ADDISON, ILL. — Sitex Group has acquired a warehouse/distribution facility located at 350 S. Church St. in Addison for an undisclosed price. Built in 1995, the 87,219-square-foot property features an image precast exterior, 13 exterior docks, 27-foot clear ceiling heights and T-5 lighting. Additionally, the property features 1-2,000 amp/480 volt service and 1-1,200 amp/480 volt electrical service. Kelly Disser and Dan Leahy of NAI Hiffman represented the seller, Standfast Group, in the transaction.
JOLIET, ILL. — Cohen Financial has arranged $12.5 million in refinancing for Hillcrest Shopping Center, a 246,000-square-foot grocery-anchored retail center in Joliet. A 65,000-square-foot Food4Less anchors the center. Other tenants include Dollar Tree, Payless Shoes, Harbor Freight Tools, T-Mobile and Subway. Don C. Trossman of Cohen arranged the fixed-rate, 10-year loan on a 25-year amortization schedule with a correspondent life insurance company. Joliet-Hillcrest LLC was the borrower in the transaction.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Midwest Industrial Funds has acquired a 59,000-square-foot industrial space located on over four acres of land at 700 Chase in Elk Grove Village, about 25 miles northwest of Chicago. The property was purchased from a private investor and is fully leased to Acme Industries. Midwest was represented in-house by Sergio Chapa and Michael Prost. Rick Delisle of RD Strategic represented the seller in the transaction.
ANTIOCH, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a 7,000-square-foot retail property located in Antioch for $2.6 million. The property, located at 515 East II Route 173, is occupied by Sherwin Williams and Sleepy’s, and is situated as an outlot to a Walmart Supercenter. Sean Sharko and Austin Weisenstock of Marcus & Millichap worked on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. The buyer of the property was undisclosed.
COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, ILL. — Tucker Development has arranged three new leases for Country Club Plaza, a retail property in Country Club Hills, located about 29 miles south of Chicago. MetroPCS signed a five-year lease for approximately 1,100 square feet. Kenny’s Ribs and Chicken signed a 10-year lease for 2,800 square feet, and Cooking Canvas inked a four-year lease for approximately 1,000 square feet. Tucker Development was represented in-house by Andrew White in all three transactions. A Walmart Supercenter and an AMC Theater anchor the property. Other tenants include McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Subway, GNC, Foot Locker and Payless Shoes.
Chicago’s 1.2 billion-square-foot industrial market has weathered the Great Recession and is now showing strong growth through expansion of the region’s traditional boundaries and by way of redevelopment in land-locked areas. At the center of this trend is O’Hare International Airport — sixth in the nation and 17th in the world in air cargo tonnage. All totaled, the O’Hare industrial submarket contains 103 million square foot of product. Since the vacancy rate peaked at approximately 13 percent in 2010, the O’Hare industrial submarket has rebounded in a big way. In fact, the submarket has recorded positive absorption every year since 2011. The vacancy rate fell to 7 percent in 2014 due to an improving economy and the aggressive deal making of the larger industrial owners such as Prologis, KTR and Hamilton Partners. Development Ramps Up Shrinking vacancy rates and a lack of available Class A logistics facilities led to the delivery of multiple speculative developments in 2014. These projects were the first built since 2007. Panattoni completed 208,000 square feet at 1925 Busse Road in Elk Grove Village and leased the entire facility to CEVA Logistics. The project was subsequently sold to AEW Capital Management at a record-setting cap rate …
CHICAGO — MB Real Estate Services Inc. has arranged a 9,306-square-foot lease renewal on behalf of A+E Networks, a joint venture of Disney-ABC Television Group and Hearst Corp. The property is located at 111 East Wacker Drive in the East Loop of Chicago. Nikki Kern of JLL represented building ownership, and Boris Yelyashov and Christine Torres of MB represented A+E Networks in the transaction.
ROMEOVILLE, ILL. — Morgan/Harbour has completed the renovation of a 65,000-square-foot warehouse for Inmar in Romeoville. Inmar is a technology company that operates intelligent commerce networks in real-time for retailers, manufacturers and trading partners. The construction was completed during a four-week period and included the build-out of new offices within the existing office footprint, dock renovations and new lighting throughout the warehouse. Morgan/Harbour also constructed a conveyor connection and coordinated the installation of new racking, security and low-voltage electrical systems. Joe Zoksy and Erick Hodorowicz, both of Morgan/Harbour, led the renovation efforts. Ware Malcomb provided architectural services.
CHICAGO — Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) has arranged the sale of a triple-net, ground-leased property located at 137 S. State Street in Chicago for $7.1 million. NGKF’s Geoffrey Kasselman, Andy Gallas, Gino Tabbi and Boris Shraybman led the brokerage team on behalf of the seller, a local family trust. The property was sold to a California-based private investor at a capitalization rate of 3.1 percent. A 50,530-square-foot cooling plant operated by Enwave Energy Corp., a division of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP, occupies the property. The ground floor of the property is leased to CVS/pharmacy; with floors two through four reserved for the plant’s chillers, pumps and ice machines. The plant provides chilled-water cooling services to more than 100 commercial buildings throughout the Loop via an underground network of pipes. The ground lease extends through December 2043 and Enwave has a one-time, 49-year lease option.
CHICAGO — ASB Real Estate Investments has sold its nine-building, 174-unit Elaine Place apartment portfolio in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, located blocks from Wrigley Field, for $50.5 million. The sale was made on behalf of ASB’s Allegiance Fund, a $5 billion core investment vehicle, which owned the property in a joint venture with Marc Realty/Chicago Apartment Finders. The portfolio was purchased by New York-based CLK Properties.