DES PERES, MO. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged a lease for The Quarters of Des Peres, a 147-bed skilled nursing facility in the St. Louis suburb of Des Peres. The landlord, a private equity fund based in Dallas, will lease the community to local operator MGM Healthcare. MGM currently operates 30 facilities in the Midwest, and its headquarters are less than 10 miles from The Quarters. Blueprint’s Jacob Gehl and Ben Firestone were the lead advisors on the transaction.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Schottenstein Property Group Inc. has acquired a 142,600-square-foot retail center in Kansas City for $17.5 million. Retail Properties of America Inc. sold the asset, Stateline Station, which is 85 percent leased. The property, constructed in 2004, is anchored by Marshalls, Cost Plus World Market and a separately owned Super Target. Other retailers include Petco, Tuesday Morning, Mattress Firm, Pier 1 Imports and Dollar Tree. The shopping center is located at the intersection of Highway 150 and West 135th Street in an affluent area of Kansas City where the average household income in a three-mile radius of the center is $130,141. Amy Sands, Barry Brown and Clinton Mitchell of HFF represented the seller in the transaction.
CLEVELAND —Cleveland, Ohio-based KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a total of $11.7 million in first mortgage loans for multiple parking garages in Indiana and Missouri. MVP REIT sponsors the properties. KeyBank provided an $8.2 million loan for a portfolio consisting of City Park Garage and Surface Parking Lot, both located in the central business district of Indianapolis. KeyBank also provided an additional $3.5 million loan for three surface parking lots, two in St. Louis and one in Kansas City. Randy Martin of KeyBank arranged the CMBS, non-recourse loans.
ST. LOUIS, MO. — HFF has arranged $13.3 million in financing for a Class A office building in downtown St. Louis. The capital is being used to acquire and fund future capital improvements on the 20-story, St. Louis Place. The 337,088-square-foot building is located at 200 N. Broadway. Working on behalf of Mariner Real Estate Management, HFF placed the five-year, floating-rate loan with a division of NBH Bank, Bank Midwest. St. Louis Place is 63 percent leased to 12 tenants including Fleishman-Hillard, General Services Administration, Peckham Guyton and Albers & Viets. Matthew Schoenfeldt and Brock Cannon of HFF arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
ST. LOUIS, MO. — Revive Capital Development LLC has acquired a 270,000-square-foot office building in St. Louis for an undisclosed price. The development company plans to convert the nine-story building into loft apartments. 1706 Washington LLC sold the property that was previously occupied by CPI Corp., a portrait studio. The vacant building, constructed in 1912, is located at 1706 Washington Ave. John Warren of JLL represented the seller.
RAYTOWN, MO. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $6 million sale of a single-tenant, net-leased Walgreens property located at 9300 E. Gregory Blvd. in Raytown. The 13,905-square-foot Walgreens is located within the Kansas City MSA. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of The Boulder Group represented the seller, a high-net-worth individual based in the Midwest, in the sale of the property to a Northeast-based real estate investor. There are 14 years remaining on the Walgreens lease, which expires in January 2030.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — An affiliate of GFI Capital Resources Group has acquired a luxury 137-unit apartment complex in Kansas City for an undisclosed price. RMwest, which is located less than two blocks from the Kansas City Streetcar line, consists of one- and two-bedroom units. Each residence features granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, vinyl plank flooring, a washer and dryer and a patio or deck. Monthly rents at RMwest, range from $1,300 to $1,900. Community amenities include a covered parking garage, saltwater pool and sundeck, indoor lounge, game room and workspace areas. The entire building, which is located at 228 W. 4th St., is also wired for Google Fiber. CBRE represented the buyer in the transaction. The seller is undisclosed.
Strong renter demand in the metro St. Louis apartment market helped boost annual effective rent growth by 3.6 percent in 2015, 200 basis points above the market’s long-term average, according to Axiometrics. An estimated 1,012 apartment units were delivered to the St. Louis market for all of 2015 compared with 2,378 units of absorption during the same period, reports Axiometrics. But with numerous projects in the pipeline, that ratio is likely to change over the next few years, say real estate experts. “We expect supply levels to increase in 2017 and for absorption to begin to struggle to keep up due to slowing job growth,” says Sophie Zatterstrom Gore, analyst with Axiometrics. But 2016 is a different story, she points out. Robust job growth will help absorption outpace new supply by about 600 units in 2016: 1,587 units of absorption versus 990 units of new supply. Such strong demand is giving a strong lift to real estate fundamentals in the local apartment sector. The average effective rent in the third quarter of 2015 was $914, which Axiometrics projects will rise to $948 by the end of 2016. The average vacancy rate is projected to fall from 6.3 percent at the …
O’FALLON, MO. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the $54 million sale of Park Place Senior Living at WingHaven, a 206-unit independent living and assisted living community in the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon. Blueprint represented the seller, AEW Capital Management, which sold the property on behalf of AEW Senior Housing Investors to CNL Healthcare Properties. Originally built in 2006, a joint venture of AEW and First Capitol Group acquired Park Place in 2011. The venture expanded the community with the addition of assisted living units and by converting units to memory care. Blueprint’s Ben Firestone was lead advisor on the transaction.
COLUMBIA, MO. — American Campus Communities (ACC) will develop a 718-bed student housing community adjacent to the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. U Centre on Turner will consist of 182 units located at the intersection of 5th Street and Turner Avenue. The development, expected to come on line in the fall of 2017, will include 177 four-bedroom, four-bathroom units and five two-bedroom, two-bathroom units in two buildings, surrounding a controlled-access parking garage. U Centre on Turner will include a 12,000-square-foot community center with a fitness center, game room, offices and academic success center. The project will also include a courtyard with a pool, spa and outdoor cooking stations. The site is a 3.8-acre assemblage that was purchased last year. Kurt Hollenberg of United Country-Commercial represented the seller, Ginger C LLC. Thomas Horvath of CR Commercial Realty represented American Campus Communities in the transaction.