SUNSET HILLS, MO. — A joint venture between Sansone Group and AIMS Real Estate has purchased two retail centers in Sunset Hills, a southwestern suburb of St. Louis, for an undisclosed price. The Plaza at Sunset Hills and Shoppes at Sunset Hills are both located at the intersection of South Lindberg Boulevard and Watson Road and total 450,000 square feet. Sansone Group originally developed the properties, which were completed in 1996 and 1997. DDR Corp. purchased the centers in 1998 and recently sold them to the joint venture. Tenants at Plaza at Sunset Hills include Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond, Marshalls, Party City, Stein Mart, Old Navy, PetSmart, David’s Bridal, Panera Bread, Chick-fil-A, Five Below and Dobb’s Tire & Auto. Tenants at the Shoppes at Sunset Hills include Toys “R” Us, Ross Dress for Less, The Tile Shop and Longhorn Steakhouse. Sansone Group will manage and lease the centers. AIMS Real Estate is a business unit within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Both parties were self-represented in the transaction.
ST. CHARLES, MO. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap specializing in serving real estate investors, has arranged the sale of Carrington Place of St. Charles, a 234-unit, 294-bed continuing care retirement community in St. Charles, a northwestern suburb of St. Louis. The $17 million sales price equates to approximately $72,650 per unit. The seller was not disclosed. The buyer was a private owner/operator based in Chicago. Mark Myers, Josh Jandris and Charles Hilding of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer along with and Marcus & Millichap associate Richard Lynn. Carrington Place of St. Charles features 138 independent living units, 32 memory care units, 27 assisted living units, and 66 private and semi-private skilled nursing beds.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Retail Properties of America Inc. has sold The Shops at Boardwalk, a 122,397-square-foot shopping center located in Kansas City, for an undisclosed price. GDA Real Estate Services LLC purchased the asset on behalf of ACF Property Management free and clear of existing debt. The fully leased center is home to tenants including Gold’s Gym, Jos. A. Bank, Kirkland’s, Chipotle, Houlihan’s, Rue 21, Maurices and a separately owned Lowe’s and Walmart. Amy Sands, Clinton Mitchell and Barry Brown of HFF worked on behalf of the seller in the transaction.
ST. CHARLES, MO. — Streets of St. Charles has added new tenants to its mixed-use development that is still partially under construction in St. Charles, a northwestern suburb of St. Louis. MOD, a fashion boutique, will open its fourth location at the retail center and will occupy 1,200 square feet. The location is scheduled to open in the spring of 2016. Supercuts also plans to open a new store at the Streets of St. Charles. Supercuts will occupy 1,171 square feet and will open in early 2016. The Streets of St. Charles is a 27-acre community that offers retail, dining, entertainment, hospitality, residential and office components. Prior to MOD and Supercuts signing a lease, PF Changs, Pieology and Noodles & Co. inked deals and those spaces are also currently under construction.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Inland Real Estate Income Trust Inc. has acquired a 158,046-square-foot retail center in Kansas City. According to The Kansas City Star, NorthPoint Development Co. sold the property at a price “in excess of $30 million.” The Village at Burlington Creek is located at 6300 N. Revere Drive and was constructed between 2007 and 2012. The center was 98 percent leased at the time of sale and is anchored by a 28,009-square-foot Sprouts Farmers Market. The shopping center features more than 45 tenants including Impact Fitness, SPIN! Pizza, Bonefish Grill, Northland Dermatology, Bank of Oklahoma and KC Dry Cleaning. Mark Cosenza of Inland brokers the transaction on behalf on Inland.
Improving real estate fundamentals in the St. Louis office market are opening the floodgates to new construction that is greatly needed as large occupiers are finding limited, if any, existing available options. Over the past few years, the gap between rent for existing office properties and new properties was too great to justify construction. Until now, that is. The St. Louis employment base is finally reaching a pre-recession level with continued growth in the healthcare, information technology and engineering industries. The centrally located and more affluent residential areas — the West County and Clayton submarkets in particular — are experiencing higher occupancies and increasing rental rates. Clayton historically has been the best-performing submarket in St. Louis and still is today, while West County is situated near mid- to upper-level income workers. Development has and will continue to follow these highly sought after submarkets as they offer the metro area’s best real estate fundamentals and returns. Add to all of those factors a lack of new product in the past several years — plus a Class A vacancy rate of 10 percent — and you have an ideal climate for new construction. Pivotal project is catalyst The announcement that St. Louis-based …
CHESTERFIELD, MO. — Rabo AgriFinance has signed a lease to occupy 62,500 square feet of office space at Delmar Gardens III in Chesterfield, Mo., once the building is completed in the summer of 2017. The five-story, 125,000-square-foot Class A office building is currently under construction along I-64/Highway 40 in the heart of St. Louis County. Delmar Gardens III is the first Class A, multitenant office building to be constructed in West St. Louis County since 2008. Rabo AgriFinance, a financial services provider for agricultural producers and agribusinesses, will relocate its headquarters from Creve Coeur Pointe to Delmar Gardens III. The building will include a fitness center, café and free covered garage parking. David Kelpe and Hassan Jadali of Cushman & Wakefield represented Delmar Gardens, the building owner, in the transaction. Kevin Bittmann of CBRE represented Rabo AgriFinance.
SUNSET HILLS, MO. — Sansone Group has purchased a property formerly occupied by Sanders Automotive in Sunset Hills, a southwest suburb of St. Louis, for an undisclosed price. The seller was Gene Sanders Inc. The building on the site, located at 10775 Watson Road, is being torn down and will be redeveloped as a 4,345-square-foot retail center. Watson Plaza will feature a 1,650-sqare-foot Starbucks and a 2,695-square-foot Mattress Direct. Construction costs are estimated to be $2.5 million. Construction has already begun, and both stores are slated to open in the summer of 2016.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. , COLUMBIA, MO., AND AMES, IOWA — The Opus Group has completed the development of three luxury, off-campus student housing projects. The projects are ArborBLU near the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; District Flats near the University of Missouri in Columbia; and The Foundry near Iowa State University in Ames. Opus Development Co. was the developer, Opus Design Build was the design builder, and Opus AE Group was the architect and structural engineer of record for all three projects. Minneapolis-based Elness Swenson Graham Architects Inc. was the design architect for The Foundry and District Flats, and J. Bradley Moore & Associates was the design architect for ArborBLU. All three of the luxury apartments feature a variety of amenities including fitness centers, study lounges, clubrooms, garage parking, tanning and other shared community spaces. Residents of the new buildings will also have access to in-unit washers and dryers, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances and flat-screen televisions in the fully furnished apartments. ArborBLU was built on top of an existing Pizza House restaurant, which stayed open throughout construction. The 13-story student housing complex features 242 beds. In addition to the amenities described, the building also has a rooftop terrace …
DES PERES, MO. — Sansone Group has reacquired Olympic Oaks Village in Des Peres, a western suburb of St. Louis, for $22 million. Olympic Oaks Village was originally a 7.7-acre, $5.5 million retail development completed by Sansone Group in 1988. The 91,000-square-foot retail center, located a half-mile east of I-270 on Manchester Road, originally included Walgreens, T.J. Maxx, Michaels and the Sansone Group headquarters. In 1998, Sansone sold the building to DDR Corp. for $11.1 million but continued to lease and manage the property before reacquiring it from DDR. The shopping center has gone through several renovations and expansions and now spans 92,372 square feet. Current tenants include European Wax Center, Jersey Mike’s, Rally House, Sally Beauty Supply, Great Clips, Massage Envy, Salon Genesis, Lane Bryant, Edible Arrangements, Nail Pro and Thompson Price Kitchen & Bath.