ST. PAUL, MINN. — Colliers Mortgage | Commercial Finance has provided a $14.9 million loan for the construction of Courtyard by Marriott-Gateway St. Paul. The 120-room hotel will be situated across from the Xcel Energy Center, a downtown arena. The Xcel Energy Center is home to more than 150 sporting and entertainment events each year. Loan terms and the borrower were not disclosed.
EAGAN, MINN. — Colliers Mortgage has provided an $11.1 million HUD 223(a)(7) loan for the refinancing of Cedar Villas Townhomes in Eagan, a suburb of Minneapolis. The 104-unit rental townhome property was constructed in 2004 and consists of 18 buildings. Of the 104 units, 20 percent are reserved as affordable for residents who earn up to 50 percent of the area median income. The remaining units are rented at the market rate. The 35-year loan is fully amortized. Cedar Villas LP was the borrower.
EVELETH, MINN. — Kraus-Anderson has completed Laurentian Elementary, a $34 million elementary school located at 1409 Progress Parkway in Eveleth, a city in Northeast Minnesota. The school is part of Rock Ridge Public Schools. Designed by Cuningham Group Architecture, the 89,000-square-foot property serves students in pre-K through sixth grade. Specific features of the project include an indoor playground, gymnasium, athletic field and outdoor learning courtyard. The school will open to students this fall.
WOODBURY, MINN. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $65.1 million sale of Beyond Apartments in Woodbury, a suburb of the Twin Cities. Built in 2021, the 255-unit apartment community features studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Amenities include a sky lounge patio, pet wash, coworking lounge, fitness center, golf simulator and underground parking. Mox Gunderson, Dan Linnell, Josh Talberg and Adam Haydon of JLL represented the seller, Roers Cos. Affiliates of MLG Capital purchased the asset. Scott Streiff and Brock Yaffe of JLL originated a 10-year Fannie Mae loan for the acquisition.
MINNETONKA, MINN. — Dick’s Sporting Goods is set to open a House of Sport store in Minnetonka this May. The retailer says that the store is designed to explore the future of retail through multi-sport experiences. Dick’s currently operates two other House of Sport stores in Rochester, N.Y., and Knoxville, Tenn. Specifically, the store will feature a 35-foot rock climbing wall; batting cage for baseball and softball; golf hitting bays; putting green; hockey shop; House of Cleats that will seasonally rotate product; health and wellness area; and a service area dedicated to sharpening hockey skates, breaking in gloves, stringing lacrosse sticks and building and repairing bikes. The store will also offer community programming such as sport clinics, rock climbing, summer camps, yoga classes and birthday parties. The House of Sport store in Minnetonka will also feature a 20,000-square-foot outdoor turf field and running track that will open later this year. In the winter months, the field will be converted to an ice skating rink. Dick’s is looking to hire more than 200 associates for the location.
ROCHESTER, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of The Quarters at Rochester for $7.2 million. The 63-unit apartment building is located at 826 21st Ave. SE near the Rochester Community and Technology College in Rochester. The property was constructed in 1986 and renovated in 2015. Chris Collins, David Wallace, Evan Miller and Matthew Shide of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer and seller, both of which were limited liability companies.
ROSEVILLE, MINN. — Shake Shack and Panera Bread have signed leases at Rosedale Center, a nearly 1.3 million-square-foot shopping center in Roseville, a suburb of the Twin Cities. Shake Shack will occupy 3,500 square feet, while Panera Bread will lease 4,000 square feet. Both establishments are scheduled to open in winter 2023 and will feature drive-thru service in addition to indoor and patio seating. Holly Rome and Lane Walsh of JLL, along with Robin Sande of Newmark, secured the tenants. Rosedale Center is home to roughly 160 retailers.
EDINA, MINN. — JLL Real Estate Capital LLC has provided a $67 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of Nolan Mains, a 100-unit luxury apartment community in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina. A partnership between Buhl Investors and Saturday Properties was the borrower. The developers built the property in 2019 as a public-private partnership with the City of Edina. The development is also home to 16 retailers and two levels of underground parking. Amenities include a rooftop bar, spa, fitness center, sunroom, dog run, clubroom, and golf simulator. Scott Loving and Will Hintz of JLL represented the borrower in securing the long-term, nonrecourse debt.
EDINA, MINN. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the sale of Galleria Edina in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina. The sales price was $150 million, according to Twin Cities Business. The 398,585-square-foot shopping mall is 99 percent leased to tenants such as Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co., Lululemon, Peloton, Tory Burch, Pottery Barn, Bluemercury, Warby Parker, Coach, Shinola and more. Danny Finkle, Barry Brown, Dave Monahan, Amy Sands, Cameron Pittman, Matt Hazelton and Cory Villaume of JLL represented the undisclosed seller. Local investor group 70th Street Properties LLC was the buyer. Park State Bank provided acquisition financing.
2021 has been an absolute whirlwind for the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) industrial market. Plunging cap rates, liquidity growing faster than ever and a sharply felt shortage of new supply have defined the last year and will continue to define 2022. New faces on the development side are entering the market right and left to capture the huge profits to be had from the supply/demand imbalance. New construction has been stabilizing in six to eight months and institutions have ear-marked MSP as a forward-sale market. The following are a few of the salient trends that should be considered when contemplating the MSP industrial market. Liquidity growth Since the last trough in 2016, the MSP industrial market has experienced an average 30 percent year-over-year growth in sales volume. 2021 experienced nearly half a billion dollars more in industrial investment sales than 2020, according to Real Capital Analytics. Cap rate compression Over the last year, the MSP industrial market has experienced change unlike in any other year. Entering 2021, the low-water stabilized cap rate was 5.15 percent, but by year-end, that had sunk 82 basis points to 4.33 percent. Warehouse rates in the $8 to $9 NNN range, once rare, are now commonplace; …
