ST. CHARLES AND INDEPENDENCE, MO. — Cassidy Turley has arranged the $53 million sale of a 619,161-square-foot retail portfolio across five states. The seven-property portfolio is 84.7 percent leased to 76 tenants. The portfolio includes Regency Square, a 49,155-square-foot retail center in St. Charles, Mo.; Independence Corners, a 72,956 square foot shopping Center in Independence, Mo.; and five more shopping center properties in Pennsylvania, South Carolina Georgia and Arizona. More than 19 percent of the portfolio is occupied by grocery stores, and other tenants include Rite Aid, Tractor Supply and Stein Mart. Cassidy Turley represented the seller, PDSI. TriGate Capital purchased the portfolio.
KANSAS CITY — Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. has acquired a new 158,417-square-foot industrial building in Kansas City for $9.6 million. The property is located at Skyport Industrial Park, 7503 N.W. 106th Terrace. The building is situated on 13 acres. The property is net-leased for seven years to Bunzl Distribution Midcentral Inc. The new built-to-suit, Class A industrial building is situated off of I-29 and is across from the Kansas City International Airport. The space is expandable to accommodate future growth.
ST. LOUIS — Davidson Surface/Air Inc. has purchased the former KV Pharmaceuticals headquarters in St. Louis for $9.5 million. The 315,000-square-foot industrial/office building is located at 1 Corporate Woods Drive. Gary Parker and Dan Merlo of Intelica CRE represented Davidson Surface/Air Inc. in negotiating the transaction.
ST. LOUIS — Phillips Edison-ARC Grocery Center REIT II Inc. has acquired Southfield Center, a 109,397-square-foot shopping center in St. Louis, for $18.9 million. The REIT acquired the property from Fortune Southfield Co., a Missouri-based limited liability company. Southfield Shopping Center is fully leased to 19 tenants. A Schnucks grocery store anchors the shopping center. Other tenants at the center include Edward Jones, Jefferson Bank and Trust, Great Clips and FedEx Office.
ST. ANN, MO. — Cushman & Wakefield | Gateway Commercial has arranged the lease of a 10,481-square-foot industrial building in St. Ann, approximately 16 miles northwest of St. Louis. Customer Direct LLC will occupy space at 500 Northwest Plaza Drive. Jim Loft of Cushman & Wakefield | Gateway Commercial represented Customer Direct LLC in the lease. Balke Brown of Transwestern represented the landlord, Gadwall LLC.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Plaza Vista, a recently completed Class A office and retail building in Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, for an undisclosed price. The 10-story, office tower contains 253,720 square feet, including retail space on the first two floors and a six-level parking garage. The property is 98.6 percent leased CBRE’s Gary Carr, Gina Anderson, Russell Ingrum and Robert Hill arranged the transaction on behalf of the seller, VanTrust Real Estate LLC. Denver-based EverWest Real Estate Partners LLC, along with joint venture partner Independencia Asset Management, acquired the asset. Located five miles south of Kansas City’s CBD, Country Club Plaza is a landmark commercial district amid Kansas City’s office, retail, restaurant, hotel and high-rise residential properties.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Construction is complete on the McGee Building, a mixed-use loft-style building at 2980 Gillham Road in Kansas City. The property is located in the Union Hill neighborhood, a 16-block district in Kansas City that features entertainment, dining, condominiums, retail, office space, a Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott and green space. The building will offer 56 loft-style residential units, as well as 4,325 to 18,000 square feet of retail space. The building is named after Allan B.H. McGee, one of Kansas City’s earliest settlers. The building will feature reclaimed timber furniture from local craftsman Jim Drew, a gallery of rotating art in the first-floor lobby, rainwater cistern and nearly $1.2 million in streetscaping around the building. Units range in price from $850 to $1,510 per month.
CLAYTON, MO. — The Sansone Group has arranged an office lease renewal of 10,094 square feet of space in Clayton. The property is located at 120 S. Central Ave. The Sansone Group represented the landlord, Clayton Central Investors LLC. Blitz, Bardgett & Deutsch LC is the tenant.
ST. LOUIS — Hilliker Corp. has arranged a five-year lease of a 64,000-square-foot building for St. Louis Language Immersion Schools Inc. (SLLIS) in St. Louis. The federal non-profit organization, which operates a network of independent charter public schools, moved two of its schools into one building located at 3740 Marine Ave. The property, built in 1929, sits on more than an acre of land and previously served as the site of a Salvation Army. H. Meade Summers of Hilliker represented the tenant.
TOWN AND COUNTRY, MO. AND ST. LOUIS — NorthMarq Capital has secured refinancing for two properties totaling a combined $18.8 million. The properties include Wood Mill Plaza in Town and Country and Loughborough Commons in St. Louis. Schnucks Market anchors both properties. Wood Mill Plaza is an 85,523-square-foot retail property located at 1060 Schnucks Woods Mills Plaza. The property was refinanced with an $8.5 million, 20-year loan structured with a 25-year amortization schedule. Loughborough Commons is a 100,382-square-foot retail property located at 952 Loughborough Ave. The property was refinanced at with a $10.3 million, 15-year loan structured with a 30-year amortization schedule. NorthMarq arranged financing for both the undisclosed borrowers through its correspondent relationship with an unnamed life insurance company.