CHICAGO — New York Life Real Estate Investors has originated a $59.4 million mortgage loan for a cold storage industrial portfolio scattered across metro Chicago. The portfolio consists of four buildings spanning 710,000 square feet. The buildings are located in Chicago, Bartlett and Lyons, Ill. The floating-rate loan has a five-year term. The borrower was an institutional investor.
CHICAGO — Essex Realty Group Inc. has brokered the sale of a two-building multifamily property in Chicago’s Roscoe Village for $1.7 million. The buildings are located at 2101 W. Fletcher St. The first building consists of three units, including one- and two-bedroom units. The second building includes two four-bedroom units. Both buildings were renovated in 2015. Doug Fisher and Matt Welke of Essex represented the undisclosed seller, while Doug Imber, Kate Varde and Clay Maxfield represented the undisclosed buyer.
SHILOH, ILL. — Crevo Capital has unveiled plans to develop a $35 million apartment property in Shiloh, about 22 miles east of St. Louis. The Savannah will consist of 300 luxury apartments on 26 acres. Amenities will include a health club and community lounge. Floor plans will consist of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Housing Studio is designing the buildings and site layout. Fairview Heights, Ill.-based IMPACT Strategies will provide construction services. Pending approval from the Village of Shiloh, Crevo Capital expects to begin construction this fall with units available for occupancy in early 2019.
CHICAGO — The Boulder Group has arranged the sale of Archer Station in Chicago for $24.3 million. The retail property is fully leased to four tenants including LA Fitness, Ross Dress for Less, AT&T Wireless and Athletico Physical therapy. The property is located at 2640 W. Pershing Road. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented both the seller, a Midwest-based real estate development company, and the buyer, an institutional investor.
CHICAGO — Care Capital Properties Inc. (NYSE: CCP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire six behavioral health hospitals in a sale-leaseback transaction for $400 million. The six-property portfolio contains a total of 712 beds in California, Arizona and Illinois. The hospitals primarily provide acute inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care, addiction services, geriatric psychiatric care and child and adolescent psychiatric care. Signature Healthcare Services LLC, one of the largest privately owned behavioral healthcare providers in the United States, currently owns the properties. As part of the transaction, CCP has agreed to fund up to $50 million in expansion and improvements within the portfolio. CCP will also have an option, exercisable beginning in the fourth quarter of 2018, to purchase one additional building for an amount that is expected to be approximately $20 million. Acquired properties include Aurora Charter Oak Hospital in Covina, Calif.; Aurora Vista del Mar Hospital in Ventura, Calif.; Aurora San Diego Hospital in San Diego; Aurora Arizona West in Glendale, Ariz.; Aurora Arizona East in Tempe, Ariz.; and Aurora Chicago Lakeshore Hospital in Chicago. Upon completion of the transaction, which is slated for the second quarter of 2017, CCP will lease the properties to affiliates of …
CHICAGO — Federal Realty Investment Trust has acquired Riverpoint Center in Chicago’s Lincoln Park for $107 million. The 211,000-square-foot grocery anchored shopping center sits on 17 acres at the corner of West Fullerton and North Clybourn avenues. Riverpoint Center is currently 97 percent occupied and is anchored by Jewel-Osco, Marshalls and Old Navy. Federal Realty anticipates increasing the value of the property over time through the re-leasing of space currently leased at below market rents and the potential to increase density at the infill site, according to a news release.
JOLIET, ILL. — The Opus Group has unveiled plans to construct a 1.2 million-square-foot industrial warehouse in Joliet within the I-80 submarket of Chicago. The 75-acre site is located near the intersection of U.S. Route 6 and Hollywood Road. Opus, which purchased the land from Ketone Partners, will develop the project in a joint venture with AEW Capital Management LP on behalf of one of its institutional separate account clients. The building will feature 36-foot clear heights, more than 200 loading docks, up to 450 trailer positions, parking for 225 cars and an ESFR sprinkler system. Construction of the speculative building will begin this spring with completion slated for summer 2018. Opus Development Co. will serve as developer, Opus Design Build will serve as design-builder and Opus AE Group will provide architectural and structural engineer services. Eric Tresslar and Steve Connolly of NAI Hiffman will market the property for lease.
The Chicagoland industrial market has started 2017 with a full head of steam and doesn’t appear ready to cool down anytime soon. With historically low vacancy rates, high net absorption and strong tenant demand, the outlook is positive for new construction in the pipeline, even with the recent uptick in interest rates. Net absorption of industrial space topped 19.3 million square feet in 2016, outpacing the 18.2 million square feet of new product delivered, according to CoStar Group. The metro Chicago vacancy rate at the end of the year was 6.5 percent, a drop of about 50 basis points over the previous 12 months. As for 2017, we see increasing competition for well-located land sites, especially from speculative developers who see opportunity in the rising demand for state-of-the-art facilities equipped for today’s sophisticated users. The jungle effect We have seen strong activity from tenants ranging from global logistics providers to regional distributors. However, a large share of the total net absorption in 2016 came from one well-known and much sought-after tenant — Amazon. The retailing giant has been leasing warehouse/distribution space at a rapid pace, and it seems as though every other week we are reading about a new distribution method, business …
EAST MOLINE, ILL. — Hall Structured Finance (HSF) has provided a $23.2 million loan for the construction of a Hyatt House and Hyatt Place hotel in East Moline, part of the Quad Cities region. This will be Hyatt’s first development of a blended, dual-flagged hotel, with a shared front desk and lobby amenities, and will serve as the company’s prototype for future dual-flagged developments. The nine-story, 233-room hotel will feature 134 upscale Hyatt Place rooms and 99 suite-style, extended-stay Hyatt House rooms. Olympia Hotel Management will operate the hotel. Great River LLC, in conjunction with the City of East Moline, plans to develop the 132-acre site of the former Case/International Harvester plant, where the hotel will be located, into a mixed-use development in two phases. The first phase consists of 42 acres and will include the new hotel, 324 multifamily units and a public park. Construction starts immediately and will be complete by summer 2018. In addition, two restaurants and four retail sites are expected to soon be under development.
PEORIA, ILL. — Mid-America Real Estate Corp. has arranged the sale of Sheridan Village in Peoria for $13 million. The 310,094-square-foot shopping center is located at the intersection of Sheridan Road and Lake Avenue. The grocery-anchored center includes Hy-Vee, Bergner’s and Planet Fitness. Toronto, Canada-based Northbridge Investment Management purchased the center. Joe Girardi of Mid-America brokered the transaction on behalf of the seller, Cincinnati-based Viking Partners.