HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. — Kinema Fitness has opened FitLab, a 31,680-square-foot fitness facility, at Bell Works Chicagoland in Hoffman Estates. FitLab offers personal training, health coaching, nutrition consultation, state-of-the-art equipment and a range of group fitness classes. NPZ Style+Décor designed the space. Bell Works Chicagoland is the redevelopment of the former AT&T campus. Somerset Development is the owner and developer.
CHICAGO — Chicago-based JLL Capital Markets has arranged an $85 million loan for the acquisition of a 12-building industrial portfolio totaling 814,888 square feet across California, Georgia, Maryland and Minnesota. MDH Partners acquired the fully leased portfolio. Chris Drew, Maxx Carney, Jimmy Calvo, Robert Carey, Brock Yaffe and Eric Boucher of JLL arranged the five-year, floating-rate loan with Truist. Mark Hancock of Truist Commercial Real Estate served as the lead on the transaction for Truist.
LOMBARD, ILL. — Barings has provided a $67 million, three-year loan for the recapitalization of The 450, a newly constructed apartment complex in the Chicago suburb of Lombard. Amenities at the 256-unit property include a fitness center, yoga studio, business center, package room with cold storage, heated underground parking, pet park, pool and electric car charging stations. Emerald Isle Investment Partners advised the borrower, a joint venture between UrbanStreet Group and Atlas Residential. The three-year loan includes funding to complete lease-up.
CHICAGO — Five Iron Golf, an indoor golf simulation experience, has signed a lease to open a new location in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. Located at 1000 W. North Ave., the 13,150-square-foot space will serve as Five Iron Golf’s third location in Chicago. Sharon Kahan and Amy Sider of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease transaction. The duo also represented Five Iron Golf in its other two leases in The Loop and River North.
ADDISON, ILL. — Brown Commercial Group Inc. has brokered the sale of a 28,810-square-foot industrial building in Addison. The property is located at 25 W. Official Road. Mike Antonelli of Brown represented the buyer, Pat Mooney Saws, a distributor and importer of metal sawing machinery, accessories and saw blades. The building is across the street from the headquarters of Pat Mooney Saws. The seller and sales price were undisclosed.
MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS — Berkadia has arranged the sale of The Saint Louis Five, a five-property multifamily portfolio totaling 716 units in Missouri and Illinois. The sales price was undisclosed. The properties include: the 360-unit Norwood Court Redfield Apartments in St. Louis; the 120-unit Delrado Apartments in Florissant, Mo.; the 100-unit Senate Square in St. Louis; the 112-unit Caroline Place Apartments in St. Louis; and the 24-unit Chesapeake Apartments in Marion, Ill. Andrea Kendrick, Ken Aston and Bobby Mills of Berkadia represented the seller, Missouri-based Baumann Property Co. Inc. New York-based David Stern Management was the buyer.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Prologis and Skybox Datacenters have completed a 189,000-square-foot data center at 800 E. Devon Ave. in Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago. Named Skybox Chicago I, the speculative facility sits on a 10-acre site. The project can accommodate a single tenant or several users. Leasing efforts are underway. The project was the conversion of a vacant distribution center.
ST. CHARLES, ILL. — Ready Capital has closed a $24.5 million loan for the acquisition, renovation and stabilization of a 220-unit multifamily property in the Fox River Valley submarket of St. Charles. The undisclosed borrower plans to renovate unit interiors and property exteriors as well as bring in new management. The nonrecourse, floating-rate loan features a three-year term and includes a capital expenditures facility.
DEKALB, ILL. — Facebook parent company Meta has unveiled plans to expand its data center that is currently under construction in DeKalb, more than doubling the square footage from two buildings to five. With the increased footprint, the project now represents a total investment of more than $1 billion. Meta previously announced that it was building its 12th U.S. data center in DeKalb in June 2020. Development costs were estimated at $800 million at that time. Crain’s Chicago Business reports that the five-building campus will be the largest data center in the state of Illinois. Meta says it selected DeKalb, which is located about 65 miles west of Chicago, for its access to renewable energy, talent pool and community partners. Meta is collaborating with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on a pilot program with the goal of developing a more sustainable concrete mix to help reduce the carbon footprint. Meta has also invested in two new wind energy projects in the Illinois counties of Morgan and DeWitt.
CHICAGO — Skender has completed construction of 609 W. Randolph, a 15-story boutique office building in Chicago’s West Loop. Developed by Vista Property, the building spans more than 100,000 square feet and includes a tenant lounge, rooftop terrace, executive conference room, wellness studio and meeting spaces. The property has received WELL and LEED certifications and features high-performance air filters, motion-sensor restroom fixtures and touchless, automatic doors. CBRE is the leasing agent. Antunovich Associates designed the base of the building, while Partners by Design handled the design of the spec office suites.
