CHICAGO — CBRE has brokered the $6.3 million sale of a 28,150-square-foot redevelopment site in Chicago’s Wrigleyville submarket. A joint venture between SNS Realty Group and North Park Ventures acquired the property at 3233-47 N. Sheffield Ave. and subsequently secured a zoning change to B2-5, clearing the way for a five-story apartment building with 99 units. CBRE’s Tom Svoboda and John Jaeger represented the seller. The site was previously home to Torstenson Glass Co., a family-owned manufacturer that operated at the facility for 116 years before selling its business and retaining ownership of the real estate.
AURORA, ILL. — Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has negotiated the $5.8 million sale of a 23,000-square-foot shopping center located at 405 N. Eola Road in Aurora. The center consists of 13 suites and is home to local, regional and national tenants. Brett Berlin of Quantum brokered the transaction. A local investor sold the property to an owner, developer and manager focused on acquiring neighborhood strip centers.
CHICAGO — Kiser Group has brokered the $3.9 million sale of an 11-unit property located at 1756 W. North Ave. in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. The property consists of three commercial spaces and eight apartments. Gut-renovated in 2020, the building features updated plumbing, electrical, roofing, windows and interiors. The asset was fully occupied at the time of sale. Jake Parker, Andy Friedman and Viktor Radzieta of Kiser brokered the transaction. The property sold to an all-cash buyer.
CHICAGO — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $124.6 million refinancing for Arthur on Aberdeen, a newly stabilized luxury apartment tower in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood. Located at 210 N. Aberdeen St., the property rises 18 stories with 363 units. Delivered in 2024, the asset is 92 percent occupied. Amenities include a rooftop pool and spa, a fitness center spanning more than 2,000 square feet, a podcasting studio and coworking spaces. The community also includes roughly 10,000 square feet of fully leased ground-floor retail space. Danny Kaufman, Medina Spiodic, Rebecca Mitchell, Merrick Evans and Annie Thomas of JLL represented the borrower, LG Development Group LLC, in arranging the three-year, floating-rate loan through Pacific Life Insurance Co.
MUNDELEIN, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the nearly $14 million sale and financing of a LA Fitness-anchored, four-suite retail property in Mundelein. Austin Weisenbeck and Shean Sharko of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, an experienced real estate investor and developer in Chicagoland. The Sharko | Weisenbeck | Mendoza Group also procured the out-of-state buyer, which completed a 1031 exchange. Dean Giannakopoulos of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. arranged $9.8 million in acquisition financing through a regional lender. The 89,357-square-foot shopping center is situated on 7.5 acres at 1555 S. Lake St. Built in 2019, the property is home to Kids Empire, The Dog Stop and The Picklr Club. The asset is part of Townline Square Shopping Center.
By Maxx Kossof, The Missner Group Chicago’s industrial market is active — vacancy is low, rents are up and the construction pipeline remains substantial. But the market is not uniform. Smaller deals, in tighter locations and existing buildings, are moving. That segment has been underserved for some time, and that is starting to change. Big box is largely spoken for Chicago’s active construction pipeline is significant, but the majority of it is already committed. The large projects breaking ground are build-to-suit developments for specific users, including Kimberly-Clark, CJ Logistics and Walmart. Big speculative groundbreakings have been largely absent for some time, reflecting a period of softer leasing demand that is only now beginning to recover. That pipeline serves an important segment of the market, but a narrow one. Most tenants are not those users. They are regional distributors, light manufacturers and last-mile operators looking for 25,000 to 90,000 square feet in a location that works for their workforce and customers. For years, speculative development bypassed this segment in favor of larger tenants and higher absolute rents. That is beginning to shift. Infill is competitive When a well-located older building becomes available in Chicago, there is real competition for it. The …
CHICAGO — Chicago-based developer Focus has topped out 1221 W. Washington Blvd., a new apartment tower in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood. Focus is also serving as the general contractor. Designed by Pappageorge Haymes, the 19-story, 286,232-square-foot development will feature a concrete podium with a brick façade, topped by a glass curtain wall spanning floors five through 19. Once complete, the project will include 287 apartment units, roughly 2,700 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 110 parking spaces. Apartments will come in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom units. Amenities will total more than 25,000 square feet and include three rooftop decks with a pool and grilling stations, a spa with an indoor hut tub, sauna, a fitness center with yoga and spin studios, private coworking spaces and a dog spa and dog run. Partner’s By Design is the interior designer, and Luxury Living is handling marketing and leasing. The development will be known as 1221, and first deliveries are anticipated in January 2027. The project is a Focus-led joint venture between DAC Developments and Melrose Ascension Capital. CIBC Capital and Heitman provided financing.
GENEVA, ILL. — Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has brokered the sale of an 88,000-square-foot shopping center in Geneva. Located at 1310 Commons Drive, the property consists of four multi-tenant and two single-tenant buildings. Dan Waszak and Brett Berlin of Quantum brokered the transaction. The buyer was a global real estate investment manager, and the seller was an investment fund based on the East Coast.
CHICAGO — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of Clybourn Center, a 33,140-square-foot unanchored strip center in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The retail property is located on North Clybourn Avenue across from Foundry Park, a $1 billion mixed-use redevelopment project. When complete, Foundry Park will deliver roughly 3,700 residential units, 350,000 square feet of office space, 420,000 square feet of retail, 250,000 square feet of hospitality and 12 acres of open space. Clybourn Center was 91.2 percent occupied at the time of sale, with 38 percent of the gross leasable area occupied by medical tenants including Physicians Immediate Care, Premier Allergy and Metro Infusion. The property features 86 surface-level parking spaces. Michael Nieder and Brian Page of JLL represented the undisclosed seller. Curbline Properties was the buyer. JLL took on the leasing of Clybourn Center in 2009, with Steve Schwartz leading efforts.
GLENDALE HEIGHTS, ILL. — Prologis has acquired 26.2 acres of land in Glendale Heights with plans to build a speculative industrial development consisting of two Class A logistics facilities totaling 454,000 square feet. Each building will feature a clear height of 36 feet, more than 200 car parking spaces and a shared 200-foot truck court. The project site is adjacent to the High Grove Business Park to the east and a commercial and retail development to the west. It also features direct access to I-355 and proximity to the Chicago O’Hare airport. Plans call for significant infrastructure improvements, including construction of a new connector drive and upgrades to nearby intersections and stormwater management facilities.
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