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; …
ST. PAUL, MINN. — Stoneleigh Cos. has completed development of Waterford Bay, a 243-unit apartment community located at 380 Randolph Ave. in St. Paul. BKV Group designed the four-story project. Amenities include an outdoor pool and deck, fitness center and yoga studio, resident lounge, business center, rooftop clubroom, dog wash station, bicycle and kayak storage and indoor parking garage. The development sits along the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. BKV Group worked closely with representatives from Friends of the Mississippi River and the National Park Service during the entitlement process to ensure the project would support the ecological health of the waterway. The community is one of the first opportunity zone projects in St. Paul, according to the developer. Monthly rents start at $1,301 for studios, and residents can now earn up to two months of free rent.
MINNEAPOLIS — Walker & Dunlop has arranged the sale of five Class A seniors housing communities in Minneapolis. Minnetonka-based Roers Cos. developed the communities, which Walker Methodist and Jaybird Senior Living operate. The communities opened between 2018 and 2021. The portfolio consists of 567 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The buyer, an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, will utilize Grace Management to oversee daily operational responsibilities. The sales price was not disclosed. Alex Vice, Joshua Jandris, Brett Gardner and Mark Myers of Walker & Dunlop provided advisory services and facilitated the disposition of the portfolio.
The metro Minneapolis retail real estate market is healthy overall coming out of 2021, with suburban submarkets on fire in many cases and urban submarkets generally subdued. A major overhang of supply was absorbed across the region last year as construction slowed dramatically, pushing retail vacancies down, rents up and sales prices of single and multi-tenant assets higher overall. It’s a testament to the market’s overall stability and resilience given the multiple waves of COVID, and events surrounding the George Floyd case that was prosecuted last year in the city. Work-from-home effect With many white-collar professionals still working from home and the center-cities tougher on mask mandates and vaccine requirements, the suburbs have shone the brightest. Vacancies were as low as 6 percent in some areas, with the overall market at 8.2 percent at year-end, according to the Minnesota Commercial Association of Real Estate/Realtors (MNCAR). Among the strongest performing submarkets have been Apple Valley, Maple Grove, Coon Rapids and Woodbury. The metro’s eight regional malls are generally faring well, unlike in some other markets across the U.S. that are more over-supplied. That said, there’s some adaptive reuse going on, including in the northwest suburb of Maple Grove where a freestanding …
MINNEAPOLIS — Kraus-Anderson has completed construction of The Larking, a $100 million apartment complex located at 615 S. 8th St. in downtown Minneapolis. Designed by ESG Architects, the project rises 16 stories with 341 market-rate units. The development also includes three levels of underground parking, a Wells Fargo bank branch an additional 9,100 square feet of street-level retail space. Amenities include a sky lounge, pool deck, fitness center, sauna, golf simulator, pet spa, work-from-home suites and a conference room. Monthly rents start at $1,315 for studios.
EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $23.5 million sale-leaseback of 11000 Viking Drive, a two-building office campus totaling 258,850 square feet in the Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie. Colin Ryan, David Berglund and Pat Williams of JLL represented the seller, photography company Shutterfly LLC, and the buyer, Tempus Real Estate Partners. Shutterfly will continue to occupy the east building, which rises five stories and was built in 2004. The City of Eden Prairie plans to tear down the vacant west building, which rises four stories and was constructed in 1997. The space will be utilized for native grasses, wildflowers and a paved trail.