Appliance, electronics and furniture retailer hhgregg declared bankruptcy and liquidated all its assets in 2017, including closing its 220 stores and laying off more than 5,000 workers. The 400,000-square-foot headquarters, which featured office, industrial and showroom buildings, has sat vacant since then. The property’s unique shell design, with an open-air courtyard that can accommodate 200 cars, may have slowed the sale process. In January of 2019, national car dealer Napleton Auto Group kicked the tires on the property as a potential Kia dealership, before backing out later in the month, according to the Indiana Business Journal. Local contractor Deem LLC considered purchasing the property, but pulled out of the deal in November 2020, reported the Journal. Ultimately, Citimark emerged as the buyer in late December, paying $14 million for the asset. Alex Cantu with Colliers Indianapolis assisted Citimark with the purchase. Colliers Indianapolis brokers Jimmy Cohoat and …

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SAN FRANCISCO — Presidio Bay Ventures has received on $120 million in construction financing for the development of Ventana Residences, an apartment community located at 99 Ocean Ave. in San Francisco’s Outer Mission and Excelsior District. The project is a joint venture between Presidio Bay and American Realty Advisors. TDA Investment Group (TDA) and the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (AFL-CIO HIT) provided the construction financing. Ventana Residences will offer 193 family-friendly apartments, with 48 designated as below-market-rate units, in a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Community amenities will include a fitness center, co-working spaces, on-site childcare facilities, a two-level roof deck and a large-format, public-facing art program. Additionally, the project’s design incorporates sustainable elements including rooftop solar photovoltaic panels, all-electric appliances and individual utility submetering. Utilizing 100 percent union labor, the development of Ventana Residences will create more than 500 prevailing wage jobs and provide 25 percent on-site affordable housing, making the project the largest San Francisco community to be built under the city’s HOME-SF affordable housing development program.

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MORENO VALLEY, CALIF. — Vendaval Corp. has unveiled plans for an affordable housing community for seniors and veterans in Moreno Valley, approximately 65 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The property is situated on seven acres and will include more than 400 units. A name for the community was not released. Additional facilities will include entertainment venues, restaurants and other amenities totaling 30,000 square feet to support both residents and the surrounding community. The development will be self-sustaining, and programs will be free. Revenues from the apartment rentals and retail shops will cover the cost of providing rental assistance by the Department of Urban and Housing Development (HUD) and other programs. Affordable housing is scarce in California, and in Moreno Valley the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment runs north of $1,600 a month, according to Vendaval.

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HENDERSON, NEV. — American Nevada Co., in partnership with Tradewind Properties, has broken ground on Green Valley Town Center Apartments, a multifamily community located near the corner of Olympic Avenue and Mountain Vista Street in Henderson. Totaling 258,858 square feet, Green Valley Town Center Apartments will offer 300 units spread across 23 residential buildings in a mix of three-story buildings and carriage homes. Slated for delivery this fall, the community will feature a clubhouse, fitness room, pool, spa, dog park, fire pit lounge, putting green and pickleball court, as well as co-working space for at-home or remote workers. Pier Construction & Development is serving as general contractor for the project. Green Valley Town Center Apartments is the first partnership between American Nevada Co. and Northern Nevada-based Tradewind Properties.

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PORT WENTWORTH, GA. — Sansone Group, in partnership with a private equity real estate fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital, has acquired 101.5 acres near Savannah. Sansone Group plans to develop up to 1.4 million square feet of Class A industrial space at the site, which will be the first development in Georgia for the St. Louis-based developer. The site’s address is 4737 Hendley Road in Port Wentworth, less than six miles from the Port of Savannah. The development will be situated at the intersection of Highway 21 and Interstate 95,. The plan includes three buildings that Sansone Group will be developed in two phases. Phase I comprises a 437,500-square-foot building that will break ground in March. Sansone expects to deliver the building in December. Phase II will comprise 805,000 square feet across two buildings Sansone anticipates breaking ground on the second phase in October with delivery slated for July 2022. JLL’s Chris Tomasulo is leasing the project for the ownership group. Kern & Co. designed the site layouts. No general contractor has been selected yet.

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KNIGHTDALE, N.C. — Trinity Capital Advisors has selected Frampton Construction Co. LLC to build three industrial facilities in Knightdale. The buildings will be situated within Trinity Capital’s Eastgate 540 industrial park, located along Interstate 540 in Raleigh’s East Wake submarket. The new buildings join three existing facilities in the complex and will bring the park’s total size to 980,000 square feet. The first building is a build-to-suit project for the park’s newest tenant, PCX Corp. The company designs and builds prefabricated modular electrical distribution and power systems. PCX recently signed a lease to occupy the entire 159,600-square-foot facility. The remaining two buildings, each measuring 120,000 square feet, are under construction with leases in progress. Frampton is underway on sitework for all three buildings. Merriman Schmitt Architects completed the design for the buildings, and Advanced Civil Design Inc. provided civil engineering services. Construction is expected to finish this summer. Frampton Construction is a regional, full-service general contractor with offices in Charlotte and Charleston.

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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Perkins&Will, a global architecture firm, in partnership with an Alaska-based developer, has designed the $30 million modernization and expansion of 601 W. 5th Avenue, formerly the KeyBank Plaza Building located in downtown Anchorage. Originally constructed in 1972 by Alaska Mutual Savings Bank, the nine-story property required extensive structural repairs as a result of the region’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake in November 2018. In addition to seismic reinforcements, the nine-story building will undergo an external transformation into a sleek, glacier-like office building, paying homage to Alaska’s natural wonders. The reimagined property will feature an additional 40,000-square-foot sloped façade that reconfigures the building to resemble a glacier. Floor-to-ceiling windows will replace the existing precast concrete cladding to allow for maximum natural light. The redesign also includes radiant heating, six new skylights and drought-tolerant native plants. The building will be retrofitted with significant interior improvements, including the replacement of all mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems; construction of a new stair tower; modernization of the elevators; and installation of a freight elevator.

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LAS VEGAS — SR Construction, as design-build contractor, has completed a five-story patient tower at Centennial Hills Hospital in Las Vegas. The new tower features 72 patient beds, plus two floors of shell for additional intensive care, intermediate and medical surgical units. Centennial Hills Hospital opened The Birthplace within the new tower, adding two labor and delivery suites along with 36 mother-baby suites. Additionally, the hospital opened its new 36-bed nursing unit at the tower. SR Construction broke ground on the tower in October 2019 and completed all construction phases for the project in November, four months ahead of the scheduled delivery date.

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